There are several different levels of writerly craft on display in New Born, a program of three monologues at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theater. Weirdly, they were all written by the same person, British playwright Ella Hickson. The monologues are perfo …Read more

At the final curtain of the revival of Arthur Miller’s classic play Death of a Salesman, Nathan Lane comes out to take a bow. He looks exhausted after giving the 3 hour award-winning performance of his life and the tumultuous applause from the audien …Read more

In Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, the second of August Wilson’s 10 play Century Cycle, all the action occurs in a boarding house run by Seth Holly (Cedric the entertainer) and his wife Bertha (Taraji P.Henson in an excellent Broadway debut.) The two ser …Read more

Shows can have ornate settings and special effects like those in this season’s The Lost Boys; now playing at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in Greenwich Village, KENREX only uses an open door frame, several free-standing microphones and a mobile staircas …Read more

Y You can pick your friends, but you can’t pick your neighbors, that is unless you are Elliot Emerson (impressive Richard Thomas,) real estate agent and president of the Vernon Point Homeowners Association. Acknowledging changing demographics, he car …Read more

What do you do when you can’t figure out what, exactly, was your dad’s problem? That’s the central question in Broken Snow, a slowly burning thriller playing at Theater 71, written by Ben Andron, directed by Colin Hanlon and starring Tony Danza – yes …Read more

From show to movie and back to show. The cult 1975 movie Rocky Horror Picture Show is on Broadway at the Roundabout Theatre Company at Studio 54. Directed by Jim Sharman, the film found its niche and as a cult favorite, has been showing somewhere in …Read more

Love transcends death. So do estates and trusts, intellectual property rights, and your grandmother’s ugly furniture. It’s just our actual bodies and consciousnesses that go kaput. (But don’t worry – Sam Altman is planning to disrupt death, as soon a …Read more

      Remember when people went on psychedelic mushroom trips as part of a spiritual journey to discover themselves? I don’t. In my zillennial world, people take mushrooms to confront their annoying roommates. That’s the premise of Lanmaoa Asiatica, …Read more

It takes a while for the title character to appear in the revival of Gina Gionfriddo’s play Becky Shaw. When Becky does appear, she changes the dynamics of the play. Becky is a catalyst who doesn’t change from beginning to end. Instead her character …Read more