Chloë Grace Moretz, River Lipe-Smith (Photo: Emilio Madrid) Caroline By Carol Rocamora on November 1, 2025 Don’t be misled by the title of Caroline, the remarkable new work by Preston Max Allen now playing at The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space. It refers to a nine-year-old who has chosen that name for her new…
Zoe Kim (Photo: Emma Zordan) Did You Eat? By Julia Polinsky on October 25, 2025 Did You Eat?, the current offering from the Ma-Yi Theater Company’s residence at the Public Theater, belongs firmly in the realm of solo performances standing in for therapy, with an excellent performer but a difficult book. In Did You Eat?,…
Ryan Crout and the Cast (Photo: Russ Rowland) Not Ready for Prime Time By Marc Miller on October 21, 2025 The 2024 Sony Pictures release Saturday Night dramatizes, and I use the term loosely, the chaos and anarchy that preceded the launch of NBC’s Saturday Night (the Live didn’t happen till the second season) on…
Jen Tullock (Photo: Maria Baranova) Nothing Can Take You From The Hand Of God By Julia Polinsky on October 14, 2025 Performance: Extraordinary. Story: Heartbreaking. Production: Challenging. Firmly in the school of “solo performance acting with video projections of the actor,” Nothing Can Take You From The Hand Of God gives its star, Jen Tullock,…
The Ensemble of Crooked Cross (Photo: Todd Cerveris Photography) Crooked Cross By Marc Miller on October 9, 2025 There’s a 1940 movie, The Mortal Storm, wherein an average family in the German Alps is divided and undone by the rise of the Third Reich, with tragic results. Since these earnest young Germans are played by…
Ethan J. Miller, Dani Stoller (Photo: Carol Rosegg) This Much I Know By Fern Siegel on October 6, 2025 “Once you see, you can’t feign blind.” The line is courtesy of Stalin’s daughter Svetlana, commenting on perception and reality. Played to perfection by Dani Stoller, she is one of several compelling characters in Jonathan Spector’s…
Jamie Jackson (Photo: Russ Rowland) Murdoch: The Final Interview By Julia Polinsky on October 2, 2025 Whip-smart, demanding, as aggressive and changeable as Rupert Murdoch himself, this new play by An Unnamed Source hits the highlights (and lowlights) of billionaire media mogul Murdoch’s mind. Heaven knows that may not be a comfortable place to visit….
Alexander Hurt, Nick Westrate (Photo: Gerry Goodstein) The Wild Duck By Deirdre Donovan on September 23, 2025 The first major Off-Broadway staging of The Wild Duck has winged into Polonsky Shakespeare Center for a brief sojourn, in a co-production of Theatre for a New Audience and Shakespeare Theatre Company. David Eldridge’s new version infuses fresh…
John Keating, Sean Gormley, Johnny Hopkins, Dan Butler, Sarah Street (Photo: Carol Rosegg) The Weir By Deirdre Donovan on August 26, 2025 Irish Repertory Theatre’s fourth staging of Conor McPherson’s The Weir, directed by Ciarán McPherson, proves why the play has become one of the company’s touchstones. What begins as an evening of pub banter…
Elizabeth McGovern (Photo: Jeff Lorch) AVA: The Secret Conversations By Marc Miller on August 8, 2025 She was, press agents were fond of asserting, “the most fascinating woman in the world.” Most critics, herself included, thought her not much of an actress, but she embodied a sensuality and glamour that virtually defined the Hollywood culture…