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Priyanka Shetty's play The Elephant in the Room (TEITR), playing at 59E59 until July 24, explores the challenges of diversity while rooting them in the shared identity of human experience. E…
photo by Matt Murphy Sometimes those of us not easily impressed can be impressed. So it is with Into The Woods, now at the St. James Theater. The revival marks a return to the original, foll…
Photo by Joan Marcus Free Shakespeare in the Park is quintessential New York. If you are lucky enough to score the free tickets and it's a gorgeous evening, theater doesn't get any better. T…
What? Another show about a moody, overweight, young Black man with family issues? Like "A Strange Loop," "Fat Ham" hasan endearing young main character. But "Fat Ham" delivers much more. Pre…
Classics remain classics because they speak to us-no matter when they were written or where they are set. In a newly-imagined version of Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard," a family remains stuc…
10-year-old Sarah Silverman has one big, big problem. Well, to be honest, she has more than one problem. Her parents are newly divorced, her mother hasn't left her bed in weeks, and her olde…
by Joan Marcus There's something to be said for star power filling theater seats. Despite some tepid reviews for the latest version of Shakespeare's Macbeth, the Longacre Theatre was filled.…
I've seen some weird stuff lately, but I'm very glad I took a chance on French playwright/director David Lescot's Dough. A Compagnie du Kairos production presented by Villa Albertine and the…
In the name of liberty, four robbers are hatching a plot to steal everyone's phones. They're dressed in gray uniforms that sort of resemble pajamas, and black felt bandit masks that seem to …
Mr. Saturday Night I'm a staunch Billy Crystal fan, and judging from the audience's reaction at the Nederlander Theatre the other night, I'm not alone. I love Crystal's quick wit, easy laugh…
Maya Angelou's 1969 memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings has already been adapted for both film and stage, but New York City Children's Theater's world-premiere production at Theatre Ro…
What does it mean to be a Jew today? That's the main question asked in Michael Takiff's clever if convoluted solo show Jews, God, and History (Not Necessarily in That Order), currently playi…
"Poetry is what gets lost in translation," said Robert Frost. And after watching Anchuli Felicia King's engrossing and poetic Golden Shield, I'm inclined to add "as is love." Directed by May…
Once upon a time there was a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan called The Five Points. For over 70 years, it was a crowded slum, populated mostly by newly -freed slaves and ethnic Irish. Altho…
A female press secretary, a female chief of staff, a first lady and several female assistants but even all of them together can't keep the hapless president from occasionally opening his mou…
"I want to write something so Black that God can't ignore me." Playwright and performer Kareem M. Lucas speaks these words while standing on a huge wooden cross enshrined in a massive gold f…
From time to time, to quote my favorite song from Dear Evan Hansen, "words fail." At the moment, words fail as I search for a way to describe (and adequately praise) a show whose gentle beau…
Black comedy, or gallows humor, is a style of story telling that makes light of subject matter usually considered somewhat taboo, like death, suicide and disease. Either term applies to Mart…
"Whether on stage in front of an audience, or over the phone to a friend " we need to tell our stories. When we tell our stories, we give others permission to do the same. This is how we�…
Mary Todd Lincoln: misunderstood First Lady, bereft mother, obsessive widow"and now, the unlikely subject of a trippy piece of experimental theatre. In american vicarious' new work Shooti…
Playwright Adam Kraar is interested in cross-cultural, cross-generational stories. His latest work, The Karpovsky Variations, follows one young woman's search for her scattered, elusive fami…
"The Minutes" Playwright Tracy Letts possesses the extraordinary ability to lull an audience into expecting something dry and ordinary but then making it explosive. Teaming up again with Ann…
Food is often the centerpiece of family holidays and celebrations. In "Birthday Candles", the new play presented by the Roundabout Theatre Company at the American Airlines Theatre, the speci…
Photo by Julieta Cervantes When TV's Murphy Brown was mocking singer Barry Manilow, I was buying his albums and attending his concerts. I was unabashedly a Fanilow. So I looked forward to "H…
I was hooked from the title. As someone who loves folk music and was largely raised on "songs about trains,"Â I was pretty sure I was going to love it before I even stepped into the theatr…
