A few years ago, Johnny O’Callaghan, an unemployed queer actor, decided he had to adopt a Ugandan orphan named Odin. Then he created a one-man show about it, which he now brings to the Irish Rep. He takes a spirited spin on questions of sexuality, parenting, and unlikely forms of family. More >>

Obviously everyone who wishes to be married should be allowed to do so, but is marriage such a desirable institution? Few portraits of it are more pessimistic than this 1900 play by August Strindberg. Red Bull Theater revives this work of malevolent matrimony with Laila Robbins, Daniel Davis,... More >>

How might you feel if upon reading your husband’s final testament, you learned he’d left you his second best bed? Playwright Robert Brustein will likely answer this question in the ultimate entry in his William Shakespeare trilogy, which shows Will’s retirement and growing... More >>

You may not think Alzheimer’s is something to sing about. But the Transport Group politely disagrees. This new musical by Sara Cooper and Zach Redler, described by its creators as a “comic tragedy,” is a two-person tuner about an adult daughter who returns home to care for her... More >>

Joe Gilford: Are you now or have you ever been a playwright? Indeed, he has and in his latest script—produced by Ensemble Studio Theatre and directed by Giovanna Sardelli—he offers a fictional retelling of his parents, Jack Gilford and Madeline Lee Gilford, who were both... More >>

You can’t fault Allison Moore for originality. Few playwrights would consider a deadly bridge collapse and post-traumatic stress disorder as the spark for a comedy, but that’s just what she’s done. In this Women’s Project production, directed by Jackson Gay, Hannah must... More >>

In the early morning of June 28, 1969, what was going to be just another police raid on the underground gay bar the Stonewall Inn turned into the pivotal event for the modern gay-rights movement. Ike Holter's new play, which James Hannaham called "an explosive extravaganza" in his Voice review,... More >>

Most boys have to grow up and most Broadway shows have to close. But just as Peter Pan managed to maintain eternal youth, this play, a prequel to J.M. Barrie’s story, has found a way to continue on, just down the block from Broadway at New World Stages. Alex Timbers and Roger Rees remount... More >>

Following a long-running TV show and some successful stage stints, actor Michael Urie no longer needs to suffer demeaning day jobs. But perhaps he can draw on earlier experience to enact a struggling thesp. In Jonathan Tolins’s comedy, Urie plays Alex More, an unlucky actor employed by a... More >>

Though I was born too late to enjoy an '80s prom myself, I may once have actively requested Bon Jovi's "You Give Love a Bad Name" at a junior high semiformal. Conversely, this interactive show aims to give nostalgia musicals a good name when it invites audiences to drink, dance, and vote for... More >>

Zelda Fitzgerald may have enjoyed the occasional drink. It’s hard to imagine that America’s first flapper bathed in all those fountains sober. In this play, she steps into an extraordinary nightspot, The Club Oasis, and with the help of a piano man and several cocktails begins to... More >>