Tracy Letts’ bullet train of a play, Bug, has moved to Broadway from a more modest run in its 2004 Off-Broadway debut. Twenty years ago, this intense play was both insanely entertaining and extremely disturbing; playing in a small, intimate house back then, it was claustrophobic and eerie. Now presented in a much larger venue,…
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…
The Disappear, Erica Schmidt’s clever, talkative take on the marriage of tragedy, comedy, art, creativity, and, well, marriage, is now open at Audible’s Minetta Lane theater. As Schmidt directs the play, the intimate space emphasizes the claustrophobic nature of the lives of charming narcissist filmmaker Benjamin Braxton (Hamish Linklater) and his wife Mira (Miriam Silverman)….
If you have a memory for pop tunes that spans more than a decade, you’ve heard the songs of Burt Bacharach. In a career that lasted over 70 years, Bacharach’s music was recorded by everyone from Patti Page to Lady Gaga, Elvis Presley to Elvis Costello. If you get caught between the moon and New…
In 1967 Australian writer Joan Lindsay wrote a disturbingly eerie novel, Picnic at Hanging Rock. Lindsay’s novel created a scenario that resonated with the public so strongly that most people believed it was a true story, bolstered by the lyrical 1975 Peter Weir film, which was hugely successful worldwide. Now, the story has wound up,…
Just as the Mission at Capistrano hosts swarms of swallows every March, New York City Center is where the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater makes its nest every December. This exciting troupe has weathered many ups and downs to become the modern dance icon it now is. How many dance companies can sell out the…