Is this a “show trial” or a “trial show”? The characters themselves can’t seem to decide in Laura Zlatov’s stinging political satire (which uses the former name) now playing at the tiny Tank theater ...

The concept falls flat in Shakespeare in the Park’s first offering this summer. Lorin Wertheimer reviews. Normally, I’d use this space to summarize the plot, but the story of Romeo and Juliet, so ...

An unusual dance/thriller hybrid builds to a striking ending. Loren Noveck reviews. An unsettled, uneasy pairing of a rural crime story (whose mystery, as noted, lies more in the puzzling ...

William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin’s musical comes back to New York with the warmth of an old friend. Lane Williamson reviews. William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin’s delightfully quirky musical The 25th ...

Lately, I’ve been going to shows with a friend who has not seen a lot of theater. As we sat down, she was peppering me with questions about Ivanov, but I did not have many answers. It was my first ...

Loren Noveck is not wooed by the combination of Britney Spears and happy ever after. I’m usually a sucker for a fractured fairy tale or a feminist spin on the classics. And yet Once Upon a One More ...

A trip down the rabbit hole of the manosphere brings both empathy and frustration. Loren Noveck reviews. The men of Degenerates are lonely, angry, and wounded; the world has rejected them and ...

Eliya Smith’s play about four teenaged girls is raw and messy and heartbreaking and joyful all at once. Loren Noveck reviews. Everything matters. Everything is hilarious. Everything is the worst. As I ...

The second Broadway revival of Ahrens, Flaherty, and McNally’s musical about America opens, powerful as ever, at Lincoln Center. Lane Williamson reviews. It remains the best musical about America.

Jean Genet would have Thoughts about TikTok. Loren Noveck reviews the latest from digital provocateur Kip Williams. Jean Genet–ingenious at blurring the line between reality and fantasy, of the ...

Speculative fiction about Prince George is surrounded by more personal stories in Jordan Tannahill’s new play. Lane Williamson reviews. I’m finding it difficult to articulate how I felt about Prince ...

This vampire musical succeeds on spectacle, but belabors its themes. Loren Noveck reviews. It is telling that the website for The Lost Boys, a new musical adaptation of the 1980s horror comedy film, ...