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

“I don’t want to be tolerated. I want to be respected.” So states Azeem Bhatti (the outstanding Sanjit de Silva) to his friend and coworker David (Andrew Hovelson) in Hammaad Chaudry’s stunning new play An Ordinary Muslim, directed by Jo Bonney. Whil …Read more

Terminus is an emotional tour de force, and while it benefits from the intimacy of its home Next Door at New York Theatre Workshop, it buzzes with the potential as the next great play in the pantheon of American theater, if only given the space. Thro …Read more

Beloved screen icon Hayley Mills, of The Parent Trap and Pollyanna fame, is back on the New York stage with Party Face, a female driven comedy by Isobel Mahon, in which Mills plays Carmel, the not-always-very-nice mother of Mollie Mae (Gina Costigan) …Read more

The final frontier of outer space gets a wonderful stage production in Loading Dock Theatre’s Spaceman, an engrossing and very fine piece of theater written and directed by Leegrid Stevens and Jacob Titus. On the one hand, this is a solo show that ta …Read more

The Laramie Cycle has a devastating new production mounted by The Wandering Theatre Company here in New York City. It’s a bold, fresh take on the classic original play cycle. Company members bustle about moving props and scenery, here, but they also …Read more

Written and directed by Ian Ellis James (aka William Electric Black), Subway Story (A Shooting) shows all the living poetry among all the frustration of what seems like any other subway ride in New York. It also reveals to us that there is truly no a …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: Two old, eccentric scientists discuss philosophical ideas while reminiscing about the tenure of their personal and professional relationship. Accompanied by a five-piece band, Fusiform Gyrus is a “music-theatre” work, which explores …Read more

Award-winning British actress Melody Grove has been a bit of a New Yorker lately — first with the downtown hit The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (The National Theater of Scotland) and currently as Isabella Farnese, Queen of Spain in Farinelli an …Read more