OFF-BROADWAY THEATER REVIEWS

Terry Teachout's solo play and John Douglas Thompson's completely captivating performance make for compelling tributes to an artistic original....

Corruption and power fit together like a key in a lock. Political scandal is tragically and comically normalized in William Shakespeare's relevant dark comedy Measure for Measure, presented with thematic simplicity and ingenuity by Fiasco Theater at the New Victory Theater playing now through March...

You never know what might happen when two actors are assigned to kiss each other on stage....

It's all fun and games until your bar pick-up throws up in your mouth....

Seth Rudetsky, the co-creator, co-writer and star of the hit Off-Broadway musical comedy Disaster!, will host a special LGBT Night at the show, along with his Disaster! co-star, award-winning comedian, writer and actress Judy Gold on Thursday, February 27th. The evening's special guest will include ...

David Henry Hwang's Bruce Lee bio-play is dramatically lightweight....

If it's possible to consider a male playwright a leading feminist author, John Van Druten would rank as a likely candidate....

Caryl Churchill's latest plays like two hours worth of sketches from the last ten minutes of SNL....

At the St. Luke's Theatre (until March 23), Billy Hayes relives his full range of emotions and psychological traumas in this taut, tense, and terrific re-telling of his escape from a Turkish prison, first revealed in his 1977 book Midnight Express, and then in 1978 through the Oliver Stone film vers...

Director Pam MacKinnon and her sharp ensemble perfectly balance the tragic feelings of the characters with their comic obliviousness to how out of touch they are....

Charles Busch and Julie Halston are a bit like Lucy and Ethel as played by Noel and Gertie....

There is very little to say about this show, and unless that one sentence makes up the command of "GO AND SEE IT FOR THE LIFE OF YOU," I have no part in this whatsoever. If you want to enjoy a night of fun, rueful delight and exhausting laughter that makes you feel good in all the wrong places, Sex ...

It's wicked romantic and funny, ayuh....

CSC revives the abstract anti-war farce penned by a 28-year-old making his first dive into Berlin's post-war artistic renaissance....

Thomas Bradshaw is at it again....

Rude Mechs' madcap Brechtian vaudeville counters being charitable with looking out for one's self....

Roy Williams' stage adaptation of Allan Sillitoe's short story might be best appreciated by teenage audiences....

When a person is faced with the overwhelming beauty and quietude of the world around him, as seen through the crisp leaves of the surrounding trees or the rocks which reside on the steep slope below, leading into an unknown and unsought after abyss, one cannot help but look up at the stars and think...

When a person goes to see a performance, there are some instances in which he or she wishes that the characters portrayed on stage were real - that the plot was truly unfolding right before the audience's collective eye, and the circumstances which constitute the story being told would allow for mor...

Edgar Oliver and John Hodgman bring solo shows to the tenth annual festival....

Nestled in the heart of New York City's Theater District, a slice of Russian literature has been making waves. At an opulent Supper Club housed within custom pop-up tent called Kazino, located at 259 West 45th Street, Dave Malloy's NATASHA, PIERRE AND THE GREAT COMET OF 1812, a musical adaptation of...

What happens when you mix the atmosphere and originality of a Blue Man Group performance with the dynamics of a recent Sarah Brightman concert, giving Zooey Deschanel (the 500 Days of Summer version) a chance at lead vocals to top it all off? A little show called Mayhem and Majesty fits the bill qui...

EndTimes Productions presents the Seventh installment of 'Naked Holidays', their annual evening of flesh-filled comedy sketches and songs....

Conor McPherson's sweet portrait of two lonely people hesitantly getting together is a welcome import from the Donmar Warehouse....

Directed by Bob Degus, PRIVATE DANCER is the story is focused on the troubled life of the famed Rita Hayworth and is told additionally through film and dance. Sage Snakechalmer, however, the star and playwright, gives an awkward mess of a performance....