Wondering Jews
Jonathan Spector’s new play Birthright—just opened at MCC Theater in a sharp, superbly acted...
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Jonathan Kalb
Spring Roundup 2026
Once again, the forsythias are in bloom, and that means new openings are arriving way too fast for...
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Boundary Problems
For the second time in two years, a flashy, big-budget Romeo and Juliet has opened in New York...
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Big Fatuous Giant
Mark Rosenblatt’s new play Giant is a sensational, admirable, and courageous effort to Make...
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A Beer And A Mop
Jake Brasch’s The Reservoir tells the story of a charmingly self-deprecating, openly gay NYU...
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Monster Mash
Ngozi Anyanwu’s The Monsters is a poignant and muscular two-hander about a Black brother and...
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What’s Eating You
Bug is a thoughtfully creepy psycho-thriller, set in a Texas motel, about a seemingly likeable yet...
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#Me Too Oedipus
The British directing star Robert Icke specializes in contemporary adaptations of classics. He...
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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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