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At the beginning of Sean Christopher Lewis's harrowing solo play Dogs of Rwanda, now playing at Urban Stages, David (Dan Hodge) describes a particular custom in Rwanda: Individuals guilty of…
"Fortune favors the brave!" is the way one hopeful character puts it in David Rabe's Good for Otto, a masterwork about the care and treatment of mental illness, written by a playwright at th…
Anyone who spends time contemplating the end of human civilization might take a modicum of comfort in knowing that a record of our existence may very well outlast us somewhere in the vastnes…
Harvey Milk often began his political speeches with the declaration, "My name is Harvey Milk and I'm here to recruit you."
Lindsey Ferrentino's Amy and the Orphans, opening tonight at Roundabout's Laura Pels Theatre, is a smart and perceptive blend of a laugh-out-loud 'road trip' comedy and a serious examination…
As many have noted, other people's breakups are hilarious; our own are tragic. 21 Extremely Bad Breakups tries, and often succeeds, in having it both ways. The play is a collection of breaku…
WICKED CLONE, the cinema musical, is set to begin Off-Broadway performances this Thursday, March 1st at the Davenport Theatre, 354 West 45 Street (between Eighth & Ninth Ave.) Opening Night …
Jordan Harrison has written some wacky plays over the last few years, including his 2015 Pulitzer finalist Marjorie Prime, Doris to Darlene, Amazons and Their Men, Act a Lady, as well as the…
Fresh off an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University, Hammaad Chaudry is making his professional debut with An Ordinary Muslim, an uneven drama at New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW).
Third time's the charm as the York Theatre Company closes out its three-show Musicals in Mufti tribute to composer Jule Styne with an effervescent production of Subways Are For Sleeping.
We are fortunate in New York to have a couple of theater companies that specialize in presenting older plays that generally have been confined to dusty shelves and haven't seen the light of …
Remember The Book of Mormon, the musical that The New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley called "blasphemous, scurrilous and more foul-mouthed than David Mamet on a blue streak?"
Director Lila Neugebauer has a flair for finding a clear path through abstract works.
Playwright Sarah Burgess has shown a real interest in the intersection of wealth and power.
Throughout the 1980s there was a slew of plays that can be best described as unlovable-losers dramas. . . .
Carl Jung meets Jurassic Park in Alexander V. Thompson's Pete Rex, an unpolished yet intriguing new play about one man's personal journey through psychological darkness, opening tonight at 5…
According to Larry Phillips' play Koalas Are Dicks, but they've got nothing compared to humans.
Vulnerability doesn't come easily to Eve Ensler. Neither does holding back.
After winning four Golden Globes, three SAG Awards and seven Oscar nominations for his emotionally charged revenge film, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Martin McDonagh is unquest…
The Connelly Theater, on East Fourth, is an elegant old-style off-Broadway house, with gilded proscenium arch, dramatic red curtain, and ample wing space to store enormous set changes.
Someday, someone will write a work of fiction about a cult that doesn't involve: insanity, murder and deceit.
After sitting through Terrence McNally's dismal Fire and Air at Classic Stage Company, a play about ballet that contains no actual dancing, I remembered McNally is also the playwright who ga…
Playwright Greg Pierce's Cardinal, which opened tonight at Second Stage's Tony Kiser Theater, is a sketchbook of a play ostensibly about the impact of urban renewal, population shifts, and t…
Balls, opening tonight at 59E59 Theaters, is a rollicking, three-ring circus of a play that retells the story of the ultra-hyped man-vs-woman tennis match between Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean…
Presented last summer in a workshop by New York Stage and Film & Vassar at the Powerhouse Theater, Ngozi Anyanwu's The Homecoming Queen is now receiving its world premiere production at the …
