• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Reviews from Broadway and Beyond

  • Now Playing
  • Recently Opened
    • Broadway
    • Off-Broadway
    • Beyond
  • Critics’ Picks
  • Our Critics
    • About Us
    • Melissa Rose Bernardo
    • Michael Feingold
    • David Finkle
    • Elysa Gardner
    • Jesse Oxfeld
    • MICHAEL SOMMERS
    • Steven Suskin
    • Frank Scheck
    • Roma Torre
    • Bob Verini
  • Sign Up
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Now Playing
  • Recently Opened
    • Broadway
    • Off-Broadway
    • Beyond
  • Critics’ Picks
  • Our Critics
    • About Us
    • Melissa Rose Bernardo
    • Michael Feingold
    • David Finkle
    • Elysa Gardner
    • Jesse Oxfeld
    • MICHAEL SOMMERS
    • Steven Suskin
    • Frank Scheck
    • Roma Torre
    • Bob Verini
  • Sign Up
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Off-Broadway

June 16, 2022 9:20 pm

The Orchard: Anton Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard Spectacularly Reimagined

★★★★☆ Director Igor Golyak and outstanding creative team at strong work, with Jessica Hecht, Mikhail Barishnikov featured

June 15, 2022 9:00 pm

Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom: James Joyce’s Complicated Heroine Takes a Bow

★★★★☆ Actress Aedín Moloney and author Colum McCann’s adaptation of “Ulysses”‘s final chapter returns to the stage

June 9, 2022 8:00 pm

Lessons in Survival: 1971: James Baldwin, Nikki Giovanni Eloquently Talk Race

★★★☆☆ The Commissary puts an enthralling 1971 interview onstage, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Crystal Dickinson featured

June 8, 2022 8:00 pm

Snow in Midsummer: Updated Chinese Ghost Tale of Injustices Hits Drifts

★★★☆☆ Playwright Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig takes on a 13th-century dramatist, with Zi Alikhan directing a hard-working cast

June 7, 2022 9:53 pm

The Bedwetter: Laughs Flow in This Musical Comedy

★★★★☆ Comedian/actress Sarah Silverman co-wrote the book and lyrics for this new musical based on her best-selling memoir.

June 7, 2022 9:52 pm

The Bedwetter: A Laughing Matter, from Sarah Silverman

★★★★☆  Wickedly funny new musical about a sharp-tongued pre-teen with issues demonstrates growing pains   

June 2, 2022 9:30 pm

…what the end will be: A Black, Very Gay Family Cleverly Handles Ends and Means

★★★★☆ Mansa Ra’s comedy-drama with Margo Bordelon directing an outstanding cast, headed by Keith Randolph Smith

June 1, 2022 9:00 pm

Dreaming Zenzile: Strongly Remembering Miriam Makeba in 29 Songs

★★★★☆ Somi Kakoma writes and appears in a tribute to the legendary singer, with Lileana Blain-Cruz directing

May 26, 2022 10:00 pm

Fat Ham: A Nontragic Take on Shakespeare’s Most Popular Tragedy

Marcel Spears in Fat Ham

★★★★★ Newly minted Pulitzer Prize winner James Ijames turns the revenge play on its proverbial ear

May 22, 2022 8:10 pm

Who Killed My Father: A Gregarious Gay Son Faces His Macho Dad and the World

★★★☆☆ Edouard Louis adapts his tough memoir about a troubled boyhood, Thomas Ostermeier directing

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 63
  • Page 64
  • Page 65
  • Page 66
  • Page 67
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 136
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

The Whoopi Monologues: Goldberg’s Characters Still Charm and Disarm

By Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★☆ Whoopi Goldberg’s speeches get the multi-actor treatment in Whitney White’s sharp production

The Whoopi Monologues: Five Whoopis Are Less Than One

By Frank Scheck

★★★☆☆ Five stellar actresses perform Whoopi Goldberg's award-winning one-person show in this Lincoln Center Theater reimagining

Giulia The Poison Queen of Palermo: Pure Theatrical Alchemy

By Roma Torre

★★★★★ Death really does become her, as the writer, composer and star - Jennifer Nettles - serves up a killer new musical.

Giulia The Poison Queen of Palermo: Jennifer Nettles brews a tasty mass murder musical

By Michael Sommers

★★★★☆ Director Mary Zimmerman stages a ravishing visual production of an historic story told from a working woman’s perspective

CRITICS' PICKS

women of Birthright

Birthright: Six Characters in Search of a Common Ground

★★★★☆ Politics underscore but don’t overpower the character-driven epic from Jonathan Spector

Dad Don’t Read This: 16 Going On Angst 

★★★★☆ Amalia Yoo and friends brighten the stage with Eliya Smith’s intriguing teen talk

Melanie Moore in Black Swan. Photo by Hawver and Hall

From Cambridge, MA: Black Swan, Tu-Tu Thrilling

★★★★☆ Classy musicalization of a psychosexual cinethriller uses human and technical legerdemain to spellbind

Well, I’ll Let You Go: Coping with Grief, Magnificently

★★★★★ Quincy Tyler Bernstine gives a whirlwind performance in a stunning new play by Bubba Weiler

Joe Turner’s Come and Gone: Revival of Wilson’s Drama About “Finding Your Song” Mostly Sings

★★★★☆ Cedric the Entertainer and Taraji P. Henson star in Debbie Allen's revival of August Wilson's modern classic.

Death of a Salesman: More Relevant Than Ever

★★★★★ Nathan Lane, Laurie Metcalf and Christopher Abbott star in Joe Mantello's emotionally searing revival.

Sign up for new reviews

Copyright © 2026 • New York Stage Review • All Rights Reserved.

Website Built by Digital Culture NYC.