It’s said that winning isn’t everything; but what happens if it is? This is one of the questions Lucas Hnath poses in Red Speedo, onstage now at the New York Theatre Workshop for its New York City debut. The play opens on the eve of the Olympic swim …Read more

George Bernard Shaw’s seldom-seen Widowers’ Houses—produced by The Actors Company Theatre (TACT) and Gingold Theatrical Group at the Beckett Theatre—was first performed in 1892, although a preliminary version of the play was drafted much earlier. The …Read more

Have you ever wanted to see a mountain of junk piled on top of a person? How about a stage set falling apart before your very eyes? Well, look no further than the funny, inventive circus arts show L’Immédiat at NYU Skirball Center for the Performing …Read more

Although we’re still weeks away from the end-of-season crunch, it’s been a busy week on The Street, with three Broadway shows opening in five days. Sunday saw the arrival of Eclipsed, while Tuesday brought the zany Disaster!. The third one-word title …Read more

A poem by Leigh Hunt, at the center of Anna Ziegler’s Boy, brings up one of the playwright’s recurring themes: the passing of time and the seemingly fruitless endeavor that is remembering, “Jenny kiss’d me when we met Jumping from the chair she sat i …Read more

The Woodsman, adapted from L. Frank Baum’s iconic Oz canon, is a prime example of theater that is bold precisely because it’s a bit old-fashioned. This production from STRANGEMEN & CO. confidently establishes and maintains their intended aestheti …Read more

“We’re all pretty familiar these days with performances happening in non-traditional spaces,” says James Hillier, Artistic Director of the London-based theater company Defibrillator in his director’s note for Insignificance, the odd production curren …Read more

On the surface, The Humans, which just opened at the Helen Hayes Theatre on Broadway after the Roundabout Theater Company’s sold out Off-Broadway run, may seem small, spatially and narratively constrained. And yet, the action that transpires over one …Read more

Eugene O’Neill built one of Theatre’s most illustrious and prolific careers giving voice to the stories of those, still today, we consider a part of society’s underbelly: drunks, gamblers, prostitutes. Hughie, on Broadway at the Booth Theater, is no …Read more

Want a wonderful antidote to the mid-March winter blahs?  Take a trip to sunny 19th-century Italy via the Metropolitan Opera’s sparkling production of Don Pasquale.  One of Gaetano Donizetti’s most popular operas, this comic treasure is steeped in th …Read more