There are a few things Diana Oh doesn't have time for these days. Notably: assholes and subtlety. A few days ago, I saw Oh " a multitalented dynamo of a performer " in full command of the ne…
Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song, now receiving its first full revival in 35 years at Second Stage Theater under the direction of Moisés Kaufman, has undergone a makeover. The play is in…
Here are some names you might not know: Oleg Sentsov. Petr Pavlensky. Maria Alyokhina. Here's one you probably do know: Pussy Riot.The world learned that one in 2012, when three members of t…
In the program for Measure for Measure, now playing at the Public Theater, John Collins, Artistic Director of Elevator Repair Service"the downtown theater company known for its exhilarating …
While watching the Roundabout Theatre Company production of J.B. Priestley's drawing-room dramedy Time and the Conways, directed by Rebecca Taichman at the American Airlines Theatre, I thoug…
Jiréh Breon Holder's Too Heavy for Your Pocket " now under the brisk, elegant direction of Margot Bordelon at the Roundabout's Black Box Theatre " takes place during the summer of 196…
In the spirit of "Dear Sugar," an honest confession: Up till now, I've steered clear of the work of Cheryl Strayed. I'm skeptical of Passion Planners, and I make a sharp turn in Barnes &…
Max Posner's The Treasurer, now playing at Playwrights Horizons under the assured and gentle direction of David Cromer, is a quiet revelation. At a moment when the theatrical landscape is de…
How do we look at the Other who seems monstrous? Well, sometimes a story pins our eyes open and won't let us blink. By now, the world knows the wily, vicious Alex DeLarge quite well, be it t…
When my grandmother, Jong Gung Hong, was a young girl, her father piled the family into a small boat, covered the children with a tarp, and left their home near Pyongyang. She grew up in wha…
"Just because you got an ugly past, that don't mean you can't have a beautiful future."So says the inimitable Mama Darleena Andrews in Philip Dawkins's aptly named Charm, directed with brio …
I hope it's not giving too much away to say that the final image in Sarah Ruhl's For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday, directed by Les Waters at Playwrights Horizons, is, literally and figurat…
Simon Stephens's On the Shore of the Wide World, now playing at Atlantic Theater Company, takes its name from a sonnet by Keats. It's the kind of play where a character quotes part of the ep…
"Everybody talks about their career in the theater," says actor Brandon Uranowitz at the start of Prince of Broadway, "but rarely does anybody talk about luck." Good fortune is a recurring t…
The Terms of My Surrender, the new solo show by filmmaker and self-described "high-profile shit-stirrer" Michael Moore, isn't a play. It's a pep rally.Or, to get really American with the met…
In the cramped backstage space behind the seating bank at the tiny HB Playwrights Theatre in the West Village, playwright Torrey Townsend is ripping the American Theater a new one. It's the …
After Bruce Norris's A Parallelogram at Second Stage Theater, I stood outside and cried on the sidewalk.Okay, so it had been a long day, but I would be lying if I said that the restless, dis…
Last Thursday, we lost an artist as mythic in stature as the great tall tale heroes of the Old West. Sam Shepard " playwright, actor, Pulitzer Prize"winner, musician, and rancher, to name ju…
When I was a kid, I had a friend who loved icing but hated cake. At her birthday parties, I would sit at the table with a bunch of other slightly uncomfortable elementary school girls, while…
A little over a third of the way into the modestly dressed, disarmingly brilliant production of Hamlet now playing at the Public, Oscar Isaac as the iconic prince turns to us before one of h…
Truly, it's all about that banner: hanging there in all its Instagrammable glory, its purpose seems to be to absolve Joan of Arc's creators of all artistic and political rigor for the next n…