Deirdre Lovejoy, Donnetta Lavinia Grays (Photo:Valerie Terranova) In The Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot By Julia Polinsky Family, climate, love, survival: Sarah Mantell’s In The Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot, directed by Sivan Battat and now at Playwrights Horizons, takes on some big subjects. Speculatively set in a not-too-distant future, the play gradually makes it clear that…
Adam Driver (Photo: Julieta Cervantes) Hold On To Me Darling Playwright Kenneth Lonergan’s revival of his 2016 play has much to offer in its new incarnation. Once again directed by Neil Pepe, the finely tuned cast brings out the humor and pathos in fits and starts. The running time of almost three hours gives…
Susannah Flood, Anthony Edwards (Photo: Joan Marcus) The Counter by Lydia Sue Keidel Meghan Kennedy’s The Counter, now at the Laura Pels theater, tells the story of an unlikely friendship unfolding at a diner in a small town in upstate New York where time appears to have stood still. The Counter starts slowly, establishing the…
Julia Brothers, Lukey Klein, Richard Brothers, Joy Avigail Sudduth (Photo: Maria Baranova) Sump’n Like Wings By Marc Miller Lynn Riggs, if he’s remembered at all today, is remembered as the author of Green Grow the Lilacs, a minor Theater Guild flop of 1931 that achieved unexpected immortality a dozen years later, when Rodgers and Hammerstein…
The cast of Our Class (Photo: Jeremy Daniel) Our Class By Deirdre Donovan Those theatergoers who missed Polish playwright Tadeusz Slobodzianek’s Our Class at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) last winter have a second chance to see the award-winning play at Classic Stage Company. Directed by Ukrainian-born, Jewish director Igor Golyak, and with many in the cast…
Biko Eisen-Martin, Michael Rishawn, and Kara Young in Table 17. Photo: Daniel J. Vasquez Table 17 By David Schultz Playwright Douglas Lyons gives this savvy modern-day update of a rom-com unexpected dimension and heft. In a mere 80 minutes, and with a superb three-member cast, Table 17 dissects a fractured romantic relationship with precision. With…
Chesney Mitchell and John Collins (Photo: Russ Rowland) It’s Not What It Looks Like By Deirdre Donovan With the dog days of summer settling in, it’s refreshing to visit John Collins’ thoughtful two-hander, It’s Not What It Looks Like at the SoHo Playhouse, the winner of its 2023 Lighthouse Series. Directed by Vincent DeGeorge,…
Ana Villafañe, Holland Taylor (Photo: Daniel Rader) N/A By Deirdre Donovan Who’s afraid of the political machine? Not Mario Correa. In his new play, N/A, directed by Diane Paulus and inspired by real people and events, he crafts two tough-as-nails congresswomen: N, the first woman Speaker of the House, and A, the youngest woman ever…
Dan Luria, Patty McCormack (Photo by Russ Rowland) Just Another Day By Julia Polinsky A gentle, sadly sweet cross between Waiting for Godot and many another older-person-family-drama, Dan Lauria‘s Just Another Day presents two characters, Man (Luria) and Woman (Patty McCormack), on a perfectly lovely park bench with a nicely pretty streetlamp and a gently…
The company of The Comedy of Errors (Photo: Peter Cooper) The Comedy of Errors By Deirdre Donovan The Mobile Unit’s bilingual musical adaptation of The Comedy of Errors has been taken out of mothballs from last summer’s staging and is traveling to the city’s parks throughout the five boroughs. Directed and choreographed by Rebecca Martínez,…