I shouldn’t be surprised that an offering at New York Theatre Workshop would be an exceptional piece of theater, but Amy Herzog’s Mary Jane directed by Anne Kauffman, transcends even the highest of my expectations. Before I begin, I should admit that …Read more

Laura Osnes has much in common with Cinderella. Setting aside the fact that she actually played her in the recent 2013 revival, to Tony-nominated effect, her journey to the Great White Way says it all: in 2007, then-21-year-old Osnes was plucked out …Read more

It’s tempting to want to distance yourself from the main character of Max Posner’s new play, The Treasurer. Referred to only as the Son, he’s a hardworking geologist, a loving husband, and a supportive father who has assembled the trappings of a norm …Read more

The sets are gorgeous, the costumes are gorgeous and frankly, Annette O’Toole is really, really gorgeous, too. Oh, sure, they’ve tried to tone her down, as the acidulous and earthy Mrs. Fisher in George Kelly’s The Show-Off, produced by the Peccadill …Read more

In John Doyle’s pared down As You Like It, opening Classic Stage Company’s 50th season, the forest of Arden is not filled with trees but rather a grove of globe-shaped lights hanging from the theater’s rafters, a brick wall with a small overhanging s …Read more

Monica Bill Barnes and Anna Bass are the most fun choreographers ever. They may also be the most fun people ever, but I haven’t met everyone so who can say. What you may miss at their new production at the Women’s Project, One Night Only (running as …Read more

We seem to experience bursts of elation whenever some whiz-bang gerontologist suggests that human life can be extended in ways previously considered impossible. It’s as if we’ve all been offered an extension on a lease for a property we thought we’d …Read more

Andy Halliday’s new play at Theatre for the New City, Up the Rabbit Hole, is a tale sweetly told, autobiographical in nature and well cast (kudos to David McDermott). Evenly directed by G.R. Johnson, the play lays out the story of a young dancer, Jac …Read more

TOSOS (The Other Side of Silence) was an Off-Broadway theater company run by the inimitable Doric Wilson, whose passing was felt deeply by the Off- and Off-Off Broadway theatre community he served so well. Fortunately, the company was resurrected in …Read more

In Petie, a new play written by and starring Lori Fischer and directed by Martha Banta, the dark mistakes that haunt us never leave the downstage corner of our minds. This well-performed, thoughtful drama about a family haunted by a tragedy explores …Read more