Now playing at the Clurman Theater at Theatre Row, Fallen Angels Theater Company’s revival of Sharman Macdonald’s 1984 play When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout explores teenage sexuality, the fissures in communication between generations, an …Read more

Fresh off its three week run of playing to audiences in prisons, hospitals, schools and libraries, the Public’s Mobile Unit returns home for its spring production of Romeo and Juliet. In keeping up with Joseph Papp’s original vision of offering theat …Read more

I tend to forget that Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s 1777 comedy The School for Scandal isn’t a verse play. Except for its prologue and epilogue, it is prose. But the rhythms of Sheridan’s comic vernacular have a bright, lyrical quality. Not for nothing …Read more

Two young women from Ipswitch, England embark on separate yet similar adventures. They journey halfway around the world to marry dedicated soldiers engaged in righteous conflicts, and in so doing they assume new and dramatically different lives. But …Read more

Waitress is a musical about the legacy of women. Jenna (Jessie Mueller) learned how to bake pies by watching her late mother come up with special concoctions to commemorate special times in her life. From heartbreak to joy, Jenna’s mother had a pie f …Read more

New York has the rare quality of being a city where everything seems to be constantly changing, and also a place where things remain immovable. From the corner bodegas and cafes that are here one day and gone the next, to the towering skyscrapers tha …Read more

In Not I, the first of the evening’s three Beckett shorts at NYU’s Skirball Center, Lisa Dwan is blindfolded and strapped to a wooden board in almost complete darkness. But we cannot see this. The only thing illuminated in the entire theater is her m …Read more

What’s it like when everything you think you know about your life is slowly slipping away? Extraordinary stage and film actor Frank Langella and the cast of The Father explore the frightening realities of dementia in this gripping play by French play …Read more

The acclaimed one-woman show One Funny Mother, now playing at New World Stages, welcomes you into the home of Dena Blizzard. Don’t mind the mess, this is her self-proclaimed “crazy town” and she is its self-appointed mayor. Dena has the day off, whic …Read more

An author’s first play is usually subject to the regular pitfalls: stilted dialogue, unbelievable characters, slightly askew dramatic mechanisms. Not so for Francesca Pazniokas’ Keep, currently running at the TBG Theater. Performed in collaboration w …Read more