In adapting the screenplay for the stage, Crowe has expanded the narrative frame to such a degree that the story, the characters, and the very heart of the piece get lost in the muddle. Addi…
Let me tell you about this show opening tonight at the Booth Theatre, a musical starring an actress in her 60s who plays a teenage girl nearing the end of her life. It also features the girl…
In an intriguing solo piece titled Where We Belong, opening tonight at the Public Theater in a production by Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, playwright and performer Madeline Sayet brings to…
Good Enemy, Audible Theater's new production at the Minetta Lane Theatre, is one-part political thriller, one-part father-daughter reconciliation drama, and one-part sentimental road-trip co…
Given the human suffering we are made to witness in the Roundabout Theatre Company production of You Will Get Sick"the main character's terrifying and mysterious physical deterioration, even…
In My Broken Language, Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes's autobiographical play produced by the Signature Theatre in New York, the author expresses a desire for a museum that would house the memories…
In the current Classic Stage Company revival of the 2002 musical A Man of No Importance, Doyle applies the tactic sparingly"there are on-stage musicians as well as a handful of ensemble memb…
Solo acts, especially those of the memoir variety, are tricky to pull off without seeming to be either displays of narcissism ("of course, you'll want to fork out the big bucks to hear me ta…
The Civilians' production of Marin Gazzaniga's The Unbelieving, opening tonight at 59E59 Theaters, is a paradigm of the company's signature form of "investigative theater." In the 65-minute …
The New Light Theater Project's production of Andrew Rincón's I Wanna F*ck Like Romeo and Juliet, opening tonight at 59E59 Theaters, is a sweet, funny, heartwarming, bilingual, gay, roman…
The extraordinary revival of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun opening tonight at the Public Theater is one for the books. Anyone who imagines this iconic 1959 play about the struggle…
Time and space have become glitchy and bafflingly fluid for the young woman protagonist in HOUND DOG, Melis Aker's new play with music in a co-production by Ars Nova and PlayCo. One minute s…
The revitalized Negro Ensemble Company, Inc. has reemerged in the last few years as a training ground for up-and-coming Black artists, who are confronted with new and lingering concerns asso…
Few writers manage with such consistent skill the variety of works Parks has produced about Black lives and experiences, ranging in content from historic to biographic to literary to contemp…
The Fall, Albert Camus's 1956 novel, is written as a series of confessions in which the narrator grapples with the absurdity of life. True enlightenment, the novel suggests, can only come wh…
Chester Bailey. A prosaic title, and the play at Irish Rep, by Joseph Dougherty, doesn't overflow with poetry, either. It's a straightforward little two-hander, one with perhaps too many tan…
The revival of Wilson's The Piano Lesson, opening tonight at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, incorporates all of these in generous portions. It also marks the Broadway directorial debut of LaTa…
What I love about this production, apart from the all-around exceptionally fine performances under Miranda Cromwell's sharp-as-a-well-stropped-razor direction, is the ease with which all of …
If you go into the American Airlines Theatre expecting to see a revival of the Peter Stone/Sherman Edwards musical 1776, you are in for a surprise, not to say shock. Because this version, du…
Whatever playwright Gracie Gardner intends by the title of her play I'm Revolting, opening tonight at the Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater, multiple meanings are there for inte…
The New Light Theater Project's production of Erin E. Adams' Ink'dWell, opening tonight at 59E59 Theatres, is an intense, deeply moving play about death, mourning, and, thankfully, the possi…
"The shit that happens is not to be understood." That's the first line from Martyna Majok's 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Cost of Living, making its Broadway debut at the Samuel J. Friedm…
If playwright Tom Stoppard stays true to his word and Leopoldstadt turns out to be the last play he writes, it would be a fitting and worthy way to bookend a long and illustrious career dati…
Weightless, the indie-rock musical by The Kilbanes and produced by the Women's Project, is described as a "theatrical concept album." The company of six musicians and singers present a tunef…
american (tele)visions, Victor I. Cazares's new play, in a premiere production at New York Theatre Workshop, is a kaleidoscope, an ever-shifting dazzlement of colors, patterns, shapes, multi…