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 ...

Melis Aker’s comedy, Fish, imagines teen girls as they test boundaries and things spiral well outside the realm of their control. Tatiana Pandiani’s sleek production platforms the piece well and ...

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 ...

Just in time for spooky season, Levi Holloway’s jump scare-athon Paranormal Activity is now tingling spines on Broadway after a national tour and several engagements in the UK. Based on Oren Peli’s ...

Playwright Sophie McIntosh and director Nina Goodheart bring us another of their nuanced blends of grim subject, dark humor, and genuine emotions. Loren Noveck reviews. There’s no looking away from ...

Classic nineteenth-century realism brought us the principle of Chekhov’s gun: “If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired.” Foosball, a new ...

A series of monologues, written and originally performed by Whoopi Goldberg more than four decades ago, make a grand return to New York in the hands of five stellar actresses. Juliet Hindell reviews.

Giulia: The Poison Queen of Palermo (with book, music, and lyrics by Jennifer Nettles, who also plays the title role) is two-thirds of the way to being a genuinely exciting new musical, starting with ...

A shaggy-dog song cycle that mixes quirky character sketches with genuine heart. Loren Noveck reviews. Our narrator/singer, played by Almond, is a neurotic, slightly introverted composer who gets ...

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 ...

Aimee Mann’s songs are the secret weapon of this new play with music. Loren Noveck reviews. In 1967, Susanna Kaysen was eighteen years old and already tired: weary of the indignities of being young ...

Preteen girls of color playing at being Native Americans in a YMCA program, accompanied by their white fathers? If that sounds cringe-inducing, indeed it is. That’s the point of the alternately ...