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  Theatre in Review: Pictures from Home (Studio 54)
We rarely get dramatic vehicles anymore, more's the pity. I don't mean Jessica Chastain tackling A Doll's House or Wendell Pierce and Sharon D. Clarke in Death of a Salesman; any season is loaded with stars testing their ...
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Theatre in Review: She's Got Harlem on Her Mind (Metropolitan Playhouse)
The latest attraction at Metropolitan Playhouse -- aka, the theatre where they really dig them up -- is a trio of one-acts by Eulalie Spence, who, until now, has probably been best-known as a footnote in the life of another ...
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Theatre in Review: A Bright New Boise (Signature Theatre Company)
Near the end of A Bright New Boise, an ugly disagreement erupts that lays bare a profound division inside American Christianity and, perhaps, the country itself. It's an exchange between Will and Anna, workers at a Hobby ...
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Theatre in Review: The Wanderers (Roundabout Theatre Company/Laura Pels Theatre)
Two marriages unravel, spectacularly, in The Wanderers, and you're likely to care much more about one than the other. I'm betting you'll be most engaged by Esther and Schmuli, a young, heartbreakingly innocent Hasidic couple ...
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Theatre in Review: Lucy (Minetta Lane Theatre)
If nothing else, Lucy, a new psychological thriller, will provide comfort, even validation, for the childless. In playwright Erica Schmidt's view, the business of raising kids is tantamount to living in a war zone ...
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Theatre in Review: Endgame (Irish Repertory Theatre)
Bill Irwin and John Douglas Thompson bring to Endgame something I've never known it to have: grandeur. It's a seedy grandeur, to be sure, but impressive for all of that. Thanks to them, Samuel Beckett's ...
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Theatre in Review: Without You (New World Stages)
Anthony Rapp's musical memoir falls firmly in the category of truth that is stranger than fiction. Part of it is the stuff of Broadway legend: The twenty-five-year-old actor, his career stuck in neutral, gets hired for a musical at ...
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Theatre in Review: The Appointment (Lighting Rod Special at WP Theater)
The Appointment, a musical revue about abortion, makes its case most strongly in three scenes that happen to be the production's most understated. In the first, a quartet of women planning to have the procedure are informed ...
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Theatre in Review: Modern Swimwear (The Tank)
Nick and Sylvie have a problem; actually, they have dozens, but first things first: During sex, whenever he is about to climax, Nick's mind floods with painful sounds that derail his orgasm. Over the course of a long, long night of ...
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Theatre in Review: Not About Me (Theatre for the New City)
Not About Me may be the most disingenuous title of the season; despite an ample supporting cast, Eduardo Machado's new play is all about him -- and, in his telling, his devastating effect on others. It's a ...
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Theatre in Review: Otto Frank (Under the Radar/Public Theater)
Roger Guenveur Smith's solo piece examines, in strikingly poetic language, the title figure, a Holocaust survivor and caretaker of his daughter's astounding legacy. As portrayed here, Otto Frank's stream-of-consciousness account ...
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Theatre in Review: seven methods of killing kylie jenner (Under the Radar/Public Theater)
The title of Jasmine Lee-Jones' play is the sort of extreme statement that can unleash an outraged tweetstorm, which is pretty much what happens in seven methods of killing kylie jenner. Cleo, a Black, British graduate ...
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Theatre in Review: The Collaboration (Manhattan Theatre Club/Samuel J. Friedman Theatre)
With The Collaboration and the Neil Diamond musical A Beautiful Noise opening on Broadway two weeks apart, Anthony McCarten transfers his prodigious biographical endeavors from screen to stage. Peter Morgan can ...
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Theatre in Review: KLII (Under the Radar/Chelsea Factory)
The performer Kaneza Schaal has something to say, but during much of KLII she seems bent on keeping her thoughts to herself. The brief theatre piece begins with something of an audience traffic jam; arriving at Chelsea ...
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Theatre in Review: Merrily We Roll Along (New York Theatre Workshop)
"Yesterday is done/See the pretty countryside;" so goes the opening lyric for Merrily We Roll Along. But yesterday is never done for a storied flop that has been revived more often than many blockbusters, if only because ...
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Theatre in Review: Between Riverside and Crazy (Second Stage/Helen Hayes Theatre)
Few playwrights let their characters run off at the mouth as entertainingly as Stephen Adly Guirgis. In Between Riverside and Crazy some of the choicest comments come from Walter Washington, aka Pops (a term he hates), ...
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Theatre in Review: Ohio State Murders (James Earl Jones Theatre)
How great an actress is Audra McDonald? As the lights come up at the Jones, she is seen standing with her back to the audience, and, instantly, a hush falls across the theatre. She has done nothing -- we haven't even seen her face - ...
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Theatre in Review: Des Moines (Theatre for a New Audience)
It's a conundrum, I know, but the weirder Des Moines gets, the duller it becomes -- largely, I suspect, because it has no animating spirit of its own. Making its belated New York premiere, this 2007 drama by the late Denis ...
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Theatre in Review: Some Like It Hot (Shubert Theatre)
It has been a fraught season, sometimes marked by dramas more compelling offstage than on, but, at the Shubert, you can relax; the professionals are in charge. After a few months in which the new musicals have seemingly suffered from ...
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Theatre in Review: Becky Nurse of Salem (Lincoln Center Theatre/Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre)
Is Deirdre O'Connell a witch? You have to wonder. She is certainly a practiced spellbinder, a talent that she exercises to the infinite benefit of Sarah Ruhl's latest offering. She enters -- totally frazzled, her hair a ...
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