#Me Too Oedipus
The British directing star Robert Icke specializes in contemporary adaptations of classics. He...
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Jonathan Kalb
Dupes of Hazard
The farcical premise of Rajiv Joseph’s play Archduke—just opened at the Roundabout’s Laura Pels...
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Nearly Finished
With a depressingly vacuous, celebrity-circus Waiting for Godot sucking up so much oxygen on...
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Checking The Boxes
I went to Caroline Guiela Nguyen’s Lacrima at BAM with great eagerness and curiosity. This was a...
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Barbarians in Midtown
The Terrence McNally/Stephen Flaherty/Lynn Ahrens musical Ragtime is not the subtlest theater...
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Bloody Ignorant Apes
Absurd as it may seem, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, a demanding play about existential...
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Taking A Hit
James Graham’s play Punch tells the true story of a shiftless, belligerent rowdy who heedlessly...
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Welcome To The Machine
Among the most depressing facets of Donald Trump’s pathology is how all-consuming his hunger for...
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School Camp
Emmanuelle Mattana’s Trophy Boys is a cheeky debut play that’s a lot of fun to watch, even if it...
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Off-Limits Love: Abby Rosebrock’s “Lowcountry,” A New Play at the Atlantic Theater
Abby Rosebrock’s Lowcountry, a new play directed by Jo Bonney at the Atlantic Theater, begins with...
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Man Out Of The Blue
Angry Alan is an ickily pointed cautionary tale about an ordinary guy who falls into the rabbit...
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Doctor, Doctor, Doctor
Jeffrey Hatcher’s new version of The Imaginary Invalid, directed by Jesse Berger, is a smart and...
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Uncle Actor
Andrew Scott’s Vanya—a solo show in which he plays all the roles in Anton Chekhov’s classic...
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Underneath the Grass Roots
Alice Childress has been having a moment the past few years. This extraordinary Black playwright,...
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Dropping Balms
With the United States now governed by swaggering, ignorant bigots spewing xenophobic venom,...
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Getting Known
Beckett Briefs is a great title for a program of short plays by Ireland’s most famously laconic...
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Holes In The Hole
When I first heard that Suzan-Lori Parks had taken up the story of Thomas Jefferson and Sally...
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Mad Spring Roundup
Well, it’s happened again. The torrid pace of new openings this spring has outstripped my ability...
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Who’s Afraid of Thomas Stockmann?
The last time Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People (1882) made a big splash in New York was in 2013,...
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Doubtless Doubt
Whatever your opinion of the profundity of John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer- and Tony-winning 2005...
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