618 stories from The New York Theatre Experience
The road to discovering one’s roots can be filled with as much surprise as enlightenment. It is, however, no surprise that Monica Hunken's road to discovery is an incredible journey pr…
When it comes to love, I'm still a romantic and an optimist, even though--like my friend Bob says--lately I can't seem to give it away. Nevertheless, that's me. So, I went to see Lia Romeo's…
On the unnamed college campus that forms the setting for Maya Macdonald's Leave the Balcony Open, they've stopped counting the deaths. Over the course of a year, the student body has faced u…
Since its debut at the Public Theatre in 1998, Adam Guettel's Myths and Hymns (né Saturn Returns) has accrued the cult status that belongs to many little-known musicals. Aficionados and his…
You may leave Kate Fodor's Rx, a comedy about the relationships people have with one another and their pharmaceutical drugs, feeling a bit drowsy. Weariness is indeed a side effect of this o…
The musical A Man of No Importance features music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and a book by Terrence McNally. It tells a touching tale about a man struggling with his sexualit…
The unifying theme of Follow The Leader, an evening of short plays from Panicked Productions, is "cults."
You may be surprised what could be defined as a cult; you could be part of one your…
Most people reach a point in their lives when all the fundamental assumptions that have underlain everything so far suddenly crumble; what happens next is a matter of faith, will, and destin…
It's too easy to forget sometimes how wonderfully weird the experience of theatre can be. Human beings perform these rehearsed rituals before an audience, who are generally trained to key in…
This is from John Clancy, executive director of the League of Independent Theater. (Note: I serve on the Board of LIT.) For over sixty years, Off-Off Broadway (now known as Independent Theat…
Brendan Connelly and Brooke O'Harra are co-founders of the Two-Headed Calf, formerly known as The Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf. They met while attending college in New Orleans, where the com…
Billed as show that was built from interviews with soldiers, Gonna See a Movie Called Gunga Din is infinitely more than I expected. If this show is perhaps more than it should be ultimately,…
Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit owes a few genes of narrative structure to epic mythology as extenuated by Joseph Campbell. As with The Odyssey, road movies, and every…
Jon Hoche and Temar Underwood are both in the off-Broadway premiere of Qui Nguyen's play. Jon is an actor known for his versatility and talents in comedic and physical theater; he wrote his …
The thing I really like about Inadmissible is that it illuminates the central problem with American theatre. We see how the raw and passionate voices, the better plays, are constantly passed…
Fantastical, surprising things happen constantly in Oh, That Wily Snake!, amplifying a variety of interesting ideas and questions about human relationships and about the trouble with getting…
There's a lot of talk in the theater community about the supposedly growing short attention span of American audiences: "Do we cater to it or do we ignore it?" Bizarrely (and happily), the F…
Erika Sheffer develops rich, idiosyncratic people in her new compelling drama, Russian Transport. Each carries his or her weight in the unfolding story of a noisy, irreverent immigrant famil…
A Doll's Life, Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Larry Grossman's musical sequel to Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, flopped on Broadway in September, 1982 after a run of 18 previews and 5 perfor…
Ian W. Hill's aptly-named company Gemini Collision Works presents two of his plays at The Brick Theater in Williamsburg.
Daniel Talbott's Yosemite, which is premiering at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, is a sad, lyrical play about three lost children: how they got that way, and, perhaps, how we got that way …
In Menders, playwright Erin Browne imagines a repressive society where a medicated populace no longer dreams and poetry and storytelling have become lost, banished arts. A prologue sets the …
Puppetry operates through a peculiar kind of magic. There is no illusion or sleight of hand. Despite seeing the operator manipulate the puppet and knowing it has no agency of its own, it tak…
Hieronymus Bosch's most famous work, the triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights, has been the inspiration for at least one famous contemporary theatre work (of the same title, by Martha Cla…
Stopped Bridge of Dreams, the new multimedia performance written, designed and directed by John Jesurun at La MaMa, is a hallucinogenic, sense-assaulting, dreamlike hour and a quarter in the…
