Asymmetric, a new play by frequent collaborators writer Mac Rogers and director Jordana Williams now performing at 59E59, is an incredibly intriguing spy thriller that will keep you guessing about each character’s loyalty and motive until the very la …Read more

Snow White as a sexual being. Walt Disney never saw it coming. Theaterlab’s Snow in the Living Room inserts sensuality and loss of innocence into its deconstruction of the classic fairy tale. There is no mention of dwarves here, yet the number seven …Read more

Pitbulls, a new work by Keith Josef Adkins now playing at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, is a strong play by a talented, fresh writer. Set in the backwoods of Appalachia, it dives into the vicious subculture of pit bull fighting. The play cente …Read more

  F. Scott Fitzgerald’s writing is often criticized for being a triumph of wit and style over any real substantive meaning. While that may well be in dispute among literary critics, it certainly seems to have been taken to heart by the writers o …Read more

There was palpable anticipation at the Public Theater as audiences stirred in their seats, awaiting the newest work by provocateur and downtown darling Young Jean Lee. The much lauded Lee has challenged conventions with her intrepid brand of theater …Read more

When was the last time you were told to keep your phone on in the theater? Isn’t there, wasn’t there a law about that in New York City? Not at Blank! The Musical, the new Off-Broadway show that opened November 17 at New World Stages. At Blank! having …Read more

Although Christopher Marlowe was a contemporary of William Shakespeare, and was said to have influenced the Bard, he never achieved the same renown as Shakespeare due to his sudden death at age 29. If he had lived, he might have been as prominent, if …Read more

Samuel Beckett, perhaps the twentieth century’s greatest playwright, met his idol James Joyce in Paris during the late 1920s. The young writer actually assisted Joyce in the completion of his final work Finnegan’s Wake. What ideas passed in intimate …Read more

Leo Tolstoy alleged, “All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.” With all the flair of a magician, Heidi Schreck conjures both in her new play Grand Concourse, now running at Playwrights Horizons …Read more

It might seem like a curious thing for an off-Broadway show to premiere at 11 a.m. on a weekday, but at The Actors Temple Theatre there is a method to such madness. The Love Note, a new musical written by Gail Phaneuf and directed by Russell Garrett, …Read more