Part historical tour, part virtual reality, and part street performance, The Downtown Experience (powered by The Ride) is an imaginative ride through the history of Downtown Manhattan, beginning with the story of the island’s first Native American in …Read more

There is a particular prop set up in Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr. Sloane that vividly distills both the essence of the play and the essential spirit of the playwright. One of the characters brings it out just before the darkest elements of the story …Read more

In a city full of ninety-minute plays with no intermission, this writer welcomes the return of the six-hour production. If youʼre the type to enjoy spending your Saturday night in the theater and nowhere else, Target Marginʼs latest production at Abr …Read more

For creatures boasting complexity with regards to reasoning, emotional intelligence, and empathy, we sure live by an oversimplified set of binaries and social constructs. While the notion of being joined hand in hand as runners in the human race is l …Read more

Every director and stage manager knows only too well how many things can go wrong with any given performance. Hopefully, though, no stage manager has ever experienced a production as utterly catastrophic as The Play That Goes Wrong. This new Broadway …Read more

“What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love, and wisdom, and compassion toward one another.” So said Robert F. Ken …Read more

In her new play, The Antipodes, at Signature Theatre, Annie Baker once again uses the trappings of naturalism to tell a contemporary story that veers at times into the realm of magical realism. Clocking in at about two hours, this intermission-less p …Read more

It takes some guts to rewrite what is possibly the most revered play of all time: Hamlet. Even when Tom Stoppard played around with Shakespeare’s masterpiece in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, he didn’t mess with the original dialogue, but bui …Read more

A support group for young conspiracy theory addicts gather in a Queens church basement a week before the 2016 election in Max Baker’s fascinating new play The Conspiracists, now playing at the IRT Theater. When a new member joins their ranks, the gro …Read more

Now through its new, extended close of July 2, the Manhattan Theatre Club mounts the fifth Broadway production of Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. In the decades since the 1939 debut, the family drama has been ada …Read more