The best reason to see Abingdon Theatre Company’s production of Charles Messina’s late-1970s New York City family dramedy A Room of My Own is a character known as Uncle Jackie, portrayed by Mario Cantone. On the surface, Jackie is an overly familiar …Read more

First, let’s get something out of the way: Straight is finely acted by Jake Epstein, Thomas Sullivan and especially Jenna Gavigan. The three play Boston residents entangled in an unorthodox love triangle; oft-stressed banker Ben (Epstein) is in a rel …Read more

Based on the book by Paul Auster, City of Glass commences its prismatic tale with a case of mistaken identity after which signs are generally loosened, if not wholly severed, from what they signify. This detachment of signs unfolds in a detective-noi …Read more

William Shakespeare’s Pericles, directed by Trevor Nunn for Theatre for a New Audience at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center, is an amalgamation of so many Shakespearean plays. It’s like The Tempest and Twelfth Night with its multiple shipwrecks. It has …Read more

Arriving into The Grand Paradise feels very much like what we have come to imagine as ideal travel: a pink hued, Pan Am-fantasia in which we are invited to leave all our troubles behind and succumb to the promise of what lies ahead. Travelers are wel …Read more

The curtain at Colman Domingo’s Dot shows a two-story house done in the pointillistic technique, which will make audience members think of one of two things: Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George or the establishing shot in a sitcom. Whil …Read more

Director Anthony Minghella’s sumptuous and visually stunning production of Madama Butterfly is matched perfectly to the sweeping lush melodies of Giacomo Puccini.  Lovingly directed and choreographed by Carolyn Choa, Mr. Minghella’s widow (Mr. Minghe …Read more

Buried Child is suffused with doom. From the creaking foundations of the old house in which it is set, to the emotionally and physically crippled members of the family, the play grips you not in loud, overwrought tones, but in an insidious, mischievo …Read more

One of the sleepers of the off-Broadway season, Stephen Karam’s The Humans snagged the kinds of reviews that lead to Pulitzer talk (well, if Hamilton weren’t in the race) and uptown aspirations. Sure enough, the dysfunctional family comedy-drama, whi …Read more

Traveling to Britain in winter months is an economical way to experience the varied pleasures of London theatre, especially if you purchase your flight and lodging months in advance. Earlier this month I spent a week in London, checking in on a range …Read more