I was a bit too young in the mid- to late-1960s to have attended a “happening.” But Nassim Soleimanpour’s White Rabbit Red Rabbit, performed Monday nights at Manhattan’s Westside Theatre, is much like what I’ve imagined such attention-grabbing events …Read more

Written in 1779, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s verse drama Nathan the Wise was not performed until 1783, two years after the German playwright’s death. British translator Edward Kemp, who fashioned the 2003 prose version used for this Classic Stage Comp …Read more

There are three things you need to know about Wrestling Jerusalem: (1) On the night I attended, the show was stopped twice due to technical issues at 59E59; (2) once the show was finally resumed for good, the sound cues had to be omitted entirely; an …Read more

Set in the 1980s, the hilarious comedy of errors Daddy Issues, now playing at the Davenport Theatre, tells the story of family dysfunction, loyal friendship, denial, and placating to the extreme. Donald Moscowitz (Stephen Millett standing in for Yuva …Read more

On April 8th and 9th, the Abrons Arts Center housed the US debut of the raucous and celebrated Skin Me, by Hungarian choreographer-performers Viktória Dányi, Csaba Molnár, and Zsófia Tamara Vadas. A show that balances itself on the heels of the pendu …Read more

“At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.” Tim O’Brien Theatre, like all art, is at its most intense when the boundary between fiction and real life i …Read more

Amy Virginia Buchanan does not make “pretty” theatre, and she is not interested in painting a delicate, agreeable, carefully-worded picture of what it is like to live with Michael, her brother with down syndrome. The Michael Show, Amy’s one-woman pie …Read more

Happily After Ever, now playing at 59E59 Theaters, is a story about the newly married Darren (Jeffrey Bryan Adams) and Janet (Molly-Ann Nordin) who desperately desire to build the fairytale life together; but when their first child is born with both …Read more

Anne Washburn’s plays are not timid about big ideas. In Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play she wrangled with the nature of received storytelling; in The Internationalist she meditated on the foibles of human communication with the conceit of a fabricate …Read more

There is something about Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull that seems to invite frequent reinterpretations and adaptations. Perhaps it is the depth of the characters, the subtlety, or the universal themes that do not grow old. As with the endless reimagini …Read more