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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Jonathan Kalb
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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In Poor Voice
Call me clueless, but I wasn’t aware, before seeing Mona Pirnot’s new play I Love You So Much I...
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Theater, Addiction, and Responsibility
I almost didn’t go see Days of Wine and Roses: The Musical because my memories of the highly...
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What Can I Say?
Rachel Bonds’s Jonah—directed by Danya Taymor at the Roundabout’s Laura Pels Theatre— is one of...
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Long and Short Hatreds
Joshua Harmon’s Prayer for the French Republic is a very good play about anti-Semitism that left...
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More Sickly Mansions
There are lots of reasons Americans have always loved family-dustup plays and exalted them with...
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Cuban Just So Stories
Buena Vista Social Club—a wonderfully infectious and sexy collection of golden-age Cuban music...
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Little Thumb on the Prairie
The headline for Swing State, a new play by Rebecca Gilman, is its pitch-perfect production...
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“Love”—A Dissenting View
Alexander Zeldin’s Love— a much-celebrated, quietly confrontational, British-devised piece from...
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