618 stories from The New York Theatre Experience
A motley assortment of New York stage favorites currently inhabit the living room of the Serebryakov estate in Annie Baker's adaptation of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, now at Soho Rep under the di…
Here’s information about a unique, upcoming course being offered by our friends at Parallel Exit. If were younger and more limber I’d sign up myself: Don’t let your summer …
Megan Hart's This Is Fiction, at the Cherry Lane Studio, is a sight both rare and pleasing: a thoughtful play that's as digestible as a cup of tea. Its best quality, without a doubt, is its …
In January, Gideon Productions premiered Mac Rogers' Advance Man, the first part of his sci-fi Honeycomb Trilogy. Rogers has said his goal was to bring sci-fi to the stage in the form of a l…
You've definitely heard this one before. A maverick, war-hero senator from a Southwestern state has just been chosen as the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party, and he has a problem:…
The Etiquette of Death, a ginormous pageant about death and dying conceived and created by Chris Tanner, is a collage of voices, scenes and songs, all shaped into a loose book-musical format…
It would seem that in this country we have been debating the same subjects for over a century. The question of how can we regulate big business, maintain small government and how to protect …
There is a spaceship at Collapsible Hole. No that's not a poetic metaphor. There really is a spaceship. It's silver and it lights up and it's the set for Space//Space, Banana Bag and Bodice'…
I first became aware of Theatre World when I was a teenager living in Maryland in the 1970s; back then, these glorious volumes, rich with beautiful production photos of shows, were one…
I would say every struggling artist should see the Women's Project Theater's brilliant new production We Play for the Gods at Cherry Lane Theatre--but really everyone (artist or no) should g…
For some, Ikea is a ginormous store where we trek on special occasions to buy well-designed, inexpensive furniture; for others it is a phenomenon in itself. For Brooklyn-based theatre collec…
Federico Garcia Lorca wasn’t yet forty when he was shot and killed, at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. The exact circumstances are to this day unclear but in Olives and Blood, M…
I've seen a great many "issue plays" in the five years that I've been reviewing theater, with mixed results. Far too often, these works, while written with the best of intentions, …
A night's sleep provides little rest when one's dreams are infiltrated by centipedes, scorpions, demons, rodents and sea monsters, orchestrated by the Sandman himself. Rachel Klein's Symphon…
If you are an adventurous theatergoer and are looking for what curiosities alternative theater might have to offer you need look no further than AntiMatter Collective's Demonology. Staged in…
Walter and Marjorie are a pretty ordinary couple. They live in an "up-and-coming" neighborhood in a major city, and they're financially stretched thin no matter how hard they work (Walter in…
This is a double bill of solo performances, each about 40 minutes in length, presented at the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity. Though they're quite different in terms of style and subje…
Ubu Roi was Jarry's sophomoric, savage satire of gluttony and greed gone haywire; Adam Szymkowicz's update, UBU, premiering at soloNOVA Arts Festival in a production directed by and starring…
Penned by Abi Morgan, screenwriter of the Oscar-winning The Iron Lady and the brilliant Shame, Tiny Dynamite features a fairly simple plot. Two childhood friends--one carefree (Anthony) and …
If you had the power to change the world, would you do it? Or would you let the world and all of its complex realities change as time and nature intended? This is the central question that s…
Chicago's Theater Oobleck brings us The Hunchback Variations, a hilarious evening with some rather serious people: Ludwig van Beethoven and Quasimodo, the Hunchback of Notre Dame. Quasimodo…
Roger Nasser is the One-Man Ten-Minute History of American Theater, currently being presented as part of the always-inspiring Brick Theater's Democracy festival, is a strange, strange beast.…
An innovative experimental group that has been around for about a decade, National Theater of the United States of America (NTUSA) has previously produced an inventive deconstruction of the …
If you go to see Food and Fadwa, the new play at New York Theater Workshop, here's a bit of friendly advice: eat first This goes double if you're a fan of hummus, baba ganoush, or any dish w…
There is a lot to digest in Chimichangas and Zoloft, an ambitious and ultimately frustrating new play by Fernanda Coppel at Atlantic Stage 2; perhaps too much. In this family dramedy, direct…
