For nearly two full decades, The Metropolitan Playhouse on West 4th Street has been dedicating itself to the legacy of American theater – in all its various incarnations. Per its own website, the company “explores America’s theatrical heritage to ill …Read more

In Not I, the first of the evening’s three Beckett shorts at NYU’s Skirball Center, Lisa Dwan is blindfolded and strapped to a wooden board in almost complete darkness. But we cannot see this. The only thing illuminated in the entire theater is her m …Read more

StageBuddy recently had the opportunity to interview Morgan Stevenson, the writer and director of If We Don’t Get It, Shut It Down – A Play About the Baltimore Uprising, a piece of documentary theater with the vast majority of the dialogue and situat …Read more

Wolf in the River – Adam Rapp’s new play, being performed by The Bats at The Flea – is an impressionistic look at the destitute and depraved. It is something like a True Detective nightmare imagined by a young Tracy Letts, but it is neither exploitat …Read more

Kenneth Lonergan’s This is Our Youth has become something of a New York theater staple in the past few decades. It is never too long until another revival is ready; this is surely due in part to the fact that its subject of spoiled, reckless, rich Ma …Read more

Dead Dog Park is nothing if not topical. The brief but packed piece, directed by Eric Tucker at 59E59 Theaters, is about Rob McDonald, a white cop who is put on trial for pushing a black teenager named Tyler Chapin out of a window. In some ways, it f …Read more

The world premiere of Mac Wellman’s new play, The Offending Gesture, opened January 9 at the Connelly Theater. Wellman is well-known – and very well-regarded – as the head of the Playwriting MFA program at Brooklyn College (which has produced myriad …Read more

In walking into a night of Christmas one-acts, one might expect a familiar, uplifting experience. Seasonal stories about redemption, hope and triumph of spirit. But if the Peccadillo Theater Company’s presentation of A Wilder Christmas, directed by D …Read more

New Jersey Repertory Company’s The Seedbed is a difficult play to write about. This is not necessarily because of its subject matter – which many of its Long Branch, New Jersey audience members certainly find objectionable – but, instead, because of …Read more

August Strindberg is a master of the enigmatic narrative. His plays often have an intangible quality to them, whether it be because of mysterious backstories or curious motivations. The Swedish writer is often characterized as a naturalist, like many …Read more