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

Primary Stages presents Horton Foote’s The Roads to Home, a trio of one-act plays that tell the stories of three women who reminisce on the same hometown of Harrison. Set in Houston in the 1920s, the first scene follows Mabel (Hallie Foote) and her n …Read more

Living in New York, we pass by hundreds of people a day, the crowd so ubiquitous that we almost don’t notice them (unless of course they’re standing directly in our way). With her one-woman show Such Nice Shoes, Christine Renee Miller delves into New …Read more

Royce Vavrek, one of the hottest librettists on the contemporary opera/music theater scene today, and Ricky Ian Gordon, a masterful composer and melodic genius, are a powerful duo in their new opera, 27, having a semi-staged production for two nights …Read more

“They said it wasn’t like this anymore.” So observes the protagonist of Theresa Rebeck’s play What We’re Up Against as the endless misogyny of her workplace prevents her from utilizing her formidable talents. With this timely and deeply relevant prod …Read more

In a society focused on thinness as one of the defining qualities of beauty, women often have complicated and thorny relationships with food. The different ways that frustration can be expressed is the focus of comedian Lisa Lampanelli’s new play Stu …Read more

Have you ever wondered about all the minor characters in the Harry Potter series? Where do they come from? What are their abilities? Why is everyone so focused on the Gryffindors? PUFFS or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Mag …Read more

Before Jonathan Larson penned one of the greatest American musicals, Rent, he wrote a much smaller, autobiographical musical called Tick, Tick… BOOM! While nowhere near the scale and excitement of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning Rent, Tic …Read more

What if George Orwell, hot off the success of Animal Farm, partook in a book tour across post World War II America? In Orwell in America, now playing at 59E59 Theaters, Orwell is chaperoned throughout the United States by a young woman publicist whos …Read more