MIRACLE IN RWANDA " the play by Leslie Lewis and Edward Vilga " scheduled to premiere Off Broadway following an acclaimed world tour, with preview performances beginning April 4 prior to an …
As "The Mother" plays out, scene after scene " with scene/act changes indicated in projections on the back wall in French " Anne continues to give evidence of her shattered emotional state. …
Thanks to Tori Sampson's crisp writing style, it is evident from the start that the audience is being engaged in a retelling of an important Nigerian folktale. This retelling begins with a s…
Tradition. Culture. Politics. Love. Tevye grapples with these four and more in National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene's "Fiddler on the Roof" currently running at Stage 42.
Director Noah Brady moves the action along at a nice pace and makes the reversal of time clear and entertaining with some clever costume changes but fails to dig deep enough into each of the…
The characters " all of them " are underdeveloped, mostly static, with less than interesting conflicts. So how could there possibly be an engaging plot? They seem not to care for themselves …
Manhattan Theatre Club's New York premiere of The Cake, written by Bekah Brunstetter ("This Is Us," "American Gods," The Oregon Trail) and directed by MTC's award-winning Artistic Director L…
AVENUE Q " winner of three 2004 Tony Awards including Best Musical " is extending its previously announced closing date 4 weeks, due to popular demand, with a new end date set for May 26 at …
After a successful and extended run at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Tarell Alvin McCraney's important and engaging "Choir Boy" closes on Sunday March 10, 2019. With o…
The play is more about the mechanisms that people use to cope with loss whether it be from death or terminated relationships. The problem here is that we never discover how those people feel…
Afrikaans protagonist Mies Julie (Elise Kibler) and Xhosa antagonist John (James Udom), though childhood friends, are from vastly different social orders. Now in their twenties, they are sep…
The entire cast seems to be having a good time as they move through the antics provided by director Margot Bordelon. The result is somewhat of an overlong television comedy sketch that does …
This one-man show is testament that his stand-up comedy was more abrasive than funny and reinforces the power of words. Mr. Bruce exposed the hypocrisy of humanity in such an unconventional …
The Clubbed Thumb, True Love, and New York Theatre Workshop production of "What the Constitution Means to Me: will come to Broadway this spring for a 12-week limited engagement, beginning pe…
Award-winning playwright and director Emily Mann, who has served as the Artistic Director and Resident Playwright of the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, New Jersey since 1990, will ret…
Abby Rosebrock introduces an interesting mélange of broken characters in her new play "Blue Ridge" currently running at Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater. She drops these six d…
"Network" addresses important themes and raises equally significant enduring questions. "Network" parses the word 'network' in a variety of ways, adding richness and layered depth to the imp…
This is a monumental piece of theater that will stand up to the test of time. It is a thrilling drama of crime and passion that infects a peculiar family which is navigating a contentious, p…
There is nothing groundbreaking about this show, but it is good solid entertainment with performances that would be hard to beat. It sheds some light on the journey of a musical icon but als…
There is no doubt that the so called "Hello Girls," the bilingual operators that were sent to the front line to operate secured switchboards, were invaluable to the Signal Corps units in Wor…
Hopefully there will be another extension to the current run in its present state. Playwright Samuel D. Hunter has written a new classic American play, not quite a tragedy, but that being sa…
Josh Cohen's year long (Valentine's Day to Valentine's Day) struggle with the vicissitudes of life is chronicled in eleven musical numbers by an energetic and talented cast that not only sin…
Most of the humor during this section is heteronormative, almost bordering on self-pity and inclusive only of birthing parents. There is nothing wrong with this choice except for the fact th…
Director and Choreographer Casey Nicholaw coaxes laughs and candor out of every scene but knows when to turn the tide to profound passion. As always he fills the stage with powerful, high oc…
In this revival of "Thom Pain (based on nothing)" at The Pershing Square Signature Center's Irene Diamond Stage, Will Eno steps over, under, and in between the resting places " and the writi…