64 stories by "Ron Cohen"
“Take What Is Yours,” from Anecdota at 59E59 Theaters, looks at the formidable U.S. suffragette Alice Paul with imaginative daring and poetic storytelling.
Ed Hime’s “The Electric Lighthouse,” part of the New Play Festival at the Flea Theater, is a glowering comedy-drama about media-obsessed 20-something Brits.
Aquila Theatre’s “Macbeth” is a respectable but unsurprising rendering of Shakespeare’s classic, lacking the outsized portraits that elevate the play to tragic stat…
There's much to admire in Blessed Unrest's experimental production of Aleksandr Ostrovsky's classic drama, at Interart Theater, but also too much technique.
Greg Mullavey stars in National Jewish Theater’s “The Soap Myth,” Jeff Cohen’s Holocaust drama, which has intelligence but seems too much a lecture.
Playwright Riti Sachdeva and Maieutic Theatre Works' impressive production make for an involving drama about the British partition of India and Pakistan.
Tragedians of the City and Northwest Passage Theater Collective unite for an engrossing and passionate all-male "Romeo and Juliet."
In Ed Malin's quirky and earthy "Judge, Yuri & Executioner," part of Frigid New York, Mac Rogers plays a suicidal masochist taking stock of his life.
Bryant Martin writes himself a meaty role as a young cockney thug in "The Other Man," a thriller-cum–love story he co-authored with Mark Botts.
A slave auctioneer meets a runaway slave in a desolate swampland in this ultimately powerful two-hander, reminding us of the horrors of slavery and man's potential for inhumanity to man.
This dramatization of nine short stories by Anton Chekhov has fluid staging, aptly defined performances, handsome period costumes, and evocative music, but soul is in short supply.
Overflowing with colorful detail and smartly observed anecdotes, this one-man show is an affectionate, funny, and spicily authentic collage of growing up Puerto Rican in the Bronx of the 1…
Although there’s an abundance of straightforward narration, this Spanish-language production is smartly written and details in absorbing fashion the lives of four Argentineans over a…
Co-writer and director Hideki Noda illustrates his misogynistic belief in man's inherent unkindness to man in this unsettling but arresting play of feverish theatricality and escalating gr…
In this quirky and surprisingly funny play, Japanese writer-director Toshiki Okada portrays the quiet malaise of his country's young office workers caught in an economic downturn.
Shakespeare's violent tragedy gets an even more brutal reworking in this production, in which the evil, chaos, and physicality are both unrelenting and enthralling.
Intense performances and imaginative visual imagery give theatrical fervor to this production, which consists mainly of fairly oblique monologues meditating on mortality and the impact of …
While John Malkovich portrays a real-life serial killer, sopranos sing arias from composers such as Mozart and Beethoven between his monologues, lifting the jukebox musical to rarified hei…
Robert Askins' comedy is a provocative stew of religiosity, teenage angst, and sex, and the solid production fully mines its comedic value if not its darker dimensions.
The problems of wounded soldiers returning from war are portrayed in Rich Rubin's play with tepid comedy that doesn't come anywhere near reflecting the complexity and importance of the sub…
Stella Adler Studio of Acting does itself proud with this powerful rendering of Israel Horovitz's drama, the school's first Off-Broadway production.
There are deeply affecting passages in Alan Lester Brooks' drama of Holocaust survivors, but it's burdened with a twisty plot that strains credibility to the breaking point.
Five musical performers get to show off their spectacular talents in this immensely enjoyable concert-style production, loaded with show tunes, pop and exhilarating dancing.
There are poetic pretensions aplenty, but Sylvan Oswald's drama tells an arresting story of an unlikely love affair set against the racial strife of 1960s Philadelphia.
This show invites comparisons with "Company," but that's the least of the problems afflicting this musical tale of an unhappily single Manhattanite and his concerned pals.
