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  Theatre in Review: Blackbird (Belasco Theatre)
In a way, it's remarkable that Jeff Daniels chose to revisit the role of Ray, the beleaguered middle manager whose past comes calling, in Blackbird. (He performed it in 2007 at Manhattan Theatre Club.) The role is so ...
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Theatre in Review: Hold On To Me Darling (Atlantic Theater)
Like most country singers, Strings McCrane, the protagonist of Kenneth Lonergan's play, specializes in songs of heartbreak and hard times. Lonergan has experienced plenty of both in the past few years, what with mixed-to-negative ...
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Theatre in Review: Dry Powder (Public Theater)
Sarah Burgess wants you to know that those who toil in private equity are remorseless, soulless sharks, devoted solely to the pursuit of money and possessed of a belief in the efficacy of free markets that borders on religious faith ...
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Theatre in Review: Ideation (San Francisco Playhouse/59E59)
The idea of a thriller about management consultants may seem oxymoronic, but Aaron Loeb, a playwright with an original mind and a barbed appreciation of the human capacity for deception and betrayal, turns a meeting of professional ...
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Theatre in Review: Disaster! (Nederlander Theatre)
When the new musical at the Nederlander was first announced, one might have legitimately wondered if everyone involved might not be courting theatrical disaster. A spoof of the Irwin Allen films of the 1970s, with a playlist of the ...
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Theatre in Review: The Way West (Labyrinth Theater/Bank Street Theater)
Those of us who think of Deirdre O'Connell as a hardy pioneer woman of the downtown theatre scene will not be surprised in the least to see her in Mona Mansour's new play, regaling her adult daughters with stories that ...
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Theatre in Review: The Royale (Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater)
The Royale, a drama about boxing, is almost entirely populated by men, but when the time comes to deliver the knockout punch, it takes a lady to do it. She is Montego Glover, best known for her roof-raising vocals in Memphis ...
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Theatre in Review: Boy (The Keen Company/Theatre Row)
Anna Ziegler's new play begins at a Halloween party in 1989. A young man named Adam stumbles into an empty room with Jenny, who is tipsy and on the make. Despite her many little ways of signaling that all systems are go, he is oddly ...
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Theatre in Review: The Robber Bridegroom (Roundabout Theatre Company/Laura Pels Theatre)
"There's nothin' up," sings Rosamund, the winsome heroine of The Robber Bridegroom, in one of that show's many beguiling songs. They are words that everyone involved in the new production at the Roundabout might well have ...
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Theatre in Review: Widowers' Houses (T.A.C.T. and Gingold Theatrical Group/Theatre Row)
Even geniuses have to write first plays, and Widowers' Houses must be ascribed to George Bernard Shaw. This is not to say that it is terrible, or that if another writer's name was on it, it might not be very much ...
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Theatre in Review: Hungry (The Public Theater)
One of the great things about Richard Nelson's plays is that they force you to listen -- hard. Nelson doesn't underline anything or spell it out, nor does he whip up any spurious histrionics. His characters rarely, if ever, raise ...
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Theatre in Review: Eclipsed (Golden Theatre)/The Humans (Helen Hayes Theatre)
Two of the season's finest Off Broadway productions have landed on Broadway with their considerable powers not only intact but, in some ways, heightened. Eclipsed remains a trip to the far side of the moon for most of us in ...
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Theatre in Review: Dot (Vineyard Theatre)
In Dot, playwright Colman Domingo applies such extremes of comedy and tears to his material that, combined with his passion to educate the public on a certain medical condition, it ends up coming across rather like one ...
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Theatre in Review: Red Speedo (New York Theatre Workshop)
The title of Lucas Hnath's last play, The Christians, would most definitely not apply to his newest work. Red Speedo is ostensibly about Olympic swimming, but the real sports being practiced are betrayal and one ...
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Theatre in Review: Angel Reapers (Signature Theatre)
The love of God is both thrilling and self-destructive in this unusual and affecting dance-theatre piece. The writer-director-choreographer, Martha Clarke, and her coauthor, Alfred Uhry, call to life the Shakers, the 18th ...
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Theatre in Review: Familiar (Playwrights Horizons)
We already know that Danai Gurira is a woman of many parts, what with her day job hunting zombies on the television series The Walking Dead and her parallel career as an acclaimed playwright, having just moved Eclipsed ...
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Theatre in Review: Pericles (Theatre for a New Audience)
Only the bravest theatre artists tackle Pericles, which is, arguably, the most problematic of Shakespeare's plays, unless you count The Two Noble Kinsmen, which many do not. It has a plot so wild and wandering, ...
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Theatre in Review: The Wildness: Sky-Pony's Rock Fairy Tale (Ars Nova/The Play Company)
If you're looking for some crystal blue persuasion or have been yearning for a glimpse of tangerine trees and marmalade skies, you might consider checking out The Wildness: Sky-Pony's Rock Fairy Tale, a trippy evening of ...
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Theatre in Review: Dead Dog Park (59E59)
A couple of black kids invade an abandoned building in a bad New York neighborhood. Two cops go after them. While one cop is on the roof, in futile pursuit of one of the boys, the other boy, aged 13, goes flying out of the fourth-floor ...
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Theatre in Review: A Room of My Own (Abingdon Theatre Company/June Havoc Theatre)
The characters in Charles Messina's new play are so unruly, not even he can control them. No matter how much he -- and we -- may want them to shut up, they insist on venting, usually at the top of their voices. Billed as a semi ...
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