Lydia Wilson (Photo: Julieta Cervantes) The Maids By Deirdre Donovan on May 26, 2026 In Kip Williams’ electrifying new adaptation of Jean Genet’s The Maids at St. Ann’s Warehouse, the playwright’s fever dream of class resentment and fractured identity is thrust headlong into the social media age with startling immediacy and theatrical bravado. Fueled by…
Stephen Schnetzer, Dan Grimaldi, Johnny Anthony, Ian Lithgow (Photo: Russ Rowland) The People Versus Lenny Bruce By Lydia Sue Keidel on May 25, 2026 The People Versus Lenny Bruce, now playing at Theatre Row, should’ve been called Martin Garbus Reflects on the Lenny Bruce trial and Other Stuff. Even though Lenny Bruce’s name was in…
Daphne Rubin-Vega, Michael Cyril Creighton, Sarita Choudhury (Photo: Monique Carboni) The Adding Machine By Fern Siegel on May 11, 2026 Elmer Rice wrote The Adding Machine in 1923, a play about the devastating effects of technology on employment. A bookkeeper with 25-years of dependable service is replaced by an adding machine touted as more efficient, without the need…
Hiran Abeysekera (Photo: Julieta Cervantes) Hamlet By Deirdre Donovan on May 11, 2026 At the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Hamlet arrives not as a museum piece but as a joltingly alive modern tragedy, with director Robert Hastie stripping away centuries of dust to reveal the play’s unnerving immediacy. Led by a magnetic, emotionally volatile…
Baize Buzan (Photo: Alexia Haick) Beauty Freak By Julia Polinsky James Clements has given us a new play about Leni Riefenstahl. She was one of the more fascinating and polarizing people of the 20th century. Unquestionably a feminist pioneer, she was also a monster of pragmatism, using concentration-camp inmates as extras in her film, then…
Patrick Page and the Ensemble (Photo: Carol Rosegg) Titus Andronicus By Carol Rocamora on April 23, 2026 The ultra-violent Titus Andronicus is now enjoying (if you can use that word) a splendid revival at Signature Theatre, in the skillful hands of the Red Bull Theatre Company. And oh, is it sensational! Prepare yourself for the…
Elliot Sagay, Ellen Nikbakht, Bailey Lee (Photo: Valerie Terranova) No Singing in the Navy By Jarrett Winters Morley on April 21, 2026 When I first heard about a show titled No Singing in the Navy, premiering at Playwrights Horizons, the same institution involved with works like Sunday In The Park With George, Floyd Collins, and William Finn’s Falsettos trilogy, I…
RJ Higton and the Company (Photo: Christopher Duggan) Gotta Dance! With American Dance Machine UPDATE: APRIL 2026 By Julia Polinsky on April 1, 2026 Need an anti-depressant? Take two seats at Gotta Dance! and you’ll feel better immediately. This greatest-hits compilation of superb, iconic dance numbers from Broadway and Hollywood musicals has just opened at…
The Ensemble (Photo: Marc J. Franklin) Night Side Songs By Jarrett Winters Morley on March 30, 2026 In 1956, Brooks Atkinson wrote, “Broadway is used to heart. It is not accustomed to evocations of the soul.” What is more soul-exposing than a piece that explores illness and death, in an intimate staging, where the audience…
Sierra Boggess, Adam Jacobs (Photo: Shawn Salley) Monte Cristo By Marc Miller on March 28, 2026 The ladies’ dresses are long and flouncy, the men’s vests bright and ornate, the cello and viola are sawing away in the pit, the lyricist is rhyming “reign” with “a-gain,” and the chorus is singing about injustice, class distinction,…