New York theater

*****/***** (five out of five stars) The 2022-23 New York Theater season is finally upon us—one that we hope will remain uninterrupted by Covid lockdowns—and already there’s an interesting thematic pattern emerging. Though plays about anti-Semitism and the Holocaust have...

 **/***** (two out of five stars) If you’re the kind of person who finds Improv comedy unbearably cringey, try to imagine something that would add an audible eye roll to your uncomfortable squirming in your seat at an Improv show....

****/***** 4 out of 5 In a theater season in which there have been, inexplicably, a surfeit of new plays that are surrealist or absurdist (or both)—some good, others derivative and uninspired—it’s refreshing to see a revival of a masterwork...

 ****/*****  (four out of five stars)

A minimalistic, intimate stage at the Gene Frankel Theater. Two powerhouse actors gravitating into the deep space of this suspended and evocative play, colliding and landing on planets of opposites and attractions, will and destiny, love and dissolution, past &...

***/***** Three out of five stars Broadway, unlike off-Broadway or regional theater, has a special advantage the others don’t: the ability to attract incredibly famous actors to the stage. Consequently, even if the play they’re in isn’t critically acclaimed, fans...

*****/***** (five stars out of five) Raleigh County, West Virginia may only be around 500 miles from New York City, but in social and socio-political terms, it may as well be 5000 miles away, with an enormous lifestyle gulf in...

***/***** (three stars out of five) There’s a strange, subtle change coming over certain storylines in American Theater. One which makes us aware that despite seeming deficiencies in acceptance and tolerance in our society, there have actually been some major...

*/***** one star out of five