OFF-BROADWAY THEATER REVIEWS

Be sure and check your brain at the door because you might find yourself laughing your head off at Christopher Durang and Peter Melnick's hilarious and tuneful film noir spoof...

Perhaps Yasmina Reza's intention was to write the play Chekhov would have written if he thought he was Pirandello....

New cast members Jayne Paterson, Constantine Maroulis and Rick Hip-Flores join Robert Cuccioli and Gay Marshall in director Gordon Greenberg's emotional carousel ride...

Michael Puzzo's hilarious play about an instant messaging situation turned awry leaves audiences in stitches....

Richard Nelson's drama about Frank Lloyd Wright's family life is lacking, but Peter Weller dazzles in the title role...

The New Group revives Wallace Shawn's 1990 monologue about a man feeling guilt for his privileged life...

Scott Brown and Anthony King's hilarious salute to those whose passion for musical theatre far exceeds their artistic taste and talent moves to The Actors' Playhouse...

When the lights go out on New York City in the blackout of 2003, six strangers collide on a street corner in Hell's Kitchen. Their lives quickly intertwine, but when the power is restored, this newly formed community struggles to hold on to what they found in the dark. ...

Science and love come together in Carole Bugge's smart new drama....

Israel Horovitz's play begins with the present day chancellor of Germany, Rudolph Stroiber, deciding to make amends for the Holocaust by inviting 6 million Jews from anywhere in the world to come to his country, where they'll be given jobs and granted automatic citizenship....

The daffy new musical courtesy of the Upright Citizens Brigade is currently running at 59E59....

The Actors' Company Theatre mounts a sterling new production of David Story's 1970 Tony-nominated comedy/drama ...

This new musical revue spoofs all the dreaded stress that comes every December, like trying not to embarrass yourself at multiple holiday parties, keeping family gatherings civil, buying the right present for your better half and trying not to gain weight while everyone's throwing food in your direc...

Old dramatic chestnuts get a healthy workout in this two-person story of young meets old, washed up meets on the rise and substance abuser meets… well, substance abuser...

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 ...