BWW Review: True story of the Cardiff Giant in the family friendly musical THE GIANT HOAX from Indieworks Theatre
In the musical Barnum, a song lyric compels you to 'join the circus like you wanted to, when you were a kid.
Off-Broadway Theater Reviews
The latest reviews and critic recommendations from Off-Broadway.
BWW Review: EVERYTHING IS SUPER GREAT is a Compelling Modern Story
Everything is Super Great, written by Stephen Brown and directed by Sarah Norris is now being performed at 59E59 Theaters.
BWW Review: Kate Mulgrew and Francesca Faridany Muse Over Science and Sexism in Lauren Gunderson's THE HALF-LIFE OF MARIE CURIE
Roughly two months ago American Theatre announced that for the second time in the past three seasons, Lauren Gunderson has topped their list of the most-produced playwrights in the country, her 33 professional productions among the 385 Theatre Communications Group's member theatres easily surpassing
BWW Review: Tony Kushner Inserts Himself Into His Early Effort, A BRIGHT ROOM CALLED DAY
Six years before the world premiere of part one of his eventual Pulitzer-winning, monumental theatre epic ANGELS IN AMERICA, Tony Kushner was an inexperienced 26-year-old playwright who, as inexperienced 26-year-old playwrights are wont to do, wrote and directed an Off-Off Broadway play about young,
BWW Review: 1979's Rebellious Mardi Gras Inspires Mobile Unit's MEASURE FOR MEASURE
In 1979 a strike by the New Orleans Police Department led to the city's official cancellation of that year's public Mardi Gras celebration.
BWW Review: Bryce Pinkham Overthrows The Government as MasterVoices Presents Gershwin Satire LET 'EM EAT CAKE
'I've got a little favor to ask of you,' an American president asks the members of the Supreme Court on the night he's lost his re-election bid.
BWW Review: The New Musical EINSTEIN'S DREAMS Makes Its Stunning NYC Premiere at 59E59 Theaters
The NYC premiere of Einstein's Dreams is now on stage at 59E59 Theaters through December 14.
BWW Review: Small Town Lives Yearning For Something More In Abbie Spallen's PUMPGIRL
'In this town you're either a slut or a snob, no in-betweens,' explains the put-upon wife of a local celeb racecar driver in Abbie Spallen's tryptic of character studies, Pumpgirl, now getting a very well-acted production at the Irish Rep.
BWW Review: Beautifully Realized Chamber Musical BROADBEND, ARKANSAS Examines A Family's Legacy From The 60s Civil Rights Movement
There is a firm, but understated strength that permeates the atmosphere during Broadbend, Arkansas, the beautifully realized two-person chamber musical created by composer Ted Shen and librettists Ellen Fitzhugh and Harrison David Rivers, depicting an event during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement in
BWW Review: New York City Center Presents EVITA In A Time When News Commentators Outshine Newsmakers
Great comedy is often the byproduct of political scandal and those who humorously comment on the news often overshadow the newsmakers themselves.
BWW Review: DRUIDSHAKESPEARE: RICHARD III Beguiles and Seduces at Lincoln Center's White Light Festival
a?oeAnother ticket! Another ticket! My kingdom for another ticket!a?? one may be moved to exclaim as they depart Gerald W.
BWW Review: Peter Dinklage Deserves Better Than Dreary, Passionless CYRANO Musical
The cleverest part of adaptor/director Erica Schmidt's new musical based on Edmond Rostand's classic CYRANO DE BERGERAC is that the two times a character makes mention of the title fellow's very large nose, there is a pause before the word, making it clear that the speaker was about to say something
BWW Review: Michael Benjamin Washington Portrays Members Of A Divided Community in Crisis in Anna Deavere Smith's FIRES IN THE MIRROR
It's been a long-time point of pride among New Yorkers to be living in the most culturally and ethnically diverse spot on the planet, and given the history of the planet you can say that, comparatively, the city has done pretty well in encouraging a society of integration and acceptance.
BWW Review: Keen Company's MOLLY SWEENEY at Theatre Row
Set in contemporary Ballybeg, Ireland, the image-laden story of MOLLY SWEENEY commands our attention as we listen closely to visualize what is being described to us from contrasting perspectives.
BWW Review: ONE DISCORDANT VIOLIN at 59E59 Theaters is for Music Lovers and Many More
'One Discordant Violin' is an enthralling play adapted by Anthony Black from a short story by Yann Martel, the author of 'Life of Pi.
BWW Review: Richard Nelson Adds a New Family To His Intriguing Rhinebeck Panorama with THE MICHAELS
Of the many common features shared by the eight (thus far) plays that make up playwright/director Richard Nelson's 'Rhinebeck Panorama' series, perhaps the most unusual is that they all take place on the date of their opening night at the Public Theater.
BWW Review: Boffo Belter Klea Blackhurst Is In The Zone As Cole Porter's PANAMA HATTIE
After enchanting Broadway sophisticates with his fizzy entertainments of the 1920s and 30s, Cole Porter went decidedly middle-brow at the start of the next decade with a trio of musicals about average Janes and Joes, all including some swell comical characters serving in the U.
BWW Review: BIG APPLE CIRCUS Flips and Flies Its Way Back To Lincoln Center
For the past couple of years, the sumptuous vocals of bluesy diva Storm Marrero has been seducing New York audiences in the erotic theatre/dance productions created at Company XIV, but the Brooklyn-born artist has found more family-friendly surroundings as the new ringmaster of The Big Apple Circus.
BWW Review: Raul Esparza and Krysta Rodriguez Clash in Theresa Rebeck's Art Vs. Commerce Comedy, SEARED
It's a bit of a longshot, perhaps, but given the organization's tendency to honor less-than-traditional terpsichorean achievements, don't be too shocked if Raul Esparza is named as one of this season's Chita Rivera Award nominees as Outstanding Male Dancer in an Off-Broadway show.
BWW Review: Something Edited This Way Comes as John Doyle Directs Corey Stoll, Nadia Bowers in MACBETH
'When shall we three meet again?' the eight weird sisters ask each other in unison at the outset of director John Doyle's Classic Stage Company production of Shakespeare's Macbeth, shaved down to 100 minutes.
BWW REVIEW: Ntozake Shange's Groundbreaking FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE/WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF Returns To The Public
Back in 1976, when Ntozake Shange's ravishingly written celebration of survival, FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE/WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENOUGH, transferred from The Public Theater to The Booth, if would have been a safe bet to say that Broadway had seen nothing like it before.
BWW Review: Refugee Politics Leads To Sexual Politics In Sylvia Khoury's Absorbing POWER STRIP
There's more than one meaning to the title of Sylvia Khoury's relevant, absorbing and quite heartbreaking drama, Power Strip, being granted an excellent premiere production by Lincoln Center Theater's LCT3.
BWW Review: Real Life Provides The Intriguing Script For Tina Satter's Tense Drama IS THIS A ROOM
On June 3rd, 2017, 25-year-old United States Air Force Intelligence Specialist Veteran Reality Winner was arrested due to evidence that she had leaked to online news source The Intercept a classified government report suggesting that Russian hackers had accessed a voting software supplier, enabling
BWW Review: Harvey Fierstein Tips His Hat To The Iconic Abzug in BELLA BELLA
a?oeThis boy's club crap can't last.
BWW Review: Gerard Alessandrini's FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: THE NEXT GENERATION Aims Satirical Darts At Broadway's Freshest Targets
For those of us who began making regular pilgrimages to Palsson's Supper Club back in the early 80s to see Gerard Alessandrini's smart new revue pack with parody lyrics and impersonations that skewered the gods and goddesses of Times Square, Broadway just isn't Broadway without FORBIDDEN BROADWAY ar
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13 The Musical Griffin Theatre (8/14-8/23) PHOTOS |
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Bailey Swilley's Gimme A Sign! Soho Playhouse (9/17-9/17) |
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EN EL TIEMPO DE LAS MARIPOSAS Repertorio (1/07-12/31) |
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LA GRINGA Repertorio (2/08-12/31) |
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Bailey Swilley's Gimme A Sign! Soho Playhouse (9/20-9/20) |
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LA CASA DE BERNARDA ALBA Repertorio (11/15-12/31) |
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A Baby For Me? No Thank You, Please! Soho Playhouse (9/18-9/19) |