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

Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o (“12 Years a Slave”) made her Broadway debut last night, March 6, in the opening of Eclipsed, a drama about a group of women held captive by a Liberian war lord. The play, by Danai Gurira and directed by Liesl Tom …Read more

Familiar opens in a set that looks very much like the setting of countless contemporary Broandway and Off-Broadway dramas, that is, an upper middle class living room, complete with leather couches, rugs, bottles of liquor and an HD television set han …Read more

From Bridget Jones to Bollywood, the influence of Jane Austen’s beloved Pride and Prejudice is undeniable, and yet we don’t have an ultimate musical theatre adaptation! This might change with Lawrence Rush’s take on the novel, which he presented in c …Read more

For those whose familiarity with Tennessee Williams is centered primarily on better known works like The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the two obscure one acts presented in Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company’s …Read more

Dead Dog Park is nothing if not topical. The brief but packed piece, directed by Eric Tucker at 59E59 Theaters, is about Rob McDonald, a white cop who is put on trial for pushing a black teenager named Tyler Chapin out of a window. In some ways, it f …Read more