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There are several things Benjamin Franklin says or does in Lloyd Suh’s play “Franklinland” that I knew to be true; or at least that I had read about previously: He invented the lightning ro...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/10/22/franklinland-review-benjamin-franklin-brilliant-scientist-lousy-father/

Arthur Miller’s first Broadway hit, “All My Sons,” was inspired by a newspaper account of  a young woman in Ohio who had informed on her father for having defrauded the military during Wo...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/10/19/a-woman-among-women-review-arthur-miller-male-to-female-in-bushwick/

Her life story might have made an engaging show no matter which theater company had staged it: A globe-trotting professional basketball player and Olympian, Katsiaryna Snytsina awoke to the te...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/09/24/ks6-small-forward-review-a-basketball-champ-turned-dissident/

The confrontation in “The Ask” involves no guns, nor even any shouting. It’s not a confrontation at all, by any typical definition these days in either theater or politics. Greta, a long-ti...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/09/22/the-ask-review/

There is a moment in Ryan Spahn’s backstage play that leaves the characters screaming and the audience gasping, but also laughing at how shocking it is, fulfilling anybody’s expectations of a...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/07/22/inspired-by-true-events-review-an-actor-kills/

The League of Independent Theater has announced the half dozen recipients of the 2024 New York independent Theater Awards, honoring “outstanding leadership, service, artistry and commitment to ...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/07/10/2024-new-york-independent-theater-award-honorees-announced/

In “Relics and Their Humans,” we learn that Josh Quillen’s father Jerry was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease: “…you will eventually lose all muscle control and then you will die w...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/06/25/relics-and-their-humans-review/

There is a sly strategy to the fanciful title of this solo play, as there is to performer Paula Pizzi’s soft-spoken lyricism. They make it easier, for one, to take in the underlying horror.  ...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/06/02/how-to-eat-an-orange-review/

“The Fires” brings us simultaneously into the lives and loves of three Black gay men occupying the same railroad apartment in South Brooklyn, but decades apart —  Jay (Phillip James Brann...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/05/21/the-fires-review/

At first, “Shimmer and Herringbone,” the third and final absurdist play in the avant-garde theater company Talking Band’s fiftieth anniversary season, promises to riff on shopping for cloth...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/05/11/shimmer-and-herringbone-theater-review/