New York theater

Most critics considered it far too esoteric for mainstream audiences, and unlikely to move to Broadway, but it has now transferred gloriously

A modern, somewhat interactive, minimalist interpretation come to New York from London’s Donmar Warehouse

**½ / ***** (two and a half stars out of five) Lennox Mutual—a new experimental and immersive theater piece from “alternate reality theater” company Candle House Collective—invites its audience to inhabit its singular world, one member at a time. Experienced...

****/***** (four out of five stars) There is no place quite like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and no people who know it quite as intimately as the hundreds of security guards who pace its marble and wood floors—and who...

April in New York in the theater world is the busiest time of all, with new shows opening at a rate of several per week, as producers try to launch their shows before the end-of-month deadlines for Tony Award nominations...

***/***** (three out of five stars)  In Eric Bogosian’s dark play Humpty-Dumpty, now in its NYC premiere at the Chain Theatre, four city slickers attempt to get away from it all in a remote cabin in the woods, which works...

Like a good television show, it's deftly edited and produced, taking advantage of George Clooney's star power to make a statement about the power of visual media

*****/***** (five out of five stars Let’s cut to the chase: Purpose, the latest play to come from the brilliant mind of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Appropriate), is likely to not only win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama this year, but the Tony...

With the second half of the 2024-25 theater season in full swing, there are Broadway plays opening weekly, as they will be until the Tony nomination deadline at the end of April. In the meantime, one mustn’t forget the very...

*****/***** (5 stars out of 5) Laughter is the best medicine, as the saying goes—especially in these troubled times. But how that medicine is prescribed and administered can vary from culture to culture. That’s the surprise and delight of Operation Mincemeat, now...