Rory Nolan (Photo: HanJie Chow) Endgame By David Schultz on November 13, 2025 The highly regarded Irish theatre company, Druid, has returned to New York City with a limited run of Samuel Beckett’s Theatre of the Absurd classic, Endgame. In a rare coincidence, Beckett’s more famous Waiting for Godot is currently running on Broadway with…
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…
Michael Urie (Photo: Carol Rosegg) Richard II Review by Carol Rocamora on November 11, 2025 The issues of power and rule in Shakespeare’s Richard II, now playing at the Astor Place Theatre, feel painfully present and even prophetic. They are expressed urgently by Red Bull’s riveting revival, featuring a charismatic Michael Urie in the title…
Nadine Malouf, Nicole Villamil, Marin Ireland, Brooke Bloom (Photo: Valerie Terranova) Queens By Carol Rocamora on November 9, 2025 “Do you think it’s worth it to be here?” That is only one of the many probing, painful questions posed in Queens, Martyna Majok’s lacerating 2018 drama about immigrant women in crisis, now playing in an…
André De Shields (Photo: Joan Marcus) André De Shields is Tartuffe By Deirdre Donovan on November 8, 2025 André De Shields presides over Tartuffe with a velvet-gloved authority that turns Molière’s satire into something intimate, hypnotic, and deliciously treacherous. Staged in the lavish library of House of the Redeemer, this candlelit production unfolds just feet…
Laura Bell Bundy, Kara Lindsay, and the company (Photo: Valerie Terranova) Romy & Michele: The Musical By Matthew Roland on November 8, 2025 “I Invented Post-its.” Another cult classic has received the musical treatment, but was it worth it? Romy & Michele: The Musical, now playing Off-Broadway at Stage 42, transforms the 1997 comedy Romy…
Daniel Marconi, Michael Hayden, Harrison Tipping. (Photo: Carol Rosegg) The Honey Trap By Fern Siegel on November 3, 2025 For 30 years, Northern Ireland was plagued by “The Troubles,” a civil war between Protestant loyalists, who wanted Northern Ireland to remain in the U.K., and Catholic republicans (IRA) fighting for a united Ireland. The third…
Chloë Grace Moretz, River Lipe-Smith (Photo: Emilio Madrid) Caroline By Carol Rocamora on November 1, 2025 Don’t be misled by the title of Caroline, the remarkable new work by Preston Max Allen now playing at The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space. It refers to a nine-year-old who has chosen that name for her new…
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?,…
Ryan Crout and the Cast (Photo: Russ Rowland) Not Ready for Prime Time By Marc Miller on October 21, 2025 The 2024 Sony Pictures release Saturday Night dramatizes, and I use the term loosely, the chaos and anarchy that preceded the launch of NBC’s Saturday Night (the Live didn’t happen till the second season) on…