David: Lenore, your new off-Broadway show "The Exes" officially opens on Thursday August 15th at Theatre Row. That's getting close! What are your thoughts and feelings as the opening approac…
Necromancy does not fare well in Esteban R. Alvarez III's "Just Outside the Door" which just ended its three-performance run at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival. The play's protagonist is…
In "Florida Man" by Michael Presley Bobbitt, a young man racked with guilt digs up his dead father William Crud (the crud of a memory John Higgins) to give him the proper Viking funeral he a…
Over the period of a year, three generations of Irish women share their stories ad seriatim while in a medical office waiting room. Amber (a spitfire Lauren O'Leary) rehearses her life from …
In a celebratory move uptown to the theater district, the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival, celebrating its third year in Manhattan, has announced its 2019 season lineup at Theatre Row, 410 W…
To celebrate its third year of presenting an LGBTQ+ opera in the month of June " and the 50th Anniversary of the Riots at Greenwich Village's Stonewall Inn " the New York City Opera commissi…
Director Theresa Rebeck keeps the action moving on the sleek, modern television studio set, created by scenic designers Christopher Swader and Justin Swader, but is undertaking turning a one…
Charlotte Moore directs the cast of "The Plough and the Stars" with a passionate commitment to excellence. Her staging brings out the best in each actor and assures that each actor's charact…
Last season, two off-Broadway plays " "Daddy" and "Slave Play" (both by Jeremy O. Harris) " highlighted significant issues about the self-identity of young black gay and queer men and raised…
After a successful run in 2008 of the musical "Enter Laughing" a revised version of the original "So Long 174th Street" which was a Broadway flop in 1976, The York Theatre Company has revive…
There is nothing new in "Nomad Motel" and the important themes the play shrouds are ineffectively and weakly developed. The young actors give the play their very best and cannot be held acco…
Although Christopher Shinn's characters are well developed and their conflicts believable enough, the plot developed by those "problems" is not as believable and suffers from a lack of patho…
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts in Dave Malloy's a cappela musical "Octet" currently playing in The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center. A…
"I can't abide seeing a body stuffed into the wrong role." " Jo to Meg in "Little Women" Kate Hamill's retelling of Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" plays at Primary Stages at an auspiciou…
"Pretend that we're the only two people in the entire world, that's what I'm doing, and it all falls into place." " Johnny to Frankie Moonlight " the kind of light that shines into Frankie's…
Charlotte and Doug Walker's son Kai will be home from prison in three months to begin his court remanded probation. Kai is a white university student athlete who was convicted of raping a bl…
Because the playwright chooses to include a compendium of LGBTQ history, the script becomes didactic and cumbersome. Elise Forier Edie would have been better off allowing Trisha to take cent…
What a pleasant surprise to walk into the Studio space at Cherry Lane Theatre and see a fresh, new look developed for the exciting new production "Original Sound" by Adam Seidel. Scenic desi…
Happy talk " the type of verbal communication, replete with counterfeit smiles, that too often serves as a replacement for authentic connection between individuals " cascades across the stag…
Poet-playwright Aziza Barnes puts many ingredients into their script blender to whip up a "comedic look" at the lives of Octavia (Paige Gilbert), Imani (Alfie Fuller), and June (Antoinette C…
"Tootsie" has arrived and the lights on Broadway, especially those the Marquis theater where the musical is in residence, are shining much brighter because of the energy generated by the inc…
High school junior Jeremy Heere (an awkward and amiable Will Rowland) would like his chill factor to be higher. He does not want to be "special," but he just wants "to survive." From his ope…
Outer Critics Circle, the organization of writers and commentators covering New York theater for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway, announced toda…
Daniel Fish's revival fails to deliver authentic characters with believable conflicts. Despite the admirable and important diverse casting choices, the characters are not interesting " they …
The utmost effort of the cast and creative team cannot overcome the pitch and roll of this tumultuous ride that never dives beneath the surface to discover the meaning of the contrived story…