Laden with jokes, sight gags and flamboyant characters, Mr. Free's well-constructed and startling work combines the outrageous sensibilities of John Waters' films with the social consciousne…
Richard Alfredo's 'The Dark Clothes of Night," a brilliant parody/homage to film noir and hardboiled fiction, the third play of Summer Shorts " Series B, is so good it alone is worth the pri…
While "Troilus and Cressida" is rarely staged, Daniel Sullivan's production full of bombs and smoke suggests that in our time of endless wars it speaks to us again, and the play's cynicism a…
As might be expected LaBute's new one act, "After the Wedding," contains a shocker. However, when it arrives in Maria Mileaf's production, it is so matter-of-fact that it has little or no im…
While "A Class Act" covers material dramatized elsewhere, Norman Shabel's play, seen at The Playroom earlier this year, is always absorbing, always unpredictable. The seven member cast is to…
Inspired by the playwright's attending a silent spiritual retreat at an upstate New York institute in the woods, this is an absorbing play which immediately causes the viewers to listen inte…
Playing his most mature role to date, Radcliffe, late of Harry Potter, is charming as he begins as an introverted, reticent Englishman and then slowly panics as he realizes the extent to whi…
While the play can be a tour de force, Kathryn Luce Garfunkel is so one dimensional that her Flora has little weight. She exudes languidness and laziness, but fails to make Flora anything ot…
Three-time Tony nominee Brian Murray returns to the New York stage for the first time in four years as a retired professor of parapsychology who has put aside his own career to foster that o…
The production team uses most of the same people who were involved with the show's 2014 run at Theater 80 St. Marks as well as four of the eight actors. Directing again, Evan Pappas keeps th…
The most remarkable thing about the Encores! Off-Center revival of the late Elizabeth Swados' 1978 musical "Runaways" is that it is as fresh as when it was written almost four decades ago. T…
Samuel D. Hunter's latest play, "The Healing," is a commission by Theater Breaking Through Barriers, dedicated to advancing the work of performers with disabilities. Not surprisingly, the pl…
Only a 30 page treatment and five songs remained from the original show by the Johnstone brothers, writer Will B. and composer Tom. Diamond has written new lyrics for music by Tom Johnston a…
Now having its American premiere in repertory with "Confusions," one of Ayckbourn's earliest plays, with the same actors in both, the production which is directed by the author is from the S…
Aside from the obvious misogyny of Shakespeare's comedy for modern audiences, there is the problem of the heroine's unpalatable final speech in which she berates women for not being more sub…
Adam Rapp's plays are often about loners and people outside of mainstream society. "The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois" now at Atlantic Stage 2 in a production directed by the author falls …
"Now I Ask You" turns out to be comedy of pretentious New York bohemians in 1916, while "Recklessness" is a Strindbergian psychological revenge play. While both have hints of the more famous…
Although "Hamilton" had been nominated for 16 awards in 13 categories, it failed to break the record of Mel Brooks' "The Producers" which remains the all-time winner with a total of 12. Hami…
'Universal Robots" uses historic characters like journalist and playwright Capek and President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia, characters taken from Capek's play like Rossum, Helena and Radius, a…
Maggie Lacey as Nora Helmer and John Douglas Thompson as Torvald Helmer in a scene from "A Doll's House" (Photo credit: Gerry Goodstein) Was Swedish playwright August Strindberg a misogynist…
This is heady theater and demands concentration. However, the excellent cast of four made of Geneva Carr (Theatre World Award winner for "Hand to God"), Charlie Cox (Netflick's" Daredevil"),…
As with many CSC productions, the modern dress costumes (here designed by Ann Hould-Ward) are entirely in black and white. A small handful of props are used (a tin of buttons, an onion) but …
British film star Rupert Everett gives a bravura performance as playwright and author Oscar Wilde in the Chichester Festival Theater revival of "The Judas Kiss" by David Hare now at the BAM …
Completing New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players' 40th Season was a rare revival of 1884 "Princess Ida," the team's eighth operetta and the only one in which the dialogue is in blank vers…
The production of "Indecent" now on the stage of the Vineyard is remarkable on many levels, not the least which is how engrossing it is considering the events are all historical record and t…