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Kelly Reilly, Eve Best, and Clive Owen in Old Times
(©Joan Marcus)
The music, courtesy of Thom Yorke of Radiohead, that pulses through the American Airlines Theatre as audiences arri…
Chris Perfetti and Izzie Steele in Cloud Nine
(©Doug Hamilton)
Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine centers on events taking place in Africa in the Victorian era and London in 1979, and…
Lauren Luna Velez and Jonathan Walker in Catch the Butcher
(©Carol Rosegg)
Three shows have opened off-Broadway in the past week, and they all share one commonality: a kind of retro-T…
Sandra Mae Frank and Austin P. McKenzie in Spring Awakening
(©Joan Marcus)
Reviving a hit musical less than ten years after its original production closed could be considered foolhar…
Susannah Flood and Gbenga Akinnagbe in Fulfillment
(©Hunter Canning)
When audiences meet Michael (Gbenga Akinnagbe), the central character in Thomas Bradshaw’s new play Fulfillm…
Charles Socarides and Amelia Workman in How to Live on Earth
(©Hunter Canning)
There are a host of dreamers filling off-Broadway stages right now. Sadly, most of them are finding them…
Michael Laurence and Annette O’Toole in Hamlet in Bed
(©Tristan Fuge)
Writer-performer Michael Laurence enjoys riffing on classic texts. About six years ago in Krapp 39, he offe…
Linda Powell, Andrew Garman, Larry Powell, and Philip Kerr in The Christians
(©Joan Marcus)
Can people change their fundamental beliefs? Can religions evolve? These two questions lie a…
Playwright Pat Fenton delivers a gentle ode to an era, a place, and a romance which have all seemingly disappeared forever in Stoopdreamer, now playing at the cell in Chelsea.
A collection …
Todd D'Amour in Empire Travel Agency
(©Mitch Dean)
At this juncture, raving about Woodshed Collective’s Empire Travel Agency feels incredibly unfair. This immersive thriller tha…
Matthew-Lee Erlbach, Marinda Anderson, and Devin Norik in Sex of the Baby
(©Russ Rowland)
The characters in Matthew-Lee Erlbach’s Sex of the Baby, which has just opened at the A…
Donald Webber, Jr.; Chris Myers; Derrick Baskin; Daniel J. Watts; Nicholas Chris in Whorl Inside a Loop
(©Joan Marcus)
The semi-autobiographical new play Whorl Inside a Loop, which r…
Nick Westrate, Miriam Silverman, and Matt Dellapina in A Delicate Ship
(©Jenny Anderson)
Anna Ziegler offers up a dark and fractured Christmas memory in A Delicate Ship, which the Pla…
Maureen Anderman in Love & Money
(©Joan Marcus)
A.R. Gurney riffs on Charles Dickens and John Guare in his newest play, Love & Money, which opened the other night at the Signa…
DeLanna Studi and Tina Benko in Informed Consent
(©James Leynse)
One of the world’s oldest conflicts lies at the center of Informed Consent, running at the Duke on 42nd Street i…
Phillipa Soo and Lin-Manuel Miranda in Hamilton
(©Jaon Marcus)
The magnificent achievement that is Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton arrived at Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Thea…
Colin Summers in Steve: A Docu-Musical
(©Hunter Canning)
A trans-Pacific meeting of kindred souls gets chronicled in the endearing and delightfully offbeat Steve: A Docu-Musical, whic…
Georgia Engel, Christopher Abbott, and Lois Smith in John
(©Matthew Murphy)
When the curtains are pulled aside to reveal Mimi Lien’s meticulously realized set for Annie Baker…
Kate Burton, Lily Rabe, and Hamish Linklater in Cymbeline
(©Carol Rosegg)
In Cymbeline, one of Shakespeare’s late romances, the Bard liberally borrows from himself, melding plot …
Erin Mackey and Josh Young in Amazing Grace
(©Joan Marcus)
Theatergoers should expect a rocky theatrical voyage if they’re planning on seeing Amazing Grace, now playing at the N…
Russell G Jones, Jeremie Harris and Karen Pittman in King Liz
(©Carol Rosegg)
Karen Pittman wowed last season in Disgraced on Broadway, playing a high-powered attorney, who found hers…
James Lecesne in The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey.
(©Matthew Murphy)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, which opened last night in a new productio…
Zoe Wilson (center) and Barbara Walsh (rear), along with, clockwise, Ito Aghayere, Chinaza Uche, Theresa McCarthy, Patrick Boll, Marc de la Cruz in Three Days to See
(©Carol Rosegg)
F…
Colin Quinn in The New York Story
(©Mike Lavoie)
Colin Quinn misses the “old” New York. You know, the one that so many of us loathed and loved before 42nd Street began to …
Peter Land, Tori Muray, and Kim Maresca in Ruthless!
(©Carol Rosegg)
Watching folks being evil can always be so much fun, can’t it? And, if you’re unconvinced by the idea,…
