Sarah Stiles, Mark Linn-Baker (Photo: Carol Rosegg The Imaginary Invalid By Fern Siegel Molière’s 17th-century comedy The Imaginary Invalid is a satirical send-up of doctors, hypochondriacs, lovers and con men. In its latest production off-Broadway at New World Stages, an excellent cast, a 21st-century adaptation by Jeffrey Hatcher, and director Jesse Berger keep the pace…
Lisa Emery, Reed Birney (Photo: Joan Marcus) Lunar Eclipse By Marc Miller The 21st century theater has distinguished itself by consistently being a welcoming space for viewpoints that might have a hard time finding safe harbor elsewhere. Minorities-racial, sexual, whatever-can confidently assert their opinions and identities, with little fear of political opponents shouting them down…
Now at New York Theatre Workshop, Lights Out may seem on the surface to be just another bio-musical, this time about Nat “King Cole” (Dulé Hill in a superb performance) but it is much more than that. Go with an open mind, and you’ll do well, because it’s very, very good. The audience seemed to…
There’s divinity at work – literally – in a show now playing at the Public Theatre. It’s appropriately called Goddess– and it will transport you to a vibrant culture with its heavenly music, supernatural characters, and inspiring message. Most of the scene is set in Mombasa, Kenya, largely at Moto Moto, a free-spirited, underground nightclub….
Jeanine Serrales, Andrew Barth Feldman, Joanna Gleason. (Photo: Jeremy Daniel) We Had a World By David Schultz Playwright Joshua Harmon’s new autobiographical play, We Had A World, is densely packed with emotional family drama in a nonlinear structure. Taking place from 1988 to around 2018, our narrator Joshua (Andrew Barth Feldman) gives the viewer a…
Helen Schneider, Lucca Züchner (Photo: Maria Baranova) Last Call By Julia Polinsky In 2025, it’s challenging to remember that the 1930s and 40s shaped the rest of the 20th century culturally as well as economically and politically. In Last Call, the world premiere play by Peter Danish now at New World Stages, remind us of…
Dakin Matthews (Photo: Hollis King) Henry IV By Deirdre Donovan Theatre for a New Audience’s (TFANA) revival of Shakespeare’s Henry IV opened the 2025 season at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center. Directed by Eric Tucker, and in a three-act adaptation written by Dakin Matthews, who also stars in the titular role, this production is heaven-sent. The…
Mia Barron, Abubakr Ali (Photo: Matthew Murphy) Dakar 2000 By Julia Polinsky Playwright Rajiv Joseph, who was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and twice won the Obie, offer us Dakar 2000, a slick, twisty two-hander at Manhattan Theater Club’s City Center venue. Set in the last few days before Y2K, which at this point…
F. Murray Abraham (Photo: Carol Rosegg) Beckett Briefs: From the Cradle to the Grave By Carol Rocamora An arresting assemblage of rarely performed one-acts, now playing at the Irish Repertory Theatre, provides audiences with a thrilling theatrical experience. In seventy-five shocking minutes, three short plays by Samuel Beckett manage to take us on an entire…
Andrew Garman, Amelia Workman, Julius Rinzel (Photo: Emilio Madrid) The Antiquities By Julia Polinsky Two women, one heavily pregnant, dressed in the style of the early 19th Century, stand at the front of the dimly lit stage, and peer out into the audience as if it were a museum display. “Thank you for coming,” they…