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? What collective joy looks like? What collective healing looks like?” As directed by Whitney White and based on…
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 energy into the old play. Directed by Simon Godwin—making his debut with Ibsen—this production arrives with the…
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…
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 deepens into a spellbinding meditation on memory, loneliness, and connection. The intimacy of the production, sensitively directed by Ciarán O’Reilly, is its…
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. The esteemed British magician/illusionist is now in Amaze, off-Broadway at New World Stages, and delivers an astounding…
Growing up in the 90s, everyone had heard about the new “Miracle Mop” that was sweeping the nation. But if I told you that in 2025 there’s a musical about this very mop, you’d probably do a double take and ask yourself, “Wait… a mop musical?” Well, that is exactly what is happening Off-Broadway at…
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 of the 1950s and the influence it exerted on everyday lives. And she capped that with…
The Ensemble (Photo: Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade) Rolling Thunder By Julia Polinsky on July 26, 2025 Rolling Thunder, a new show that originated in Australia, is about the Vietnam era, scored to the music of the times. It’s just opened at New World Stages, rolling out its considerable energy until September 7. Considering that this…
Faced with the question, “Has feminism failed women?”, a group of elite private school boys set out to argue in the affirmative — fueling the fire of Emmanuelle Mattana’s audacious new comedy, Trophy Boys. As they prepare for a high-stakes debate against the girls from a rival girls’ school, the play exposes the smug entitlement…
In Angry Alan, directed with clinical precision by Sam Gold, John Krasinski plays Roger, a 45 year-old man from the Midwest, teetering on the edge of crisis. Reeling from a divorce, a demotion, and a growing sense that the world no longer makes space for him, Roger finds solace—and danger—in an online movement that promises…