Gotham Playgoer

A- Classic Stage Company has revived this Harold Rome  (Wish You Were Here, Fanny )/Jerome Weidman ( Fiorello! ) musical about Harry Bogen, ...

A- Inspired by the story of an amnesiac French WWI soldier, Daniel Goldstein ( dir. Godspell ) and the late Michael Friedman ( Bloody Bl...

B- Poor Chekhov! Playwrights just can’t seem to resist putting their own stamp on his plays. Last month we got an encore run of Life Su...

B- Halley Feiffer’s semi-autobiographical new play is perplexing for many reasons starting with its title and the tick-hugging woman in ...

C+ Atlantic Theater Company is presenting the New York premiere of Florian Zeller’s drama about a middle-age woman with a severe case of...

B- It isn’t often these days that you see a straight play with 18 actors on Broadway, so I salute the producers for bringing us this expensi...

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...

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...

When I reviewed Bluebird at the Atlantic Theater in 2011, I said: “Don't be brokenhearted if you weren't able to get tickets to see...

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...

Turgenev’s theater masterpiece has a peculiar history. Written in 1850, a good 50 years before the Chekhov plays it prefigures, it was not p...

Unless you’re a really dedicated Idina Menzel fan, you can take a pass on this high-concept musical by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey. Menzel pla...

(Please click on the title to see the complete review.) As I have found much to admire in Itamar Moses's past work (Bach at Leipzig, The...

(Please click on the title to see the complete review.) This through-sung rock opera by Julia Jordan and Juliana Nash, which received positi...

(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...