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Mark Leiren-Young's timely one-man show, "Playing Shylock" (formerly called simply "Shylock"), has arrived in New York after its premiere run in Toronto in its new version rewritten around t…
To have emerged from a childhood like Zoë Kim's"with enough self-awareness, critical distance, and sheer emotional stamina to craft a piece of theater with even a hint of uplift"is in its…
While Broadway was once filled with plays like this a generation or two ago, "Art of Leaving" now seems very dated. It would have been more believable set back in an earlier decade. Matt Geh…
The fourth evening of one-act plays by Academy Award-winning screenwriter and director Ethan Coen is coyly called "Let's Love!," when by rights it should be called "Let's Have Sex!" In three…
In "Heaux Church," writer-performer Brandon Kyle Goodman does not so much deliver a sermon as they detonate one"turning the pious pulpit upside down and shaking loose its centuries of shame,…
Sketches are performed, in this case approximations of the originals, which is understandable (the authors Erik J. Rodriguez and Charles A. Sothers didn't have the rights to use the actual S…
Although William Spatz's "Truman vs. Israel" depicts a fictional encounter between former President Truman and lawyer and later first Jewish woman congresswoman Bella Abzug in 1953, the play…
Steven Reineke and The New York Pops opened their Carnegie Hall season with a luminous concert tracing the path of great songs from Broadway to Hollywood. Hugh Panaro and Elizabeth Stanley …
Under Carsen Joenk's clean, clever direction, Scotti's writing finds a delicate equilibrium " biting, funny, and deeply humane. The quartet of women are precisely dressed by designer Iliana …
Ari'el Stachel in his one-man show "Other" at Greenwich House Theatre (Photo credit: Ogata Photography) In his solo show Other, now unfolding with searing intensity at the intimate Greenwich…
Samuel Adams as Moritz Weissmann and Ella Stevens as Lexa Kluger in a scene from the Mint Theater Company's production of the American premiere of Sally Carson's "Crooked Cross" at Theatre R…
There's no denying that when 'The Pitch" stays in the office, it's alive"taut, funny, and honest. Alper clearly knows this world; he writes its jargon and swagger with precision. But each ti…
Paced by spirited performances by Max Ryon and Jake Ryan Flynn, Rider University's production of Jason Robert Brown's musical "13" is the best college show I've seen in years. And offers pr…
This play (with occasional music by Golden Globe-nominated songwriter and composer Leland) spends most of its first half setting up the two main characters, embellishing on their personaliti…
To describe "Oratorio" is to flirt with the inadequacy of language. It is a musical work"a sung-through piece in the formal lineage of the oratorio, that 17th-century form that eschews stagi…
As part of this year's Open House New York festival, the Episcopal Actors' Guild presented Celebration of Song " Freedom and Hope at the Church of the Transfiguration, affectionately known a…
For Levine, the crowd isn't a backdrop"it's a living collaborator. Her show is intimate, often exposing the kind of stories most people bury: intrusive thoughts, shame, and the messy interse…
The play is about a Jewish family, the Bergers, who live together in a small apartment in the Bronx. The Sea Dog production features color blind casting, so almost every Berger is a differen…
Comedian and actor John Leguizamo's "The Other Americans," his first full-length and full-cast play, aside from his satiric one-person shows, is making its Off Broadway debut and proves to b…
The Limón Dance Company is celebrating the start of its 80th Anniversary season with a triple bill at The Joyce Theater which in words of artistic director Dante Puleio celebrates "where …
Olivia Levine's "Unstuck" begins like a comedy set and ends like a cleansing. She steps into the light holding a fake candle and an orange, instantly setting the tone: part ritual, par…
Jen Tullock in the one-woman play "Nothing Can Take You from the Hand of God" at Playwrights Horizons (Photo credit: Maria Baranova) In Nothing Can Take You from the Hand of God, the mesmeri…
For my money, 'Ragtime' is the greatest musical of the last 40 years, and the glistening new Lincoln Center Theater production is not to be missed. It is moving, thought-provoking, and inspi…
"Italian American Reconciliation" may not be peak Shanley, but in the capable hands of this cast and creative team, it becomes something rare: a flawed but full-hearted theatrical reverie, e…
Seriously, using a childhood favorite to throw existential dread into the increasingly lined faces of Gen-Xers isn't a bad idea. At times, it's even brilliant. By respectively casting the no…
