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Jake Brasch’s The Reservoir tells the story of a charmingly self-deprecating, openly gay NYU...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 7th Mar 2026 | Acting, New York, Playwriting, Review, United States of America
Jake Brasch’s The Reservoir tells the story of a charmingly self-deprecating, openly gay NYU...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 3rd Mar 2026 | Acting, New York, Review, United States of America
Ngozi Anyanwu’s The Monsters is a poignant and muscular two-hander about a Black brother and...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 4th Feb 2026 | Playwriting, Review, United States of America
At the risk of sounding smug, let me say: I have been yowling, since the early days of the...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 20th Jan 2026 | Acting, Review, United States of America
Bug is a thoughtfully creepy psycho-thriller, set in a Texas motel, about a seemingly likeable yet...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 20th Nov 2025 | Adaptation, Review, United States of America
The British directing star Robert Icke specializes in contemporary adaptations of classics. He...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 16th Nov 2025 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
The farcical premise of Rajiv Joseph’s play Archduke—just opened at the Roundabout’s Laura Pels...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 15th Nov 2025 | Acting, Review, United States of America
With a depressingly vacuous, celebrity-circus Waiting for Godot sucking up so much oxygen on...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 1st Nov 2025 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
I went to Caroline Guiela Nguyen’s Lacrima at BAM with great eagerness and curiosity. This was a...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 22nd Oct 2025 | Musical Theatre, Review, United States of America
The Terrence McNally/Stephen Flaherty/Lynn Ahrens musical Ragtime is not the subtlest theater...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 15th Oct 2025 | Directing, Review, United States of America
Absurd as it may seem, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, a demanding play about existential...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 14th Oct 2025 | Adaptation, Review, United States of America
James Graham’s play Punch tells the true story of a shiftless, belligerent rowdy who heedlessly...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 5th Oct 2025 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Among the most depressing facets of Donald Trump’s pathology is how all-consuming his hunger for...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 19th Jul 2025 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
Emmanuelle Mattana’s Trophy Boys is a cheeky debut play that’s a lot of fun to watch, even if it...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 4th Jul 2025 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Abby Rosebrock’s Lowcountry, a new play directed by Jo Bonney at the Atlantic Theater, begins with...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 10th Jun 2025 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Angry Alan is an ickily pointed cautionary tale about an ordinary guy who falls into the rabbit...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 8th Jun 2025 | Review, Theatre and Age, United States of America
Jeffrey Hatcher’s new version of The Imaginary Invalid, directed by Jesse Berger, is a smart and...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 12th Apr 2025 | Adaptation, New York, Review
Andrew Scott’s Vanya—a solo show in which he plays all the roles in Anton Chekhov’s classic...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 2nd Apr 2025 | New York, Review, Theatre and Art
Alice Childress has been having a moment the past few years. This extraordinary Black playwright,...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 13th Feb 2025 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
With the United States now governed by swaggering, ignorant bigots spewing xenophobic venom,...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 10th Feb 2025 | Directing, Review, United States of America
Beckett Briefs is a great title for a program of short plays by Ireland’s most famously laconic...
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Olga Braga’s “Donbas” at Theatre 503: Complex… by Aleks Sierz 20th February 2026
In the City of al-Sayyab, Theatre Still Speaks by Amir Al-Azraki 19th February 2026
Terence Rattigan’s “Man and Boy” at the National… by Aleks Sierz 19th February 2026 
“The Phantom Of The Opera” Returns To Mexico: A… by Lorena Meeser 12th December 2025
Isolation, Consumer Desire and the Human Spirit: A… by David O'Donnell 2nd March 2026
“Is Love Energy Or Matter?” An Interview With Rok… by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar 11th March 2026 
“Digital Access To The Performing Arts”… by The Theatre Times 7th March 2026
Picasso’s “Barber” At The Spanish… by Duncan Wheeler 24th February 2026