Splat! That’s playwright Neil LaBute with egg all over his face for penning “All the Ways to Say I Love You,” an embarrassingly clumsy one-act about an older woman musing on her affair with a…
The second play in a domestic cycle that Richard Nelson calls “The Gabriels: Election Year In the Life of One Family,” “What Did You Expect?” bears a strong if superficial resemblance to the…
The sound of gospel soars through the Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater, a re-commissioned church with excellent acoustics (if no organ.) The occasion is the limited engagement of “Marie…
“Aubergine,” a new play by Julia Cho (a winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and multiple other honors), poses a unique challenge. The language is lovely, the dramatic structure is impressive…
Hip-hop, Broadway showtunes, Viennese waltzes — is there anything this guy can’t write ? No, not “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, but Gerard Alessandrini, whose ingenious parody…
Leslye Headland's attempt to write a neo-noir erotic thriller (think "Body Heat") comes up lame in "The Layover." Despite the fine sexual chemistry generated by Annie Parisse and Adam Rothenberg as…
Did Shakespeare really write “Troilus and Cressida”? That’s fair to ask of a play with unlovely lovers, listless poetry, and a fractured plot that staggers from romantic comedy into cynical…
The Second Stage Uptown production of “Engagements” is typical of the work done by this top-drawer house. The acting is polished. The direction is smart. And the production values are excellent. But…
The rationale for casting an ensemble of actresses to enact Major John Wesley Powell’s 1869 Colorado River expedition eludes me. But as penned by Jaclyn Backhaus and directed by Will Davis, “Men On…
Memories could be fatal to this revival of “Cats” — specifically, the memory of Betty Buckley as Grizabella, singing “Memory” as it’s meant to be sung, with heartbreaking beauty and exquisite pain by…
Jonathan Pryce makes a strong case for Shylock’s infamous demand for a pound of flesh in Shakespeare’s Globe‘s gorgeously stylized production of “The Merchant of Venice.” But in order to pull off…
