Clifford Odets’ Depression-era classic, Awake and Sing!, now playing at the Public Theater, is about the Bergers, a lower middle class Jewish family living in a tenement apartment in the Bronx. The conceit in this production, put on by the National A …Read more

The Weir – Conor McPherson’s most popular play – is generally billed as a ghost story. It has the creeping, ominous tone of horror, and it has a few tale-by-the-campfire-style monologues as well. And even though the Irish Repertory theatre advertises …Read more

Beautiful voices, catchy little tunes and lots of sweet science geekiness abound in Black Hole Wedding by Katherine Brann Fredericks and Paul Edward Nelson. This big, fun ambitious musical comedy has everything from a black hole trash compactor to th …Read more

In its nearly twenty year lifespan, Ballet NY has managed to create a truly spectacular experience for dance-goers, choreographers, designers and its crème de la crop dancers. The whole spirit of Ballet NY is one of inspiration, innovation and artist …Read more

One talks, the other doesn’t, but both speak volumes by debunking magic while, at the same time, showing how dazzling honest trickery can be. They’re Penn and Teller, together for four decades, during which time they morphed from off-Broadway enfants …Read more

One can tell by the packed house in the Downstairs Theatre at Paradise Factory — on a Monday evening, no less — that Sitting Regal by the Window is one of Planet Connections Theatre Festivity’s great finds. The festival, dedicated to invoking the p …Read more

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