Review: LET ME COOK FOR YOU: THE TRILOGY at Theaterlab
Family is truly everything, regardless of who you are or where you happen to come from.
Off-Off-Broadway Theater Reviews
The latest reviews and critic recommendations from Off-Off-Broadway.
Review: MEMORY EXAM at 59E59 Theaters is Compelling Theater
Now is the time to see a play that has great significance about people dealing with the aging process.
Review: PANDEMONIUM at Theater For The New City
Recently concluding its run at both the People’s Improv Theater (PIT) and Theater for the New City in New York City, Pandemonium is a new show written by Claude Solbik that, beneath its comical nature, questions whether our fate is truly written for us.
Review: ONCE UPON A (KOREAN) TIME at LA MAMA COMES IN HOT, STIRS THE POT
Presented by Ma-Yi Theater Company and directed by Obie-winner Ralph B.
Review: Get Ready to Experience THE PANIC OF '29 at 59E59 Theaters
'The Panic of ’29' is now being presented at 59E59 Theaters by Less Than Rent Theatre.
BWW Review: Downtown Urban Arts Festival Celebrates 20 Years This June at Theatre Row
The Downtown Urban Arts Festival (DUAF) was founded in 2001 on this basis: to bring a collection of new American works that, in their words, 'speaks to a whole generation whose lives defy categorizing along conventional lines.
BWW Review: BUGGY BABY Zigzags Down A Humor-Horror Rabbit Hole at APAC
Surreal and surreptitious, the comedy-horror BUGGY BABY centers on some displaced immigrants in London seeking normalcy despite the lunacy in their lives.
BWW Review: THE LUCKY STAR at 59E59 Theaters is a Compelling Drama in the Theater's VOLT Festival
We attended a poignant production of The Lucky Star produced by The Directors Company, that featured outstanding direction by Noah Himmelstein, and an excellent cast.
BWW Review: COSMICOMICS at The New Stage Theatre
Thematically expansive within its intimate performance space, the paradoxical primordial soup swirling in COSMICOMICS blends the essential elements of earth, air, fire, and water with music, storytelling, ballet, and absurdist humor.
BWW Review: Peter Welch's LARRY AND LUCY A Work of Sheer Beauty at Theater for the New City
A story of two people sets the stage for some wondrous things to happen.
BWW Review: HEARTLAND at 59E59 Theaters-A Powerful Story Excellently Presented
Live theatre is back, and we are so pleased to visit 59E59 Theaters and see Heartland, a production presented by Geva Theatre Center.
BWW Review: SOMETIME CHILD: A RECLAMATION AND A REDEMPTION at Theater For The New City
On one side of the stage there is a tony law office with its desks, books and golf clubs.
BWW Reviews: The Conflicts of Fact, Fiction and Freedom in Solnik's THE UNAMERICAN
Recently concluding performances at Theater for the New City, The UnAmerican questions the power that is supposedly given to those who believe they are above the consensus of the many.
BWW Review: THE LEMON GIRLS OR ART FOR THE ARTLESS at La MaMa
These ladies don't lunch; they launch, twist, lurch, pop and topple.
BWW Review: JANE ANGER at New Ohio Theatre Gets Even and Gets Laughs with a Shakespearean Twist
Mixing history, mystery, sword play and word play, JANE ANGER takes a jab at right-sizing Shakespeare and does so with hilarious results.
BWW Review: ADDRESSLESS from Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is Interactive and Illuminating
Imaginative, interactive and illuminating, ADDRESSLESS humanizes the plight of three homeless and nomadic New Yorkers who are forced to keep couch surfing, shelter hopping, street roaming and panhandling to survive winter and beyond.
BWW Review: A Projection of Life's Little Journey in Takahashi's SHEEP #1
SHEEP #1 is the third program of the Japan Society’s current season, which focuses on New York City - based, female theater-makers.
BWW Review: Cosplay and Camaraderie Are Magic at Dutch Kills Theater Company's THE ANTELOPE PARTY
Brony-bonded and fully invested in cosplay camaraderie, the diverse ensemble of actors in Dutch Kills Theater Company's THE ANTELOPE PARTY at The Wild Project take playwright Eric John Meyer's prescient character-driven dramedy on a wild ride.
BWW Review: Game on! Cultures Clash in 1-2-3 MANHUNT at Theater for the New City
Fists fly and cultures clash atop a tenement building in New York’s Lower East Side in playwright Tony DiMurro’ 1-2-3 Manhunt, where two outsiders on the edge of different generations pledge allegiance to a combustible mentorship to save what’s sacred.
BWW Review: A Thread of Happiness Unwinds In Crispino's THIS WOULD LOOK GOOD ON YOU
THIS WOULD LOOK GOOD ON YOU is the experience - even a life goal - we have all been searching to fulfill.
BWW Review: The Haunted Tune of Nuance Theatre Co's CHAMBER MUSIC
Within the attic of an insane asylum, in a time and place of little importance and for reasons unknown, eight women of history convene to discuss the business of their lives - shells of people who once embodied greatness, now pieced together by moments of nostalgia and hysteria.
BWW Review: Never Losing Hope With SEX, SHOPLIFTING AND ROCK & ROLL at Theater For The New City
Directed by JD Glickman, Sex, Shoplifting and Rock & Roll concluded its two-week run this past Sunday.
BWW Review: FRAGMENTS, A LIVE AUDIO STORY is a Quiet, Yet Richly Introspective Experience
It’s been a long road since March 2020, but the world is healing and Mandie Rapoza’s performance art piece, FRAGMENTS, A LIVE AUDIO STORY, is a welcomed and much needed breath of fresh air in a world where in-person art has been almost completely dormant.
BWW Review: Defeat the Chauvinist Monster in BLACK FEMINIST VIDEO GAME streaming online
A mixture of Zoom live action, audience interaction and an old school video game, Darrel Alejandro Holnes' Black Feminist Video Game is overfilled with levels.
BWW Review: Claustrophobic angst in the outstanding FRANZ KAFKA'S LETTER TO MY FATHER at M-34
At some point during the outstanding live stream performance of Franz Kafka's Letter To My Father, yet another reference began swirling in my mind.
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A Tom Lehrer Cabaret The Green Room 42 (7/29-7/29) |
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Oil & Whiskey The Bitter End, Laurie Beechman, Prohibition, The Rat NYC (7/15-8/12) |
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Rock Never Dies Hard Rock Cafe (5/29-8/30) |
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SAY MY NAME AMT Theatre (7/23-7/26) |
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Shangri-La-La, a comedy musical about Siegfried & Roy American Theatre of Actors (ATA) (7/25-7/26) |
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Shrek, the Musical! Emelin Theater (7/09-7/12) |
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That Math Show Theater555 (6/11-8/16) |
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CATBARET! NYC’S CAT-THEMED VARIETY SHOW: MEOWY X-MAS & HAPPY HANUKKATS Caveat (12/19-12/19) |
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Clayton the Dork Dixon Place (7/17-7/17) |
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Nomadica: A Dreamlike Realm Joes Pub (8/29-8/29) |