Review: ‘Lili Marlene’ at St. Luke’s Theatre
Taking its name from the romantic wartime ballad famously recorded by Marlene Dietrich in 1945, and which, in its earlier German and English versions,...
Review: ‘Gruff!’ at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre
Part of the first Summer Family Theater Festival at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre, Gruff!, a co-presentation by Vital Theatre Company and Doppelskope, is everything that...
Review: ‘Curvy Widow’ at Westside Theatre Upstairs
Barbara Goldman was married to the Academy Award winning playwright/screenwriter/novelist James Goldman; she's been called Bobby through their 23-year marriage, which ended when he...
Review: ‘A Real Boy’ at 59E59 Theaters
In the world premiere of A Real Boy, presented by Ivy Theatre Company in association with Athena Theatre at 59E59, playwright Stephen Kaplan significantly...
Review: ‘Georama’ at the New York Musical Festival
The rise and fall of the largely forgotten 19th-century American artist John Banvard is the subject of Georama, an irresistible bio-musical by West Hyler...
Review: ‘Wicked’ at the Academy of Music
From its origins in L. Frank Baum’s1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to its adaptation in MGM’s blockbuster 1939 film The Wizard of...
Review: ‘New York – The Melting Pot’ at Soulpepper on 42nd...
The first in Soulpepper Theatre Company’s three-part musical celebration of the history of diversity in New York - The Melting Pot pays tribute...
Review: ‘Night Tide’ at the New York Musical Festival
Ancient sea lore meets Sixties beach party in Night Tide, a new musical parody by Taylor Tash (book and lyrics) and Nathania Wibowo (music),...
Review: ‘Alligator Pie’ at Soulpepper on 42nd Street
Adapted from the verses of beloved children’s book author and poet Dennis Lee - known to generations of fans as “Canada’s Father Goose” –...
Review: ‘Cage’ at Soulpepper on 42nd Street
The avant-garde work and Zen convictions of 20th-century American composer John Cage are the inspiration for Soulpepper Theatre Company’s ensemble-devised piece Cage, performed in this...
Review: ‘Matthew McConaughey Vs The Devil’ at the New York Musical...
Deserving recipient of an Academy Award for Best Actor, or modern-day Faust who sold his soul to capture Hollywood’s biggest honor? Emilie Landmann (book),...
Review: ‘1984’ at the Hudson Theatre
One of the most fascinating items on the Broadway scene is the current production of a British import, 1984. Co-adapted from the 1949 novel...
Review: ‘Marvin’s Room’ at Roundabout Theatre Company
Scott McPherson wrote Marvin's Room, a play about illness, family ties, and death when he was just a lad of 30. As a gay...
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...
Opinion: ‘Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare, and the Fine Art of Dissent’
It’s a classic art-imitating-life-imitating-art situation: to make a production relevant, the director decks out the cast in modern dress to create the illusion that...