Gotham Playgoer

A- Little did I imagine when I penned my last review exactly two months ago that it might well be the final one. Fortunately, I’m still ...

C I had high hopes for this collaboration by two Tony winners – playwright David Henry Hwang ( M. Butterfly, Yellow Face, Chinglish ) an...

B Don’t let the lengthy and unhelpful title of David Cale’s latest performance piece at The Public Theater deter you from seeing it. Cale...

B- While the new play by Hansol Jung now at the Public Theater is a co-production with La Jolla Playhouse, the two theaters have apparently...

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...

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...

B It has been far too long since we have had a play by Martin Sherman (Bent, When She Danced) on a New York stage. Thanks to the Public Thea...

B It’s hard to believe that it’s over 25 years since I first saw John Leguizamo in his one-man show Mambo Mouth. On the basis of his new sho...

The second installment of Richard Nelson’s trilogy “The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family,” now at the Public Theater, bring...

The collaboration between London’s Donmar Warehouse and the Public Theater is off to a good start with this ingenious production created by ...

Sarah Burgess must be the luckiest playwright in town. For her New York debut, she scored a top-drawer Public Theater production of this dar...

Before I discuss the play, let me warn you that the entire run of this solo play starring Public Theater board member Anne Hathaway is pract...

I had high hopes for Tracey Scott Wilson’s play, newly arrived at the Public Theater after productions in Minneapolis and Chicago. The premi...

On the basis of this first installment of Suzan-Lori Parks’s nine-part epic about the African-American experience from the mid-19th century ...

Since I have enjoyed several films by Steven Soderbergh, I was excited to learn he would direct a play this Spring by one of his frequent co...

The fourth and final installment in Richard Nelson's saga about the Apple family of Rhinebeck, New York brings the series to a satisfyin...

(Please click on the title to see the complete review.) Elevator Repair Service, the innovative group that brought theatrical versions of Th...

(Please click on the title to see the complete review.) The Public Theater has revived Wallace Shawn's 1996 play with the original cast ...

(Please click on the title to see the complete review.) After productions in Kansas City and Los Angeles, this hip-hop musical “inspired by”...

(Please click on the title to see the complete review.) It's not often that we get to see a play by a contemporary Chilean playwright in...