If you are familiar with Company XIV, you may be surprised (and humored) to find the company performing Paris in the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church — you may even feel you’re in the wrong place. Inside, however, is the Irondale Theater, an old …Read more

With the presidential election just around the corner, William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus hits especially close to home. Red Bull Theater’s current production, which has been expertly executed by director Michael Sexton, features an all-star cast, tell …Read more

The Gallery Players’ The 39 Steps is like really entertaining clockwork. The talents of the cast and the production team combine to keep this fast-paced comic whodunit moving without a hitch. In fact, some of the funny moments of the cast “breaking c …Read more

According to José Antonio Méndez’s famous bolero glory awaits mortals in heaven, but for those of us lucky enough to be alive and kicking, La Gloria can be found at Teatro SEA in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Subtitled as “a Latin cabaret”, this two-h …Read more

The Other Mozart is astounding from start to finish, with one actor, one set and a trove of history and humor that tells the story of Nannerl Mozart, the oft-forgotten elder sister of world-famous composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Visually stunning a …Read more

If you don’t have a child, find one. And if that fails, go to Harlem Repertory Theatre’s The Wizard of Oz anyway. No one will judge you. This stupendous stage production based on MGM’s classic motion picture is a glorious delight. The story moves alo …Read more

Feminist theory has a long and complicated history, one that playwright Gina Gionfriddo grapples with directly in her play Rapture, Blister, Burn. Gionfridd tackles the movement’s primary tenets and grapples with a complicated question: how can women …Read more

The “play within the play” has been a useful dramatic trope at least since Shakespeare’s Hamlet, in which the actions in the traveling players’ “The Murder of Gonzago” help young Hamlet attempt to “catch the conscience of the king.” Lawrence Dial now …Read more

Vietgone is not the first attempt to portray the Vietnam War onstage, but its novel approach and innovative structure are not to be missed this season. Qui Nguyen’s play at Manhattan Theatre Club has all of the ingredients of solid entertainment: a c …Read more

Tony Kushner’s epic Angels in America remains a landmark of contemporary theatre, and how could it not? It tackled the AIDS crisis, the end of the Cold War, and millennium anxiety, without losing sight of the humanity of the characters at its center. …Read more