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Julia Polinsky wrote, directed, produced, and starred in her first play when she was 7 years old. She’s been paying a lot of attention to theater ever since.
Tora Nogami Alexander, Morgan Morse, and David M. Lutken (Photo: Ben Hider) The Porch on Windy Hill By Julia Polinsky on February 2, 2026 Here’s a run-don’t-walk moment: if you’re ready to warm up this deep-chill winter, go see The Porch on Windy Hill, the “new play with old music” written by Sherry Stregack Lutken,…
Owen Teague, Abbey Lee (Photo: Emilio Madrid) Blackout Songs By Julia Polinsky on February 2, 2026 In Blackout Songs, the Olivier-nominated play by Joe White running at the Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space, a young man and young woman meet at what’s clearly meant to be an AA meeting. Church-y looking basement, coffee setup,…
Anne Gridley (Photo: Maria Baranova) Watch Me Walk By Julia Polinsky on January 27, 2026 Soho Rep’s new production, Watch Me Walk, is an intermittently funny, often nuts, pissed-off pity party piece of avant garde theater created by and starring Anne Gridley. Anne has Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia, a rare degenerative neurological disease that really, really…
Hamish Linklater, Miriam Silverman, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Dylan Baker (Photo: Jeremy Daniel) The Disappear By Julia Polinsky on January 26, 2026 The Disappear, Erica Schmidt’s clever, talkative take on the marriage of tragedy, comedy, art, creativity, and, well, marriage, is now open at Audible’s Minetta Lane theater. As Schmidt directs the play, the intimate space…
Ta-Tynisa Wilson, Adrian Galante, John Pagano, Hilary Kole (Photo: Russ Rowland) Going Bacharach: The Songs of an Icon By Julia Polinsky on January 13, 2026 If you have a memory for pop tunes that spans more than a decade, you’ve heard the songs of Burt Bacharach. In a career that lasted over 70 years, Bacharach’s…
Stephen Kunken and the Ensemble. (Photo: Emilio Madrid) Kyoto By Julia Polinsky on November 22, 2025 If the words “climate-change thriller” make you wonder if you’ve heard wrong, you haven’t. Kyoto, now at the Mitzi E. Newhouse in a stylish, nearly-immersive production that makes great use of their almost-theater-in-the-round stage, is indeed thrilling—at times. Even…
James Corden, Neil Patrick Harris, Bobby Cannavale (Photo: Matthew Murphy) ART By Julia Polinsky on November 8, 2025 There’s a lot of star power on stage in the revival of Yasmina Reza’s ART, now at the Music Box. Bobby Cannavale, James Corden, and Neil Patrick Harris star in this revival, and at times, it seems…
Zoe Kim (Photo: Emma Zordan) Did You Eat? By Julia Polinsky on October 25, 2025 Did You Eat?, the current offering from the Ma-Yi Theater Company’s residence at the Public Theater, belongs firmly in the realm of solo performances standing in for therapy, with an excellent performer but a difficult book. In Did You Eat?,…
Jen Tullock (Photo: Maria Baranova) Nothing Can Take You From The Hand Of God By Julia Polinsky on October 14, 2025 Performance: Extraordinary. Story: Heartbreaking. Production: Challenging. Firmly in the school of “solo performance acting with video projections of the actor,” Nothing Can Take You From The Hand Of God gives its star, Jen Tullock,…
The Ensemble (Photo: Carol Rosegg) This Is Not A Drill By Julia Polinsky on October 9, 2025 This Is Not A Drill, now at the York Theatre, offers a pleasant enough way to pass a couple of hours in the theater. If there are no surprises, then also there’s something to be said about smooth…