BWW Review: The Theoretical Existence that is Nu•ance Theatre Co.'s PROOF
Now being performed by the Nu•ance Theatre Co.
Off-Broadway Theater Reviews
The latest reviews and critic recommendations from Off-Broadway.
BWW Review: CURVY WIDOW is a Fun and Frisky Showcase For Nancy Opel
It doesn't take long before Nancy Opel starts tearing your heart out as the title character of the new musical, Curvy Widow.
BWW Review: Anita Gillette Takes Celia Keenan-Bolger Through Time in Bruce Norris' A PARALLELOGRAM
'If you knew in advance exactly what was going to happen in your life, and how everything was going to turn out, and if you knew you couldn't do anything to change it, would you still want to go on with your life?'
BWW Review: Christine Pedi, Stephanie Umoh and Stephanie D'Abruzzo Shine Brightly in The York's JERRY'S GIRLS
After Florenz Ziegfeld spent the early decades of Broadway's 20th Century 'glorifying the American Girl,' a young composer/lyricist named Jerry Herman spent a good hunk of the second half showcasing extraordinary women.
BWW Review: SUMMER SHORTS Series B at 59E59 Theaters and Why We Love Them
Summer Shorts 2017 is now onstage at 59E59 Theaters.
BWW Review: Tina Howe's SINGING BEACH Addresses Deteriorating People and a Deteriorating Earth
Given her distinguished career that includes such significant works at PAINTING CHURCHES, COASTAL DISTURBANCES and PRIDE'S CROSSING, a new play by Tina Howe is certainly a noteworthy event.
BWW Review: A REAL BOY at 59E59 Theaters Brings Important Issues to the Stage
The World Premiere of 'A Real Boy' is now onstage at 59E59 Theaters through August 27.
Peter & Will Anderson Present a Fabulous SONGBOOK SUMMIT at 59E59 Theaters
Peter and Will Anderson, the brilliant musicians known as The Anderson Twins, have produced and created Songbook Summit at 59E59 Theaters with presentations that celebrate great American Songbook composers during the month of August.
BWW Review: Taylor Caldwell Leads a Terrific Young Cast in Carole King and Maurice Sendak's REALLY ROSIE
New York City wasn't exactly the most magical place for a child to grow up in back in 1975.
BWW Review: Director Lear deBessonet's Luscious, Lusty and Laugh-Out-Loud Funny A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
It was fifty years ago that The Summer of Love attracted throngs of lunatics, lovers and poets to New York's Central Park in a free-spirited embrace of life's passions and pleasures.
BWW Review: See SUMMER SHORTS SERIES A at 59E59 Theaters
59E59 Theaters is currently presenting a real summertime treat for theatergoers, Summer Shorts 2017, Festival of New American Short Plays.
BWW Review: PLACES Performed at 59E59 is an Outstanding Production Now Going to Edinburgh Fringe
Places is an outstanding production written and performed by Romy Nordlinger, directed and developed by Kate McHugh.
BWW Review: Kirsten Childs' THE BUBBLY BLACK GIRL SHEDS HER CHAMELEON SKIN Tackles Racial Identity Issues
Connoisseurs of American musical theatre wishing to make a point about the genre's ability to dramatize even the most unlikely of subjects often cite examples like SWEENEY TODD's vengeful barber on a killing spree or THE PAJAMA GAME's labor/management dispute, but bookwriter/lyricist/composer Kirste
BWW Review: GENERATION ME Captivates at New York Musical Festival
As part of the New York Musical Festival, Generation Me is absolute perfection in its ability to prove how kindness and cruelty are of the same unfortunate hand.
BWW Review: The Unforeseen Known that is Potomac Theatre Project's ARCADIA
Written by Tom Stoppard, directed by Cheryl Faraone and presented by the Potomac Theatre Project as a start to its wondrous 31st season, Arcadia truly tests the limits of what constitutes a good show by not only compelling the audience to listen and understand, but also to feel and experience: a mix
BWW Review: Andrea Frierson's ME & ELLA Pays Tribute To Her Legendary Influence
Even if you've never heard a note sung by Ella Fitzgerald (and if that's the case, you should stop reading this review immediately and look up some of her recordings on YouTube) Andrea Frierson's duo-bio solo show, ME & ELLA, can be related to by anyone whose life was influenced by a popular artist
BWW Review: Oscar Isaac Stars in Sam Gold's Jaunty Rendering of HAMLET
Though your ticket says you're seated at The Public's Anspacher Theater, don't be surprised if once director Sam Gold's jaunty mounting of Shakespeare's Hamlet shifts into gear, you find yourself wondering if you may have stumbled into some indie production playing in the back room of a hipster bar
BWW Review: In Anne Kauffman's Incisive Encores! Production, ASSASSINS Seems More Relevant Than Ever
A folk-singing black man with an optimistic view of America looks back at our nation's history of angry white people finding no better way to cope with their grievances than by firing a gun at the president.
BWW Review: Dominique Morisseau Attacks The School-To-Prison System in PIPELINE
In December of 2015, shortly before her excellent drama SKELETON CREW opened Off-Broadway, playwright Dominique Morisseau essayed an article for American Theatre titled 'Why I Almost Slapped a Fellow Theatre Patron, and What That Says About Our Theatres.
BWW Review: AMERIKE - THE GOLDEN LAND at Folksbiene
103 seasons and going strong - and not just because of nostalgia.
BWW Review: Madcap Frolic BASTARD JONES Riffs On Henry Fielding's Bawdy Classic
While it's not unexpected to have the title character of a musical based on Henry Fielding's infamously bawdy 1749 novel "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling" be introduced to the audience while enjoying the afterglow of a lusty time with an agreeable lass, what's a bit surprising at first about B
BWW Review: Horton Foote's THE TRAVELING LADY Arrives At The Cherry Lane
As America's great playwrights go, Horton Foote, who passed on in 2009, just shy of his 93rd birthday, was perhaps the most understated of them all.
BWW Review: The Romance of Backstage Haunts Third Rail Projects' GHOST LIGHT
The newest offering at Lincoln Center's Claire Tow Theater features a beautiful dreamscape depicting a woman in a small boat being guided through swelling ocean waves by a friendly face painted on the moon.
BWW Review: BASTARD JONES Rocks the House at the Cell Theatre
"It's not unusual to be loved by anyone…" Admittedly, this is the wrong Tom Jones and yes, I may have stolen this little pun from the show's opening narrative, but that Mr.
BWW Review: Gentlemen Prefer Booty in Kirsten Childs' BELLA: AN AMERICAN TALL TALE
The recent Signature Theatre revival of Suzan Lori-Parks' VENUS, based on the true story of Saartjie Baartman, depicted a 19th Century African woman who was subjected to exploitation because of white people's fascination with her prominent posterior.
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A Baby For Me? No Thank You, Please! Soho Playhouse (9/18-9/19) |
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Bailey Swilley's Gimme A Sign! Soho Playhouse (9/20-9/20) |
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13 The Musical Griffin Theatre (8/14-8/23) PHOTOS |
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Bailey Swilley's Gimme A Sign! Soho Playhouse (9/17-9/17) |
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EN EL TIEMPO DE LAS MARIPOSAS Repertorio (1/07-12/31) |
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LA GRINGA Repertorio (2/08-12/31) |
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LA CASA DE BERNARDA ALBA Repertorio (11/15-12/31) |