New York

With The Refuge Plays, English, Covenant  (one of my favorite plays from 2023) and more, Roundabout continues to prove itself as a template for creating the best theater in the country. The 2024-2025 Season Line-Up has been announced. individual tickets will go on sale at a later date for Roundabout Subscription Series, call 212.719.1300 or visit  Roundabout/Subscribe…

[Editor’s Note: Since reviewing this production at the All For One Festival in New York in 2013, the show has gone on to play over 300 performances in 28 US states and 8 countries. The Other Mozart starring Daniela Galli  returns to NYC January 12-15, 2024 at The Atelier @ Theaterlab, 357 W 36th St. 3rd…

THE WHOLE PICTURE Joben Productions presents The Whole of Time by Romina Paula, an Argentinean playwright and multidisciplinary artist. The play was translated by Jean Graham-Jones, a scholar of Argentine theatre and performance, and directed by Tony Torn with a downtown, raw, intimate approach. Part of the fun of attending this 70-minute performance is getting…

A GORGEOUS SHOW! An absolutely do-not-miss show at Playhouse 46 at St. Luke‘s, Make Me Gorgeous! is the reworking of several books by Kenneth aka Kate Marlowe, who has been described as one of the gayest and most openly homosexual personalities of the late 50s and early 60s.  Make Me Gorgeous! is the fabulous and incredible…

On Jan. 22 & 23, 2024, Amas Musical Theatre will present developmental lab readings of Falling For Make Believe: The Life and Songs of Lorenz Hart, with music by  Richard Rodgers, lyrics by  Lorenz Hart, and book by Mark Saltzman. The true story of  Lorenz Hart is presented for the first time – his struggle with the closet…

For one night only on February 18, 2024, Manhattan Concert Productions (MCP) will present the next installment of its Broadway Series: The beloved musical Children of Eden. Broadway veterans Tony Yazbeck (stage director) and Kimberly Grigsby (music director) will lead the chorus of over 350 singers from across the United States, a star-studded cast and…

TENNESSEE RISES AGAIN The Laurie Beechman Theatre will host the Off-Broadway sensation,  TENNESSEE RISING: THE DAWN OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, a solo bio-play which examines the young playwright, written and performed by Jacob Storms. Directed by Alan Cumming, the show runs January 19 – February 2, 2024. Jacob Storms in Tennessee Rising (Max Ruby) What led Tennessee…

PRAY FOR THE FUTURE OF MUSICAL COMEDY Silly with an uncompelling story and no logical momentum, the new musical The Jerusalem Syndrome by York Theatre is surprisingly entertaining, but that’s due to the boffo cast and some bouncy Catskill revue-type songs. But it could have been so much more. Chandler Sinks and Company I say…

THE CONSEQUENCES OF GREED: MANAHATTA IN MANHATTAN Before getting into the play, it is important to know that Manahatta is written by playwright, activist and attorney Mary Kathryn Nagle, who chose to follow the Native American tradition of storytelling, a very specific approach to dramaturgy. This oral tradition connects the past with the present becoming…

Odd Man Out  will return for strictly-limited nine-performance engagement at  HERE Arts Center from January 9-16, 2024.Odd Man Out  is an immersive experience in complete darkness in which the audience hears, smells, tastes, and feels the story of Alberto, a blind jazz musician traveling home from New York to Buenos Aires after decades of self-exile.The story is set…

TERRIFIC TURTURRO, MARVELOUS MARVEL, CUNNING KRAVITS AND RIOTOUS ROTH: DON’T MISS SABBATH’S THEATER The New Group‘s production of Sabbath’s Theater is a perfect adaptation of Philip Roth’s eponymous 1995 novel. This picaresque, transgressive tale of love and loss, life and death, takes place on Arnulfo Maldonado‘s black almost-bare stage with Jeff Croiter‘s very subtle lighting…

WE LIVE FOREVER When people think of Jews during the Holocaust (if they think of the Holocaust at all) they picture old and young passively assembling for deportation to concentration camps or lining up submissively to be sent to the gas chambers. But National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s newest offering Amid Falling Walls (Tvishn Falndike Vent)…

HARMONY IS A MUST-SEE I absolutely recommend Harmony, which made a transfer from Off-Broadway to Broadway after being tinkered with for years. Composer Barry Manilow  and librettist/lyricist  Bruce Sussman’s entertaining, surprisingly melancholic new musical depicts the real-life story of the all-male singing ensemble, the Comedian Harmonists. With buttery, close harmonies, an excellent cast, and Warren Carlyle‘s fluid…