It's been a decade since Hamilton exploded the possibilities of what musical theater could do with historical subject matter, jam-packing a lot of narrative and footnote-worthy tangents into…
You don't have to be a fan of Cuban music, or even understand Spanish, to get caught up in the infectious, rhythmic joy that is Buena Vista Social Club, the new musical based on Wim Wenders'…
Like many a gay man, playwright Joshua Harmon has been shaped at least in part by the dynamic of, dare-I-say-it, domineering women in his life. As he demonstrates in his remarkable but spare…
The British director Rebecca Frecknall has unearthed new depths in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, turning a classic that can be played as maudlin melodrama into a kinetic pri…
In the three decades since the premiere of Rent and the sudden death of its 35-year-old creator, Jonathan Larson has become an almost mythic figure in the musical theater world. The admirati…
Lily Rabe, the gifted actress last seen on the New York stage in the 2015 Shakespeare in the Park production of Cymbeline, is a natural choice to play Helena Alving, the wealthy, long-suffer…
Nia Akilah Robinson, a recent Juilliard grad now at the Yale School of Drama, stakes a claim as a major playwright to watch with her genre-bending drama The Great Privation, which premiered …
There are not many plays that truly capture the liminal period when young adults are in the thick of that awkward, exhilarating process of becoming. Natalie Margolin's one-act dramedy All Ni…
Date: March 6, 2025 Author: Thom Geier 1 Comment For nearly three decades, the theater company Clubbed Thumb has nurtured some of the finest new plays to hit the New York stage, from the …
There is much to admire in Lisa Sanaye Dring's Sumo, a deep dive into Japan's national sport by way of a conventional Karate Kid-style framework. We follow an orphaned teenage apprentice nam…
From 'Maybe Happy Ending' to 'Oh, Mary!' here are critic's picks of the best shows currently on the New York stage
Adapted from my Broadway Bulletin column in the March issue of U.K.-based Musicals magazine. New York theatre doesn't just happen on Broadway. These days, there are plenty of commercial Off …
Is there a dark secret in the past of Rajiv Joseph, the playwright best known for his 2009 Iraq war parable Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo and the recent sports-themed dramedy King James (o…
D.A. Mindell's On the Evolutionary Function of Shame is a timely, trenchant, and often funny new play that explores the issue of trans visibility. Mindell initially sets the scene in the bib…
It was only six years ago that Maggie Siff led a solid but workmanlike revival of Sam Shepard's 1978 drama Curse of the Starving Class. Now Calista Flockhart and Christian Slater are returni…
Samuel D. Hunter follows his extraordinary 2022 two-hander A Case for the Existence of God with a another astonishing new drama for two actors. This time, two men must calibrate the spaces b…
Bess Wohl takes a big-hearted approach to her subject matter, and to her characters, in this powerful and life-affirming drama
Kate Gilmore conveys the conflict in her character with a riveting command of the show's vocal and physical demands, but 'Safe House' remains too scattershot an exercise in style to move us …