Laura Bell Bundy, Kara Lindsay, and the company (Photo: Valerie Terranova) Romy & Michele: The Musical By Matthew Roland on November 8, 2025 “I Invented Post-its.” Another cult classic has received the musical treatment, but was it worth it? Romy & Michele: The Musical, now playing Off-Broadway at Stage 42, transforms the 1997 comedy Romy…
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…
Betsy Aidem, Kristolyn Lloyd, Irene Sovia Lucio, Adina Verson, Audrey Corsa, Susannah Flood (Photo: Little Fang) Liberation By Fern Siegel on November 3, 2025 Feminism in the 1970s fought for recognition. And the issues — pay parity, better child care, economic equality and career advancement — remain. It’s thanks to those pioneering efforts, that many…
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?,…
Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter (Photo: Andy Henderson) Waiting for Godot By Deirdre Donovan on October 24, 2025 Jamie Lloyd’s Broadway revival of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot finds Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter trading Bill and Ted’s comic banter for Beckett’s haunting silences. With Brandon J. Dirden and Michael Patrick Thornton rounding out the cast,…
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…
Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy, Brandon Uranowitz lead the 48-actor cast. (Photo: Michael Murphy) Ragtime By Fern Siegel on October 17, 2025 At the turn of the 20th century, America grappled with its identity. Immigration, race, class and cries for social justice were challenging its promise as a refuge where all could succeed. That epic story…
Tiffany Mann, Latrice Pace, Sheléa Melody McDonald (Photo: Joan Marcus) OH HAPPY DAY! By Carol Rocamora on October 16, 2025 “This is what four thousand years old looks like when you moisturize!” So saith Holy Divine, one of the ancient three sisters in a rocking gospel-trio. And we’re off and running on another wild…
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,…