Actually, now playing at the Studio at Stage II at New York City Center, comes at a bleak time in the landscape of sexual politics. This moment is bleak not because things like abuse or rape have been nonexistent until now, but because the world now …Read more

Unless you are a math whiz or a business major, you may be bewildered by the financial concepts that are the underpinnings of Junk, the new play at Lincoln Center by Pulitzer-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar (Disgraced). However, as the play unfolds, y …Read more

Solstice Party!, presented by Live Source Theatre Group, poses an interesting question over the course of its examination of true love (which never did run smooth): Is love a midsummer nightmare or an edible weed trip? In this play at A.R.T./New York …Read more

A rose of a show is up at The Tank, Wood Calls Out To Wood, written by Corinne Donly and directed by Sarah Hughes. A work of such generous inquiry and soft choices is a blessing to patient spirits. The complicated profundity of it will wash over you …Read more

The Big Apple Circus has been thrilling audiences for four decades and this, their 40th anniversary season, is no exception. Under the grand but intimate big top at Lincoln Center, magic unfolds in the form of world-class performers, laughs are had b …Read more

Please Go Gentle Into That Good Night had a brief Off-Broadway spin at The American Theater of Actors from October 25-29. Three sisters, all named Elizabeth – to be clear, that’s Izzy, Liza and Beth – are trying to honor their father’s dying wish as …Read more

There are many reasons to see a play, and if one of those reasons is that you adore the creative repercussions of the well-written play structure, Mauritius, by Theresa Rebeck, with a lovely remounted production from Tongue in Cheek Theater directed …Read more

The dark consequences of politics and a failing economy take center stage in the Workshop Theater’s production of Mesquite, NV, by Leegrid Stevens, directed by Thomas Coté. Bouncy text and clear storytelling help relate this tale, at first bizarre ye …Read more

In this time of anxiety regarding the present and uneasiness about the future, it might feel as if the arts are, at best, escapist fodder and, at worst, self-indulgent vanities. Certainly, Alec Baldwin’s Trump impression on Saturday Night Live, thoug …Read more

Sometimes, a play really surprises me. Tomorrow in the Battle, a high stakes drama on love and morality by Kieron Barry, directed by Tana Sirois, is an effective and fun piece of theater storytelling. Despite the fact that the play had little product …Read more