By Samuel L. Leiter... A consistently intriguing, 90-minute docudrama inspired by the discovery of an album of 116 photos showing the leisure-time activities of the SS officers and staff res…
By Carol Rocamora... Emma Rice's exhilarating Tristan & Yseult transforms a medieval love story into a dazzling theatrical spectacle of music, dance, humor, and breathtaking stagecraft a…
By Ron Fassler... Billy Crystal's new solo show "860" chronicles the devastating loss of his family home of 46 years due to the California wildfires in 2025.
By Andrew Poretz... The sensational Nicolas King returned to 54 Below to celebrate his new live album honoring the late Mike Renzi, delivering dazzling vocals, brilliant arrangements and a h…
By Samuel L. Leiter... "Ms. Blakk for President" turns a drag queen’s historic 1992 campaign into a dazzling, high-energy romp that favors exuberance over dramatic depth.
By Alix Cohen... Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen is colorful and entertaining, stops just short of being salacious, and offers chewable ideas.
By Melissa Griegel … Photos by Ben Bomier for Mia Isabella Photography Imagine having only 24 hours to write, direct, stage, costume, and learn a play to be performed at the end of the 24 …
By Alix Cohen “It is only in the shelter of our neighbors that we all can live.” Parcel From America is a home-stiched sampler manifesting the best Irish clichés: tradition, family, and…
By Alix Cohen... Two generations moving on from trauma
By Alix Cohen... Precision and Control
Lauren Ambrose’s riveting lead performance can’t fully elevate a show that doesn’t quite go deep enough. Review by Stuart Miller . . . The first time The Unbelievers abruptly shifts …
By Samuel L. Leiter... Playwright Richard Nelson is back with another of his series of Apple Plays at the Public Theatre.
By Ron Fassler... After close to 20 years, "In the Heights" is back to remind us once again of Lin-Manuel Miranda's songwriting gifts for the musical theatre.
By Alix Cohen... Theatrical Scenarios - Dancing That Never stops Exploring.
Review by Ron Fassler . . . In 1989, despite mixed reviews, Aaron Sorkin’s A Few Good Men opened on Broadway and ran for over a year. Its 1992 film version, which starred Tom Cruise and …
Review by Ron Fassler . . . Opening tonight, Rope is the second show of the season at the New Group’s new home, the Theatre at St. Clement’s on W. 46th Street. Billed in its advertisem…
Clifford Odets’ Waiting for Lefty receives a major revival at Classic Stage Company. Review by Ron Fassler . . . On January 6, 1935, at the old Civic Repertory Theatre on West 14th Stree…
By Carol Rocamora... Jethro Compton’s enchanting adaptation of Fitzgerald’s classic reminds us that it’s not how much time we have, but what we do with it.
Review by Ron Fassler . . . I’m partial to TV medical dramas and have been watching them for decades. From the heroics of Ben Casey and Dr. Kildare in the 1960s, Medical Center in the…
By Eyal Solomon, Publisher & Editor, Theater Pizzazz... The New York Pops and Tony Award winner Lena Hall delivered a lively, stylish celebration of six decades of James Bond music, from…
Review by Carol Rocamora . . . “When it’s not a storm, it’s a railway strike; when it’s not a pandemic, it’s war. When it’s not war, it’s still war.” Ukrainian-born director…
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . For all his status as France’s greatest playwright, it must be admitted that, like Shakespeare’s, some Molière plays no longer have much of a pulse, at least n…
Review by Ron Fassler . . . William Finn was a composer and lyricist of remarkable versatility. His death in April of 2025, at age seventy-three, was especially sad because he was still work…
By Alix Cohen... All the Things You Are is an exceptional show- swanky, well calibrated, richly inhabited, quietly affecting, and fun.
Review by Ron Fassler . . . Oliver Cotton’s The Score presents German composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) as its primary character: a musical giant of the late Baroque period. As …