We all recall high school horror stories that served as fodder for TV and movies – Freak and Geeks, Gossip Girl, Glee, Heathers, Mean Girls.) Arriving on Broadway a decade after its Off-Broadway run, School Girls, or the African Mean Girls Play is sh …Read more

On January 7, 2025 devastating wildfires spread quickly through the Pacific Palisades, Topanga and Malibu. They resulted in the deaths of 12 people, destroyed 6,837 structures and covered 37 square miles. Here in New York, we watched the news and gas …Read more

As soon as Bill Irwin’s reimagined version of The Imaginary Invalid begins, we realize this will be a different take on Moliere’s classic play.The comedy begins in the commedia dell’arte style with actors garbed in dark robes while wearing face masks …Read more

Politics can be divisive. During the last presidential campaign, one couple was so diametrically opposed that their feud broke up their marriage. During the ‘60s, nothing caused more arguments among families than the Viet Nam war as young people and …Read more

I expected ANON, Anne Washburn’s new play, to be about the dangers of people posting anonymously online. Anonymity allows the poster to say whatever they wish, true or not with no fear of retribution. Actually the main character in the world premiere …Read more

Why do we love scary movies and terrifying amusement park rides? The scarier it is, the more we scream first, then giggle. Why are these experiences so entertaining? Maybe because they are controlled and often shared. We are not alone. It is our choi …Read more

Jean-Michel Basquiat was an extraordinary young artist whose life was tragically cut short. In Honor of Jean-Michel Basquiat, the one-man show at the New York Theatre Workshop, is about the artist and his life but primarily about his relationship wit …Read more

Playwright-actress Marin Ireland channeled her own experiences with domestic abuse to create the 75 minute play Pre-Existing Condition. The title refers to how certain US states, as late as 2010, classified domestic violence as a way for insurance co …Read more

  All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. And when families become very unhappy, they imprison each other inside manmade bomb shelters. Or so Tolstoy would have elaborated, had he seen this play. In Safe Hous …Read more

Sophie McIntosh is the playwright behind benevolent at IATI Theater, a play set in 1917 that follows four young women living in a strict Manhattan reformatory called the Inwood Benevolent Home, where they turgidly wash stains out of soiled laundry on …Read more