618 stories from The New York Theatre Experience
New York audiences may be familiar with Scots playwright David Harrower from Manhattan Theatre Club's 2007 production of Blackbird. Here Harrower takes on the role of director as well as wri…
There are ghosts swirling around the Marquis Theatre, where Michael Grandage's swiftly paced, deadly serious production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Evita opened on April 5, and I'm…
Love can blossom in unexpected places. Such is one of the themes in Prisoner of Love, a new play by Jay Prasad. The play unfolds around Julian, a recently paroled convict who is returnin…
If you are a fan--whether a fan of good theater or a sports fan--it's probably not a stretch to assume that you already have some opinion of the new Broadway play Magic/Bird. If you're a the…
Lunatic Cunning is, we are told, based on real events from creator James Godwin's life. In his dreams, hallucinations and work as a performance artist and puppeteer Godwin began to notice ce…
"Broke House is Chekhov's Three Sisters, reality TV, Grey Gardens and Jack Smith diced up and served fresh in a visually and technologically stunning, lighting fast performance matrix," the…
The first question you must ask of a play is: Why this play now? Unfortunately, I have no idea why the producers and creators of End of the Rainbow have deemed this show, about the addiction…
Erica Morini--the inspiration for Willy Holtzman's new play The Morini Strad--was a real person. She was a child prodigy who became famous in the 1920s in Europe and the United States; the j…
Part 2 of Gideon Productions' and Mac Rogers' sci-fi trilogy, Blast Radius, now playing at the Secret Theatre in Long Island City, expands the story's scale. While it deals with the socio-po…
I was looking forward to seeing the new revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man because of the cast: with Angela Lansbury, James Earl Jones, John Larroquette, Candice Bergen, Michael McKean, Je…
David Foster Wallace's prose is an ostensibly odd choice for theatrical adaptation, given its notorious length and complexity. At two and a half hours with only a five minute stretch break i…
Arin Arbus returns to Theater for Arin Arbus returns to Theater for a New Audience to give us a thoroughly delightful production of The Taming of the Shrew, one that yet again proves how th…
Occupy Wall Street. The Ryan Budget. "I don't care what the unemployment rate's going to be." "I'm not concerned about the very poor." 2012 would seem to be an ideal time…
For most of us, our bathing rituals are rejuvenating, positive moments in our daily lives. They jolt us awake in the morning, preparing us for the day ahead, or they ease into bed in the eve…
In the comedy-folklore mash-up Out of Iceland, presented at walkerspace by Alfred R. Kahn in association with Culture Project, Caroline, an American writer with a painful secret, is compelle…
Barack Obama figures in the title of the newest play by Mario Fratti, but he is not its subject. Instead, Obama 44, which is receiving its world premiere from Voyage Theatre Company at La Ma…
In Calliope Theatre Company's debut production, Children of the Future Age, three runaways find refuge from the rough outside world together while waiting for the messiah-like arrival of the…
Last year, Phoenix Theatre Ensemble gave us a lovely, non-traditional take on Iphigenia at Aulis, using a 1978 translation by the American poets W.S. Merwin and George E. Dimock, Jr. This ye…
Alas, Now. Here. This., doesn't open with Hunter Bell, Susan Blackwell, Heidi Blickenstaff, and Jeff Bowen walking out on stage and shouting "We're Back!" to the rapturous applause and whoop…
Do you believe in magic? Or are you someone like me who snorts and thinks "yeah sure it's just a trick, it was in his hand the whole time"? Well it won't matter what you believe in…
Once is a paean to the power of music, and the celebration begins well before the official curtain time, with an on-stage pre-show in which the members of the ensemble--who supply ALL of the…
Li'l Abner, a musical based on the comic strip characters created by Al Capp that was a hit in 1956, is being given a cute dust-off by Musicals Tonight!, Mel Miller's off-off-Broadway siblin…
Mike Nichols' new production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is thrilling, insightful, and revelatory. It's an expensive ticket, but it's nonetheless my top recommendation for anyone …
Richly allusive and teasingly elusive; calling on myths and snippets of history from ancient Greece, medieval France, and modern Korea; circling around and darting at thematic clusters of mo…
I'm a strong believer in listening for signals from the Universe--not fate, exactly, but rather a receptiveness to opportunities that await you as you make decisions, big or small, about you…
