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Comedy Club Review: GREENPOINT COMEDY CLUB (Brooklyn)
LAUGHS LAND IN GREENPOINT A new venue brings stand-up—and a sense of community—to north Brooklyn Attention north Brooklyn residents! A new comedy club is born in Greenpoint—the first comedy club to come to the neighborhood and appropriately bearing its namesake. Settled at 66 Greenpoint Avenue, steps from a stunning view of the East River, stands…
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Theater Review: REVENGE OF THE SOY BOY (FRIGID New York City Fringe Festival)
MAY THE FUNNY FORCE BE WITH YOU A solo show that blasts fandom toxicity into hyperspace Plot a course, prime the hyperdrive, and punch it, Chewie! A sci-fi multimedia solo show lands in the 2026 FRIGID New York City Fringe Festival. “Ahsoka Tano is arguably one of the most Millennial Star Wars characters to ever…
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Off-Broadway Review: SEXUAL MISCONDUCT OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES (Minetta Lane Theatre)
A DANGEROUS STORY, TOLD FROM THE OTHER SIDE A provocative two-hander that shifts the lens onto the older man in a fraught relationship Teacher-student affairs are a classic subject of drama for novels, stage, screen, and beyond, from works like The History Boys to Parallel Lines to Notes on a Scandal. First staged in 2020…
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Off-Broadway Review: ANTIGONE IN ANALYSIS (Peculiar Works Project at La MaMa)
A FEMINIST REFRAME Peculiar Works Project’s ambitious reimagining offers striking ideas but struggles to make its case with uneven execution Alessandra Lopez There’s an ancient folktale of a hero who arranges a proper burial for a corpse, whose spirit—the “grateful dead”—would later come to the hero’s aid. A common story passed around to emphasize the…
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Off-Broadway Review: BIGFOOT! (New York City Center Stage 1)
BIGFOOT! BRINGS DOWNTOWN MUSICAL MISCHIEF UPTOWN A raunchy, campy comedy with big laughs, big fur, and a surprisingly sharp anti-capitalist bite It’s not every day downtown theater energy comes uptown; when it does, it’s almost always sanitized and robbed of the charm and authenticity that made it so deliciously twisted in the first place. Luckily,…
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Off-Broadway Review: THE MONSTERS (Manhattan Theatre Club at NY City Center)
BOXING, BLOODLINES, AND BURIED TRAUMA A smart, muscular, triumphant and thrilling two-hander that lands every blow What’s worse? The monsters we fight, the monsters we carry, or the monsters we are? Luckily for us, the emotional two-hander The Monsters, which opened tonight at Manhattan Theatre Club’s NY City Center Stage II, safely contains one such…
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Off-Broadway Review: AI YAH GOY VEY! – ADVENTURES OF A DIM SUN IN SEARCH OF HIS WANTON FATHER (A.R.T./New York Theatres)
DIM SUM, DAD JOKES, AND DOWNTOWN DELIRIUM It’s ridiculous, but Richard Chang’s solo show serves up wordplay, warmth, and a wonderfully wild cultural mashup. ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ “It’s called a Yamaha,” Richard Chang jokes while pointing to his yarmulke. This and many other puns and plays on words…
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Off-Broadway Review: DATA (Lucille Lortel Theatre)
ALGORITHMS, ETHICS, AND THE COST OF INFORMATION A sleek, jargon-charged tech thriller that trades in privacy, prediction, and moral gray zones Between ownership battles over data-rich social media platforms (TikTok), harvesting scandals (Cambridge Analytica), and whistleblowers exposing algorithmic harm (Frances Haugen), questions about data ownership, citizens’ privacy, and the exact inner workings of the websites…
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Off-Broadway Review: BASIL TWIST’S PUPPET PARTY (HERE Arts’ Dorothy B. Williams Theatre)
One of the great pleasures of New York City is that it’s a place where it feels perfectly normal to hear someone say, “I’m headed to SoHo to see an adult Christmas puppet show,” and mean it sincerely. Now in its 26th year, Basil Twist’s Puppet Parlor, playing at HERE Arts Center, has become exactly…
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Broadway Review: LIBERATION (James Earl Jones Theatre)
A TIME WARP TO THE 1970s WOMEN’S MOVEMENT, REFRACTED THROUGH 2025 EYES STILL SQUINTING TOWARDS EQUALITY “Why does it feel somehow like it’s all slipping away? And how do we get it back?” Susannah Flood That’s one of the questions posed about the condition of gender equality in 2025 America at the start of Liberation,…
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Off-Broadway Review: HEAUX CHURCH (Ars Nova)
A HEAUX-LY COMMUNION Ars Nova kicks off its 2025–2026 season with a salacious and sanctified evening featuring Brandon Kyle Goodman in Heaux Church—a sermon on unabashed self-love (and yes, “Heaux” is pronounced “ho”). You can file this delightful solo show under Off-Broadway, but once you step into the theater… ahem… chapel, it’s clear we’re in…
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Off-Broadway Review: NOTHING CAN TAKE YOU FROM THE HAND OF GOD (Playwrights Horizon)
NOTHING CAN TAKE YOU FROM JEN TULLOCK’S PERFORMANCE We’ve all seen the headline flash on TV: — New Book Tells All About Author’s Escape from Restrictive Religious Upbringing. It’ss a story that gets covered countless times, no matter what religion or community is involved. People love a tale of empowerment and escape from oppression. Throw…
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Off-Broadway Review: THIS MUCH I KNOW (59E59 Theatres)
MIND OVER MATTER: IDEAS TAKE CENTER STAGE IN JOHNATHAN SPECTOR’S INTELLECTUALLY COMPELLING THIS MUCH I KNOW When was the last time you made a choice? What went through your mind? Did you know what you were going to choose before you did it? The psychology professor (Firdous Bamji) who steps onstage at 59E59 Theaters at…
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Broadway Review: PUNCH (Manhattan Theatre Club at Samuel J. Friedman Theatre)
A KNOCKOUT OF CONSCIENCE You always “step in,” says Jacob — that’s what you do when your mates are about to fight. Growing up in The Meadows, Nottingham, that lesson kept him safe (well, safer) than some. But now the loyalty that once protected him has undone him: a single punch, thrown in defense of…
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Off-Broadway Review: BREAKING THE FIFTH WALL (Lou Wall at SoHo Playhouse and on Tour)
LOU WALL SLAYS, AND THAT’S NO LIE Whether a comedian is obligated to tell the truth in their act comes up in mainstream discourse every once and a while. Plenty of comedians start a comedy bit with “You know, a funny thing happened to me on my way over here,” knowing full well it happened…
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Off-Broadway Review: EXORCISTIC: THE ROCK MUSICAL (Asylum NYC)
THIS SOW BELONGS TO EVERYBODY There’s the actor’s nightmare, there’s nightmare productions, and then there’s Excorcistic: The Rock Musical which is nightmarishly twisted and sick. But don’t worry, it’s a good thing here. The horror musical genre is alive and well, from classics like Sweeney Todd to rock musical adaptations of horror films like Evil…
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Off-Broadway Review: LORD NIL: 7 DEADLY SINS (Stage 42)
SINSATIONAL SENSATIONALISM OR, WHAT HAPPENS IN TIMES SQUARE, STAYS IN TIMES SQUARE Escape artistry emerged as a formal performance art in the 1860s, when the Davenport Brothers popularized their rope-escape act—paving the way for Harry Houdini, whose name became nearly synonymous with the craft by the 1890s. Carrying on this proud, magic-adjacent tradition is Lord…
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Off-Broadway Review: JUST THE TIP (Jon Schnitzer at SoHo Playhouse’s Huron Club)
HOLY LAND, HOLY LAUGHS Comedy goes a lot of places, and some say a comedian can and should be able to joke about anything. But what if a comedian wants to go to Israel and the Palestinian territories? What if that comedian wants to tell jokes about it? Jon Schnitzer is not the first comedian…
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Cabaret Review: UNDRESSED: THE MUSICAL (Red Eye NY)
UNMENTIONABLES WORTH MENTIONING New Yorkers are generally up for anything. Improv musical? Sure. Improv musical with five men in their underwear? Absolutely! Improv musical based on your most embarrassing moment in public? Uhhh… Luckily, the talented performers of Undressed: The Musical even the playing field by performing in their knickers. The audience aren’t the only…
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Cabaret Review: THEATER ADULT with GIANMARCO SORESI (Joe’s Pub at Public Theater)
QUIPS AND CHORDS Seasoned comedian Gianmarco Soresi asked a jovial audience member at Public Theater’s cozy Joe’s Pub: “Did you go to school for musical theater?”; “What was the last musical you booked?”; and “Could you sing a little of it right now?” At first this moment is playful crowd work, but when Gianmarco summons…
Music Review: NELLIE McKAY (City Vineyard)
by Rob Lester | April 29, 2026
in Cabaret, New YorkOff-Broadway Review: BROKEN SNOW (Theatre 71)
by Gregory Fletcher | April 28, 2026
in New York, TheaterTheater Review: THE SECRET SHARER (DNAWorks at Emerson Paramount Center)
by Lynne Weiss | April 27, 2026
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