OFF-BROADWAY THEATER REVIEWS

Kathleen Chalfant and Paul Niebanck star as Cold War negotiators out for a friendly stroll....

Company XIV christens its new home with an elegantly erotic Baroque sampler....

The critically lauded and Drama Desk Award nominated TAMAR OF THE RIVER was originally commissioned as part of Signature Theatre's American Musical Voices Project: The Next Generation. With a rich tapestry of complicated choral and musical stylings, Marisa Michealson's inventive and experimental sco...

Neil LaBute's new comedy is a riot from start to finish....

Grace McLean and Brian Charles Rooney are both wildly funny in this musical spoof....

The new absurdist comedy, Teach Teacher, Teachest, One-Eighth Theater and INTAR Theatre pits Ionesco against Lazy Town and other supercharged pre-school aimed shows for highly entertaining results....

Bridget Everett's obsessively aggressive raunchiness gets tiresome very quickly....

The Mint mounts a fine revival of playwright George Kelly's final Broadway effort....

"The Queen of Disco" is back, honey! And, he is serving up something fierce and mighty real at the Theatre At St. Clement's. Anthony Wayne is channeling the disco legend and fabulously entertaining a wide range of audiences in MIGHTY REAL: A FABULOUS SYLVESTER MUSICAL. MIGHTY REAL is what the biogra...

Robert O'Hara uses hilarious sketches and sobering drama in a collage of experiences from growing up gay and black....

The phrase "community theatre" rarely inspires such vibrant dramatics and joyful pageantry as when the Public Theater's Public Works program takes the Delacorte stage....

Three Day Hangover is now performing 'Drunkle Vanya' an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya.' Adapted and directed by Lori Wolter Hudson, the show is a wholly entertaining piece of theater....

Alli Mauzey and Josh Grisetti shine in a a daffy, enjoyable lark....

Lila Neugebauer directs an intriguing and touching production of A.R. Gurney's community of moments....

THE LAST SESSION first opened in 1997 at the 47th Street Theatre. Sitting in one of those audiences was Rob Harris, who was so moved by the show that he made a vow to produce it himself one day. His dream become a reality in 2012, when he produced THE LAST SESSION in London. Now, fans of the musical...

Naomi Wallace's intimate drama contrasts a women's prison and the prison free women encounter....

As an art form, it seems that opera is having a hard time finding its footing with the current generation of young professionals. Increasingly, opera companies are scaling back as their current subscribers have no one to pass their torches on to. Despite this, dell'Arte Opera Ensemble is continuing ...

Theresa Rebeck adds nothing fresh regarding the subjectivity of morality....

Ivar Pall Jonsson's pitiful attempt at allegorical whimsy lacks basic musical theatre craft....

When it comes to the annual Fringe Festival in New York City, everyone gets excited. Why? It's simple. New works! Erik Ransom's COMING: A ROCK MUSICAL OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS enjoyed a 2011 premiere and is now having its own second coming at Fringe. With humor that ranges from tongue-in-cheek camp t...

Genet's erotically intimate drama gets played for broad laughs in Benedict Andrews' production....

In New York City, summer and Shakespeare go hand in hand. For their 2014 Season the dell'Arte Opera Ensemble is producing 'A Summer of Shakespeare,' and they kicked off this season with a fully staged production of Henry Purcell's THE FAIRY QUEEN. While giving the show a modern twist, dell'Arte Oper...

I've come to embrace the idea that a life well lived is filled with its fair share of second chances and new beginnings. For Ted Shen's A SECOND CHANCE audiences were introduced to Dan and Jenna, both are living in crisis. A SECOND CHANCE opened to mixed reviews at the Public Theater, and now Ghostl...

Delacorte production more ritual than theatrical....

Stephen Adly Guirgis' new play offers crackling, streetwise dialogue and tension-packed drama....