More than four centuries after its first performance in 1611, The Winter’s Tale has lost none of its vigor or charm. Daniel Sullivan’s staging of Shakespeare’s tragicomedy makes the second offering of this season’s Free Shakespeare in the Park at the renovated Delacorte Theater a delight. With a star-studded cast led by Lily Rabe and…
Could you ever imagine a world without men, in which males have mysteriously died en masse and become extinct, the patriarchy is gone, and women are in charge? Playwright Melissa Maney does, in her feminist sci-fi absurdist dark comedy Hungry Women. The play is now in its world premiere engagement at SoHo Playhouse, following its…
Playwright Matthew Leavitt’s new play, Sukkot, recently presented at 59E59, dealt awkwardly with issues of death, life, grief, and joy. The plot in a nutshell: One year after losing his Jewish wife to breast cancer, non-Jew Patrick Sullivan (Andy Robinson) is still trying to overcome his deep grief, until a rabbi on a telephone zoom…
Love stories often ask whether time heals old wounds; Benedict Lombe’s Shifters, directed by Lynette Linton, asks the more provocative question of whether memory ever allows those wounds to close. Following its 2024 West End run in London, this emotionally resonant drama intertwines romance with the elusive nature of recollection, proving as intoxicating as it…
If AI could guide you through the most important decisions of your life, would you be happy and willing to listen? That’s the premise of the new play Disruption by Andrew Stein, now playing a limited Off-Broadway engagement at Pershing Square Signature Center. It’s a momentous question for our current times, with the ever-encroaching presence…
When The Whoopi Monologues opened in 1984 on Broadway, it showcasedWhoopi Goldberg’sacting and writing chops. In its revival at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi Newhouse Theater, five actresses take on the challenge — and deliver an ensemble performance that veers between funny, insightful and heartbreaking. The roles are endlessly varied. From a 20-something junkie to a teen…
If you number among the people who find that math can be challenging for anyone of any age or gender identity, the new production of That Math Show will make you see the subject in a whole new light. Created and performed by “mathemagician” Dr. Arthur Benjamin and presented by The Science Theater Company in…
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 is while constantly performing for others. Through four teenage girls navigating sleepovers, friendships, and the virtual world of The Sims, Smith crafts…
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.
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 1897 masterwork Uncle Vanya, directed and translated by the company’s co-founder Geoffrey Horne. Complimentary tickets are available at the door at…