All too often, kids’ entertainment means that, while the little ones have a great time, parents are abandoned to hour-long series of boredom. Not so at the New Victory Theatre. With Mr. Popper’s Penguins, director Emma Earle presents fun that actuall …Read more

Inspired by the solo storytelling in Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads, PREMIERES’ Artistic Director Paulette Haupt was curious to see how the one person show would transform if music were added to the words. And into existence came Inner Voices, which is …Read more

Mary-Louise Parker and Denis Arndt are magnificent in Manhattan Theatre Club’s funny and surprising two-hander Heisenberg, now playing at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Written by Simon Stephens (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) an …Read more

Magic lives inside the space of a theatre. Or in CIrque du Soleil’s case, inside the space of their circus tent. Like electricity, magic is always in the air. Just as Nikola Tesla knew how to harness the electricity that invisibly hovers the earth, K …Read more

Neil LaBute’s All the Ways to Say I Love You is not an especially good play, in fact it can be rather trite at times, its central “issue” is so dated, that one wonders if having it be an issue at all is part of one of the playwright’s perverse jokes, …Read more

The universe proved it has a wicked sense of humor by having the opening night of Paper Mill Playhouse’s The Producers occur on the very day The New York Times released a piece which revealed GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump had used a tax law …Read more

Obie Award-winning Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor doesn’t disappoint in Communion, now having its American premiere at Urban Stages. In this compelling and moving drama we are witnesses to the lives of three women, each in a various stage of both …Read more

If your theatrical preferences include sweat, exalted language, spanks, and Daddy Yankee dance breaks, look no further than One-Eighth Theaterʼs production of The Maids, now playing at INTAR. Obie-winner Jose Riveraʼs adaptation brings Jean Genetʼs p …Read more

Contaminated water endangers a community. Science denial is widespread in the face of inconvenient truths. The discomfiting idea that populism can be a dangerous thing hangs in the atmosphere. There is plenty in David Harrower’s 2013 adaptation of He …Read more

Even the most liberal of teachers would cringe at the didactic method used to teach children about slavery in Underground Railroad Game, which sees two idealistic instructors give the Civil War the immersive experience. The show opens in a classroom …Read more