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  Theatre in Review: Shifters (Cherry Lane Theatre)
Des and Dre, the young couple at the heart of Shifters, are, without question, soulmates, a status that, rather than generating joy, ironically leaves them feeling irresolute and uncertain. Bright, accomplished, and damaged ...
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Theatre in Review: The Whoopi Monologues (Lincoln Center Theater/Mitzi E. Newhouse)
Something is happening at Lincoln Center Theater, and I'm not sure what to make of it; a company that for years matched provocative new plays with canny, carefully chosen revivals is suddenly playing it awfully safe. Indeed, under the ...
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Theatre in Review: Are You Now or Have You Ever Been (City Center Stage I)
This revival of Eric Bentley's 1972 docudrama about the Hollywood Red Scare, adapted from transcripts of the House Un-American Activities Committee's hearings, causes a strange kind of double vision. One the one hand, it fills one ...
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Theatre in Review: The Potluck (Soho Rep/INTAR at Peter Jay Sharp Theatre)
The Potluck is a musical about a playwright trying to write a musical. If that's not incestuous enough for you, consider this: Cesar Alvarez's protagonist, named Cesar, has been commissioned to create a show about an ...
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Theatre in Review: Giulia: The Poison Queen of Palermo (PAC/NYC)
The country singer and sometime actress Jennifer Nettles does not lack for ambition, writing and starring in a musical melodrama about one way of solving the husband problem in seventeenth-century Italy. (The book, music, and ...
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Theatre in Review: Othello (Classical Theatre of Harlem/Richard Rodgers Amphitheater)
I saw this Othello the other night at Marcus Garvey Park in conditions best described as challenging. The evening featured occasional bursts of light rain. Certain patrons raised their umbrellas, causing impromptu obstructed ...
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Theatre in Review: Birthright (MCC Theater)
Something is going on: By now, we should be deep in the theatre's silly season, those summer months marked by ex-sitcom stars in flimsy comedies, and musicals that should never have seen the light of day. Instead, everyone is laboring ...
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Theatre in Review: Big Feelings (The Cell Theatre's Gallery Space)
Was it only last week that I complained there are too many plays about adolescents and their problems? Imagine how I felt at Big Feelings, an immersive production set in a first-grade classroom. Good God, I thought: Will we ...
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Theatre in Review: Henry VI: A Trilogy in Two Parts (NAATCO/Public Theater)
Each era gets the William Shakespeare plays it deserves. The tragedies speak to times of heartbreak or tumultuous change, and the comedies offer solace in moments of loss and the necessary corrective of satire when society is too ...
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Theatre in Review: The Loved Ones (Irish Repertory Theatre)
Nell, who runs a bed and breakfast on the coast of County Clare, is so successful that Airbnb has declared her a "Superhost." And, as rendered by Tatiana Kahvegian at the Irish Rep, her place couldn't look cozier. Still, anyone ...
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Theatre in Review: Dad Don't Read This (Greenwich House Theatre)
One can be forgiven for approaching Greenwich House Theatre with trepidation these nights. We have been so recently oversupplied with plays about the sheer hell of being a teenager that one suspects that an outpost of ChatGPT is spitting ...
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Theatre in Review: A Walk on the Moon (Laura Pels Theatre)
A Walk on the Moon, the film, is a touching slice of Jewish life circa 1969, the story of a marriage put to an extreme stress test thanks to changing times. A Walk on the Moon, the musical, converts its nuanced, ...
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Theatre in Review: And Then the Rodeo Burned Down (Ars Nova)/Catch of the Day (59E59)
On the red carpet at the Tony Awards last week, Bernadette Peters particularly praised the comedy musicals Schmigadoon! and Titanique because, she noted, people really, really need the chance to laugh right now. Well, never ...
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Theatre in Review: Romeo and Juliet (New York Shakespeare Festival/Delacorte Theatre)
This new Romeo and Juliet is a good example of the strengths of Shakespeare in the Park productions and the weaknesses of some Public Theater offerings. The good news: Saheem Ali's staging is clean and swiftly paced. ...
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Theatre in Review: David Copperfield (Guildford Shakespeare Company/59E59)
Abigail Pickard Price seems to have a novel turn of mind, having previously been associated with stage adaptations of Pride and Prejudice, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Prince and the Pauper, and Graham ...
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Theatre in Review: The Maids (Donmar Warehouse at St. Ann's Warehouse)
Kip Williams and Jean Genet are a match made in hell. And I mean that in the nicest way.
These days, the theatre is loaded with directors who apply certain ideas to each of their projects with an almost maniacal single ...
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Theatre in Review: Small (Pershing Square Signature Center)
One of the many remarkable things about Small is that it features several sequences that should only work on film, yet they generate pulse-pounding excitement. Robert Montano's solo memoir recalls a youth spent at the ...
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Theatre in Review: North Star (Irish Arts Center)
The Irish Arts Center's latest presentation is one of its most eccentric: North Star is a kind of themed concert, featuring music, poetry, and video sequences, tied to the little-known historical fact -- at least to me -- ...
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Theatre in Review: A Woman Among Women (LCT3)
In A Woman Among Women, tragedy unfolds in a backyard with a clockwork precision not seen since...well, since Arthur Miller turned off his typewriter. There's a reason for that.
The backyard, in Northampton, Massachusetts, ...
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Theatre in Review: Girl, Interrupted (Public Theater)
It must have looked good on paper: provocative source material, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (Martyna Majok), an iconic alt-rock songwriter (Aimee Mann), and a leading director (Jo Bonney). But this ...
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