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In The Trees " a Jody Falco and Jeffrey Steinman Commission for Emerging Playwrights, now making its world premiere in a limited Off-Broadway engagement at Playwrights Horizons, co-produced …
It takes smart, talented actors to make Tom Stoppard's comedy about chaos theory intelligible, and the cast here is up to the challenge.
How director Kimberly Leone layers the work's froth with a commitment to cast out 'othering' is where the show's true magic lurks.
Verdi was surely smiling down from the heavens to hear his most stirring work given such a powerful, clear, and moving rendering.
Canadian Native choreographer Sandra Laronde traces her people's origin story in multisensory 'Miigis: Underwater Panther.'
If the cast and crew can pick up the pace, the show will be a sweet little diversion to welcome kids to the world of puppetry and live performance.
What better way to celebrate Women's History Month than with two of the greatest female singer/songwriters of our time? For three evenings this week, 54 Below is presenting the NYC premiere …
The native of São Paulo, Brazil, most recently received acclaim for directing the one-person show 'Ni Mi Madre' at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in New York.
Only rarely in a lifetime of attending theater is there a production that so engages the minds, hearts, and senses of an audience as to leave one nearly breathless with awe. Anchored by Patr…
A chat with friend and playwright Bob Bartlett about her very personal play now at 1st Stage.
As the urgency ratchets up and surprises are revealed, the story becomes a heart-stopping journey.
Manhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of The Best We Could (a family tragedy), written by Emily Feldman in 2018, and now playing a limited pandemic-delayed Off-Broadway engagement at New Y…
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is proud to announce the first recipients of the Weissberg Commissions. The commissioned artists are Vivian J. O. Barnes, Gethsemane Herron, Jenn Kidwell, and …
Final three plays will be announced on March 10 and read on April 2 and 3.
The Broadway Center Stage production in May will star Alex Brightman, James Monroe Iglehart, Leslie Kritzer, and Rob McClure.
The comedy is a love letter to theater and the bonds of friendship.
Best known for her 1943 semi-autobiographical coming-of-age debut novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (which served as the inspiration for two movies and a musical), author Betty Smith was also a…
Playwright Sarah Ruhl reimagines the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice through the eyes of its heroine, and the production is a testament to the mission of ASC.
"You don't say!" "I do. I just did." This is the retort that ricochets through John Morogiello's In the Gutter like bullets from a Colt 45 " No, never mind. I'm not even going to try to imit…
It's the perfect show for grappling with life's big questions while laughing, crying, and cheering for the fairy tale characters of your childhood.
The production combines Lorraine Hansberry's commentary and the feelings of its characters and cannot but affect the minds and hearts of those who view it.
In this tongue-in-cheek British comedy, two eccentric ladies come together as frenemies.
For more than sixty years, the Obie Awards, developed by the Village Voice in 1955, have honored the boundary-pushing achievements of Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway theater, with informal…
Director Kathleen Akerley's adaptation modernizes the story's politics by removing Caesar from the stage.
Nathan Alan Davis' engaging new two-hander revisits the trauma of the Tulsa Race Massacre.