What’s fate without a little push? Certainly nowhere near as a funny as Stiff, Dallas playwright Jeff Swearingen’s zippy, big-hearted black comedy, now onstage at Manhattan’s TBG Theater. The intimate Off-Broadway venue is a cheeky home for this play …Read more

At a hasty first glance, Alexander V. Thompson’s Pete Rex—staged by The Dreamscape Theatre, in a New York premiere at 59E59 Theaters—may seem a piece of comic whimsy about a world in which dinosaurs once again roam the earth. Soon, though, the play e …Read more

What it’s about: In a tribal village in Pakistan, drones watch a couple that struggles with air strikes as well as internal pressures. The soldier watching the family in the USA starts to become obsessed with those he is tasked with observing, while …Read more

I cannot think of a time that I’ve seen a more prescient piece of theatre than Sheila by The Associates, playing now at The A.R.T./New York Theatres. This dedicated company of players has mounted a devastating play that encompasses core concepts from …Read more

Ladies, time to put on your party face! Smile so people you don’t like will like you! Or so women have always been told. Party Face, a clever, astute new play written by Isobel Mahon and directed by the impressive Amanda Bearse, is a strong, insightf …Read more

Directed by Lori Petty in her New York debut, Trial opens with a young woman in a stark white room, who is overly enthusiastic when another woman briefly joins her before being whisked away to meet with some unseen “management”. It turns out the whit …Read more

Kyoung H. Park’s PILLOWTALK centers on Buck (JP Moraga) and Sam (Basit Shittu), interracial newlyweds who are trying to find their space in a society where their existence is still a political matter. One night after work they find themselves negotia …Read more

There’s a bewitching sense of history in the magical inner workings of A Regular Little Houdini, playing now at 59E59 Theaters. Daniel Llewelyn-Williams has created an entrancing tale out of a historically dark time in the history of South Wales, wit …Read more

As any Elf aficionado can tell you, the best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear… and no one knows that statement to be true more than multitalented tour actor Christopher Russo. He may play the grouchy, Grinchy Walter Hob …Read more

Twelfth Night, Or What You Will has been called Shakespeare’s perfect play. In the same spirit, I’d call Fiasco Theater’s production of Twelfth Night (directed by Noah Brody and Ben Steinfeld at Classic Stage Company) a perfect staging of a perfect p …Read more