BWW Review: Traditional Marionettes Update the Scrooge Story in A CHRISTMAS CAROL, OY! HANUKKAH, MERRY KWANZAA, HAPPY RAMADAN at Theater For The New City
If you've seen Drunk History on television you will understand the vibe of this show.
Off-Off-Broadway Theater Reviews
The latest reviews and critic recommendations from Off-Off-Broadway.
BWW Review: A CITY OF REFUGE Offers Communion Amidst Crisis at The Center At West Park
Inspired by true events, A City of Refuge from Primitive Grace Theatre Ensemble brings the audience squarely to church, a haven-as-melting-pot that reaches its boiling point and beyond.
BWW Review: John Kevin Jones' Captivating Performance of A CHRISTMAS CAROL Returns To Merchant's House Museum
Since its first publication in 1843, Charles Dickens' holiday classic, A CHRISTMAS CAROL, has been adapted countless times for various stages, screens and pages, but undoubtedly the most authentic presentations of the story of the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts who assist in his transformat
BWW Review: David Bowie Catalog Interpreted In The Musically Gorgeous WHERE ARE WE NOW at La MaMa
Fans of David Bowie's music - and especially his lyrics - should immediately stop reading this review and book tickets to see the very limited run of Where Are We Now.
BWW Review: At J. Max Baker's ONE CHRISTMAS CAROL, One Man is All You Need
When a story is as woven in people's collective consciousness as A Christmas Carol is, how does one go about making their adaptation stand out amongst countless others? It turns out, all you have to do is be J.
BWW Review: Squawking slackers in the compelling world premiere THE WILD PARROTS OF CAMPBELL from NOW Collective at Cherry Lane Studio Theatre
In Sean Gorski's excellent scenic design, an inflatable parrot is perched on the back of a lounge chair.
BWW Review: Shuffle Over to the Secret Room for a Night of TRUFFLES
An Italian family in the midst of a celebration, thrown into disarray by a missing prized truffle, looming money issues and an unsolved murdera??it really can't get better than this, am I right? What sounds like the next great television drama is given a musical flare and thus becomes a production t
BWW Review: Socially contemplative A CHRISTMAS CAROL IN HARLEM at The Classical Theatre Of Harlem
A close friend recently told me there was no cure for climate change.
BWW Review: NEAR TO THE WILD HEART at The New Stage Theatre Company
Dark, deep, mysterious and moving, Near to the Wild Heart echoes the voice and valor of the award-winning 1943 novel by Jewish-Brazilian author Clarice Lispector.
BWW Review: More Than One Door Swings Open In A Funny And Thoughtful Play THE SANTA CLOSET From Houses On the Moon Theater Company
Christmas is fully represented on the stage in the small Teatro Círculo Theater.
BWW Review: THE WHITES Inverts Race at Theater For The New City
As creatively ambitious as it is confounding, THE WHITES illuminates a race-inverted space where Black is white, the Whites are 'black' and.
BWW Review: The Life and Death of Addiction in Pendleton King's COCAINE
Under the brilliant direction of Judith Feingold, with an exclusive three-performance run at the NuBox Theater (at the John DeSotelle Studio) in Hell's Kitchen, Cocaine is such an unexpectedly powerful piece that brings out the reality of addiction amidst the love of two young people, overcome by th
BWW Review: The New Legacy of J.D. Salinger in Solnik's A LIFE IN THE RYE
Presented by Two Tough Broads, directed by Joe John Battista and now in performances at the historic Theater for the New City, A Life In the Rye is truly an inspirational piece of theater that not only brings new life to J.
BWW Review: Creativity soars in the examination of toxic masculinity in the multimedia dance play BRANDOCAPOTE at The Tank
Truman Capote interviewed Marlon Brando in 1957.
BWW Review: Great Frights and Amazing Sights in Robinson's ALL HALLOWS EVE
Presented by Little Shadow Productions and Art Farm, and with music by Emmy Award-winning Paul Rudolph, ALL HALLOWS EVE is an immersive experience that compels its audience to adopt the belief of a child - to open up its collective mind and believe in something whose existence cannot be simply expla
BWW Review: Governmental bureaucracy is serious yet slyly hilarious in Voyage Theater Company's THE HOPE HYPOTHESIS at The Sheen Center
Is playwright Cat Miller in possession of an oversized blender? For her play The Hope Hypothesis, she tosses in Alice in Wonderland, a Kafkaesque tale, absurdist comedy, a spy thriller, soap opera histrionics and a deep state government mystery all together.
BWW Review: AMERICAN FABLES at HERE
In Eric Fallen's timely AMERICAN FABLES, all is fair in love and war as battle lines are drawn in five taut morality tales.
BWW Review: THE GLASS MENAGERIE Proves to be Hauntingly Beautiful at The Wild Project
Directors Austin Pendleton and Peter Bloch have brought a more chilling atmosphere to the Glass Menagerie at The Wild Project.
BWW Review: NOTES ON MY MOTHER'S DECLINE Echoes Grief at Fourth Street Theatre
With a certain and subdued beauty, NOTES ON MY MOTHER'S DECLINE softens the blow that expectations, memory and loss deal to a contemporary mother/son relationship.
BWW Review: The Wick Theatre Set To Open Season With Hot Shoe Shuffle
Off Broadway enthusiasts are increasingly adding the tag South Broadway to denote the fact that first rate productions are being mounted by creative and savvy theater owners in their audience friendly state of the art venues in South Florida.
BWW Review: Living Life to the Fullest with Valerie David's THE PINK HULK
Written/performed by Valerie David and directed by Padraic Lillis and Maris Heller, THE PINK HULK is just about to finish its run at the 14th Street Y.
BWW Review: The Preciousness of Life in Beckim's NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY
In NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY, Chad Beckim shows how a young woman's addiction to opioids affects not only her, but those who seek to help her.
BWW Review: Lily Houghton's OF THE WOMAN Explores Commercialized Feminism and the Goddess Within
'It's selfish to assume nature blooms just for you.
BWW Review: World Premiere of THE FLOORSHOW at Theatre 71 by Combustion Collective
Written by Dann Berg and Avital Asuleen (Director/Choreographer), THE FLOORSHOW intersperses song-and-dance numbers into the dramatization of the personal and professional hurdles that an all-female performance troupe faces in 1951 New York City.
BWW Review: John Kevin Jones Bring Exquisite Chill To KILLING AN EVENING WITH EDGAR ALLAN POE
You might call John Kevin Jones the 'resident author' of East 4th Street's 1832 landmark Merchant's House Museum, though not in the traditional sense.
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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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New Victory Dance: Program B New Victory Theater (7/22-7/22) |
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ATW Play Reading: El Tiempo Que Tenemos by Ollie Corchado Actors Theatre Workshop (7/11-7/11) |
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Dr Kara Kibara – The Love Guru Brooklyn Art Haus (7/16-7/16) |