Kean University continues to offer exciting and eclectic performances to the public, adding four new shows to its lineup for spring 2020 in Wilkins Theatre and the intimate Enlow Recital Hal…
Perhaps the most problematic element in the new play "Fear" by Matt Williams is that it is flooded with too many sources of fear that tend to diminish the fear that might actually be present…
Commissioned by Ars Nova in 2016 and currently playing at New York City's Greenwich House, "Dr. Ride's American Beach House" claims to be one thing but delivers something markedly different …
Under David Cromer's austere and esoteric direction, Ms. Parker and Mr. Hochman skillfully navigate the corners of the audience members' minds projecting sound and sight on the empty canvase…
There has always been a curiosity and appreciation for bold attempts at new interpretations or the reimagining of the classics and it seems there have been endless attempts on putting a new …
There are two major elements that undeniably contribute to the success of the entrancing new Broadway Show "Tina " The Tina Turner Musical" now playing at the Lunt- Fontanne Theatre. The fir…
Following in the footsteps of Maureen Stapleton in the original and first revival and Mercedes Ruehl featured in the second revival on Broadway comes Marisa Tomei as Serafina Delle Rose in t…
Since its premiere at The Public in 1976 and its subsequent transfer to Broadway later that year, much has happened to continue to impact the lives of the women of color celebrated by Ntozak…
"Soft Power" " the culture-bending, plot-twisting musical within a play currently running at The Public's Newman Theater " challenges the notion that the only effective parameters of power a…
Over the past several weeks, The Circle Series has brought the theatre community together on Monday evenings to explore developing works and celebrate the classics in a new way. Concluding t…
"The Great Society," the second installment of playwright Robert Schenkkan's biographical account of the years Lyndon B. Johnson spent as president in the White House, is less a drama and mo…
This is a frightening group of devotees hell bent on prying open the gates of hell to usher in all who would disagree with their conservative polemic. In "Heroes of the Fourth Turning," curr…
Bloody, gory, horror films certainly have been around for quite a while and have been successful in creating a cult audience that supports the genre. Transforming one of these for the stage …
The sharp and witty dialogue of the latest dramedy penned by playwright Tracy Letts is foreshadowed by the title "Linda Vista" which means "pretty view" in Spanish. The midlife crisis of a b…
The most recent revival of "Little Shop of Horrors" by the musical theatre team Howard Ashman and Alan Menken surely proves to be timeless and timely. The musical numbers still seem to linge…
That said, under Kent Paul's judicious direction, Haskell King and Sean Gormley faithfully explore the underbelly of moral absolutes and moral ambiguity with consummate performances. Mr. Kin…
"Slave Play," currently running on Broadway at the Golden Theatre, reiterates the events on the fourth day of the Antebellum Sexual Performance Therapy being held at MacGregor Plantation, a …
Jack Thorne's "Sunday," currently running at Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater, seems to elicit one of two responses: disappointment or robust enthusiasm. A group of Gen Z frien…
David Staller's direction is both evenhanded and refreshing, successfully bring this adaptation to an authentic and innovative staging of this Shaw classic that has not been produced in New …
Undertaker John Plunkett (Jeffrey Bean) and his intern Mark (Cillian Hegarty) enter the office of a funeral home on the Northside of Dublin where John works. They have just finished a servic…
Florian Zeller's complex "The Height of the Storm" is a must see this Broadway season. Enjoy the opportunity to witness Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins " two of the greatest actors of their…
What can be said, is that Mr. Brown is an amazing showman and talented performer. Acts of prestidigitation have enthralled audiences throughout the ages but Mr. Brown has brought this form o…
As a result of playwright Mfoniso Udofia's profound interest in the African Diaspora, perhaps no fictional couple in the recent history of Off-Broadway theatre have had their histories more …
Part group therapy, part intervention, part Doctors Phil and Ruth, "Fern Hill," currently running at 59E59 Theaters through Sunday October 20, 2019, rehearses the events at Sunny's (Jill Eik…
Playwrights Roy and Webb never lose site of the significance of the young Richard's crime. The "Guide" is not about claiming innocence. It is about Richard's sense of entitlement. His consta…