OFF-BROADWAY THEATER REVIEWS

Transport Group's revival may be the best reason to venture down to the Lower East Side since Yonah Schimmel learned how to make a knish....

What happens when you mix equal parts Murder, She Wrote with Mad Libs? You get Billy Mitchell's rib-tickling theatrical confection VILLAIN: DeBLANKS. Currently enjoying a residency at The Triad, audiences can catch the madcap hilarity on the first Sunday of each month through April 3, 2016....

 Comedians Nick Kroll and John Mulaney have brought their morally ambiguous characters of Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland to the Cherry Lane Theatre for a limited-run play. These caricatured New York-bred characters' over-the-top observations are just inappropriate enough to sustain laughter for...

Director/choreographer Austin McCormick has established Company XIV as one of the most vibrant and original troupes regularly contributing to New York City's performing arts scene. ...

'H2O' at 59E59 Theatres is a riveting two-hander. Written by Jane Martin and directed by West Hyler, the play is making its New York Premiere through December 13th....

John Gray's 1992 pop-psychology best-seller is the source for two acts of stand-up comedy....

The long-running hit was originally penned as a psychology experiment....

The potential for something intriguing in done in by an under-guided production....

Nick Jones' riotously funny goofball comedy pits style vs. comfort....

A fine cast can't get Naomi Wallace's unusual family drama to work....

'You're supposed to stop the people you love from making mistakes that could ruin their lives.'...

Peter Parnell's play has a gay married couple with a kid realizing they're just like straight married couples with kids....

Mark Gerrard's tragicomedy is packed with musical theatre quotes and barbs, but not much plot....

The Exalted, written by the celebrated poet and performer Carl Hancock Rux is told in the spirit of German expressionism, centering on the anarchist German-Jewish writer Carl Einstein, today considered a founding voice in the evolution of seminal Modernist art movements....

Miller's 1964 drama about Jews in occupied France explores the limits of self-sacrifice....

Jo Bonney directs Pollono's latest about troubled working class New Englanders....

See 'Cuckooed,' now onstage at 59E59 Theatres. Directed by Emma Callandar, this captivating show is performed by Mark Thomas who also wrote the play. Humor, drama and intrigue are all a part of this exciting production....

The relationship of poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, as told through a 30 year correspondence....

'The Widow of Tom's Hill' is now at 59E59 through November 15th. Written by Aleks Merilo and directed by Rachel Spaulding, the show stars Lucy Lavely and Derek Grabner in a gripping, dramatic story....

See 'Songbird,' a gem of a show, now at 59E59 through November 29th. It is written by Michael Kimmel, directed by JV Mercanti with original music and lyrics by Lauren Prichard. Based on 'The Seagull' by Anton Chekhov, it is set in Tennessee and features an excellent country music score....

Daphne Rubin-Vega is completely captivating in a solo performance that requires her to sit perfectly still for most of its 100 minutes,...

A musical comedy where the first act climaxes in a dramatic representation of the collapse of The Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 may not be the easiest ticket to sell, especially in New York City. Yet, the Off-Broadway musical WHO'S YOUR BAGHDADDY? OR HOW I STARTED THE IRAQ WAR by Marshall Pailet...

Kids interact with videos of their younger selves in a show where they dress up through the aging process....

One of the New York stage's most interesting actors offers a textured performance as a woman working in a slaughterhouse....

The team's 1970 Broadway drama is revised as a chamber musical....