Gotham Playgoer

B As a fan of both Oscar Levant and Sean Hayes ( Promises, Promises; “Will & Grace” ), I was excited by the opportunity to see the latte...

C The first clue that perhaps this was not the right show for me was that I had never heard of Ross Golan (2016 BMI Pop Songwriter of the...

A- Anaïs Mitchell's marvelous folk opera about Orpheus and Eurydice has had a long road to Broadway. What began as a simple stage ver...

C+ This work by Heidi Schreck ( Grand Concourse, "Nurse Jackie" ) now in previews at New York Theatre Workshop is hard to cate...

B Kudos to Roundabout Theatre Company for their Underground program that produces early work by promising playwrights such as Stephen K...

I n 1997 Suzan-Lori Parks made a casual remark to a friend that she wanted to write a riff on  The Scarlet Letter  and call it  Fucki...

A- The folks at Second Stage Theater seem to be working their way through Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s backlist. Last season they br...

C- Rejoice, Rebecca Hall fans. That marvelous mistress of misery is back in town. You can really see her up close at Atlantic Theater’s Stag...

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...

B Marin Ireland (Ironbound, reasons to be pretty) , one of our most talented stage actors, seems incapable of giving a less than compelling ...

Cheryl Strayed’s 2012 collection of her “Dear Sugar” advice columns from The Rumpus , an online website, was a bestseller. Actor Nia Vardalo...

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...

New York Theatre Workshop has pulled out all the stops for its production of Anais Mitchell’s folk opera based on the story of Orpheus and E...

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...

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’...

To say that I liked this play the best of Naomi Wallace’s three plays for Signature Theatre’s residency program amounts to faint praise. The...

Playwright Katori Hall’s residency at Signature Theatre resumes with this theatrically engrossing play based on actual events in Rwanda in t...

In her new play now in previews at Playwrights Horizons, Heidi Schreck displays a talent for creating vivid characters whom she treats with ...

Naomi Wallace, a playwright in residence at Signature Theatre this season, has a most impressive resume. It includes a MacArthur Fellowship,...

(Please click on the title to see the complete review.) The Bard of Buffalo is back with a lovely new play, now in previews at the Flea Thea...