Two young male and female singer-songwriters meet in Central Park’s Strawberry Fields in this engaging and bittersweet musical; life’s harshness intrudes.
Tag: Theater for the New City
A 2023 10 Best List
Two deceased Black female playwright’s works, personal Off-Off-Broadway shows, and two Broadway revivals were highlights of the New York stage this year.
A Stitch in Time
“The Emperor’s New Clothes” inspires this satirical musical set in a mythical nation ruled by an authoritarian president; it’s performed by a peppy cast.
Life is a One-Act Play
Bina Sharif and her husband Kevin Mitchell Martin uproariously portray locked-down NYC roommates in her thoughtful play about society during the pandemic.
Not About Me
The pandemic inspired venerable gay actor and playwright Eduardo Machado to create this swirling memory play centered around the 1980’s AIDS crisis in NYC.
Fun and Games
Surprises abound in this smart comedy thriller dealing with a married couple’s off beat gameplaying; it’s deliciously performed and impeccably staged.
Pandemonium: A Sequel to Peter Pan
Good-natured zaniness abounds as that boy who won’t grow up and Captain Hook appear at the home of a contemporary American family in this zesty fantasia.
The Unamerican
Marilyn Monroe, Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and Hedda Hopper are wonderfully recreated in this historical fantasia about the 1950’s Hollywood Blacklist.
A Life in the Rye
A highly theatrical, well-written and grandly performed biographical fantasia of the life of J.D. Salinger with his younger self as a prominent character.
Dream Within a Dream
The East Village theater fixture gloriously returns to the stage after illness in her sly surrealistic and topical play, accompanied by a sparkling cast.