Gruesome Playground Injuries, Rajiv Joseph’s sweet and dark two-hander of a play, is currently being presented by FITR Productions at Teatro Circulo — and for good reason. A bittersweet love story, it shows the lives of Doug and Kayleen as they circl …Read more

The Liquid Plain, Naomi Wallace’s sharp new play now showing at Signature Theatre, has all the trappings of a truly great night in theater. Beautifully lyrical, stark, and gripping, it tells the story of two black women, Adjua and Dembi, living on th …Read more

Chiara Atik, the playwright of Ensemble Studio Theatre’s newest comedy Five Times in One Night, sat down with us to discuss her writing process, her comedy influences, and the best (and worst) relationship advice she’s ever heard.  Her new play is a …Read more

Five Times in One Night, Chiara Atik’s sweet and funny new play now showing at Ensemble Studio Theatre, is a sharp, witty meditation on relationships through time. Atik begins in the future right after a nuclear holocaust: a man and a woman find one …Read more

Paradox of the Urban Cliché by Craig “muMs” Grant is a gritty urban love story, full of swag and panache; style and grace; humor and pain. Presented by Poetic License, a company dedicated to the grey zone between theater and poetry, it is a truly str …Read more

Pitbulls, a new work by Keith Josef Adkins now playing at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, is a strong play by a talented, fresh writer. Set in the backwoods of Appalachia, it dives into the vicious subculture of pit bull fighting. The play cente …Read more

Dirt, written by Robert Schneider (and translated by Paul Dvorak), tells the peculiar story of Sad, a Middle Eastern illegal immigrant who lives surreptitiously in a rickety tenement. Sad’s love for his new country is effervescent, and he spends most …Read more

“The World is Round”, Ripe Time’s new show at BAM, is a giant kaleidoscope of childhood longing and fun.  Though the production itself is strong, the play lacks bite and insight. The story follows Rose, a young girl, as she strives to cut a place for …Read more

“Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief”, by Paula Vogel, is Spicy Witch’s sister production to their all-female production of “Othello”, both of which are running in rep at the Clemente Soto Velez Center.  From these two plays, we get the tragedy of …Read more

“A Mind-Bending Evening of Beckett”, three short plays all by the Irish great, is now being shown at the Irish Repertory Theatre, and for good reason.  The first piece, “Act Without Words” — about a Sisyphus-like figure on an island — is performed en …Read more