Ciarán O’Reilly is a founding member of The Irish Repertory Theatre, the only company in North America dedicated to bringing Irish and Irish-American works to the stage. He is also the director of The Weir, the current production at the Irish Rep, co …Read more

As they do every so often, stories of audience members behaving insufferably at the theater become newsworthy—usually making the papers because some actor or fellow playgoer finally pushes back. For example, in 2013, theater critic Kevin Williamson w …Read more

The storied journey of The Visit to Broadway has been recounted many times,  in 2015, fourteen years after its first planned tryout, The Visit finally made it to Broadway. It was a short two month visit, during which it earned five Tony nominations, …Read more

Rashid and Leila, a young Egyptian-American couple, sit propped up in bed together. They smoke fake cigarettes while they analyze their own psyches and behavior. (It’s something one imagines them doing on a regular basis.) “I think we can be too clev …Read more

By now it’s common knowledge that brothers Wayne and Karey Kirkpatrick achieved the unthinkable by having their very first musical skip out-of-town previews and open successfully on Broadway in the spring of 2015. Something Rotten! was one of the onl …Read more

An elderly woman, Ada, grieves for her twin sister Ava in the remote New England lighthouse they once shared, but then a visit to the carnival creates a ghostly opportunity for a reunion as well as a journey through memory and mourning. ADA/AVA plays …Read more

From the opening of the New Broadway Cast Recording of On the Twentieth Century it’s clear to lovers of the show that they have little to worry about. Among many things On the Twentieth Century sits with Candide, Merrily We Roll Along, West Side Stor …Read more

In the face of multiple two person theatre shows I’ll admit a bit of a penchant for the mid nineties John & Jen, for no reason other than my own sibling relationships making me thrilled to see a musical which places such potent emphasis not on a …Read more

Playwright Catherine Filloux possesses a calming presence amidst the cacophony of a bus load of tourists eager to munch pastries and slurp cappuccinos at Amy’s in midtown Manhattan. Fortunately we are able to snag the quietest table in the back for o …Read more

In the last year or so, Drunk Shakespeare has gone from that thing that some weird intellectual people like to a New York institution. What is it? Here’s what their website says: “Each night in New York, one professional actor has at least five shots …Read more