It's not every day that Harry Potter calls you old. To be clearer, it was Daniel Radcliffe, now a bearded young dad in his mid-30s, who approached my partner and me minutes before the start …
Sophocles is having a moment. Robert Ickes' Oedipus, recently on Broadway, recast the title character as an Obama-like political upstart facing down birtherism allegations, while Lee Zeldin'…
Director/choreographer Martha Clarke made her name with a danced drama inspired by Hieronymus Bosch's symbolism-heavy 16th century masterpiece "The Garden of Earthly Delights." It's no surpr…
Ro Reddick's absurdist historical drama Cold War Choir Practice was inspired by her experience growing up in Syracuse, New York, as one of the only Black members of a Reagan-era children's c…
Millennial anxiety runs deep in Clare Barron's You Got Older, which is getting an insightful revival at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Alia Shawkat stars as Mae, a thirtysomething who decides to n…
When receiving a diagnosis of cancer, it's tempting to retreat into yourself, to shut out all friends and family, and bear the burden of an uncertain future alone. Yasmine (Brooke Ishibashi)…
Wallace Shawn's best known collaboration with director André Gregory is the 1981 Louis Malle film My Dinner With André, in which the two denizens of the downtown arts scenes engage in a ra…
Organized mayhem is the overriding aesthetic of Burnout Paradise, a celebration of multitasking produced and performed by the Pony Cam theater troupe from Melbourne, Australia. Four performe…
There are laughs aplenty in the Fringey new musical Bigfoot! " which is perhaps not surprising since the book and score are by veteran comedy writer Amber Ruffin (with an assist from David S…
Noah Galvin, a former Evan Hansen on Broadway who starred in the TV shows The Real O'Neals and The Good Doctor, delivers a star-making performance in the new dramedy The Reservoir that recal…
Investment banking is not the most welcoming of industries " especially for folks who don't carry the privilege of being white and male. That familiar truth gets a fresh reworking in Alex Li…
A thread of Gen X nostalgia runs strongly through British illusionist Jamie Allan's Amaze, where the walls of the auditorium at New World Stages are lined with posters of '80s films and scre…
Who says Silicon Valley techies don't have a conscience? Matthew Libby's unbelievably timely drama Data centers on computer scientists at a firm called Athena trying to develop a top-secret …
You can see why rising Hollywood stars Abbey Lee (Mad Max: Fury Road) and Owen Teague (IT) were drawn to Joe White two-handed drama Blackout Songs, making its New York debut at the MCC Theat…
Elevator Repair Service " the troupe best known for its eight-hour, word-for-word staged reading of The Great Gatsby " has decided to tackle another 20th-century literary classic: James Joyc…
Live theater traipses into the uncanny valley of high-tech performance capture with An Ark, a fascinating new production that outfits audience members with mixed-reality headsets that allow …
Erica Schmidt has packed her new play The Disappear with many promising elements, including some sharp insights into a middle-aged narcissist who's earned a dubious reputation as a creative …
Tracy Letts's Bug, making its Broadway debut three decades after its first performance, is a psychological thriller that has a timely prescience in David Cromer's riveting production. Carrie…
It was a remarkable year for theater in New York, even if some of my favorites didn't linger for very long. In whittling down my list, I decided to exclude some shows that transferred to Bro…
Australian author Joan Lindsay has credited a dream as the inspiration for her beloved 1967 novel Picnic at Hanging Rock " a story centered around the disappearance of a teacher and three st…
Molière's 1664 satire Tartuffe is having a moment in New York this fall. First, André de Shields led a campy revival in the Gilded Age library at House of the Redeemer. Now Matthew Broderi…
The world has changed a lot since I first saw Jordan Harrison's Marjorie Prime at Off Broadway's Playwrights Horizons a decade ago. The premise had once seemed like science fiction: A family…
Anna Christie has become a kind of oddball stepchild in the Eugene O'Neill canon, seldom seen in New York City since the memorable 1993 Broadway revival with Natasha Richardson and Liam Nees…
God bless us every one. Ebenezer Scrooge is back in town, in a highly modified adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol that first played on Broadway in 2019 (and scooped …
Directors have always had a reputation for their god complex, but Asa Leon " the manipulative theater-maker at the center of Nazareth Hassan's dark satire Practice " takes matters to a whole…