Children’s theatre in New York City seems to vacillate between being an embarrassment of riches and being a quagmire of treacle. Rock n’ Roll Mother Goose!, a high-energy one-woman performance created and performed by Judi Lewis Ockler, is one of the …Read more

The company of the Tony-winning musical Beautiful: The Carole King Musical made the earth under Central Park’s SummerStage move to the rhythm of the show’s most memorable tunes. Hosted by Hoda Kotb, the one night only event featured a selection of th …Read more

Playwright Howard L. Craft has perhaps done more with 90 minutes than some writers have done with entire trilogies. In Craft’s Freight: The Five Incarnations of Abel Green, playing July 25th through August 9th at HERE Arts Center, the eponymous chara …Read more

The high-profile world of the NBA is dominated by men, but in King Liz, it’s a woman who takes center court. Fernanda Coppel’s new play, currently premiering at Second Stage Uptown, takes on professional basketball from the perspective of Liz Rico (K …Read more

Series B of the 2015 Summer Shorts at 59E59 includes three pieces of premiere pieces that vary significantly in tone and type but somehow manage to create something resembling a complete evening of theater. The three new shorts are: Unstuck by Lucy T …Read more

The Attic Theater Company’s new Off-Broadway revival of John Patrick Shanley’s 1986 play, the dreamer examines his pillow, is a thought provoking examination of love, sex and how the subconscious mind is influenced by our parents no matter how hard w …Read more

PTP/NYC’s 2015 production of Scenes from an Execution will most likely be remembered best for being Jan Maxwell’s swan song, as the Tony-nominated actress announced she was retiring from the stage after completing the run. One can’t help but think of …Read more

Transport Group’s opening of Three Days to See, a play conceived and directed by Jack Cummings III based on Helen Keller’s words, features a series of jokes about Keller being blind. As the play progresses, it becomes very clear that this production …Read more

The work on display by Neil LaBute, Matthew Lopez and Vicki Ramirez at 59E59 Theaters’ Summer Shorts series proves why these playwrights are the voices of contemporary American theatre. LaBute, the biggest star of the three, is the series’ big draw a …Read more

In Yussef El Guindi’s Threesome, a sexual escapade becomes the window into a world of double standards, faux convictions and misogyny as three people must come to terms with the fact that they’re not as liberal, or liberated, as they thought. When th …Read more