With the opening of Paranormal Activity, horror is alive and well on Broadway, which is saying something, considering the genre usually has a pretty high mortality rate. After its highly praised runs in Los Angeles, Chicago, London, and Toronto, Paranormal Activity is attempting to bring its beloved movie franchise to the Great White Way with…
Damien Warren-Smith (Photo: Austin Ruffer) Garry Starr: Classic Penguins by Deb Miller on September 8, 2026 After winning multiple awards and selling out shows in Sydney and Melbourne, London’s West End, and the Edinburgh Fringe, Garry Starr: Classic Penguins is now making its US debut at Off-Broadway’s Studio Seaview. The super-wacky, rapid-fire, no-holds-barred solo comedy,…
. Two New Theater Book Releases . by Deb Miller on September 4, 2026 . Theater lovers can catch up on their reading and revisit some of their favorite works and NYC landmarks with two recently released books. One is a two-play volume that concludes a series of twelve critically acclaimed award-winning Off-Broadway productions; the…
Soph Metcalf, William DeMeritt, Kimberlee Walker, Sam Adegoke, Jordan Lage, Sarah Long, Sam Underwood, Spencer Aste, Amelia Mason (Photo: Russ Rowland) . The Real Ivanov . by Deb Miller on August 24, 2026 . Anton Chekhov’s four-act drama Ivanov took him only ten days to write. First performed in 1887, the play was not well…
Following its debut in 1996, and its ill-received New York premiere at Lincoln Center in 1997, An American Daughter, by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Wendy Wasserstein, has returned to the NYC stage. Presented by La Femme Theatre Productions – a company dedicated to plays written by and focused on women – this first…
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…
Natalie Lander, Jonathan Slavin, Andy Robinson, Liza Seneca (Photo credit: Carol Rosegg) Sukkot By David Schultz on August 12, 2026 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,…
Heather Agyepong, Daniel Ezra (Photo: Marc J. Franklin) Shifters By Deirdre Donovan on August 7, 2026 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…
The cast and set (Photo: Emilio Madrid) Disruption By Deb Miller on August 2, 2026 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…