OFF-BROADWAY THEATER REVIEWS

Michael Mayer and Peter Lerman's mindlessly fun musical comedy has super heroes protecting the hipsters, artists and vegans of Kings County....

The master of quirky and rhythmic one-acts is in a more sentimental mood this time....

Jennifer Haley's, futuristic drama asks those who would object to government-controlled morality to defend their stance under the most vile circumstances....

Charles Mee's modern retelling of an Aeschylus drama gets a rollicking free-for-all production from Tina Landau....

"One Day: The Musical" exudes an angry, pop-rock sensibility and has teenage angst in spades. Though the show takes the journal entries of real teenagers as its basis, it sometimes feels like a mouthpiece for adolescent issues rather than a show about living, breathing humans. In striving to be a un...

Ronald Keaton's solo play offers little more than a career rundown....

Lin-Manuel Miranda's historical hip-hop musical is fine musical theatre disguised as freestyle....

The initial set-up for Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph's 'Animals Out of Paper' at first seems contrived: Ilana Andrews, a down-on-her-luck origami artist who has hit a wall both creatively and personally, finds her life shaken up when a nerdy, overly optimistic math teacher asks her to mentor ...

Tonya Pinkins and Diane Weist are superb in Joel Drake Johnson's drama of racial communication....

Christine Bianco plays over 40 characters, most of them tired cliches....

Since THE LAST FIVE YEARS' New York debut, this intimate musical about failed romance has been an evergreen favorite. Just in time for Valentine's Day audiences are being given the opportunity to fall in love with the material all over again. Today, Sh-K-Boom and Razor & Tie released the hotly antic...

Benjamin Scheuer's one-man autobiographical musical is among the season's very best....

Tommy Tune returns to the New York stage in a splendid concert production....

Jonathan Christenson's Edgar Allan Poe fantasia suffers from an unyieldingly somber tone....

'Road to Damasus' written by Tom Dulack and directed by Michael Parva will be on stage at 59E59 through Sunday, March 1st. This is a riveting view of political maneuvering after a terror attack on US soil....

Miwa Yanagi uses one of WWII's more unusual stories as an example of female imagery as utilized by men....

Chekhov wasn't the only Russian writing of the boredom of country living....

Emotions emerge as a successful playwright and his actress daughter wait for her opening night NY Times review....

Sub-par singing and surface acting curse this chamber production....

Holy men fill in for puppets in Stan's Cafe's Under The Radar production....

Like the blockbuster hit about a misunderstood green witch from the West, 'The Woodsman' at 59E59 Theaters introduces audiences to a lesser-known tale from the land of Oz. The production relies heavily on visual spectacle to tell the story of a young woodsman who falls in love with a slave girl, onl...

Kate Benson's new play 'A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes' takes place not on a lake, as the title might suggest, but rather in a gymnasium. The high-stakes Thanksgiving dinner at the center of the play unfolds at Wembley Stadium, where two announcers, # in ...

Ikechukwu Ufomadu's talk show send-up is sluggishly paced....

It's by tragic coincidence that the Atlantic Theater Company's newest production opens at a time when the permanent silencing of satirists is so fresh in the minds of its audience members....

Company XIV's newest version of its holiday burlesque fits beautifully into their intimate new space....