Gotham Playgoer

C- Regular readers of this blog may recall that, over the years, the plays of Sam Shepard have held little appeal for me. For what ever...

D Since I thoroughly enjoyed Richard Bean’s hilarious One Man, Two Guvnors , I was looking forward to this play at Manhattan Theatre C...

C- After the glowing reviews the Steppenwolf premiere of Tracy Letts’ play received two years ago, I arrived at Second Stage’s Terry Ki...

C+ This new drama by Martyna Majok ( Ironbound ) at LCT3’s Claire Tow Theater takes us to a basement in Queens where several immigrant ...

D Since there’s a warning sign at the theater entrance, it’s no spoiler to advise you that there are gunshots in Julia Cho’s ( Aubergin...

C+ Vineyard Theatre opens its 35th season with the world premiere of this solo play by David Cale. Billy Crudup ( No Man’s Land, Arcadi...

C+ This new play by Zoe Kazan ( We Live Here ) at LCT3’s Claire Tow Theater is, as its title suggests, set after a thermonuclear apocal...

It’s good to have another Nicky Silver play onstage at the Vineyard Theatre, which has nurtured his work for over 20 years. Few playwrights ...

Gregory S. Moss’s new play at Playwrights Horizons has a lot going for it -- three appealing young actors — Owen Campbell, Elise Kibler and ...

If you are not offended by the idea of a black comedy with cancer jokes, raunchy language and sexual situations set in a hospital room with ...

On paper it must have seemed like a good idea to present a triple bill of revived short works by playwrights who were in Signature Theatre’s...

After the success of his play “Bad Jews," Joshua Harmon is back at Roundabout’s Laura Pels Theatre with a new comedy-drama about Jordan...

About an hour into the first act of Bathsheba Doran’s new play at LCT’s Mitzi Newhouse Theater, I began to wonder whether the playwright suf...

When the opportunity to attend opening night arose unexpectedly, I decided to pay a return visit to see how the play had changed since I saw...

For Harvey Fierstein to have three plays running on Broadway simultaneously is quite an achievement, but in this instance the third time is ...

Will Eno's Broadway debut play, now in previews at the Lyceum is a strange mashup of the absurd and the hilarious, with a strong undercu...

( Please click on the title to see the complete review.) The publicity for JC Lee’s new play at LCT3’s Claire Tow Theater says that it is ab...

(Please click on the title to see the complete review.) Amy Herzog's new play now in previews at Playwrights Horizons is never less than...

(Please click on the title to see the complete review.) With widely acclaimed runs in Chicago and London as well as nominations for both the...