618 stories from The New York Theatre Experience
Duncan Pflaster writes and Glory Kadigan directs in this delightful comedy, The Empress of Sex, part of the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity. The play follows the Empress Salacia who, af…
The writer Dan Gordon is no stranger to adapting screenplays for the theater. Following stage versions of the films Rain Man and Terms of Endearment (which ran in London) and the original Ho…
Once On This Island rounds out Paper Mill Playhouse's 2011/2012 season. Director Thomas Kail has delightfully re-imagined the lively 1990 Broadway production. The costumes by Jessica Posner …
Centered around the themes of AIDS and discrimination, this musical has a lot to say. Davis fares better with some issues than others, which makes A Dance for Rylie uneven in its effectivene…
When I came home after seeing Destructo Snack, U.S.A., I checked in on the internet, where I found this headline on MSNBC: "Five things to look out for in 'Game of Thrones' season final…
The horrific scourge of suicides by so many young victims of anti-gay bullying has all the elements of cracking drama: stakes as high as life and death, a multi-layered clash of societal val…
Doubles Crossed, a new comic noir mystery by Jason S. Grossman, delivers on all counts. With its snappy dialogue and panoply of characters drawn from archetypal gangster movies of the '30s a…
“They say sanity is a numbers game,” Kelly Kinsella announces wryly. If it is, a lot of people are playing it, myself included. We follow writer and performer Kinsella as she rec…
Planet Connections Theatre Festivity presents Deuteranomaly and Adapting, a double bill of interesting and somewhat scary plays about child-rearing. In keeping with the Festivity's theme of …
I was excited to see 36 Hours, a new show written by Amy E. Witting and directed by Bricken Sparacino, which is playing at The Red Room. The show depicts a brief interaction between two form…
It's June, which means it must be time for another themed early-summer festival at the Brick. This year we have the Democracy Festival (its eight predecessors were The Hell Festival, The Mor…
Rangoon by Mayank Keshaviah is the engrossing story of Dhiraj, an Indian-American convenience store worker in the American South, and his family. His grandfather, who appears as a friendly g…
Derek Ahonen is the co-founder, artistic director and resident playwright of the award-winning Amoralists Theatre Company in NYC. He is also a director, an actor and teacher.
What seems at first to be a quirky piece of anthropological inquiry--a trip behind the scenes of a Japanese theatrical subculture unfamiliar to American audiences--slowly reveals itself to b…
Not surprisingly, The Active Theater turns out yet another quality, thought-provoking production. Body Language, penned by Jennie Contuzzi and under the capable direction of Nathaniel Shaw, …
I've been hearing about James Harrison Monaco's solo show Reception for quite a while now (since back when it had a different title, Do You Like That Man?; the new title is better). This ext…
"Every year, there are fewer and fewer small-town diners in America. Yet there is an untapped reservoir of stories in those that remain." This reservoir of stories is the basis for Nylon Fus…
Subtitled "A Honky Dory Puppet Show," White Like Me takes us through the sordid history of white man's conquering of the world through the twisted eyes of Paul Zaloom. There is a lot of sarc…
We all should be very grateful to the folks at soloNOVA Arts Festival for bringing Baby Redboots' Revenge back to NYC in 2012, for a long-overdue revival. All that I'd heard about the show t…
Johnathon, the reluctant hero of Ben Clawson's lively and ambitious new play Claire Went to France, has just returned home from a terrible day at work. For one thing, it's raining. His job i…
Cock, the title Mike Bartlett chose for his 2009 play currently receiving its U.S. premiere, is rife with associations, most of which are fully apparent the minute the play begins. James Mac…
This is written by Chris Leidenfrost-Wilson: Broadway stars Chip Zien and Jonathan C. Kaplan will be joining the group of original “Marvin Trilogy” cast members appearing at a be…
Over the years, I have read six different editions (for various classes) of Woyzeck and continue to be confused as to what this play is truly about. When I saw that someone in the city was p…
Preconceptions of those different from us separate us almost as much as our actual differences. As they say, to truly understand someone you must walk a mile in their shoes whether they fit …
Jack's Back is a musical comedy about Jack the Ripper. You read that right: it's a comedy and not even particularly a dark one--it's meant to be a merry yarn, sort of an amalgam of The Myste…
