618 stories from The New York Theatre Experience
The tone of this production is set as the audience enters to a modulated voice speaking the words "You are in an open field. On the left side of a white house." A bouncing beat is in the bac…
In his book Jitterbug Perfume, author Tom Robbins says the weather in New Orleans is "like an obscene phone call from nature. The air--moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh--felt as i…
Now we have a play that Williams never let see the light of day, let alone the advice of a collaborator-director. In Masks Outrageous and Austere is being presented at 45 Bleecker Street by …
I went to Metropolitan Playhouse's production of The House of Mirth expecting to be educated as much as entertained, as often happens with rarely produced classics--in this case, a classic I…
Mind The Gap"famous for producing high quality contemporary British theater in New York"presents Georgia Fitch’s Adrenalin…Heart. True love in Islington? A white single mother of two…
At least Bono and The Edge gave Spider-Man one song with a hook so catchy I can still remember it a year later. The only good song in Ghost is the Righteous Brothers' hit "Unchained Melody."…
Joseph Alsop was one of the most powerful and influential journalists in America during the middle third of the 20th century and the details of his life would seem to lend themselves natural…
The idea behind Obama in Naples is intriguing: a modern-day Pulcinella (the crafty meddler from classic commedia dell'arte) plants a rumor that President Obama is planning to visit Naples, p…
The League of Independent Theater, Inc. will have its Annual Meeting this Saturday, April 28, at 5:00pm, at The Living Theatre, 21 Clinton Street. If you’re a member of the League, ple…
If you're offended by the prospect of women behaving as nothing more than sex objects trying to please their cunning-but-dim men folk, Don't Dress for Dinner probably isn't the entertainment…
I love The Lyons. Now that may seem surprising, for this new play by Nicky Silver is not particularly a lovable play. (In fact, in some respects, it's a little bit creepy.) But unlike every …
In 1952 Jonas Salk developed the first effective vaccine for polio but he didn't sell it to the highest bidder; instead he gave it away for the betterment of humankind. Today some may find i…
In his collection Mythologies, Roland Barthes published a short, elucidating essay called "The World of Wrestling," in which he explores how the archetypes of ancient tragedy and c…
Somewhere along the line I must have missed the story about how the Avenue Q song "Everyone's A Little Bit Racist" was adapted into a two-act straight play with enough chops to win the 2011 …
Who says a play needs to be about one thing? Well, lots of people do, and yet often the most exciting theatre transcends its ostensible theme in favor of ambitious storytelling that eschews …
"I know exactly what he's after. And if he carries on like this, he';s going to get it," says Dolly, a character in Richard Bean's One Man, Two Guvnors, which opened this week at Broadway's …
An outstanding cast creates magic in Peter and the Starcatcher, making its Broadway transfer to the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. Rick Elice's script, adapted from the novel by Dave Barry and Rid…
The work of Mr. Howard Philips Lovecraft lends itself naturally to claustrophobic readings, being as it was so largely unappreciated in his own lifetime. It's not hard at all (if perhaps sli…
Mariah MacCarthy, the playwright of The Foreplay Play, notes in the program that a friend once said to her, "Well, people think that if group sex is awkward, you're doing it wrong. The truth…
If you just happened to meet Laura Wingfield one day, would she know that her glass menagerie was a symbol of her own fragility and uniqueness? This is one of the potent ideas in Steven Fech…
The Rattlestick Playwrights Theater’s new production of Jose Rivera’s play Massacre (Sing to Your Children) is difficult to sit through. It is not difficult to watch in the way t…
Poor Baby Bree's vaudeville presentation I Am Going To Run Away is a show I wished would never end. Young and sprightly enough to recall a 1920s starlet, and endowed with an unstoppable voic…
From nytheatre.com reviewer Paul Hufker: I’m having a reading on April 24th of two plays of mine. The reading starts at 7:00pm and ends at 9:30. Its location is The Drilling Company, 2…
So, the thing about Larry Kunofsky's new play Your Boyfriend May Be Imaginary is that, when it's all over, we can't be sure whether Marci's boyfriend is for real or not. But that's not impor…
A show with the word "divorce" in the title rarely conjures the image of an evening of fun entertainment, but the The Flea Theater and The Civilians have managed to do just that with You Bet…
