Gotham Playgoer

 C My reaction to the works of playwright Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins has been mixed. Three enthusiastically received plays that I enjoyed very m...

B It has been over 62 years since I saw Lerner and Loewe’s ( My Fair Lady, Gigi ) Arthurian musical during its pre-Broadway Boston run. My m...

 A- Twice Pulitzer-awarded playwright Lynn Nottage ( Ruined, Sweat ) wrote this comedy with serious overtones and a touch of magic realism a...

C- MCC Theater is presenting the world premiere of this depressing family drama by C.A. Johnson ( Thirst ). Keyonna (Kara Young; The New ...

C The first clue that perhaps this was not the right show for me was that I had never heard of Ross Golan (2016 BMI Pop Songwriter of the...

B- This new work by two-time Pulitzer winner Lynn Nottage ( Ruined, Sweat ), now at The Public Theater, is a moral tale about the illic...

C Greg Pierce’s ( Slowgirl, Kid Victory ) new work, commissioned by Second Stage Theater, could have used a few more workshops before it...

Cheryl Strayed’s 2012 collection of her “Dear Sugar” advice columns from The Rumpus , an online website, was a bestseller. Actor Nia Vardalo...

After acclaimed productions at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Arena Stage, the timely new play by Pulitzer winner and MacArthur fellow ...

Julia Cho’s new play at Playwrights Horizons is a flawed, uneven work, but it packs an emotional wallop. Ray (Tim Kang), an assimilated Kore...

I wasn’t all that fond of Nick Jones’s “Verité” at LCT3 last winter, but it seems like “Hamlet” compared to his new comedy at Manhattan Thea...