Theater

  • Look Back in Anger: Surly to Bed

    John Osborne's British classic faces an American audience again

    By Michael Feingold

    For the British theater, the historical importance of John Osborne's 1956 play, Look Back in Anger (Laura Pels Theatre), can't be underestimated.... More >>

  • You, My Mother: Mothers, Daughters, Animal Suits

    Two-Headed Calf brings a two-headed show to La MaMa

    By Alexis Soloski

    Where better to stage a show called You, My Mother than at La MaMa, a space that for so many years served as a womb in which experimental arts... More >>

  • The Ugly One Looks Good

    Soho Rep mounts Marius von Mayenburg's German import

    By Alexis Soloski

    Alfredo Narciso, who plays Lette in The Ugly One, is a handsome man. Yet not according to the characters who share the Soho Rep stage with him in... More >>

  • Botanica: Jim Findlay's Hothouse

    3LD hosts a whole bunch of plants

    By Alexis Soloski

    Unless some local troupe stages an unusually rigorous revival of Little Shop of Horrors soon, Botanica—now playing at 3LD—likely... More >>

  • The Philanderer: Sex Versus Shaw

    A rarely produced early work shows GBS in a playful mood

    By Michael Feingold

    Probably the single most startling fact about George Bernard Shaw's early comedy The Philanderer (City Center Stage II)—just revived by the... More >>

  • Wit: Bearing Agonies

    MTC gives the Pulitzer-winning play its Broadway premiere

    By Michael Feingold

    Margaret Edson's Wit (Friedman Theatre) is a handsomely structured, articulately written script; Cynthia Nixon is a fine, skillful, engaging... More >>

  • Russian Transport Rides to Brooklyn

    The New Group does Sheepshead Bay

    By James Hannaham

    If, as Erika Sheffer’s bio claims, the New Group’s Russian Transport represents her “playwriting debut,” then she has... More >>

  • These Seven Sicknesses Needs a Little Doctoring

    The Flea hosts a five-hour Sophocles adaptation

    By Alexis Soloski

    Sophocles wrote more than 120 plays, of which only seven survive. Such a low ratio seems itself a tragedy, but considering the proud ambitions of... More >>

  • Kevin Spacey Growls Through Richard III

    Villain hates idle pleasures in a harsh, angry Bridge Project production at BAM

    By Michael Feingold

    I haven't previously found much to praise in either Kevin Spacey's acting or Sam Mendes's directing. So I arrived at Mendes's Bridge Project... More >>

  • Gonna See a Movie Called Gunga Din Moves the Bushwick Starr to the Front Lines

    Mark Sitko mashes up the American war experience

    By Miriam Felton-Dansky

    Where do war stories go when the battle’s over? As a country, we ask real soldiers to submerge traumatic memories, even as we guzzle... More >>

  • Stopped Bridge of Dreams Floats Into La MaMa

    John Jesurun pilots a brothel in the sky

    By Jacob Gallagher-Ross

    Back in old Japan, the “floating world” was a red-light pleasure zone of theaters, teahouses, and brothels where slumming samurai... More >>

  • Yosemite Does Buried Child

    Rattlestick stages Daniel Talbott's anguished-family play

    By Jason Clark

    If 2009’s Slipping was playwright Daniel Talbott’s bid for Rebel Without a Cause angst, then his latest work, Yosemite, seems to be... More >>

  • The Road to Mecca: Karoo for You

    Rosemary Harris stars in the Roundabout's Fugard revival

    By Michael Feingold

    Athol Fugard always seems to be writing two plays at once. Each Fugard play is an allegory—political, moral, aesthetic—that at the... More >>

  • The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess: Broadway, You Is My Venue Now

    Trimmed and renamed, a great opera has shrunk to become a good show

    By Michael Feingold

    Either I am diagnosably schizophrenic, or there is something seriously out of kilter about the new revised edition of the opera that its composer... More >>

  • Newyorkland and Untitled Feminist Show: Cops, Nudes, Art!

    Temporary Distortion meets Young Jean Lee at the Baryshnikov Arts Center

    By Alexis Soloski

    Coil, the annual festival of performance sponsored by P.S.122, has set up an inadvertent battle of the sexes at Baryshnikov Arts Center. On the... More >>

  • Instinct Not So Catching

    Matthew Maguire's new epidemic play unlikely to spread far

    By Miriam Felton-Dansky

    At the movies or in print, outbreak sagas can be about as juicy as it gets: The race against time! The draconian quarantines! The nerdy heroes... More >>

  • Advance Man Aims for Some Buzz

    Bee-like aliens threaten at the Secret Theatre

    By Alexis Soloski

    The next time you prepare to enjoy that cup of tea or bowl of granola, think twice before dipping your spoon into the honey jar. That sweetmeat... More >>

  • Leo: Skew You!

    Optical tricks in an acrobatic solo show

    By Jacob Gallagher-Ross

    Leo is kind of a one-trick show—but it's a pretty enjoyable trick, and performer Tobias Wegner and director Daniel Brière get the... More >>

  • How the World Began: Reason Goes Rural

    Catherine Trieschmann's new play tests a science teacher's rationality

    By Michael Feingold

    The Women's Project, temporarily housed in the small upstairs Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Playwrights Horizons, has started the new year honorably... More >>

  • Avant-Garde January! It's Koltes, the TEAM, Toshiki Okada, and, er, Ira Glass

    A critical dive into the Under the Radar, Other Forces, and Coil festivals

    By Alexis Soloski

    It’s easy for Americans to feel intimidated when faced with the might of the European experimental tradition. Many continental companies... More >>

  • Daniel Kitson Returns With It's Always Right Now, Until It's Later

    Another solo piece by the semi-eccentric U.K. performer

    By Jacob Gallagher-Ross

    Is there a more endearing solo performer than Daniel Kitson? I can’t think of one. Squinting behind bottle-thick glasses, shambling around... More >>

  • The Peony Pavilion: Silken Spectacle

    But no dancing Chinese porn in an opera at Lincoln Center

    By Michael Feingold

    In 1598, while Shakespeare was hitting his prime, the writer Tang Xianzu (1550–1616) produced one of China's touchstone works, The Peony... More >>

  • Outside People Goes Inside China

    The Vineyard Theatre mounts Zayd Dohrn's comedy

    By Tom Sellar

    Americans have blundered abroad ever since there was an America. And recent theater seasons have seen a fertile crop—maybe even a... More >>

  • El pasado es un animal grotesco Spins Through Town

    Under the Radar and Coil host a literally moving play

    By Tom Sellar

    As the World Turns went off the air, but the Public Theater has a much better orb spinning on its stage. El pasado es un animal grotesco is played... More >>

  • The COIL and Under the Radar Fests Meet Multimedia, 2012-Style

    Up to our neck in tech

    By Alexis Soloski

    Picture a show with no video, no projection design, no treadmills moving scenery on and off the stage. Easy enough. But now imagine a theater... More >>

  • World of Wires: Jay Scheib Does Fassbinder

    The Kitchen hosts the last of a trilogy

    By Miriam Felton-Dansky

    Remember the first time you watched The Matrix? Remember that moment when you realized that—just like Keanu—you were only a helpless... More >>

  • Super Night Shot Is Ready for Your Close-up

    Gob Squad returns to the Under the Radar festival

    By James Hannaham

    An hour before the UK/German troupe Gob Squad’s Super Night Shot, at the Under the Radar festival, four of the seven Occupy-types in the... More >>

  • Hypnotik: The Seer Will Doctor You Now: Mixed Signals

    A new play about a charismatic clairvoyant comes in a little fuzzy

    By Alexis Soloski

    What is theater but an exercise in mind control? Night after night, susceptible audiences succumb to the belief that a few chairs represent a car;... More >>

  • Lysistrata Jones Is Greece, The Musical

    A new Broadway show gives Aristophanes some hoop dreams

    By Michael Feingold

    Among today's Broadway musicals, Lysistrata Jones (Walter Kerr Theatre) stands out, in ways both good and less. It's the only current musical, for... More >>

  • A Seasonally Adjusted Ghost Story

    To improve New York theater could take a Dickens of an update

    By Michael Feingold

    The Marley was dead. The overpaid bank execs who inhabited that luxury apartment tower had all fled south for the holidays. Only Carl and Carol... More >>

  • Close Up Space: Rep Theater

    MTC's new show goes where too many other new ones keep going

    By Michael Feingold

    I'm sad, but not from Seasonal Affective Disorder. The fall season ended with Manhattan Theatre Club's opening Molly Smith Metzler's Close Up... More >>

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Best in Show: Doug Wheeler at David Zwirner; 'It's the Political Economy, Stupid' Best in Show: Doug Wheeler at David Zwirner; 'It's the Political Economy, Stupid'
By Robert Shuster

When you walk toward Doug Wheeler's bright, alluring enclosure, you might feel like one of those characters about to visit another dimension in fantasy films. Wearing paper booties (supplied for… More >>

<i>Look Back in Anger</i>: Surly to Bed Look Back in Anger: Surly to Bed
By Michael Feingold

For the British theater, the historical importance of John Osborne's 1956 play, Look Back in Anger (Laura Pels Theatre), can't be underestimated. It marked a pivotal shift not only for… More >>

<em>You, My Mother</em>: Mothers, Daughters, Animal Suits You, My Mother: Mothers, Daughters, Animal Suits
By Alexis Soloski

Where better to stage a show called You, My Mother than at La MaMa, a space that for so many years served as a womb in which experimental arts could… More >>

<em>The Ugly One</em> Looks Good The Ugly One Looks Good
By Alexis Soloski

Alfredo Narciso, who plays Lette in The Ugly One, is a handsome man. Yet not according to the characters who share the Soho Rep stage with him in Marius von… More >>

<i>Botanica</i>: Jim Findlay's Hothouse Botanica: Jim Findlay's Hothouse
By Alexis Soloski

Unless some local troupe stages an unusually rigorous revival of Little Shop of Horrors soon, Botanica—now playing at 3LD—likely stands as this season's only show to credit a "plant interaction… More >>

Three Artists Guide the Way for NYC's Aesthetics of Decline Three Artists Guide the Way for NYC's Aesthetics of Decline
By Christian Viveros-Faune

In this village where we live, the future hasn't happened yet, but it will. The aesthetics of decline—a gathering movement that features artists and other creators shedding the mode of… More >>

<i>The Philanderer</i>: Sex Versus Shaw The Philanderer: Sex Versus Shaw
By Michael Feingold

Probably the single most startling fact about George Bernard Shaw's early comedy The Philanderer (City Center Stage II)—just revived by the Pearl Theatre in a juicily stylish production by Gus… More >>

<i>Wit</i>: Bearing Agonies Wit: Bearing Agonies
By Michael Feingold

Margaret Edson's Wit (Friedman Theatre) is a handsomely structured, articulately written script; Cynthia Nixon is a fine, skillful, engaging actress. Both are well worth admiring in Manhattan Theatre Club's revival… More >>

<em>Russian Transport</em> Rides to Brooklyn Russian Transport Rides to Brooklyn
By James Hannaham

If, as Erika Sheffer’s bio claims, the New Group’s Russian Transport represents her “playwriting debut,” then she has unripe talent, beginner’s luck, and influential names in her phone directory. Set… More >>

<em>These Seven Sicknesses</em> Needs a Little Doctoring These Seven Sicknesses Needs a Little Doctoring
By Alexis Soloski

Sophocles wrote more than 120 plays, of which only seven survive. Such a low ratio seems itself a tragedy, but considering the proud ambitions of writer Sean Graney and director… More >>


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