All of the characters in Will Eno’s “The Realistic Joneses” seem to have a little bit of an oversharing problem. When John (Michael C. Hall) tells his neighbor Jennifer Jones (Toni Collette) she has pretty eyes, she replies by saying that she actuall …Read more

In the first installment of their Weaving Series, a series which weaves together two or more Shakespearean plays in innovative ways, the theater group Bottoms Dream has brought to the stage an amalgamation of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “Romeo an …Read more

On April 1, sketch groups Business Computer and Hot Buffet teamed up to bring a full 90 minutes of comedy to the Secret Theater. The two teams both brought their A-games to the Long Island City space and played to their ensembles’ strengths. Up first …Read more

When Peter Michael Marino gets up on stage, his comfort and casual demeanor make the audience feel as if we were in his apartment for an intimate gathering. This feeling of intimacy, as it turns out, is appropriate: it’s not long before he starts sha …Read more

Life in high school can feel like an everyday battle from which only the fittest come out alive. With endless clique wars, peer pressure and unrealistic demands for perfection, young men and women find themselves overindulging in metaphors and hyperb …Read more

Paula Vogel’s play “And Baby Makes Seven” was originally unsuccessful. After its initial production in 1984, she deemed it her “Scottish play”, allegedly because of harsh homophobic reception. The “gay family play” tells the story of Anna and Ruth, a …Read more

Beau Willimon, author of sharp political dramas “Farragut North” and “House of Cards”, experiments with a different kind of politics in “Breathing Time”.  He presents us with an anonymous office somewhere in the Financial District, shared by a number …Read more

“If/Then”, one of the more eagerly awaited musicals of the spring Broadway season, opens tonight, March 30, at the Richard Rodgers Theater. Penned by the creators of the Tony and Pulitzer-winning “Next to Normal”, Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, “If/Then” …Read more

Laugh-out-loud funny, Primary Stages’ “The Tribute Artist” is an update on the classic drawing room comedy featuring a talented ensemble cast. Written by and starring Charles Busch and directed by Carl Andress, the play follows Jimmy (Busch), a man i …Read more

Because 21st-century American cultural ideals and expectations have turned sharply away from self-reliance, duty, patriotism, and the nuclear family, contemporary theater that approaches such ideas without disdain risks seeming dated. But “Hounds of …Read more