Old-fashioned, nostalgic glamour is big on Broadway this year, what with the eccentrics of “You Can’t Take it with You” and the retro vibe of “Honeymoon in Vegas”, not to mention the upcoming openings of “An American in Paris”, “Gigi”, “The King and …Read more

There are some plays driven by a narrative plot and others by a concept; Knock: A Journey to a Strange Country is the latter. The theater group Lost and Found Project has created this ensemble piece using the work of 20th-century poet Daniil Kharms a …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

The Roundabout Theatre revival of On the Twentieth Century is the epitome of the adage “they don’t make them like they used to”, from the moment you take your seat in the American Airlines Theatre and are faced with an imposing metal-like curtain, br …Read more

Sutton Foster is so generous a performer that she celebrated her upcoming birthday by giving the audience a present. The night of March 13, 2015, as she joined The New York Pops to make her solo debut at Carnegie Hall, she announced at one point she …Read more

The fact that Georg Büchner never completed Woyzeck has given other artists the liberty to use the premise as a template to explore their own particular obsessions, with some choosing to “respect” the piece and adhering to what they think the author’ …Read more

Despite of the sheer optimism evoked by her name, Sunny (Jennifer Lim), the heroine in Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s The World of Extreme Happiness has a life that’s anything but. Born to a family of peasants in the People’s Republic of China, as a newborn …Read more

The Memory Show tells a simple story: a daughter (Leslie Kritzer) moves back home to take care of her mother (Catherine Cox) who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. The two women have clashed throughout their entire lives, and illness doesn’t seem t …Read more

Penned by the late Jovanka Bach and directed/produced by her widower, John Stark, O’Neill’s Ghosts is a portrait of playwright Eugene O’Neill at the time he wrote his acknowledged masterwork, the largely autobiographical Long Day’s Journey into Night …Read more

The Great White Way and graphic design have had a long, storied love affair, from the simple lines of a Hirschfeld caricature to the show-selling broadsheets, cab toppers and streetlamp pennants that seem to grab the man on the street by his sharp la …Read more