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…
The Ensemble (Photo: Carol Rosegg) This Is Not A Drill By Julia Polinsky on October 9, 2025 This Is Not A Drill, now at the York Theatre, offers a pleasant enough way to pass a couple of hours in the theater. If there are no surprises, then also there’s something to be said about smooth…
Will Harrison (Photo: Matthew Murphy) Punch By Carol Rocamora on October 6, 2025 Punch, James Graham’s powerful new drama, is stunning Broadway audiences with an impact that lives up to its title. In short, it’s a knock-out. Known for his award-winning plays on an impressive variety of topics – This House (2012) on the British…
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….
J. Harrison Ghee, Bryson Battle (Photo: Marc J. Franklin) Saturday Church By Julia Polinsky on September 30, 2025 Take me to church. Please. Saturday Church, now playing at New York Theatre Workshop, opens with the magnificent, ebullient, Tony-winning, can-do-no-wrong J. Harrison Ghee as Black Jesus, asking, “Can I show y’all what collective love looks like?…
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…
The king of the roast has traded his podium for the Broadway stage. In Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride, directed by Stephen Kessler, the Emmy-nominated comedian known for skewering Hollywood royalty serves up his most daring material yet — himself. Directed with an eye for intimacy and energy, the one-man show feels…
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…
Jamie Allan (Photo: Danny Kaan) Amaze By Fern Siegel on August 21, 2025 Jamie Allan discovered his destiny at seven — when he went with his mother to an antique store. There, he found remnants of a magician’s craft — and that unexpected inheritance sealed his fate. Lucky for his audience. Jamie Allan (Photo: Danny…