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

In advance of the April 18 premiere of Indecent at Broadway’s Cort Theater, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel spoke to the New York Times about her long-overdue debut on the Great White Way. “You feel the ghosts in a really great way,” sh …Read more

The experience of director Saheem Ali’s fantastic and high energy production of Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night with the Public Theater’s Mobile Unit has a lot to do with the peripatetic nature of the company. This initiative of the Public Theater …Read more

Most of us have played Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, the game where you challenge someone to connect any actor to Kevin Bacon using only four other actors. The larger theory presented in the well-crafted revival of John Guare’s 1991 dramedy Six Degrees …Read more

Bandstand, now playing at the Bernard Jacobs Theatre, has all the ingredients necessary to make a Broadway hit: catchy songs that stay in your head long after the cast takes their bow, extraordinary choreography (what more could you expect from Tony …Read more

Uncle Abram: A Reconstructed Uncle Vanya could just as easily have been named “Uncle Vanya Gets Woke”. Set on a plantation in south-central Missouri, this adaptation by Ryan Victor “Little Eagle” Pierce visits the residents in the Reconstruction peri …Read more

Ragtime, I hope they stay in business for 50 more years. Ragtime (by Terrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty, and Lynn Ahrens) traces the lives of various characters in turn-of-the-century New York. These include an upper-class family, a poor Jewish immig …Read more

On the side of a building on Wyckoff Avenue in the rapidly commodifying neighborhood of Bushwick, Brooklyn, an artist erected a mural. The building ownerʼs nephew, 27-year-old Will Giron, claimed that the problem was not the art itself, but the lack …Read more