Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! has become the musical theatre equivalent of comfort food; like a hearty bowl of chili it’s always there to make us feel warm when we need it, but in the Bard Summerscape production of the beloved musical, we reali …Read more

Productions of Oliver Goldsmith’s 18th-century classic She Stoops to Conquer are usually lushly produced with great swaths of Georgian drapery swooping behind the furniture and over the actresses, visual elements that are part and parcel of the play’ …Read more

Messy and complex are not synonymous as is proved in Mike, a muddled “play with music” in which four characters share a dinner none of them will want to remember. Daniel (played by a lanky, charming Leo Defriend) is obsessed with a phone app which he …Read more

Sea of Souls, devised by the Ion Theater Company of San Diego, is a witty, fast-paced play about friendship, loyalty, and accepting the past. Written and directed by Glenn Paris and Claudio Raygoza, this authentic, drama-filled story is set in the la …Read more

Jonathan Groff’s greatest strength must be his generosity, he is the rare kind of actor who allows himself to listen and observe his stage companions, which ironically, makes him even more compelling to watch. Playing a man with a rare neurological d …Read more

The three central characters in Of Good Stock seem to have one question in mind: is blood really thicker than water? They’re the Stockton sisters, daughters of long dead author Mick, who along with a sumptuous estate also left them a myriad of unreso …Read more

Singles In Agriculture, performed at the Brick, takes place on the last night of a national mixer for unmarried farmers, where Joel (Graeme Gillis) and Priscilla (Abby Rosebrock) have wound up together in Joel’s hotel room and are dancing around the …Read more

Unlike Shakespeare’s many plays that still resonate 400 years later, The Taming of the Shrew’s outdated gender portrayals make it a hard piece for contemporary audiences to accept. But that isn’t stopping The Theatre Project and TP&co’s Shakespea …Read more

To see a work by the absurdist playwright Samuel Beckett means checking certain aspects of common logic at the door, and letting the master throw you head first into a universe of his own imagining — one that is often bleak but always witty, where m …Read more

One of Anton Chekhov’s most enduring works, The Cherry Orchard, found a new home in Brooklyn’s Red Hook Labs from June 11 – 21. A large industrial warehouse with high ceilings and large windows, the space is perfect for a futuristic interpretation of …Read more