OFF-BROADWAY THEATER REVIEWS

After years of entertaining audiences on television('Meet the Mets'), Broadway ('They're Playing Our Song') and cruise ships across the friendly seas, Jake Ehrenreich opens off-Broadway at the American Theatre of Actors, where his entertainment career just got a bit bumpier than any of those o...

Karoline Leach's new play matches an Edwardian pick-up artist and a dazzled spinster...

You can wear out a dozen loofahs exfoliating the layers of satire Sandra Bernhard uses to play her audience...

Amy Irving plays American poet Elizabeth Bishop in Marta Góes' solo play...

Becca Ayers is featured as plain(?) Sarah in a revival of the touching and funny family musical based on Patricia MacLachlan's book...

Suzanne Bradbeer's study of teenage angst and identity opened last week at the Vital Theatre Company...

Sherry Glaser uses a lot of Borscht Belt humor in playing five members of a Jewish family...

In David Grimm's Restoration style comedy, Michael Stuhlbar and Euan Morton are strong contenders for the title of cutest couple of the theatre season ...

Christine Ebersole is sublime in the most perfectly matched starring role of her career...

With a majestic, flamenco-inspired score by Michael John LaChiusa, dynamic dance-infused direction by Graciela Daniele and a powerful, anguished performance by Phylicia Rashad in the title role, Bernarda Alba is a captivating ninety minutes of intense and inspired musical drama ...

Rose Franken's 1944 comedy tests a couple's marriage after wartime separation...

The legend of King Arthur is retold with a feminist slant in this new production by Glory Sims Bowen....

Synapse Productions presents Barbara Hammonds' funny and moving tale of marriage and memory....

Ed Dixon's musical version of the infamous erotic novel plays like a promising work in progress...

Ethics, ideals, politics and pollution all get a sound ribbing in Brian Dykstra's savagely comic satire....

In this romantic musical comedy Ryan Cunningham's laugh-filled book and cleverly constructed lyrics matched with Joshua Salzman's light jazz/pop score is a winning combination...

This musical Arabian night is more of a tired businessman show gleefully passing itself off as high art...

Charles Grodin's unbearably unfunny comedy about the bigotry of a co-op board at a Fifth Avenue luxury building...

KoPan's production of 'The Black Bird Returns' puts a new perspective on the trials and tribulations of the heart....

The Mentalizer, Ehud Segev, is back to his old tricks again in his latest theater endeavor Anomal....

In The Continuum holds nothing back as audiences watch remarkable acting on a topic deserves the attention....

The new madcap comedy, Bag Fulla Money, written by Scott Brooks, is now finding its comedic legs at the Clurman Theatre on 42nd streets Theatre Row. Billed as a 'fast and furious four-letter-word farce,' Money takes a peek inside the kitchen of an enterprise conglomerate where millions of Ben Frankl...

Bradford Louryk plays the first famous transsexual in a unique and interesting performance piece...

Word Monger Productions presents Brian Park's latest comedy of Presidents, paranoia, and poop....

John Cariani's romantic comedy might be giving jaded New Yorkers a welcome case of the warm fuzzies this winter ...