618 stories from The New York Theatre Experience
Tony nominated musical inspired by the lives of Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins. —Save $3
The Select (The Sun Also Rises) presents a fresh take on Ernest Hemingway's tale of young expatriates.—Save!
The moving story of a great love straining under the weight of conflicting passions.—Save $10
A comic drama about coming of age when life's lessons come in all sizes.—Save!
Sometimes I'm surprised that we survived the Cold War without some sort of mutual destruction. But as survivors we can now look back on it with objectivity and, if you are the producers of N…
A gem of a Passover scene is the high point of Charles Busch's sporadically funny but mostly labored new comedy Olive and the Bitter Herbs, the opener of Primary Stages' new season.
Reviews of shows in the 2011 New York International Fringe Festival.
The two short plays, Breakfast and Ambrosia, presented by the Made at Horse Trade series, are thoughtful, tragic stories that are presented with a quiet assurance that brings them vividly to…
What exactly defines a mid-life crisis? In Herman Kline's Midlife Crisis, fears about aging and mortality interweave effortlessly with laughs and surprises in this entertaining new comedy by…
Comedy can be one of the hardest things to do because everyone has a different sense of humor. So Steve Solomon has his work cut out for him in his one-man comedy show, My Mother's Italian, …
Classical Theatre of Harlem’s production of Henry V is an overall great show that wrestles bravely with one of Shakespeare's most contradictory characters. Henry V is centered on the e…
Rentheads rejoice! Just three short (or interminable, depending on who you ask) years after Jonathan Larson's legendary rock opera ended its twelve-and-a-half-year Broadway run, Rent has ret…
HotelMotel, the new double header by The Amoralists at The Gershwin Hotel on 27th Street, is not for the faint-of-heart. The experience, with only 20 seats per performance, gives you the opp…
Stanton Wood is one hell of a playwright. I ought to know, I've been directing his work for over two decades. Among the plays we've made together are The Night of Nosferatu, The Tale of Fran…
At times confusing but nonetheless compelling, Anna Moench's The Pillow Book explores human interaction through the fragmented lens of lives past, lives imagined, and lives entrenched in the…
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was a revolutionary blend of science fiction and horror when it first arrived on the scene. It has become one of the most enduring monster stories in the history …
There's plenty to appreciate about the New York premiere of The Pretty Trap, a one-act version of The Glass Menagerie that Tennessee Williams wrote during his time perfecting his masterpiece…
What do you get when you have eight androgynous a cappella vocalists wearing white suits, face paint, bald caps and really red lips, pretending to be aliens from the planet "Voca" whose spa…
Little Town Blues is a musical adaptation of Chekhov's The Three Sisters set in modern day Iowa. Split between two schools--an elite boarding school and a military school--it focuses on the …
Shakespeare in the Park(ing) Lot is just as it sounds: free Shakespeare presented in a municipal parking lot on the Lower East Side. Founded in 1995 by Expanded Arts' Robert Spahr and Jennif…
From the moment the theater darkens and the announcer requests you turn off your cell in Spanglish, you know Theatreworks' 2011 free summer production The Yellow Brick Road isn't set in Kans…
Thank goodness for Core Creative Productions and Teatro La Tea who are focusing on these significant historical events in the new play Dia de Los Muertos. It's a fascinating, remarkable work…
A forgotten Cinderella story from 1925 would seem an odd choice for a one-man show, but actor David Greenspan brings The Patsy to vivid, masterful life"reveling in the play's sweet-natured c…
The tears flow fast and furiously on stage during Susan Charlotte's drama The Shoemaker, a production of her company Cause Celebre starring Danny Aiello in the title role. Audience members, …
"Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief; all kill their inspiration and sing out their grief." This quote from a U2 song called "The Fly" has always seemed to me an extremely appr…
