1,641 stories from Theatre is Easy
Four Clowns
Off Off Broadway, The Club at La MaMa
Reviewed by Amanda LaPergola
BOTTOM LINE: Not just a clever name, Four Clowns features four clowns enacting pathetic and tragic human lif…
A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes
Off Off Broadway, Dixon Place, New Georges
Reviewed by Shawna Cormier
BOTTOM LINE: The story of the preparation…
Enchanted Arms
Off Off Broadway, UNDER St. Marks, StrangeDog Theatre
Reviewed by Adrienne Urbanski
BOTTOM LINE: This offering of four reworked fairy tales provides comic relief and tense,…
Jane the Plain
Off Off Broadway, 4th Street Theatre, Flux Theatre Ensemble
Reviewed by Amanda LaPergola
BOTTOM LINE: A weird, funny, and fantastical look back at high school life.
Is the…
Family Play (1979 to Present)
Off Off Broadway, New Ohio Theatre
Reviewed by Shani R. Friedman
BOTTOM LINE: A collection of conversations that holds up a mirror to human nature as the sta…
Playing With Grown Ups
Off Broadway, 59E59 Theatres
Reviewed by Eleanor J. Bader
BOTTOM LINE: Sharp wit and clever one-liners make this an entertaining, but ultimately devastating, look a…
The Look of Feeling
Off Off Broadway, Susan Batson Studio Theater
Reviewed by Zahra Sadjadi
BOTTOM LINE: An inspiring portrait of a woman who impacted modern dance, loved being an artist,…
Sea Marks
Off Broadway, Irish Repertory Theatre
Reviewed by Jason Rost
BOTTOM LINE: Sleepless in the West of Galway -- this romantic comedy for Irish fishermen is a predictable, but fun, …
Keep Your Electric Eye On Me
Off Off Broadway, HERE
Reviewed by Dillon Slagle
BOTTOM LINE: The collage of live, recorded, and found footage creates an experience that is deeply alienating…
Annapurna
Off Broadway, Theatre Row, The New Group
Reviewed by Shani R. Friedman
BOTTOM LINE: An absorbing two character drama about the hold past loves can have, especially the all-consu…
Red-Eye to Havre de Grace
Off Broadway, New York Theatre Workshop
Reviewed by Angel
BOTTOM LINE: One of the most interesting and adventurous musicals in recent memory, based on the last t…
Cherry Smoke
Off Broadway, Urban Stages
Reviewed by Shoshana
BOTTOM LINE: An emotional and impressive immersion into a world of poverty, immeasurable love, and fighting.
Even when machin…
The Complete and Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O'Neill, Vol. 2
Off Off Broadway, Theatre for the New City / New York Neo-Futurists
Reviewed by Jack Smart
BOTTOM LINE: A clever illu…
The Cripple of Inishmaan
Broadway, Cort Theater
Reviewed by Molly
BOTTOM LINE: People can be jerks, and that makes for very funny characters. This is readily apparent in The Cripple of In…
The Mysteries
Off Off Broadway, The Flea Theater
Reviewed by Joseph
BOTTOM LINE: An epic theatricalization of the Greatest Story Ever Told -- 48 playwrights, 53 actors, and six hours!
Ed …
Rent
Off Off Broadway, The Gallery Players
Reviewed by Greg
BOTTOM LINE: Although this billed "reinvention" of Rent is more of a homage, there is a great deal of heart in this production a…
Tony N Tina's Wedding
Off Broadway, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis High School
Reviewed by Brett
BOTTOM LINE: Go for the experience, not the production values.
It's somewhat difficult to writ…
Cabaret
Broadway, Studio 54/Roundabout Theatre
Reviewed by Weston Clay
BOTTOM LINE: A direct revival of the 1998 Broadway run that lacks freshness and originality.
Have you ever heard a …
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Broadway, Belasco Theatre
Reviewed by Greg Solomon
BOTTOM LINE: A triumphant revival of a show finally making its Broadway debut -- Hedwig and the Angry Inch may…
Ballet Hispanico: 2014 Joyce Season
Off Broadway, The Joyce Theatre
Reviewed by Jane Sato
BOTTOM LINE: An enjoyable dance show highlighting Latino culture and the company's talented dance…
Nicholas Nickleby
Off Off Broadway, Theatre for the New City
Reviewed by Eleanor J. Bader
BOTTOM LINE: An entertaining, if intentionally melodramatic, musical drubbing of Victorian Englan…
The Tower
Off Off Broadway, Standard Toykraft, AntiMatter Collective
Reviewed by Weston Clay
BOTTOM LINE: A strange and psychedelic retelling of the events of the Donner Party.
In a Taro…
Women
Off Off Broadway, The PIT
Reviewed by Dillon Slagle
BOTTOM LINE: A hilarious, interesting, and entertaining mash-up of Girls and Little Women.
The TV show Girls has become such a n…
Extraordinary Extremities
Off Broadway, SoHo Playhouse
Reviewed by Zahra Sadjadi
BOTTOM LINE: A puppet show that teaches lessons of creative resilience to children of all ages.
There is,…
Don Juan, or Wages of Debauchery
Off Off Broadway, Jan Hus Playhouse
Reviewed by Jason Rost
BOTTOM LINE: The puppets dazzle even if some of the comedy fizzles.
In 1984, Czech puppeteer V…
