Review: ‘Of Human Bondage’ at Soulpepper on 42nd Street
The first-ever stage adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage, written by Vern Thiessen and directed by Albert Schultz for Canada’s Soulpepper Theatre...
Review: ‘Napoli, Brooklyn’ at Roundabout Theatre Company
In Napoli, Brooklyn, playing at Roundabout Theatre Company through September 3rd, Playwright Meghan Kennedy gets us started with a mimed prologue in which a...
Review: ‘The Crusade of Connor Stephens’ at the Jerry Orbach Theater
Gun violence, socio-religious intolerance, same-sex marriage, and gay adoption are some of the current hot-button issues that tear apart a family, polarize a community,...
Review: ‘The Imbible: Day Drinking’ at New World Stages
Feeling overwhelmed by the demands of work, everyday chores, and the incessant pings of your digital devices? Then don’t just find the time, but...
Review: ‘Death Comes for the War Poets’ at The Sheen Center
This year marks the centenary of the beginning of America’s involvement in World War I in 1917, and The Sheen Center has recognized it...
Review: ‘d4rkly your retrorockets fl4re’ at the Flamboyán Theater
The world-premiere full-stage production of d4rkly your retrorockets fl4re, written by Steven Mark Tenney and co-directed with his sister Susan Tenney, is presented by...
Review: ‘Julius Caesar’ at The Public Theatre’s Shakespeare in the Park
We are in the streets of Rome. The lights onstage bump up and immediately we are in the midst of controversy. Flavius and Marullus...
Review: ‘An Enemy of the People’ at Wheelhouse Theater Company
Economic self-interest, an ‘inconvenient truth,’ a ruthless politician, a whistleblower, ‘fake news,’ closed-door meetings, a bureaucratic cover-up, the refusal to work together for the...
Review: ‘Cost of Living’ at The Manhattan Theatre Club
The Manhattan Theatre Club is presently offering a 4-character play set in "the urban east of America" in the "near present day." That description...
Review: ‘Fun Home’ at the Forrest Theatre
Winner of five Tony Awards in 2015 - including the first-ever Best Musical honors given to a show written entirely by a team of...
Review: ‘The Government Inspector’ at Red Bull Theater
The New York theatre scene continues to offer variety and great fun with this post-Tony production of Nikolai Gogol's masterpiece, The Government Inspector, as...
Review: ‘Golden Cockerel’ at New Opera NYC
Golden Cockerel (Coq d’Or) is a musical fantasy that was popular in the first half of the twentieth century but rarely seen since. Nikolai...
Review: ‘Can You Forgive Her?’ at Vineyard Theatre
“I’ve made bad choices. And I’ve made them . . . knowingly,” says 27-year-old Tanya - a single mom and bar waitress in a...
Review: ‘RENT’ at Gateway Playhouse
The Gateway Playhouse opened its 68th Season with the Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning musical, RENT. With book, music, and lyrics by Jonathan Larson, this...
Review: ‘Building the Wall’ at New World Stages
Out of his imaginative mind comes another powerful theatre piece by Robert Shenkkan, author of 15 plays including two dealing with LBJ (All the...
Review: ‘The Lucky One’ at Mint Theater Company
Every now and then it's refreshing to turn on the time travel clock and return to what we then called "civilization" circa 1920. You...
Review: ‘Oklahoma!’ at John W. Engeman Theater
The John W. Engeman Theater at Northport is closing its 10th season with the rousing classic, Oklahoma! With book and lyrics by Rodgers and...
Review: ‘Marry Harry’ at The York Theatre Company
With apologies to James Morgan and the York Theatre Company (“York Theatre”) for this very late review of their current offering Marry Harry. I...
Review: ‘A Doll’s House, Part 2’ at the Golden Theatre
In 1982 a distinguished group of Broadway pros, including Hal Prince, Betty Comden and Aldolph Green, came up with what was then thought to...
Review: ‘Bandstand’ at the Bernard F. Jacobs Theatre
Eleven new musicals have opened since War Paint and here comes the last before the April 30th deadline for Tony Nomination. It's called Bandstand...