Rope, Gordon Greenberg’s new adaptation of Patrick Hamilton’s play, draws on the notorious 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case to tell a chilling story of murder and deception. Directed by Scott Elliott, this world-premiere production centers on two attractive Princeton graduate students who host a dinner party in a stylish Manhattan apartment, serving food atop…
As spooky season draws to a close, that doesn’t mean your hauntings and jump scares have to be put to rest for another year. After seven West End seasons, touring the UK twice, and having more than 30 productions across the globe, 2:22 – A Ghost Story is bringing some creepy storytelling Off-Broadway to the…
Award-winning playwright and Signature Theater Resident Artist Lauren Yee’s 2017 semi-autobiographical King of the Yees is now in a limited Off-Broadway engagement in the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theater. Yee’s play uses her signature style to blend wild comedy, fantasy, and incisive observations on Chinese culture and heritage. The metatheatrical King of the Yees examines…
Marin Ireland’s well-intended play, pre-existing condition, has landed at The Greenwich House Theater. Running through January, the play brings awareness to struggles that victims of domestic abuse face. pre-existing condition begins with us meeting an unnamed character (more about that later) who, six months earlier, was hit by her boyfriend. She’s not sure what she’s…
In David Zax’s new play, Aftermath, a family struggles to regain its equilibrium when a son returns home after surviving a Taliban kidnapping in Afghanistan in 2011. Directed by Colton Pometta, this ambitious new play explores the difficult road to recovery from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but its dramatically unconvincing story and characters undermine its…
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…