OFF-BROADWAY THEATER REVIEWS

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. ...

The Waterwell companypresents a musical adaptation of the Eugene O'Neill play....

August Wilson's bluesy drama receives a completely captivating Off-Broadway revival from The Signature Theatre Company. ...

Once again, large squares of multi-colored confetti are being tossed into the air by a young man who doesn't speak, and a terrible void left in New York's theatrical universe has been lovingly filled with the poetry, humor, romance and whimsy of Tom Jones' words and Harvey Schmidt's music....

Creation: A Clown Story Helps Adults and Children Have a Good Time...

A.R. Gurney's new play, based on his own 1940's Buffalo youth, is both a charming piece of nostalgia and a sharp commentary on the shrinking significance of the community that raised him...

Nilaja Sun's completely absorbing and exceptionally performed solo play, based on her experiences teaching in some of New York's toughest public schools, is easily one of the best offerings currently available in any New York theatre...

Children's storybooks come to musical life in this witty and delightful collection from TheatreworksUSA....

When Gabrielle Lansner's dancers shimmy and go-go to Philip Hamilton's rock and roll score, River Deep has a vibrant and nostalgic energy. It's when the music stops that the production gets messy....

I dare you to find a funnier two hours in town than the Pecadillo Theatre Company's new production of this 1937 show biz farce...

A new play about marital drama at the Theatre At St. Luke's....

Sallie Bingham's historical play 'Treason' delights audiences as the Perry Street Theatre's final performance...