Six women endeavor to make feminist pornography in #liberated, a refreshing, enjoyable, often dark comedy by theatre collective The Living Room. The play, conceived and scripted by Lillian Meredith and co-directed by Rachel Karp and Jaki Bradley, bec …Read more

The audience gets a little uncomfortable during The Death of a Black Man (A Walk By) at Theatre for a New City, which is appropriate as the immersive play by Emmy Award-winning writer Ian Ellis James (aka William Electric Black) deals with the very u …Read more

If you’ve ever wondered why hourglasses are filled with sand, Gregory S. Moss’ Indian Summer might just have an answer for you. Not that the play (at Playwrights Horizons through June 26) has anything to do with a history of the device, at least not …Read more

Imagine you’ve worked hard at your job all year, and on your summer break (or “hiatus” as it is known in the trade), you go off to tackle a job that is many times harder than the one you are on break from. That’s just what Joe Morton, one of the ense …Read more

Now playing at the New Ohio Theatre, Kiss it, Make it Better, presented by Theatre 4the People and directed by Isaac Byrne, is a delightful and authentic coming-of-age story about two young children who grow up together in Coney Island and spend thei …Read more

Cherchez La Femme is accurately described in its program as “a musical excuse”, which is fair because that’s exactly what it is. Kid Creole himself, August Darnell, in collaboration with Vivien Goldman, created the book for a musical that revolves en …Read more

Before the filmed versions of their Broadway successes The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers pulled the Marx Brothers into Hollywood immortality, there was their 1924 Broadway debut, I’ll Say She Is. The show—which had played on the road for 18 months be …Read more

Off-Broadway theater has always been about experimenting. Why not, then, turn an Off-Broadway stage into your old high school science lab? Why not, indeed. Especially with a teacher like Dave Maiullo, a charismatic and committed science geek who take …Read more

Put a great Greek myth together with an awesome genre-spanning score plus a superb cast and you get the downtown hit Hadestown, written by the versatile singer/songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and playing at New York Theatre Workshop.  Hadestown is a unique …Read more

The power dynamics of marriage have never tasted so bitter. With Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and August Strindberg’s The Father playing in repertory at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center, two Scandinavian playwrights hold a mirror up to the institutio …Read more