Top New York Theater News
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Lee has one day to prepare for the Teen Tap Road Show, but things aren't going well at Martle's House of Dance. Her stepfamily keeps texting... More >>
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Who would run around on Daniel Craig? Those muscular shoulders, those wintry eyes, that blond mane — is this a man to cuckold?... More >>
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There are at least two ways to see The Landing. You can go into the theater like the terribly boring adult that you probably are, sit down and... More >>
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What do you picture when you hear the word magician? Maybe David Copperfield. Or a birthday party. "Magic suffers from the people who do magic,"... More >>
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Sometimes, a few well-delivered laugh lines are what makes a production tick. Other times, though, straining for levity strikes a sour... More >>
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Fictional characters are such hapless creatures. Doomed to lives composed of unfortunate choices, secrets, and tragic flaws, their faith... More >>
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Classic Stage Company’s new production of Romeo and Juliet—ably directed by Tea Alagić—has a lot going for it.... More >>
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When Sean O'Casey put pen to paper for Juno and the Paycock, the 1924 Dubliner domestic drama set against the ghastly Irish Civil War, the... More >>
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Odd that a play so steeped in loneliness should burst with such life. The Team's RoosevElvis, a stirring, absurd, and grandly human... More >>
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The Roundabout's Broadway house specializes in well-upholstered revivals. Few come better carpeted, curtained, and papered than The Winslow Boy,... More >>
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As David Adjmi's Marie Antoinette begins at Soho Rep, actors array tiers of delectable pastel macarons. You might be tempted to snatch one.... More >>
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In 1588, Queen Elizabeth rode to Tilbury and delivered a speech rousing the troops against the Spanish Armada. "I know I have but the body of a... More >>
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Depending on who you are, Eternal will seem endlessly fascinating or flat-out boring. Director Daniel Fish has recorded two actors (Christina... More >>
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Holocaust humor: a tricky genre, best attempted with truly revelatory material or not at all. And in the case of Donald Margulies's The Model... More >>
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Out with the samovar, in with the Irish folk tunes! We need new forms! In keeping with the make-it-revolutionary spirit of Anton Chekhov's... More >>
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There’s something stupid about the ongoing condemnation of Millennials happening now in our culture. You know, the one that asks questions... More >>
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Adriano Shaplin's gonzo epic Sarah Flood in Salem Mass blends Our Town and The Crucible with verve, slang, and hallucinogenic beaver stew. (Yes,... More >>
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If the effigies of famous Yankees sluggers at Madame Tussaud's aren't lifelike enough for you, cross 42nd Street to watch Eric Simonson's Bronx... More >>
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If Broadway musicals had trailers like movies, the one for Big Fish might go something like this: Meet Edward Bloom! He's a father and a husband... More >>
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What happens to a political play that's three decades old? Can it keep its emotional charge, or does it wither when its social relevance fades?... More >>
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The theater is a swindle, an exercise in sham. Every play operates on principles of treachery: Flimsy set pieces substitute for solid spaces;... More >>
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Provocations don't come much gentler than Ain Gordon's Not What Happened, which concluded a brief run at BAM's Next Wave Festival. A meditation... More >>
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Who knew Supreme Court justices have such complicated, libidinous inner lives? Anthony Kennedy muses on adults-only car washes. Sandra Day... More >>
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The ardor animating the latest Romeo and Juliet seems less the marriage of true minds than the commingling of hot bods. In David Leveaux's... More >>
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Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s Life and Times: Episodes 4.5 and 5—at this year’s Crossing the Line Festival—are the newest... More >>
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What homeless diva recently threatened to commit suicide if her rich patrons didn't cough up $20 million by the end of the year? That's... More >>
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It's unusual to review a show after only seeing about a tenth of it. But All the Faces of the Moon, master monologist Mike Daisey's epic new... More >>
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Playwright Will Power rolls with the puchesIn 1969, during his exile from boxing, Muhammad Ali starred in a Broadway musical, Buck White. A tuneful spoof of the black power movement, the... More >>
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Horton Foote began writing The Old Friends in 1963 or '64, as a sort of sequel to his early play, Only the Heart. Between '64 and Foote's death... More >>
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Is it tragic that tens of millions of people's entire conception of Gilbert & Sullivan comes from a minute or so of silliness on a Simpsons... More >>
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An agreeably minor comedy in both scope and key, Ethan Coen's Women or Nothing opens with a surefire farcical premise and then, to its credit,... More >>
From the Print Edition
House of Dance Shuffle-Hop-Steps Through Small-Town Dystopia
Lee has one day to prepare for the Teen Tap Road Show, but things aren't going well at Martle's House of Dance. Her stepfamily keeps texting they need the car,… More >>
The Atrocity Exhibition
When one reads in the Bible that Joshua burned the city of Ai "and made it a heap forever" and "the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until… More >>
Dramas of Sex and Excess from Harold Pinter and Wallace Shawn
Who would run around on Daniel Craig? Those muscular shoulders, those wintry eyes, that blond mane — is this a man to cuckold? Apparently. Craig has elected to play Robert, the… More >>
The Snow Geese Dwells on Weary Domestic Ruptures
The Gaesling family is besieged. It's 1917. Father has recently died, and the Great War in Europe has called elder son Duncan (Evan Jonigkeit) from Princeton's supper clubs to the… More >>
Q&A;: Martin Amis on Polanski's Macbeth
In this week's film section, Calum Marsh interviews author Martin Amis, who has moved from his native Great Britain to New York. On November 4, Amis presents a screening of… More >>
Darkness and Disappointment Lurk Beneath The Landing's All's-Well Veneer
There are at least two ways to see The Landing. You can go into the theater like the terribly boring adult that you probably are, sit down and turn off… More >>
There's Much to Celebrate and Much to Regret Fun Home
There's much to celebrate and to regret in the Public's Fun Home, Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori's faithful, playful, and tender adaptation of Alison Bechdel's graphic novel. Fun Home details… More >>
Zoe Strauss, the People's Photographer
A sense of humor about the macabre, as well as a love for the underbelly of American society pervades "Zoe Strauss: 10 Years," a survey of Strauss's work currently open… More >>
Many among the crowd that gathered around a patch of graffiti on the corner of a vacant, crumbling building in Tribeca earlier this month had no clue why they stopped… More >>
For Our Next Trick: Two Young Guns Attempt to Bring Meaning to Magic
What do you picture when you hear the word magician? Maybe David Copperfield. Or a birthday party. "Magic suffers from the people who do magic," Derek DelGaudio says. DelGaudio and Helder Guimarães,… More >>
