Gotham Playgoer

B+ After a successful run at the Williamstown Theatre Festival last summer, Martyna Majok’s (Ironbound) powerful four-character drama has a...

B+ Although I was favorably impressed by Martyna Majok’s four-character drama when MTC presented it off-Broadway five years ago, I was surpr...

B- Jordan Harrison’s ( Marjorie Prime; The Amateurs ) new comedy of manners at Playwrights Horizons is quite entertaining, but not all t...

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

B- I do not mean to denigrate Scott McPherson’s award-winning play when I say that a significant reason for the acclaim it received in ...

C- Gina Gionfriddo has borrowed the title of an 1864 Trollope novel for her new play at the Vineyard Theatre. We are left to guess to whom “...

B+ T his new family drama with comic overtones by Zayd Dohrn (Outside People ), now at Playwrights Horizons, deals with two  New York  Musli...

When I looked back at my review of Dan LeFranc’s previous production at Playwrights Horizons ( The Big Meal in 2012), my heart sank. If I f...

Jordan Seavey’s new play at Labyrinth Theater Company presents a lot of problems. First, there’s that title. Why the pejorative? Why the cla...

One of the things that theater can do is to take us to places we are unlikely to visit and introduce us to characters the likes of whom we w...

Adam Bock’s bold new play at Playwrights Horizons defied my expectations. Even the scenic design turned out to be surprising. The problem fo...

Based on my reaction to earlier plays by Adam Rapp (Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling, The Hallway Trilogy, Red Light Winter), my expectati...

For its final play of the season, Manhattan Theatre Club is presenting the world premiere of an unsettling drama by award-winning British pl...

After three previous disappointments ( Mr. Burns, Ipheginia in Aulis at CSC and 10 out of 12 ) I did not have high hopes for Anne Washburn’...

As a Pulitzer finalist and the basis for an upcoming film with Jon Hamm and Geena Davis, this futuristic family drama by Jordan Harrison (M...

Karen Pittman, so good recently in “Disgraced” both off and on Broadway, is the main reason to see this soapy sports drama by Fernanda Coppe...

With this comedy, now in previews at Playwrights Horizons, Bruce Norris (The Pain and the Itch, Clybourne Park, Domesticated) once again de...

I wish I had stuck with my memories of enjoying the original production of Wendy Wasserstein’s landmark play instead of trying to relive the...

The best I can say for Halley Feiffer’s overwrought drama at Atlantic Stage 2 is that it offers a chance for Reed Birney to once again demon...

After a highly acclaimed London run that included a West End transfer, Jennifer Haley’s mashup of a police procedural and a sci-fi story is ...