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  Theatre in Review: Samuel (The Tank)
The characters in Alexis Roblan's new play are lost in an epistemological fog. Even René Descartes would be baffled at their inability to nail down the simplest facts. Their troubles are made manifest in the first scene, featuring ...
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Theatre in Review: Seize the King (Classical Theatre of Harlem/Marcus Garvey Park)
It's a thrill to return to the theatre and find drama: full-throated conflict about life-or-death matters, populated with ruthless characters, loaded with issues that resonate with our anxious, fractious times. In Carl Cofield's ...
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Theatre in Review: King Lear (New York Classical Theatre)
This is the summer of revised Shakespeare. Classical Theatre of Harlem is currently presenting Seize the King, Will Power's contemporary revamp of Richard III. Over at the Delacorte, you can catch Merry Wives, ...
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Theatre in Review: Fruma-Sarah (Waiting in the Wings) (Imagination Hive/Spin Cycle/the cell)
In this new comedy, Jackie Hoffman continues her unchallenged reign as our high priestess of disenchantment. To a world thirsty for the milk of human kindness, she has four words: Snap. Out. Of. It. Indeed, bad attitude permeates ...
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Theatre in Review: The Watering Hole (Signature Theatre)
This is the summer of walk-through theatre. Since many people remain jumpy about sitting in crowded rooms for a couple of hours, certain companies have found workarounds by creating themed environments into which a few audience members ...
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Theatre in Review: Tiny House (Westport Country Playhouse Online)
Tiny House is a comic conversation about our fraught historical moment, but the characters impaneled by playwright Michael Gotch have remarkably little to say for themselves. The structure of the title, located in the exact ...
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Theatre in Review: This American Wife
Given its ubiquity in the pop culture world, it was inevitable that somebody would take on Bravo's The Real Housewives of...franchise. Having once tried (and failed) to silence the Countess LuAnn de Lesseps at a Broadway ...
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Theatre in Review: Herding Cats (OHenry Productions/Stellar)
As a good portion of the world waits to return to work, playwright Lucinda Coxon wants to remind you that life on the job can be a soul-destroying business -- even if you don't mortally embarrass yourself with inappropriate behavior ...
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Theatre in Review: Marilyn Maye: Broadway, the Maye Way (54 Premieres)
Marilyn Maye is 93 years old; I hope someday to have her vitality. Proving that age is just a number, the cabaret legend's sassy, good-times persona remains undimmed; wherever she is, so is the party. It may be true that the ...
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Theatre in Review: Jeremy Jordan: Carry On (54 Premieres)
For this streamed concert, Jeremy Jordan arrives at the nightclub Feinstein's/54 Below dragging his baggage, and I'm not kidding. It's in the form of a rollerboard filled with objects from his past; each is a talisman and a song cue ...
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Theatre in Review: Vancouver (Ma-Yi Theater Company)
If you're looking for a distinctly different online theatre experience, consider this effort of the Ma-Yi Theater Company, presented in association with Chicago Puppet Theater Festival. Ordinarily, the words "puppet theater" have your ...
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Theatre in Review: We Have to Hurry (Broadway on Demand)
It was, I suppose, inevitable. Dorothy Lyman's new play is -- at least, in my experience -- the first COVID romantic comedy. We Have to Hurry is set in Cedar Key, Florida and the potential lovers are Margaret and Gil ...
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Theatre in Review: Little Gem: A Performance on Screen (Irish Repertory Theatre)
For its latest online offering, the Irish Rep's Elaine Murphy's detailed portrait of one Irish family's matrilineal line glimpsed in extremis. If the three main characters aren't women on the verge of a nervous breakdown, it's not ...
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Theatre in Review: Islands of Contentment (The Tank)
As titles go, Islands of Contentment is either a misnomer or dripping with irony, for this collection of brief monologues by Dipti Bramhandkar highlights a cast of the edgy and unfulfilled, most of them stewing in the agony ...
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Theatre in Review: shadow/land (The Public Theater/Public Play Now)
In this spring roiled by police violence and unrest in the streets, Erika Dickerson-Despenza's audio play draws on New Orleans' rich and terrible history to present another angle on American racism. The central event in shadow/lan ...
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Theatre in Review: John Cullum: An Accidental Star
I am not young, but I never have known a time without John Cullum. At a tender age I heard him on the Camelot cast album, dallying with Julie Andrews in "Then You May Take Me to the Fair." From there, the list of indelible ...
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Theatre in Review: Julius Caesar (Shakespeare@ Home)
If you're tired of online Zoom readings -- and who isn't? - take a break with Shakespeare@ Home, an intrepid troupe dedicated to reviving the great days of radio theatre. The concept is simple and elegant: Assemble a group of ...
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Theatre in Review: The Domino Heart (Phoenix Theatre Ensemble Online)
Matthew Edison's play is a triptych of sorrow, an account of human hearts critically wounded by the withdrawal of love. A trio of characters are linked by a heart -- a real, physical organ -- that suddenly becomes available for a ...
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Theatre in Review: Under the Radar, Part II (Public Theater)
The latest edition of the Under the Radar Festival, the celebration of avant-garde performance, features two attractions based on music-making, each of which produces strikingly different results. ...
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Theatre in Review: Under the Radar Festival, Part I (Public Theater Online)
The Under the Radar Festival, which focuses on all thing avant-garde, is making its annual appearance; of course, this year everything is online. We'll be looking at a number of events on offer; if the pieces under consideration ...
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