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

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