Watching Thunderstorm 2.0, at the Public Theater’s Under The Radar Festival, is like watching a thunderstorm out in nature, if real thunderstorms could actually get the lights and the sound to match up. Perhaps it is because we are living in the age …Read more

Man is not kind in Mankind, but he’s funny, at least. Robert O’Hara, whose play is currently in residence at Playwrights Horizons, emphatically states this idea in his director’s notes. “I’ve been thinking about Mankind…has man EVER been kind?” The …Read more

Every director puts a unique spin on whichever play they produce, but not every director does so by literally incorporating spinning. This is how Eric Tucker chose to direct Bedlam’s Sense and Sensibility, Kate Hamill’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s no …Read more

A portrait of the artist as a grieving mother comes to The Pershing Square Signature Center in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The show, written by Ensemble for the Romantic Century (ERC) Artistic Director Eve Wolf and directed by Donald T. Sanders, is …Read more

The SITI Company’s production of Yukio Mishima’s Hanjo completely concerns itself with the nuances and understanding of time and, critically, with the experience of time in the theater. Translated and directed by Leon Ingulsrud, the work makes time r …Read more

The wonder years of teendom are possibly the most potent of our lives, as we feel deeper, think different, see ourselves and others in new lights. Bert V. Royal’s Dog Sees God, the Peanuts play, is a wonderful coming of age high school drama with a n …Read more

The King is having a bad day; he can’t catch a goldfish in a glass bowl.  King Philippe V of Spain has a “brain inflammation” and appears to be going mad.  In Farinelli and The King, the new drama at the Belasco Theatre, the superb Mark Rylance portr …Read more

It takes effort to make a marriage work — sometimes even self-help tapes, movies and therapy sessions.  Corky (Amy Schumer) and Norm (Jeremy Shamos) have been at it for years. Yet they are ill-equipped to handle the challenges of their visitors, Lau …Read more

Lucy Kirkwood’s award-winning play The Children, a disturbing tale about nuclear power that mirrors real events, is troubling from the onset. The frame around the stage is tilted and Rose, the lone character standing mid-stage, has blood streaming fr …Read more

Right in time for the holiday season, right as were all in desperate need for some meaningful American male role models, Hold These Truths, written by Jeanne Sakata, a solo show up at the Sheen Center, gifts one in Gordon Hirabayashi. Gordon fought b …Read more