New York theater

*****/ *****  5 out of 5 stars Jukebox musicals are usually a gimmick. They’re designed to bring fans of a certain artist or band into the theater by appealing to their desire to hear their favorite songs performed live by...

***  3/ 5 stars In the latter half of the 20th century many American playwrights seemed to have an obsession with white, rural, working-class families. Their stories were, ostensibly, instructive insights into failures of the American Dream. Writers like Sam...

*/ *****  1 out of 5 Lynn Nottage has a remarkable knack for channeling the complexities and anxieties of working class Americans in ways that social scientists and politicians have never been able to. In the very excellent "Sweat", she...

During the past few months, it was starting to seem like slowly but surely, the New York theater industry was getting back on its feet after the devastating setbacks caused by pandemic-initiated total closure for over a year and a...

I think that every artist who comes to the city gets stimulated by its energy. It’s just the perfect place to be as a young artist. There’s no place like NYC: it’s considered the capital of the world for a...

Born in Vlorë, Albania, and raised in Italy, Aleksandros Memetaj brings his “Sweet home Albania” to the InScena! Festival on May 6th, 7th, 8th. His show is a universal story of immigration, that talks about its dangers and sacrifices, but...

Radical ideas, heartbreaking story and a quest for redemption: Ernesto Orrico comes back to In Scena! and this time brief the hurtfully human story of Joe Zangara to New York's theatres. On stage on May 4th and 7th, this show...

"Dieci" is an emotional and ironic adaptation of Longo’s book that presents the hidden shades of humans through Naples’s harsh realities. Ten characters and ten different lives to tell the heartbreaking stories of people that seem to be forgotten by...