From the looks of it, much of the audience at Classic Stage Company probably remembers Marcel Marceau. He was a mime, widely considered the greatest in the world, and widely derided by the many folks who hate mimes. He bestrode the mid-20th century world stage, performing everywhere from Broadway to Australia to Taiwan, mime fortunately…
The Unknown, now in performances at Studio Seaview, is an 80-minute monologue, a one-act psychological thriller written with Sean Hayes in mind. The plot is loosely based on an experience of playwright David Cale thirty years ago. It follows Elliot, a lonely, single, gay playwright struggling with writer’s block. He goes to a friend’s remote…
The scene is an empty, nondescript room, with fluorescent lighting and a pile of random items (painting, furniture). It could be anywhere (someone’s basement, a room in an office building, a school?). One by one, a number of women enter, apparently preparing for a meeting of some kind. First to arrive is Jane (April Matthis),…
Richard Chang’s Ai Yah Goy Vey!, now at A.R.T./New York Theatres, is this winter’s offering from the Pan Asian Repertory. Subtitled “Adventures of a Dim Sun in Search of His Wanton Father,” the play’s junior-high level of punning humor thus shows up before things even get started. Start they do, as Chang rides into the…
There is a price to pay when you speak truth to power. And none more horrible than the fate of Hans Litten, a lawyer who called Adolf Hitler to the witness stand in 1931 to prove his credo of political violence. The case, the Eden Dance Palace trial, involved four Nazi storm troopers who claimed…
Here’s a run-don’t-walk moment: if you’re ready to warm up this deep-chill winter, go see The Porch on Windy Hill, the “new play with old music” written by Sherry Stregack Lutken, Lisa Helmi Johanson, Morgan Morse, and David M. Lutken. Lutken and Morse also star, along with Tora Nogami Alexander, in this heartfelt play about…
With An Ark, The Shed and Tin Drum unveil the world premiere of what they describe as the first play created for and in mixed reality, a work that replaces physical presence with one-to-one digital intimacy. Written by Simon Stephens, directed by Sarah Frankcom, and starring Ian McKellen alongside Golda Rosheuvel, Arinzé Kene, and Rosie…
In Blackout Songs, the Olivier-nominated play by Joe White running at the Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space, a young man and young woman meet at what’s clearly meant to be an AA meeting. Church-y looking basement, coffee setup, stacked chairs, you know the look. Yet they never get to the meeting, and the Kaleidoscopic…
Sophia Lillis, Kran Brar, Justin H. Min (Photo: T Charles Erickson) Data By Joel Benjamin on February 2, 2026 Data, by Matthew Libby, is a quietly frightening, revelatory play, now running at the Lucille Lortel theater. Data slowly creeps into the brain as it reveals its secrets. First produced at the Arena Stage in 2024,…
Soho Rep’s new production, Watch Me Walk, is an intermittently funny, often nuts, pissed-off pity party piece of avant garde theater created by and starring Anne Gridley. Anne has Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia, a rare degenerative neurological disease that really, really messes with a body’s ability to walk. Her mother and grandmother had it, and she…