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  Theatre in Review: The Honey Trap (Irish Repertory Theatre)
Much of the considerable suspense onstage at the Irish Rep these nights comes from the sight of Michael Hayden trying to control his volcanic rage. Cast as Dave, a retired member of the British Army who has never recovered from ...
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Theatre in Review: Punch (Manhattan Theatre Club/Samuel J. Friedman Theatre)
In Punch, the quality of mercy is not strained; it's a superpower. James Graham's astonishing, heartbreaking new play, based on a real-life incident, arrives at a time when half the world seems consumed with ...
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Theatre in Review: The Other Americans (Public Theater)
John Leguizamo, for thirty-five years the master of the funny, frank, often scalding solo performance piece, has now committed the most radical act of his career, penning an old-fashioned drama out of the Arthur Miller playbook. ...
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Theatre in Review: Mexodus (Minetta Lane Theatre)
Even as the current administration tries to rewrite American history as a long march from a rosy past to a glorious future, the people behind Mexodus will have none of that. Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson ...
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Theatre in Review: Weather Girl (St. Ann's Warehouse)
Brian Watkins hasn't solved the climate crisis, but in the solo show Weather Girl, he has found theatrically potent way of writing about it, which is no small thing. His vessel in this endeavor is Stacey Gross, one ...
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Theatre in Review: This is Not a Drill (York Theater Company)
One of the great difficulties in writing of This is Not a Drill is characterizing it. Is it Come from Away with nuclear fallout? Close but not quite. The White Lotus meets The Love Boat? You're getting ...
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Theatre in Review: Saturday Church (New York Theatre Workshop)
The new musical at NYTW is a tale of two churches, and alas, for the purposes of drama, one is far more interesting than the other. That's one problem facing Saturday Church. Clutter is another: Expanding Damon Cardasis
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Theatre in Review: The Essentialisn't (HERE)
"Can you be Black and not perform?" That's an interesting question, especially since it is being asked onstage by Eisa Davis, who is playing -- what? Herself? A version of herself? A well-honed Eisa Davis persona? We're not even ...
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Theatre in Review: The Wild Duck (Theatre for a New Audience)
We're in the middle of a full-tilt Henrik Ibsen revival thanks to recent starry stagings of A Doll's House, Ghosts, and An Enemy of the People, which have yielded, to put it mildly, varying results. But leave it to ...
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Theatre in Review: House of McQueen (The Mansion at Hudson Yards)
House of McQueen is, in many ways, a beautifully designed production, evoking the glamour and tumult of its title character's life and times: Jason Ardizzone-West's sleek minimalist box set serves as a canvas for Br ...
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Theatre in Review: This is Government (59E59)
Talk about ripped from the headlines: It's another hot summer Monday in Washington, and in the office of Congressman Bochman, a staff assistant and two interns are wrapping up a busy day of collecting press clippings and logging phone ...
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Theatre in Review: The Brothers Size (The Shed)
Brotherly love functions as an embrace and a manacle in The Brothers Size. This wrenching tale, part of the trilogy The Brother/Sister Plays (last seen in New York at the Public Theater in 2009), centers on a triangle ...
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Theatre in Review: The Whole of Time (A/Park Productions at The Brick)
The Glass Menagerie is a kind of cat's-cradle, designed to ensnare its four characters in an inextricable web of responsibilities and resentments. Not for nothing is Tennessee Williams' alternate, one-act version of his ...
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Theatre in Review: Pericles: A Public Works Concert Experience (Cathedral of St. John the Divine)
Following the gala reopening of the Delacorte Theatre with a festive Twelfth Night, the Public Theater takes us to church, and what a glorious, roof-rattling service it is. Pericles, Prince of Tyre, which William ...
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Theatre in Review: Twelfth Night (New York Shakespeare Festival/Delacorte Theater)
To celebrate the return of the Delacorte Theater after its top-to-bottom renovation, the New York Shakespeare Festival is throwing a party. It's a chic bash, complete with a cheeky set design, an onstage string quartet, contemporary ...
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Theatre in Review: Sulfur Bottom (Jerry Orbach Theatre)
The dead speak in Sulfur Bottom; indeed, so voluble are they, the living struggle to get a word in edgewise. That the play's characters incessantly return from the grave, loaded with exposition to impart, does little to aid ...
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Theatre in Review: Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride (Nederlander Theatre)
Insult comics aren't born; they're made. That's the takeaway from the latest entry in this summer's parade of solo comedy shows. You might not know who Jeff Ross is -- before last week, I certainly didn't -- but his bona fides as "Th ...
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Theatre in Review: Lili/Darwin (The Tank)
Lili/Darwin is a solo piece about two women: Lili is Lili Ilse Elvenes, aka Lili Elbe, a Danish painter and one of the first subjects of gender reassignment surgery. This was in 1930, and, as you can imagine, her story is ...
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Theatre in Review: Well, I'll Let You Go (The Space at Irondale)
We may now classify Bubba Weiler as a double threat. The actor, who often works in Chicago theatres, earned plenty of attention and a Drama Desk Award nomination as a troubled, substance-abusing Midwesterner in the Off-Broadway ...
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Theatre in Review: AVA: The Secret Conversations (City Center Stage II)
As an actress, Elizabeth McGovern has plenty going for her; as a playwright, she is much too generous. Really, she ought to hog the stage a little more.
Having cast herself as the legendary screen siren Ava Gardner, McGovern has ...
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