An odd and lovely play is opening at Playwrights Horizons on March 5th and running through March 19th. Written by Agnes Borinsky and directe...

My sister once said that, while the worst men are incredibly sleazy, the worst women are incredibly stupid. In the world premiere of The Pai...

First, behold the title:  If  Pretty  Hurts  Ugly  Must Be a Muhfucka,  sparkling with energy. Next, the structure: playwright Tori Sampson...

In 2018, I saw 74 shows. Only nine of them were on Broadway; those prices, even when discounted, keep scaring me away. However, I've l...

I expected to like Noura , Heather Raffo's play at Playwrights Horizon. I knew it was about a Christian Iraqi family living in the US, w...

I see political correctness as largely a good thing. For me, it connotes trying to honor other people and their needs; calling people by the...

Craig Lucas's new play, I Was Most Alive With You , is impressively ambitious. Performed simultaneously in English and American Sign Lan...

Jordan Harrison's annoyingly didactic Log Cabin  presents characters who come across as op-ed essays rather than humans. There's a g...

In Robert O'Hara's futuristic, dystopian fable  Mankind , currently at Playwrights Horizons, women are extinct and men have evolved ...

Robert O'Hara's new comedy Mankind , which he also directs, doesn't officially open at Playwright's Horizon until January 8,...

There is a certain gravitas that automatically attaches to a play about dementia starring Deanna Dunagan and Peter Friedman and produced at ...

Familiar , by the in-demand playwright and actress Danai Gurira ( Eclipsed, The Walking Dead ), is a kitchen sink comedy-drama with an Afric...

Lucas Hnath's The Christians,  which has recently been extended through mid-October at Playwrights Horizons, is a compelling play about...

Photo: Joan Marcus Bruce Norris can write. His dialogue crackles, his jokes mostly land, and occasionally he creates surprisingly vivid,...

Carrie Coon and Florencia Lozano photo: Joan Marcus I can’t stand people who talk during a performance. It demonstrates rudeness in the...

 photo: Jeremy Daniel Since his brilliant debut play, A Bright New Boise , had its New York premiere in 2010, Samuel D. Hunter's ...

By intermission, I found  Bootycandy  to be an entertaining, occasionally insightful, and random collection of skits. By the end of the play...