Tag Archives: Off-Broadway

Gloria, A Life by Emily Mann is a must-see for what it encourages – to understand ourselves today through viewing the past – and for its humanity, good will, and uplifting remembrance of history.

Theresa Rebeck's 'Downstairs' starring Tyne Daly and Time Daly is a drama-mystery, a thriller with sly, humorous overtones. As usual the playwright's particular and complex characterizations startle with their humanity and angst.

A smart, crisply written book by Peter Mills and Cara Reichel links a sequence of superb musical numbers, recounting in the best musical-theater tradition the little-known story of the U.S. Army's WWI female telephone switchboard operators.

Any day, give me the existential crisis of attempting to make sense of the uncertainty of consciousness, of shifting memory, felt emotional loss, pain, and the clown's struggle of existence.

Rarely does a Bertolt Brecht revival have the integrity and fevered energy of 'The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui' at Classic Stage, starring 'SVU''s Raúl Esparza.

'Mother of the Maid' should not be missed. It must be seen for Glenn Close's electrifying performance and Grace Van Patten's humanly realized Joan of Arc.

I cannot imagine any writer but Conor McPherson effectively providing such a dramatic flight path to Bob Dylan’s repertoire. The playwright’s eerie, atmospheric writing effectively implies connections between the material at hand and otherworldly realms. Dylan’s titular song is part of the hybrid McPherson musical Girl from the North Country, …

Being Deaf today brings with it controversies over vocalizing, lip reading, and ASL. All of that helps define just one character in Craig Lucas's kaleidoscope of a drama, now in its New York premiere at Playwrights Horizons.

'The True' succeeds on many levels: the fascinating characters, the acting, the directing. Though the individuals are factual, White teases out the emotional tenor between and among these Albany political operators.

Edie Falco is an unstoppable force as a political operator in this vivid dissection of nitty-gritty party politics.