“Did You Write This Scene or Did I?” THE UNKNOWN at Studio Seaview When critics dismissed David Cale’s “The Unknown” as a solo thriller with a “tired twist,” they revealed more about their own jadedness than about the play’s achievement. At Studio Seaview, in a production directed by Leigh Silverman, Sean Hayes delivers a performance of such psychological precision and…
It has been eleven years since the play “Every Brilliant Thing” penned by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe, opened Off Broadway at the intimate 199 seat Barrow Street Theatre in New York. The relatively unknown British comedian, Mr. Donahoe, also performed the solo piece which was based on his experience dealing with his mother’s and his own depression. After several…
A Theatrical Rorschach Test: CHINESE REPUBLICANS at Roundabout Alex Lin’s “Chinese Republicans” arrives at Roundabout Theatre Company with considerable ambition: a world premiere examining Asian-American identity through the lens of corporate culture, intergenerational trauma, sexual harassment, immigration policy, economic justice, and political ideology. Director Chay Yew stages the action primarily at Golden Unicorn, a Chinatown dim sum restaurant where four…
“We’re Here. Right Now: THE RESERVOIR’s Hard-Won Grace” Jake Brasch’s “The Reservoir,” now playing at Atlantic Theater Company, operates through counterpoint: addiction and dementia, comedy and grief, the impulse to fix and the necessity of letting go. Josh (Noah Galvin), a 20-something alcoholic fresh from a Florida rehab disaster, returns to Denver convinced he can save his four aging grandparents…
Many plays are based on factual events that had a great impact on society during the time they took place and usually make the protagonist the person who was responsible for the course of action. Such is the case of “Marcel on the Train,” penned by Marshall Pailet and Ethan Slater, now playing at Classic Stage Company. The plot revolves…
Life can be compared to a fighting match, where once you step into the ring you are alone. You become a monster defending themselves and fighting for their life, suffering from cuts and bruises but still determined to stay alive and win, not for fortune and fame, but just to survive. The new play “Monsters,” penned and directed by Ngozi…
“Parsing Joyce: ERS’s ULYSSES Demonstrates Without Embodying” Good readers create images as they navigate dense text, constructing a personal vision of the world on the page. Elevator Repair Service’s production of James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” currently playing at the Public Theater’s Martinson Hall, offers the company’s own kaleidoscopic image of Joyce’s epic novel—a playful, fragmented encounter with one of modernism’s most…
Don’t Look at Me: “The Other Place” and the Tragedy Critics Missed When Alexander Zeldin’s “The Other Place” premiered at London’s National Theatre in 2024, critics hailed it as “the outstanding play of the year” and praised its “taut, riveting naturalism.” That same production, now transferred to The Shed with most of its original cast, has met a decidedly cooler…
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Twenty-nine years after its London premiere, Tracy Letts’ “Bug” has finally crawled onto Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, and the question that matters most isn’t whether this David Cromer-directed production succeeds or fails—it’s whether Cromer understood what play he was directing. “Bug” is a psychiatric horror about folie à deux, the clinical term for shared psychotic…