Tiffany Mann, Latrice Pace, Sheléa Melody McDonald (Photo: Joan Marcus) OH HAPPY DAY! By Carol Rocamora on October 16, 2025 “This is what four thousand years old looks like when you moisturize!” So saith Holy Divine, one of the ancient three sisters in a rocking gospel-trio. And we’re off and running on another wild…
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 of Crooked Cross (Photo: Todd Cerveris Photography) Crooked Cross By Marc Miller on October 9, 2025 There’s a 1940 movie, The Mortal Storm, wherein an average family in the German Alps is divided and undone by the rise of the Third Reich, with tragic results. Since these earnest young Germans are played by…
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…
Ethan J. Miller, Dani Stoller (Photo: Carol Rosegg) This Much I Know By Fern Siegel on October 6, 2025 “Once you see, you can’t feign blind.” The line is courtesy of Stalin’s daughter Svetlana, commenting on perception and reality. Played to perfection by Dani Stoller, she is one of several compelling characters in Jonathan Spector’s…
Jamie Jackson (Photo: Russ Rowland) Murdoch: The Final Interview By Julia Polinsky on October 2, 2025 Whip-smart, demanding, as aggressive and changeable as Rupert Murdoch himself, this new play by An Unnamed Source hits the highlights (and lowlights) of billionaire media mogul Murdoch’s mind. Heaven knows that may not be a comfortable place to visit….
J. Harrison Ghee, Bryson Battle (Photo: Marc J. Franklin) Saturday Church By Julia Polinsky on September 30, 2025 Take me to church. Please. Saturday Church, now playing at New York Theatre Workshop, opens with the magnificent, ebullient, Tony-winning, can-do-no-wrong J. Harrison Ghee as Black Jesus, asking, “Can I show y’all what collective love looks like?…
Alexander Hurt, Nick Westrate (Photo: Gerry Goodstein) The Wild Duck By Deirdre Donovan on September 23, 2025 The first major Off-Broadway staging of The Wild Duck has winged into Polonsky Shakespeare Center for a brief sojourn, in a co-production of Theatre for a New Audience and Shakespeare Theatre Company. David Eldridge’s new version infuses fresh…
John Keating, Sean Gormley, Johnny Hopkins, Dan Butler, Sarah Street (Photo: Carol Rosegg) The Weir By Deirdre Donovan on August 26, 2025 Irish Repertory Theatre’s fourth staging of Conor McPherson’s The Weir, directed by Ciarán McPherson, proves why the play has become one of the company’s touchstones. What begins as an evening of pub banter…
Betsy Wolfe (Photo: Joan Marcus Joy: A New, True Musical By Matthew Roland on August 20, 2025 Growing up in the 90s, everyone had heard about the new “Miracle Mop” that was sweeping the nation. But if I told you that in 2025 there’s a musical about this very mop, you’d probably do a double…