Going large was the right move for this transfer of “An Octoroon,” Soho Rep’s madly popular, 2014 OBIE Award-winning hit show. Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins’ subversively funny alternative version of Dion…
There’s not much to “Brooklynite,” the new musical about a hardware store clerk named Trey Swieskowski (Matt Doyle) who wants to be a superhero in a world in which the titular New York City borough…
It takes a lot of doing to put together a boring production of a play about pedophilia. Nonetheless, that’s the dubious achievement of MCC’s lackluster presentation of “The Nether,” Jennifer Haley’s…
In “Lives of the Saints,” David Ives has gone from Venus in Furs to Polish Church Ladies in Housedresses. Those dear old things show up in the title piece, which ends this evening of one-acts on a…
What musical idiom comes to mind when you think of Alexander Hamilton, a revered Founding Father of this nation, aide de camp to General George Washington during the Revolutionary War, first…
At long last, Robert Falls’ vaunted 2012 Goodman Theater production of “The Iceman Cometh,” Eugene O’Neill’s searing epic drama about existential alienation, has come to New York. Framed like a…
Cynthia Nixon, a busy, bankable thesp who’s bagged Tony, Emmy, and Grammy Awards since appearing in her first film at age 12 and making her Broadway debut at 14, makes an assured directorial debut in…
Stephen Adly Guirgis' play "Between Riverside and Crazy" opened Feb. 11 at Second Stage Theater in a re-mount of an earlier production at the Atlantic Theater Company. The creative team and most of…
For a reality-based show about the L.A. porn industry, “Pretty Filthy” is some seriously good, clean fun. Working on commission from L.A.'s Center Theater Group, the Civilians created this…
Taylor Schilling (“Orange Is the New Black”) and Peter Dinklage (“Game of Thrones”) are the latest high-profile TV thesps to schlep down to the East Village to appear in one of Classic Stage…
