Known to fans everywhere as a stand-up comic, an acclaimed tv, film, and stage star, and nine-time host of the Oscars and three-time host of the Grammys, Emmy and Tony winner Billy Crystal is now back on Broadway. His latest award-worthy work, 860, plays an extended engagement at the Imperial Theatre. Brilliantly written and performed,…
Marin Ireland’s well-intended play, pre-existing condition, has landed at The Greenwich House Theater. Running through January, the play brings awareness to struggles that victims of domestic abuse face. pre-existing condition begins with us meeting an unnamed character (more about that later) who, six months earlier, was hit by her boyfriend. She’s not sure what she’s…
In David Zax’s new play, Aftermath, a family struggles to regain its equilibrium when a son returns home after surviving a Taliban kidnapping in Afghanistan in 2011. Directed by Colton Pometta, this ambitious new play explores the difficult road to recovery from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but its dramatically unconvincing story and characters undermine its…
In a limited Off-Broadway engagement now at Theatre Row, Mint Theater Company presents a powerful production of the 1911 feminist play PHYL, by English actress, playwright, journalist, and suffragist Cecily Hamilton. PHYL was scheduled to make its debut at Oxford in 1913 but was banned for its scandalous content. Although it was never published, luckily,…
Melis Aker’s new play, Fish, an over-the-top, wild and dangerous coming-of-age dark comedy, is now in a limited engagement for its world premiere at WP Theater. A co-production with Signature Theatre Company, Fish is set in London in 2016 (the year of the Brexit vote). The play follows the story of seventeen-year-old Karya (Yasmin Ranz-Lind)…
English author Charles Dickens’ semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel, David Copperfield, is now the subject of a new musical adaptation, COPPERFIELD! The New Musical. Written by Jeffrey Scharf (book, music, and lyrics), COPPERFIELD! is playing a limited Off-Broadway engagement at The Duke on 42nd Street. The complex, chock-full two-act show details the adventures in the titular character’s life…
Let’s hear it for A Ghost in Your Ear, a two-character/one-set thriller now at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre. Written and directed by Jamie Armitage, the play is a collaboration with Ben & Max Ringham, who contribute the sound design, which almost becomes a third character in the show. When you enter the theater, you put…
A new, original musical is currently ticking away at the Daryl Roth Theatre. With Todrick Hall at the helm as writer, composer, lyricist, director, choreographer and star, MIDNIGHT is an ambitious theatrical undertaking generating plenty of buzz. But does it all come together? This complex piece of theatre follows 12 characters whose lives intersect despite…
The Bald Soprano, the landmark absurdist drama in eleven scenes, is now being presented for a limited engagement at The Sheen Center for Thought and Culture by The Resident Acting Company. That company evolved out of The Pearl Theatre Company, which, in 2011, was the last professional company to produce The Bald Soprano in New…
Playwright Else Went has a runaway hit on her hands: Degenerates, now at Playwrights Horizons. With two extensions and an almost sold-out run, this show seems to have hit a nerve with a particular demographic. The play involves an online community of ‘incel’ men whose visceral hatred of women is commingled with a self-loathing which…