OFF-BROADWAY THEATER REVIEWS

Broadway veterans Jim Brochu and Steve Schalchlin from The Last Session come back to New York with their latest venture The Big Voice: God or Merman?...

The Signature Theatre Company's flawless production is as good an evening of drama as you're currently bound to get anywhere in New York ...

I dare you to find a funnier two hours in town than the Pecadillo Theatre Company's new production of this rib tickling show biz farce...

GrooveLily's new cabaret-cum-performance art piece doesn't quite fill one with the Christmas spirit....

Writer and performer Louie Liberti takes his play, Almost Made, back to its home after an extended sold-out run on the west coast ...

The uninspired book and lyrics of this musical farce about political and romantic antics at the United Nations exercises veto power over the best efforts of a very talented supporting cast and some pleasant and catchy tunes ...

Tim Crouch's inventive new play stars a different actor each night-- an actor who has never seen nor read the script before stepping on stage....

Reichel and Mills' new musical captures small-town America coming together in the face of adversity....

Annie Golden and Eartha Kitt lead a solid cast of musical theatre performers in a tepid musical that would aspire to be bland...

A.R. Gurney's new comedy, set in the near future, is about the discovery of a lost play by an obscure writer named A.R. Gurney...

For those very cultured New York theatre-goers who felt last season's Martin McDonagh bloodbath The Lieutenant of Inishmore wasn't quite graphically violent enough to satisfy their very refined tastes, might I suggest an evening at the latest offering to grace the Off-Broadway stage, Evil Dead: The ...

The Seven Deadly Virtues, Those Ghastly Little Traps...

If there's a funnier, more enchanting or better-acted romantic comedy playing in New York than Kathleen Clark's story of septuagenarians faling in love, I sure can't name it....

Douglas Carter Beane's hilarious spoof of nighttime soaps combines bitchy drama, contemporary politics and the net-less tightrope walking excitement of intentionally under-rehearsed theatre...

After all the controversy, the accusations of censorship and the petitions and letters of protest, Britain's Royal Court Theatre production has finally made it to New York. Sadly, the off-stage drama far exceeds anything taking place on stage at the Minetta Lane Theatre...

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Tanya Barfield's fascinating study of culture, history, and family is running at Playwrights Horizons....

Although Muriel Spark's novel could certainly make for a fine play, Jay Presson Allen's stage adaptation is better served when treated as a star vehicle...

MCC brings back the original actors and director for their 10 Anniversary production of Russell Lees' vision of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger...

St. John Ervine's drama about a poor Irish family premiered on Broadway over 75 years ago, but The Mint Theater brings a unique freshness and vitality in their dedication to the past...

Richard Vetere's play lacks wit or any kind of empathy, but it might have stood a chance if Evan Bergman's blocking weren't so static ...

Bruce Norris' wonderfully vicious and somewhat disturbing dark comedy targets smart, educated and supposedly open-minded ladder-climbers whose left-wing activism is generally defined by watching PBS...

Given a fine and well-sung premiere production by The York Theatre, this new musical about the widowed first lady is by turns engaging in its successes and frustrating in its failures...

Eve Ensler's gripping and provocative two-character play deals with the psychological aftermath of performing cruel acts in the service of one's country...

Awkwardly teetering between unfunny romantic comedy and unfunny sex farce, WASPs In Bed isn't exactly romantic or sexy either. ...