Sophie Rossman, Kayta Thomas, Renée-Nicole Powell, Amalia Yoo (Photo: Maria Baranova) Dad Don’t Read This By Deirdre Donovan on July 14, 2026 Adolescence is often remembered as a time of awkward transitions, but Eliya Smith’s Dad Don’t Read This, sensitively directed by Chloe Claudel, captures something even more elusive: the uncertainty of discovering who one…
Now in a limitedengagement at the Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC), the new musical Giulia: The Poison Queen of Palermo was inspired by the obscure story of the real-life 17th-century Sicilian apothecary and proto-feminist anti-hero Giulia Tofana.
Billie Andersson, Juan Pablo Toro, Evan Olson, Scarlett Strasberg (Photo: Amy Goossens) Uncle Vanya by Deb Miller on June 19, 2026 Shakespeare Downtown is now inviting everyone for its 10th anniversary season of free outdoor summer performances of the classics. This year’s offering, at Battery Park’s historic Castle Clinton National Monument, is a limited engagement of Chekhov’s…
Austin Lightning Carrothers, Cecily Lyn Benjamin (Photo: Pavan Carter) Building the Wall By Marc Miller on June 12, 2026 Political theater doesn’t get much more political than Building the Wall, Robert Schenkkan’s 2017 two-hander now in timely revival at Urban Stages. Schenkkan, author of the Pulitzer-winning The Kentucky Cycle and other notable plays, many of…
Stephen Spinella, Jeorge Bennett Watson (Photo: Maria Baranova) Jerome By Julia Polinsky on June 8, 2026 A heartbreakingly excellent performance from Stephen Spinella and heavily timely subject matter infuse Jerome, John J. Caswell, Jr.’s new play now at Playwrights Horizons. It’s June; Pride Month is here, and LGBTQ-forward theater is everywhere. But Jerome can’t seem…
Louise Beresford, Luke Barton, Eddy Payne. (Photo: Harry Elletson) David Copperfield By Fern Siegel on June 7, 2026 It’s no mean trick to take a Charles Dickens’ novel and distill it to its essence. But that’s the genius of the Guildford Shakespeare Company, which is presenting David Copperfield as part of 59E59’s Brits Off Broadway…
Lydia Wilson (Photo: Julieta Cervantes) The Maids By Deirdre Donovan on May 26, 2026 In Kip Williams’ electrifying new adaptation of Jean Genet’s The Maids at St. Ann’s Warehouse, the playwright’s fever dream of class resentment and fractured identity is thrust headlong into the social media age with startling immediacy and theatrical bravado. Fueled by…
Stephen Schnetzer, Dan Grimaldi, Johnny Anthony, Ian Lithgow (Photo: Russ Rowland) The People Versus Lenny Bruce By Lydia Sue Keidel on May 25, 2026 The People Versus Lenny Bruce, now playing at Theatre Row, should’ve been called Martin Garbus Reflects on the Lenny Bruce trial and Other Stuff. Even though Lenny Bruce’s name was in…
Daphne Rubin-Vega, Michael Cyril Creighton, Sarita Choudhury (Photo: Monique Carboni) The Adding Machine By Fern Siegel on May 11, 2026 Elmer Rice wrote The Adding Machine in 1923, a play about the devastating effects of technology on employment. A bookkeeper with 25-years of dependable service is replaced by an adding machine touted as more efficient, without the need…
Hiran Abeysekera (Photo: Julieta Cervantes) Hamlet By Deirdre Donovan on May 11, 2026 At the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Hamlet arrives not as a museum piece but as a joltingly alive modern tragedy, with director Robert Hastie stripping away centuries of dust to reveal the play’s unnerving immediacy. Led by a magnetic, emotionally volatile…