Gotham Playgoer

B+ The widely acclaimed Encores production of this 1959 Broadway show with music by Mary Rogers, book by Jay Thompson, Marshall Barer and De...

A- Bess Wohl ( Small Mouth Sounds, Continuity ), one of our most promising young playwrights, is in top form with this bracing new work ...

C Buoyed by the success of the revivals of This Is Our Youth and Lobby Hero , the powers that be thought it would be a good idea to b...

A- Mart Crowley’s groundbreaking 1968 play has always evoked a variety of reactions. While many praised it for presenting the first unap...

C With the success of Marjorie Prime , expectations for playwright Jordan Harrison’s new play at the Vineyard Theatre were high. After h...

A- I was worried about seeing Second Stage’s revival of Harvey Fierstein’s award winning play for a  couple of reasons. First, I was af...

D Among my many quirks is a longtime inexplicable aversion to Peter Pan and anything or anyone closely related to it, Mary Martin includ...

A- It is virtually unheard of these days for a new play to arrive on Broadway without having at least one regional production first. Receive...

B- In case the bird-headed huntress featured on James McMullan’s wonderful poster for Sarah Ruhl’s new play at Lincoln Center Theater is ins...

This play by downtown performance artist Taylor Mac, now in previews at Playwrights Horizons, might be called a kitchen sink drama, but the ...

Stephen Karam’s new play joins a long list of theater works and films about Thanksgiving family dinners from Hell. The very Irish Blake fami...

The first thing you should know about this collaboration between Elevator Repair Service  ( Gatz, The Select, Arguendo and The Sound and the...

Is it a coincidence that two promising playwrights named “Anne” or “Annie” have written lengthy plays set in a workplace that involves show ...

David Javerbaum, the winner of 13 Emmy awards for his work as head writer on The Daily Show , has adapted his book The Last Testament: A Mem...

I can hardly believe that I went back to see the revival of Annie Baker’s workplace dramedy, now at Barrow Street Theatre with the original ...

Playwright Lisa D’Amour was a Pulitzer nominee for Detroit. Chicago’s Steppenwolf is a multi-award-winning ensemble theater company with an ...

Since I first saw this musical adaptation of Alison Bechdel’s revered graphic novel in an early preview at the Public Theater in 2013, it ha...

I very much enjoyed the Playwrights Horizons production of “This,” the first play I saw by Melissa James Gibson several years ago, but it’s ...

Let me confess right off that I wasn’t that impressed by Stoppard’s romantic comedy when I saw the 2000 Tony-awarded revival with Stephen Di...

What a pleasure it is to attend a musical where the music is the main attraction! This intimate musical theater piece originally produced at...