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  Theatre in Review: Italian American Reconciliation (The Flea Theater)
At the Flea the other night, I kept thinking of Billie Dawn's famous line from Born Yesterday: "Are you one of those talkers, or would you be interested in a little action?" Nobody in Italian-American Reconciliation ...
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Theatre in Review: Nothing Can Take You From the Hand of God (Playwrights Horizons)
Frances Reinhardt, the hurricane eye of Nothing Can Take You From the Hand of God, is skilled at harvesting lucrative popular art from her embarrassing and/or traumatic past. Having fled her evangelical upbringing in ...
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Theatre in Review: Crooked Cross (Mint Theater Company/Theatre Row)
In case you're wondering, a crooked cross is a swastika, the red flag signaling a country's descent into hell. It's also the title of a novel, the first in a trilogy, by the British writer Sally Carson, about a German family in ...
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Theatre in Review: Waiting for Godot (Hudson Theatre)/Krapp's Last Tape (NYU Skirball)
How do you like your Samuel Beckett? Frothy and starry, or straight, no chaser? In New York this week, you have a choice: A slicked-up revival of Waiting for Godot, starring Hollywood's once and future Bill and Ted,
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Theatre in Review: Caroline (MCC Theater)
One of the greatest pleasures the theatre offers is when a new writer appears, offering a fresh, distinctive voice. So it is with Preston Max Allen, author of Caroline, which, in David Cromer's tightly ...
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Theatre in Review: This Much I Know (59E59)
This Much I Know begins with Lukesh, a psychology professor with a specialty in cognition, lecturing about the many ways, accurate and not, we process information -- or, as he puts it, "This is how we move through the world ...
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Theatre in Review: Torera (WP Theater)
In Torera, the playwright Monet Hurst-Mendoza wants us to root for her heroine, Elena, in her struggle to become a bullfighter, but she never explains why. Instead, the author spends a great deal of time setting up a ...
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Theatre in Review: Are the Bennet Girls OK? (Bedlam/West End Theatre)
In a word, no. Frankly, the Bennet Girls -- each of whom, in Emily Breeze's new play, lives on the edge of a conniption fit -- could use a nice, long vacation, a grand tour, perhaps, where they might run into some real husband ...
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Theatre in Review: Art (Music Box Theatre)
Bobby Cannavale, James Corden, and Neil Patrick Harris are having a high old time on stage at the Music Box these nights. You might, too. Depending.
Yasmina Reza unleashed a commercial juggernaut with Art< ...
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Theatre in Review: And Then We Were No More (La MaMa)
If you ever need someone to inject some blood into a faltering play, Elizabeth Marvel is your woman. Cast in And Then We Were No More as a lawyer reluctantly taking a capital punishment case -- the time is the ...
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Theatre in Review: The Honey Trap (Irish Repertory Theatre)
Much of the considerable suspense onstage at the Irish Rep these nights comes from the sight of Michael Hayden trying to control his volcanic rage. Cast as Dave, a retired member of the British Army who has never recovered from ...
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Theatre in Review: Punch (Manhattan Theatre Club/Samuel J. Friedman Theatre)
In Punch, the quality of mercy is not strained; it's a superpower. James Graham's astonishing, heartbreaking new play, based on a real-life incident, arrives at a time when half the world seems consumed with ...
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Theatre in Review: The Other Americans (Public Theater)
John Leguizamo, for thirty-five years the master of the funny, frank, often scalding solo performance piece, has now committed the most radical act of his career, penning an old-fashioned drama out of the Arthur Miller playbook. ...
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Theatre in Review: Mexodus (Minetta Lane Theatre)
Even as the current administration tries to rewrite American history as a long march from a rosy past to a glorious future, the people behind Mexodus will have none of that. Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson ...
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Theatre in Review: Weather Girl (St. Ann's Warehouse)
Brian Watkins hasn't solved the climate crisis, but in the solo show Weather Girl, he has found theatrically potent way of writing about it, which is no small thing. His vessel in this endeavor is Stacey Gross, one ...
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Theatre in Review: This is Not a Drill (York Theater Company)
One of the great difficulties in writing of This is Not a Drill is characterizing it. Is it Come from Away with nuclear fallout? Close but not quite. The White Lotus meets The Love Boat? You're getting ...
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Theatre in Review: Saturday Church (New York Theatre Workshop)
The new musical at NYTW is a tale of two churches, and alas, for the purposes of drama, one is far more interesting than the other. That's one problem facing Saturday Church. Clutter is another: Expanding Damon Cardasis
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Theatre in Review: The Essentialisn't (HERE)
"Can you be Black and not perform?" That's an interesting question, especially since it is being asked onstage by Eisa Davis, who is playing -- what? Herself? A version of herself? A well-honed Eisa Davis persona? We're not even ...
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Theatre in Review: The Wild Duck (Theatre for a New Audience)
We're in the middle of a full-tilt Henrik Ibsen revival thanks to recent starry stagings of A Doll's House, Ghosts, and An Enemy of the People, which have yielded, to put it mildly, varying results. But leave it to ...
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Theatre in Review: House of McQueen (The Mansion at Hudson Yards)
House of McQueen is, in many ways, a beautifully designed production, evoking the glamour and tumult of its title character's life and times: Jason Ardizzone-West's sleek minimalist box set serves as a canvas for Br ...
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