OFF-BROADWAY THEATER REVIEWS

Nina Arianda is outstanding in David Grimm's drama of a woman surviving post-war Vienna....

Husband and wife performing artists Mat Fraser and Julie Atlas Muz draw parallels between their romance and de Beaumont's fairy tale....

Steven Boyer repeats his Obie-winning performance as a shy Christian teen whose sock puppet is possessed....

Sartre's No Exit is exactly about that: people who were once masters of their own universe now being forced to see the lives they once lived through the eyes of other people - strangers to boot - and discover that those same lives they led while alive have accompanied them into the depth of Hell. It...

Jim Brochu's new solo piece will warm the heart of anyone who has ever looked out from an audience with awe and wonder....

Tarell Alvin McCraney's vibrant and sexy production sets the story in French-colonial Saint-Domingue....

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 ...

James Ortiz's THE WOODSMAN, now playing at 59 E 59, is a creative spin on the familiar classic of The Wizard of Oz with an atmosphere remincent of a pleasant combonation of Spring Awakening, Peter and the Starcatcher, and Into the Woods....

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....