
Anne Gridley begins "Watch Me Walk" by taking its title at punishingly literal face value. She introduces herself, grips her walking stick—never a cane, a semantic correction that quickly …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:51AMThe choreography by Toran X. Moore is exquisitely attuned to both context and cast. Moore’s steps and motifs create a full canvas of movement that breathes with the beat and bends to the d…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:24PMSarah Kirkland Snider’s first opera arrives with a confidence that feels almost paradoxical: it is at once tightly focused and lavishly expansive, a work that fixes its gaze on a single hi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:23PMWhat "If We Kiss" captures, with rare delicacy, is the way young people experience such convergences as both comic and catastrophic. The play treats adolescent feeling with respect, refusing…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:32PMGreenberg’s greatest achievement is his refusal to inflate or apologize for the material. He treats "The Baker’s Wife" as what it is: a musical of sensibility rather than momentum, conce…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:30PMIn "BUM BUM (or, this farce has Autism)," EPIC Players—New York’s indefatigable standard-bearer for neuroinclusive performance—unfurls a world premiere that feels less like a conventio…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:41PMIn the cavernous expanse of the Park Avenue Armory, where spectacle often arrives inflated to mythic proportions, "The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions" materializes as a freque…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:28PMIraisa Ann Reilly in her one-woman show “A Bodega Princess Remembers La Fiesta de los Reyes Magos, 1998” at Ensemble Studio Theatre (Photo credit: Valerie Terranova) If you venture into …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:09PMIn its final form, the piece stands as both elegy and proclamation: a testament to a heritage reclaimed, and to the fierce, necessary act of making contact—full, unguarded, and profoundly …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:38PMBy the time the play reaches its understated yet piercing climax, the question is no longer whether ChiChi and Theodore are “right” for one another—though that question lingers—but r…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:29PMIf the Muppets are deployed as window dressing, the illusions themselves are a museum of inherited gestures. Lake presents the familiar canon of contemporary stage magic: the bifurcated assi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:54PMBeneath the camp and chaos, 'Bat Boy" remains what it always was: a parable with a pulse. O’Keefe’s rock-opera score jabs with wit but bleeds sincerity; his lyrics cut deep with irony an…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:08PM'The Wasp" is not for the faint of heart. It confronts the audience with themes of mental illness, domestic violence, and sexual trauma, yet resists the easy descent into nihilism. For all i…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:44PMAt the center of it all stands Apple, whose performance is nothing short of revelatory. As Catherine, she is brittle yet unbowed; as Hannah, she radiates vitality and purpose. Her voice—bo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:12AMTo have emerged from a childhood like Zoë Kim’s—with enough self-awareness, critical distance, and sheer emotional stamina to craft a piece of theater with even a hint of uplift—is in…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:50PMIn "Heaux Church," writer-performer Brandon Kyle Goodman does not so much deliver a sermon as they detonate one—turning the pious pulpit upside down and shaking loose its centuries of sham…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:54AMUnder Carsen Joenk’s clean, clever direction, Scotti’s writing finds a delicate equilibrium — biting, funny, and deeply humane. The quartet of women are precisely dressed by designer I…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:56PMAri’el Stachel in his one-man show “Other” at Greenwich House Theatre (Photo credit: Ogata Photography) In his solo show Other, now unfolding with searing intensity at the intimate Gre…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:03PMTo describe "Oratorio" is to flirt with the inadequacy of language. It is a musical work—a sung-through piece in the formal lineage of the oratorio, that 17th-century form that eschews sta…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:02PMJen Tullock in the one-woman play “Nothing Can Take You from the Hand of God” at Playwrights Horizons (Photo credit: Maria Baranova) In Nothing Can Take You from the Hand of God, the mes…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:32PM"Italian American Reconciliation" may not be peak Shanley, but in the capable hands of this cast and creative team, it becomes something rare: a flawed but full-hearted theatrical reverie, e…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:20PMUnder the weight of the show's ambition, Dylan Mulvaney is a star. Not in the manufactured influencer sense, but in the time-honored theatrical tradition of the charismatic truth-teller who …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:57PMIt has taken nearly three decades, but Naomi Wallace’s feverish proletarian dreamscape "Slaughter City" has finally carved its way onto a New York stage—and in doing so, has made a queas…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:54PMThough it ends on a note of ambiguity—as any good speculative work should—'The Glitch" is resoundingly clear in its testament to the power of theater to interrogate our technological anx…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:23PMAmong her most haunting and meditative works is the slim yet searing "From Trinity to Trinity," an autobiographical pilgrimage undertaken in 1999 to the Trinity Site in New Mexico where the …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:06PMThe conceit is clever: each performance takes place in a real home, the precise address dispatched only the day before, like a speakeasy or secret society. A password grants entry. There’s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:14PMJennifer Kidwell’s "we come to collect: a flirtation, with capitalism" is not so much a theatrical production as it is a revelation—an offering, a conjuring, a glittering séance of self…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:40PMAnd by the time we arrive at "Fantasmas"—his 2024 HBO series that feels less like television and more like a guided tour through the psyche of a queer mystic armed with a glitter pen and a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:03AMCrafted with sensitivity and spectacle by playwright Darrah Cloud and brought to life with unflinching precision by director Sam Helfrich, "House of McQueen" dares to unravel the mythos of t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:56PMStill, for a piece that purports to tackle the complexity of addiction, "Sober Songs" often fails to excavate its deepest layers. Relapses, romantic entanglements, suicidal ideation, and ear…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:29AMThere’s a lot going on in this new musical about Alan Turing—and perhaps too much. In attempting to encompass the breadth of Turing’s extraordinary life, the production ends up overwhe…
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