Gotham Playgoer

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

B+ After a run  last year  in Williamstown, Theresa Rebeck’s ( Seminar, Downstairs ) entertaining comedy set in the kitchen of a tiny Pa...

C+ The program for Loy A. Webb’s drama at MCC Theater’s spiffy new home on W. 52nd Street specifies that the play is set on October 5, 20...

C I was surprised to learn that JC Lee ( Luce ), the author of this new play in previews at MCC Theater, is a man. I erroneously assumed ...

D+ The final play in MCC’s season at the Lucille Lortel Theatre marks the debut of Matthew Perry (TV’s Friends ) both as playwright and as N...

C Anna Jordan’s prize-winning drama about three members of a British underclass family and their neighbor is having its New York premiere in...

I wish I had not read the rapturous Chicago reviews of this offbeat musical by Brooke Maxwell and Jacob Richmond now playing in an MCC produ...

Neil LaBute’s new play for MCC at the Lucille Lortel Theatre is really just an hour-long monologue for an actress on the far side of 50. But...

“The greatest act of courage is to love” or so say two characters in Noah Haidle’s absurdist family dramedy at MCC Theater. We see how four...

It’s almost exactly two years since John Pollono’s play “Small Engine Repair” made a big splash at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. That testoste...

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 ...

When I saw two previous plays by Simon Stephens ( Harper Regan [ http://bobs-theater-blog.blogspot.com/2012/09/harper-regan.html ] and Blue...

The poster for Neil LaBute’s new comedy, now in previews at MCC Theater, is doubly misleading: the four actors do not end up in bed together...

This British import, now in previews in an MCC Theater production at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, marks two auspicious debuts — the American ...

For the first 45 minutes or so, John Pollono's play at MCC Theater appears to be just one more raunchy blue-collar buddy reunion comedy,...

(Please click on the title to see the complete review.) Neil LaBute's seriocomedy, now in previews at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in an M...

(Please click on the title to see the complete review).  MCC Theater is to be congratulated for bringing the work of a promising young playw...

(Please click on the title to see the complete reiview.) Are worthy new plays so hard to find that Manhattan Theatre Club must resort to off...

(Please click on the title to open the full review.) I probably would not have seen Carrie, had it not turned up on my MCC subscription. I ...

I know the year has several weeks to go, but I think it is safe to say that Thomas Higgins' new play now in an MCC production at the Luc...