The universe proved it has a wicked sense of humor by having the opening night of Paper Mill Playhouse’s The Producers occur on the very day The New York Times released a piece which revealed GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump had used a tax law …Read more

As Fringe Encore is underway, the program’s co-creator Britt Lafield told us about what makes this year special, and how the shows get selected. What goes into the process of selecting the pieces for Encore? In selecting the pieces [co-creator Darren …Read more

Jérôme Bel’s provocative work has been taking the dance world by storm since he made his debut two decades ago. Working on the fringe of the field, he constantly challenges preconceptions on what exactly makes a dance piece “a dance piece”, by using …Read more

The Classical Theatre of Harlem welcomes playwright Betty Shamieh to the main stage this fall with her new play, Fit for a Queen, a passion project that she undertook more than a decade ago. From the time that Shamieh learned about one of the most po …Read more

“My wife is always telling me ‘don’t act silly’” says composer Robert Waldman when we speak on the phone, but as proved in his classic musical The Robber Bridegroom, there’s nothing wrong with his unique brand of silliness. “I get up very early in th …Read more

Puffs: or, Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic begins by introducing us to a boy we’re all familiar with, an orphaned infant with a scar on his forehead, the boy who lived. It is not about that boy. Matt Cox’s gen …Read more

Obie Award-winning Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor doesn’t disappoint in Communion, now having its American premiere at Urban Stages. In this compelling and moving drama we are witnesses to the lives of three women, each in a various stage of both …Read more

“Stranger than fiction” doesn’t even come close to describing the surreal elements of the premise for Come From Away (reviewed here), a musical which chronicles how in the days after 9/11, thousands of airplane passengers whose flights were diverted …Read more

If your theatrical preferences include sweat, exalted language, spanks, and Daddy Yankee dance breaks, look no further than One-Eighth Theaterʼs production of The Maids, now playing at INTAR. Obie-winner Jose Riveraʼs adaptation brings Jean Genetʼs p …Read more

Contaminated water endangers a community. Science denial is widespread in the face of inconvenient truths. The discomfiting idea that populism can be a dangerous thing hangs in the atmosphere. There is plenty in David Harrower’s 2013 adaptation of He …Read more