Shesh Yak, now playing at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, is a ruthless two hander about two men whose past trails them like stray dogs.  It is the spring of 2011, five weeks into the civil uprising in Syria, and we are in Jameel’s tiny apartment, c …Read more

The sumptuously talented and Olivier Award-winning Complicite theater company proves that they know just how to include kids and adults in fun theatrical storytelling with the U.S. premiere of their new production, Lionboy, at the New Victory Theater …Read more

The Road to Damascus, Tom Dulack’s new play at 59E59 Theaters, is explosive. Quite literally; the play opens on a scene of crisis. Suicide bombers have attacked Miami and New York City near Rockefeller Center and St. Patrick’s Cathedral (an unsettlin …Read more

Before he wrote Hamlet, Macbeth and Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare produced his most violent play, the bloody revenge tragedy Titus Andronicus. It was a hit. As the centuries passed and Shakespeare’s legacy as The Immortal Bard grew, Titus Andron …Read more

Maggie Bofill’s new comedy Winners is an intimately scoped, ambitiously plotted, tender screaming match, and broadly nuanced character piece — and boy does that seem like a lot of paradoxes. We are trafficking in familiar stories here. Father, Brian …Read more

January is here, and many of us are still recovering from the two to six days we were forced to spend with our families over the holidays. Whether it’s the tone your mother used when she asked about your current skincare regimen, your stepfather’s in …Read more

You needn’t be a lover of cake to enjoy the side-splitting, slapsticky series of sketches, Everybody Gets Cake! But if you happen to be, you’re in for a treat. Physical theatre company Parallel Exit has created a non-stop frenzy of familiar comedic t …Read more

After only a few moments observing the Beaumont household in Ross Howard’s No One Loves Us Here (from New Light Theater Project), you realize you’re being asked to cast aside expectations about plausible human behavior. Washington (Anthony Michael Ir …Read more

What if Marlon Brando had starred in Citizen Kane? That seems to be the question at the center of Asociación Señor Serrano’s energetic multimedia show Brickman Brando Bubble Boom. The inventive Spanish troupe has Marlon Brando (through clips of his f …Read more

The two lovers at the center of Amir Reza Koohestani’s haunting Timeloss have fought the same battle so many times, that it has practically stopped affecting them. They are two actors who have reunited years after their split in order to record lines …Read more