Michelle Williams (Photo: Julieta Cervantes) Anna Christie By Deirdre Donovan St. Ann’s Warehouse revives Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Anna Christie with Michelle Williams inhabiting one of the most formidable roles in the American canon, under the assured direction of Thomas Kail. Set against the Brooklyn waterfront and supported by a distinguished ensemble including Tom Sturridge,…
Patrick Page, Jason Sanchez, Adrien Rolet, Jake Berne, Kristin Nielsen (Photo: Joan Marcus) Archduke By Fern Siegel on December 2, 2025 The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in 1914 had cataclysmic results — Austro-Hungary declared war on Serbia — and unleashed the carnage known as WWI. The assassination was carried out by 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip, aided…
The cast of Initiative (Photo: Joan Marcus) Initiative By Deirdre Donovan on December 2, 2025 Initiative sweeps through four tumultuous years in a nowhere town on the California coast, where seven teenagers cling to one another as they stumble into friendship, first love, and the aching question of who they’re allowed to become. Guided with…
Synnøve Karlsen, Carson Elrod and Mark Evans (Photo: Carol Rosegg) Pygmalion By Fern Siegel on November 17, 2025 Sometimes, less is more. Theater aficionados know George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion as the inspiration for the Lerner and Loewe musical “My Fair Lady.” What’s less known is that Shaw based his work on a Greek myth. An…
Rory Nolan (Photo: HanJie Chow) Endgame By David Schultz on November 13, 2025 The highly regarded Irish theatre company, Druid, has returned to New York City with a limited run of Samuel Beckett’s Theatre of the Absurd classic, Endgame. In a rare coincidence, Beckett’s more famous Waiting for Godot is currently running on Broadway with…
Stephen Kunken and the Ensemble. (Photo: Emilio Madrid) Kyoto By Julia Polinsky on November 22, 2025 If the words “climate-change thriller” make you wonder if you’ve heard wrong, you haven’t. Kyoto, now at the Mitzi E. Newhouse in a stylish, nearly-immersive production that makes great use of their almost-theater-in-the-round stage, is indeed thrilling—at times. Even…
Michael Urie (Photo: Carol Rosegg) Richard II Review by Carol Rocamora on November 11, 2025 The issues of power and rule in Shakespeare’s Richard II, now playing at the Astor Place Theatre, feel painfully present and even prophetic. They are expressed urgently by Red Bull’s riveting revival, featuring a charismatic Michael Urie in the title…
Nadine Malouf, Nicole Villamil, Marin Ireland, Brooke Bloom (Photo: Valerie Terranova) Queens By Carol Rocamora on November 9, 2025 “Do you think it’s worth it to be here?” That is only one of the many probing, painful questions posed in Queens, Martyna Majok’s lacerating 2018 drama about immigrant women in crisis, now playing in an…
André De Shields (Photo: Joan Marcus) André De Shields is Tartuffe By Deirdre Donovan on November 8, 2025 André De Shields presides over Tartuffe with a velvet-gloved authority that turns Molière’s satire into something intimate, hypnotic, and deliciously treacherous. Staged in the lavish library of House of the Redeemer, this candlelit production unfolds just feet…
Daniel Marconi, Michael Hayden, Harrison Tipping. (Photo: Carol Rosegg) The Honey Trap By Fern Siegel on November 3, 2025 For 30 years, Northern Ireland was plagued by “The Troubles,” a civil war between Protestant loyalists, who wanted Northern Ireland to remain in the U.K., and Catholic republicans (IRA) fighting for a united Ireland. The third…