As a theatregoer, you know when you are in good hands and when you are not. Within minutes of any live performance, a reading-of-the-minds takes place, from spectator to performer. If the player is incompetent, we know it right away-we are in for a b …Read more

The not-for-profit Brick Theater in Williamsburg (once an auto-body shop in its multiform past) provides a snug and innovative performance space.  At the helm this week are the Tugboat Collective, a Brooklyn-based experimental theater company of mult …Read more

A call to nature is being heard in Greenwich Village this spring, as theatre company Rady&Bloom Collective Playmaking debut their world premiere of The Upper Room at New Ohio Theater. Marking the end of the company’s two-year Archive Residency wi …Read more

Ensemble Studio Theatre is heading into June with Series B of its 35th Marathon of One-Act Plays. The four, short works showing here through June 21 (and running concurrently through June 6th with the excellent Series A) do their strongest work in qu …Read more

The comic backstager has a long, bright history. (Think of Bottom and the rest of Shakespeare’s hapless mechanicals rehearsing Pyramus and Thisbe.) And—believe it—the genre is not going away anytime soon. (Consider Terrence McNally’s collection of ma …Read more

Can you ever really escape your past? This is the question posed by For the Last Time, a new jazz musical now playing at the Clurman Theatre. With music and lyrics by Nancy Harrow and direction by Will Pomerantz (who each additionally serve as co-lib …Read more

Syrian playwright and Applied Theatre practitioner Mohammad Al Attar launches a peaceful yet potent attack. His enemy is the world’s apathetic tendencies towards human suffering in the contentious Middle East.  His weapon is the theatre. In Could You …Read more

If Captain America had any musical talent and loved talking about sex, he would be in The Vaudevillians; like the famous superhero, the team of Dr. Dan Von Dandy (Major Scales) and his wife Ms. Kitty Witless (the terrific Jinkx Monsoon) were also cau …Read more

Theater has been pretty good to such biblical personae as Jesus (the superstar), Mary (who had her 2013 Testament), Joseph (of dreamcoat finery), Noah (who musicalized Two By Two), Adam and Eve (under The Apple Tree), and even Queen Esther (of The Ha …Read more

York Theatre Company’s production of the new musical Cagney, directed by Bill Castellino, is a wonderfully compelling biographical piece of theatre. Choreographer Joshua Bergasse works magic with the actors’ tap shoes, throwing the audience back to t …Read more