Anne Washburn’s latest commission for Playwrights Horizons, Antlia Pneumatica, roots, or perhaps uproots, itself in the innate and intimate sense of mystery that surrounds death. To those who know the 1983 film The Big Chill, the plot may sound famil …Read more

It’s said that winning isn’t everything; but what happens if it is? This is one of the questions Lucas Hnath poses in Red Speedo, onstage now at the New York Theatre Workshop for its New York City debut. The play opens on the eve of the Olympic swim …Read more

On the surface, The Humans, which just opened at the Helen Hayes Theatre on Broadway after the Roundabout Theater Company’s sold out Off-Broadway run, may seem small, spatially and narratively constrained. And yet, the action that transpires over one …Read more

Eugene O’Neill built one of Theatre’s most illustrious and prolific careers giving voice to the stories of those, still today, we consider a part of society’s underbelly: drunks, gamblers, prostitutes. Hughie, on Broadway at the Booth Theater, is no …Read more

Buried Child is suffused with doom. From the creaking foundations of the old house in which it is set, to the emotionally and physically crippled members of the family, the play grips you not in loud, overwrought tones, but in an insidious, mischievo …Read more

At first, Utility, Emily Schwend’s new play with the Amoralists now onstage at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, doesn’t feel particularly earthshaking. There are no explosions, no fits of sobbing or knockdown, drag-out fights. The play creeps along q …Read more

How do you speak up when language does not belong to you? How do you move through the world with agency when your body does not belong to you? SLUT is not an easy play to watch, or even to name out loud. It is not about convenient, easy-to-swallow tr …Read more

The first annual Exponential Fest, created as Brooklyn’s reaction to the host of mid-winter theater fests in the city, pulls no punches. In Biter (Every Time I Turn Around), remounted for the Festival after last year’s run, theater collective Title:P …Read more

There are two major psychological forces at play in Chris Thorpe and Rachel Chavkin’s theater cum performance art piece Confirmation, which took place at the Invisible Dog Art Center in Boerum Hill as a part of New York City’s annual Coil Festival, a …Read more

Multiple murders at the Players Club! At first glance, a headline that could prove to be the final nail in the coffin for a historic social club dogged in recent years by financial controversy. But not so! This macabre message is, in actuality, a ban …Read more