618 stories from The New York Theatre Experience
Fans of the music of Jesus Christ Superstar will not want to miss the new Broadway revival; theater fans in general will likely be thrilled by Des McAnuff's production of Andrew Lloyd Webber…
I have a hard time considering Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers a neglected, rarely seen classic. But Simon's Pulitzer Prize-winning bittersweet comedy apparently has not had a production origin…
My Occasion of Sin takes place in Omaha during the race riots of the late 1960s, and places us as witness to events in the lives of the characters portrayed here. Luigi Waites was a real per…
Re-imagine Hans Christian Andersen's "The Ugly Duckling" as a cross between Cinderella and A Star is Born, throw in the Big Bad Wolf as an agent, and tensions between a carnivore underclass …
Spring Tides, a play by Melissa Gawlowski that is receiving its NYC premiere as part of Boomerang Theatre Company's annual repertory season, is something of a disappointment. This fantastica…
Boomerang's production of The Real Thing at The Secret Theater is a faithful and effective execution of the text. Director Cailin Heffernan honors Stoppard's typical rigorously prescriptive …
Court-Martial at Fort Devens is a fascinating (and necessary!) historical play by Jeffrey Sweet about a group of African American women in World War II. It is about standing up for what you …
Dime Heroes opens with some "underdog music," to wit Modest Mouse and Wolf Parade. Kurt (Steven Solomon), in his bathrobe, staggers to his drawing table, has a shot of whiskey, and…
Surf Reality's new show 64, now playing at HERE as part of their HEREstay program, is described as a "vaudeville of the mind." That billing came back to me over and over again as I…
Jean Genet's The Maids is a desperate, manic, often nasty affair served predictably well by Red Bull Theater. I know "predictably" is hardly the epithet one lusts after for press pulls, but …
Another Life sometimes feels like it's trying to be all things to all people, without really succeeding at any: both a pitch-dark political satire about how absolute power corrupts absolutel…
With Deep Are the Roots, Metropolitan Playhouse once again proves itself invaluable by showing theatergoers a vivid piece of their past in that most immediate and visceral of environments--t…
As spring blossoms forth, and the hopeful promise of Opening Day looms just ahead, the timing of happy, hearty, wholesome Damn Yankees could not be any better. The Paper Mill program says…
Saint Theresa, a sixteenth century nun, seems to cause a lot of controversy. Are her "ecstasies" a communion with God or merely the result of a drug-induced hallucination? This becomes a c…
Boomerang Theatre Company is known for presenting quality Shakespeare to the Indie Theatre community. Their current production of the Bard's romantic comedy, Much Ado About Nothing is fast,…
Based on a series of books by Britt Menzies, the play follows a group of fun-loving rascals who, when offered to choose between the easy and hard way of solving a problem, always pick "impos…
As many of you know, I sit on the Board of Directors of the League of Independent Theater. This group is getting ready to launch (in August) an ambitious and commendable new undertaking R…
At its best, theatre takes you out of yourself. At its best, theatre takes you to a different place. At its best, theatre leaves you ennobled, enriched, enlightened. Summer in Sanctuary is t…
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a big play: it's more than three hours long, it has 27 characters, and it considers difficult questions of philosophy, religion, ethics, and morality. It i…
"Timing is everything in music," announces the narrator-villain of the piece with a cavalier chill in his voice. While your soul revolts against nearly every word uttered by the equal parts …
Adam Burnett is an actor, writer, director and lyricist. He is also one of the co-founders of Buran Theatre Company which was founded at the University of Kansas just a few years ago. Adam …
In Joyce Hokin Sachs' new play Eternal Equinox we are introduced to artists Vanessa Bell (the sister of author Virginia Woolf) and her live-in lover, Duncan Grant, a bisexual painter, in an …
Riti Sachdeva is a playwright and an actor. Her work has been seen regionally and she is the recipient of several awards and fellowships. Riti received her MFA in playwriting in 2011. Cat P…
The Talking Band's Hot Lunch Apostles did for me what art is supposed to do: it shook me up, made me question fundamental assumptions, and launched a dialogue (sometimes internal, sometimes …
Imagine the chaotic postmodern aesthetic of Radiohole blended with the rigorous precision of the SITI Company, glued together with the gleeful anarchic spirit of the Marx Brothers. That, may…
