This summer, FringeNYC audiences were treated to a new twist on a classic tale with The Radicalization of Rolfe, which takes on The Sound of Music from the perspective of the young messenger boy who vies for Liesl von Trapp’s heart. The new play by A …Read more

Imagine if Neil deGrasse Tyson hosted a gameshow in which reexamining the purpose of your life was the prize, and you’re only starting to get a sense of what The Loon feels like. Part lecture on time, part study of domestic life, part contemporary da …Read more

In Duat Daniel Alexander Jones has created a show that truly asks you to surrender your senses upon entering the theater. Making your way to your seat, you find yourself surrounded by cabinets, books, plants and Egyptian figurines that conjure vision …Read more

Primary Stages presents Horton Foote’s The Roads to Home, a trio of one-act plays that tell the stories of three women who reminisce on the same hometown of Harrison. Set in Houston in the 1920s, the first scene follows Mabel (Hallie Foote) and her n …Read more

After premiering his solo show at Feinstein’s/54 Below this spring, Jay Armstrong Johnson will make his return — just in time for Halloween! The talented actor who has graced the screen and stage in ABC’s Quantico and Broadway’s On the Town just rel …Read more

It’s not often that a romantic comedy picks a war as a setting, but MTC’s Vietgone does just that, setting the love story between Quang (Raymond Lee) and Tong (Jennifer Ikeda) in an Arizona refugee camp during the Vietnam War. Hilarious and powerful, …Read more

Living in New York, we pass by hundreds of people a day, the crowd so ubiquitous that we almost don’t notice them (unless of course they’re standing directly in our way). With her one-woman show Such Nice Shoes, Christine Renee Miller delves into New …Read more

Royce Vavrek, one of the hottest librettists on the contemporary opera/music theater scene today, and Ricky Ian Gordon, a masterful composer and melodic genius, are a powerful duo in their new opera, 27, having a semi-staged production for two nights …Read more

“They said it wasn’t like this anymore.” So observes the protagonist of Theresa Rebeck’s play What We’re Up Against as the endless misogyny of her workplace prevents her from utilizing her formidable talents. With this timely and deeply relevant prod …Read more

In a society focused on thinness as one of the defining qualities of beauty, women often have complicated and thorny relationships with food. The different ways that frustration can be expressed is the focus of comedian Lisa Lampanelli’s new play Stu …Read more