Flight in Pilobolus’ Trips (Photo: Emily Denaro) Pilobolus: Trips By Deirdre Donovan With Trips: Program A, Pilobolus once again demonstrates why it remains one of America’s most inventive dance companies. Through a series of visually arresting works that blend athleticism, illusion, humor, and poetry, the troupe transforms the stage into a realm where the human…
Billy Porter and the Ensemble (Photo: Joan Marcus) La Cage aux Folles at Encores! By Julia Polinsky on June 27, 2026 Directed by Robert O’Hara, this all-Black revival of La Cage is an Encores! production, so you know the drill: a little under-rehearsed (and who can cavil at that with less than 2 weeks to…
Recent Book Releases by Deb Miller on June 26, 2026 Among this year’s newly released books on New York City theater are three works by award-winning playwrights published by Theatre Communications Group (TCG) and the second volume of a reference series on Broadway plays with themes of crime and murder. (Cover art: Marryam Moma) Dominique…
Billie Andersson, Juan Pablo Toro, Evan Olson, Scarlett Strasberg (Photo: Amy Goossens) Uncle Vanya by Deb Miller on June 19, 2026 Shakespeare Downtown is now inviting everyone for its 10th anniversary season of free outdoor summer performances of the classics. This year’s offering, at Battery Park’s historic Castle Clinton National Monument, is a limited engagement of Chekhov’s…
Austin Lightning Carrothers, Cecily Lyn Benjamin (Photo: Pavan Carter) Building the Wall By Marc Miller on June 12, 2026 Political theater doesn’t get much more political than Building the Wall, Robert Schenkkan’s 2017 two-hander now in timely revival at Urban Stages. Schenkkan, author of the Pulitzer-winning The Kentucky Cycle and other notable plays, many of…
The Ensemble (Photo: Richard Termine) Every Kind of Light: The Love and Lyrics of Alan & Marilyn Bergman By Deirdre Donovan Few lyricists have captured the complexities of love with as much grace, wit, and emotional insight as Alan and Marilyn Bergman, and Every Kind of Light: The Love and Lyrics of Alan & Marilyn…
Stephen Spinella, Jeorge Bennett Watson (Photo: Maria Baranova) Jerome By Julia Polinsky on June 8, 2026 A heartbreakingly excellent performance from Stephen Spinella and heavily timely subject matter infuse Jerome, John J. Caswell, Jr.’s new play now at Playwrights Horizons. It’s June; Pride Month is here, and LGBTQ-forward theater is everywhere. But Jerome can’t seem…
On Broadway, where celebrity casting is often used to sell a show, Celebrity Autobiography turns the concept inside out. This long-running comedy sensation invites a rotating roster of stars from stage, screen, sports, and politics to perform selections from other celebrities’ unintentionally hilarious memoirs, creating an evening where every performance—and every laugh—is a surprise. Inspired…
Louise Beresford, Luke Barton, Eddy Payne. (Photo: Harry Elletson) David Copperfield By Fern Siegel on June 7, 2026 It’s no mean trick to take a Charles Dickens’ novel and distill it to its essence. But that’s the genius of the Guildford Shakespeare Company, which is presenting David Copperfield as part of 59E59’s Brits Off Broadway…
Lydia Wilson (Photo: Julieta Cervantes) The Maids By Deirdre Donovan on May 26, 2026 In Kip Williams’ electrifying new adaptation of Jean Genet’s The Maids at St. Ann’s Warehouse, the playwright’s fever dream of class resentment and fractured identity is thrust headlong into the social media age with startling immediacy and theatrical bravado. Fueled by…