The angst over and the travails of publishing Anne Frank’s diary are depicted in this smart fantasia; Otto Frank interacts with the ghosts of his family.
Author: Darryl Reilly
Bug
Carrie Coon and Namir Smallwood are awesome in this wrenching revival of Tracy Letts’ wild 1996 underclass drama of drinking and drugging in a motel room.
A 2025 10 Best List
Two new dramas by an unheralded New York playwright, a Clifford Odets revival, and a Beckett triple bill were among the outstanding productions this year.
Full Contact
Gay Filipino American theater artist Ariel Estrada’s raw autobiographical solo show is an account of his painful life journey with ravishing stagecraft.
Gruesome Playground Injuries
Kara Young and Nicholas Braun star in this frenetic revival of the 2009 nonlinear fierce romantic drama; a couple self-harm themselves over decades.
Archduke
Patrick Page and Kristine Nielsen are in overdrive in this historical black comedy: three young men with TB are recruited to kill Franz Ferdinand in 1914.
Richard II
Michael Urie is dynamic as the tragic monarch in this exhilarating production; the costumes are modern, the set is abstract, and the cast is snappy.
Connoly
A suicidal young woman is regularly visited in a mental facility by her older sister in this challenging and resonant contemporary psychological drama.
Playing Shylock
Saul Rubinek dazzles and delights during this clever and moving autobiographical solo show about a cancelled production of “The Merchant of Venice.”
ZAGŁADA
Len Cariou is awesome as an elderly Polish former concentration camp guard detained in Queens in this spellbinding and twisty interrogation drama.