Carrie Coon, Jennifer Engstrom, Steve Key, Namir Smallwood (Photo: Matthew Murphy) Bug By David Schultz on February 6, 2026 Tracy Letts’ bullet train of a play, Bug, has moved to Broadway from a more modest run in its 2004 Off-Broadway debut. Twenty years ago, this intense play was both insanely entertaining and extremely disturbing; playing…
Tora Nogami Alexander, Morgan Morse, and David M. Lutken (Photo: Ben Hider) The Porch on Windy Hill By Julia Polinsky on February 2, 2026 Here’s a run-don’t-walk moment: if you’re ready to warm up this deep-chill winter, go see The Porch on Windy Hill, the “new play with old music” written by Sherry Stregack Lutken,…
An Ark at The Shed (Photo: Marc J. Franklin) An Ark By Deirdre Donovan on February 2, 2026 With An Ark, The Shed and Tin Drum unveil the world premiere of what they describe as the first play created for and in mixed reality, a work that replaces physical presence with one-to-one digital intimacy. Written…
Owen Teague, Abbey Lee (Photo: Emilio Madrid) Blackout Songs By Julia Polinsky on February 2, 2026 In Blackout Songs, the Olivier-nominated play by Joe White running at the Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space, a young man and young woman meet at what’s clearly meant to be an AA meeting. Church-y looking basement, coffee setup,…
Sophia Lillis, Kran Brar, Justin H. Min (Photo: T Charles Erickson) Data By Joel Benjamin on February 2, 2026 Data, by Matthew Libby, is a quietly frightening, revelatory play, now running at the Lucille Lortel theater. Data slowly creeps into the brain as it reveals its secrets. First produced at the Arena Stage in 2024,…
Anne Gridley (Photo: Maria Baranova) Watch Me Walk By Julia Polinsky on January 27, 2026 Soho Rep’s new production, Watch Me Walk, is an intermittently funny, often nuts, pissed-off pity party piece of avant garde theater created by and starring Anne Gridley. Anne has Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia, a rare degenerative neurological disease that really, really…
Hamish Linklater, Miriam Silverman, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Dylan Baker (Photo: Jeremy Daniel) The Disappear By Julia Polinsky on January 26, 2026 The Disappear, Erica Schmidt’s clever, talkative take on the marriage of tragedy, comedy, art, creativity, and, well, marriage, is now open at Audible’s Minetta Lane theater. As Schmidt directs the play, the intimate space…
Ta-Tynisa Wilson, Adrian Galante, John Pagano, Hilary Kole (Photo: Russ Rowland) Going Bacharach: The Songs of an Icon By Julia Polinsky on January 13, 2026 If you have a memory for pop tunes that spans more than a decade, you’ve heard the songs of Burt Bacharach. In a career that lasted over 70 years, Bacharach’s…
The Ensemble (Photo: Matthew Murphy) Picnic at Hanging Rock By Joel Benjamin on January 6, 2026 In 1967 Australian writer Joan Lindsay wrote a disturbingly eerie novel, Picnic at Hanging Rock. Lindsay’s novel created a scenario that resonated with the public so strongly that most people believed it was a true story, bolstered by the…
Just as the Mission at Capistrano hosts swarms of swallows every March, New York City Center is where the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater makes its nest every December. This exciting troupe has weathered many ups and downs to become the modern dance icon it now is. How many dance companies can sell out the…