If AI could guide you through the most important decisions of your life, would you be happy and willing to listen? That’s the premise of the new play Disruption by Andrew Stein, now playing a limited Off-Broadway engagement at Pershing Square Signature Center. It’s a momentous question for our current times, with the ever-encroaching presence…
When The Whoopi Monologues opened in 1984 on Broadway, it showcasedWhoopi Goldberg’sacting and writing chops. In its revival at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi Newhouse Theater, five actresses take on the challenge — and deliver an ensemble performance that veers between funny, insightful and heartbreaking. The roles are endlessly varied. From a 20-something junkie to a teen…
Trauma exists; never doubt it. Dealing with trauma impels a lot of art, and many artists weave their lives, and their wounds, into their work. Sometimes, that makes super theater; sometimes, it feels like that time and care could have been better used. The time and care and thought and work and dedication that went…
If you number among the people who find that math can be challenging for anyone of any age or gender identity, the new production of That Math Show will make you see the subject in a whole new light. Created and performed by “mathemagician” Dr. Arthur Benjamin and presented by The Science Theater Company in…
Adolescence is often remembered as a time of awkward transitions, but Eliya Smith’s Dad Don’t Read This, sensitively directed by Chloe Claudel, captures something even more elusive: the uncertainty of discovering who one is while constantly performing for others. Through four teenage girls navigating sleepovers, friendships, and the virtual world of The Sims, Smith crafts…
Now in a limitedengagement at the Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC), the new musical Giulia: The Poison Queen of Palermo was inspired by the obscure story of the real-life 17th-century Sicilian apothecary and proto-feminist anti-hero Giulia Tofana.
The summer of ’69 was a momentous time for America, from the tragedies of Chappaquiddick and the ongoing war in Vietnam, to the Gay Rights Movement, Woodstock, and the space race, with Neil Armstrong taking humankind’s first steps on the moon. That televised milestone provided the title for the 1999 film, A Walk on the…
Bedlam’s Music City A New Musical, a country-music jukebox musical featuring the songs of zillion-selling songwriter JT Harding, is as warm-hearted and feel-good as a Hallmark Christmas movie. Originally presented at the West End Theater in fall of 2024, where it was nominated for several awards, it’s moved to St. Luke’s Theatre on 46th Street….
Directed by Robert O’Hara, this all-Black revival of La Cage aux Folles is an Encores! production, so you know the drill: a little under-rehearsed (and who can cavil at that with less than 2 weeks to put it all together). Maybe a script in hand; a little cramped, with the orchestra right there on the…
Shakespeare Downtown is now inviting everyone for its 10th anniversary season of free outdoor summer performances of the classics. This year’s offering, at Battery Park’s historic Castle Clinton National Monument, is a limited engagement of Chekhov’s 1897 masterwork Uncle Vanya, directed and translated by the company’s co-founder Geoffrey Horne. Complimentary tickets are available at the door at…