In a limited Off-Broadway engagement now at Theatre Row, Mint Theater Company presents a powerful production of the 1911 feminist play PHYL, by English actress, playwright, journalist, and suffragist Cecily Hamilton. PHYL was scheduled to make its debut at Oxford in 1913 but was banned for its scandalous content. Although it was never published, luckily,…
Melis Aker’s new play, Fish, an over-the-top, wild and dangerous coming-of-age dark comedy, is now in a limited engagement for its world premiere at WP Theater. A co-production with Signature Theatre Company, Fish is set in London in 2016 (the year of the Brexit vote). The play follows the story of seventeen-year-old Karya (Yasmin Ranz-Lind)…
Let’s hear it for A Ghost in Your Ear, a two-character/one-set thriller now at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre. Written and directed by Jamie Armitage, the play is a collaboration with Ben & Max Ringham, who contribute the sound design, which almost becomes a third character in the show. When you enter the theater, you put…
The Bald Soprano, the landmark absurdist drama in eleven scenes, is now being presented for a limited engagement at The Sheen Center for Thought and Culture by The Resident Acting Company. That company evolved out of The Pearl Theatre Company, which, in 2011, was the last professional company to produce The Bald Soprano in New…
Playwright Else Went has a runaway hit on her hands: Degenerates, now at Playwrights Horizons. With two extensions and an almost sold-out run, this show seems to have hit a nerve with a particular demographic. The play involves an online community of ‘incel’ men whose visceral hatred of women is commingled with a self-loathing which…
Ryan Haddad, known for writing solo memoirs as plays, has expanded his theatrical landscape to include his own family. In this case, he offers a tribute to his gay uncle in Good Time Charlie, now off-Broadway at the Public Theater. This is a loving portrait of Charlie, a man forced by time, parents and circumstance…
Daniel Fish directed this, so I’d expect to hate it. But Kramer/Fauci, at St. Ann’s Warehouse, turns out to be a bracing staging of a notable hour of broadcast history. The Fish eccentricities do accumulate, but they’re less baffling than usual, and even, in one large instance, justifiable. That hour happened on CSPAN, on Nov….
Should a teacher serve as an inspiration for a student’s life outside the classroom? Or are there boundaries? TOSOS (The Other Side of Silence) NYC’s oldest and longest continuously producing LGBTQIA+ theater company, continues to honor its mission with its latest show, Burning Leaves, by Tom Rowan. The production combines humor, honesty, and compassion to…
Human Things, a new play from Joshua Owen now at the West End Theatre, leaves us with questions. Not necessarily the ones the author intended. The story follows a young couple, Margaret (Rebecca Robles) and Greg (Ben Rosenfield), who have been isolated on a remote South Pacific island for a couple of years. There is…
The Invention of Love, Tom Stoppard’s 2001 play now having a limited run in an elegantly spare, beautifully acted revival at the Theaterlab, satisfies the urge to chew on exquisite language. To revel in words, words, words. To dust off your English-major quote-meter and give it a whirl (spoiler: pegged). And, alas, to wallow in…