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In Sarah Mantell’s play, a group of itinerant Amazon warehouse workers spend their days moving packages from conveyor belts to utility carts, and their nights in what could be called a marriage...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/10/29/in-the-amazon-warehouse-parking-lot-review/

Every item handmade by a Haitian has to tell a story of hardship, a businessman named Thomas tells Gigi, who is hoping he will connect his international customers to the luxury goods she sells a...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/10/28/bad-kreyol-review-an-american-in-a-haiti-you-dont-know/

The Arab Spring, a wave of demonstrations by citizens demanding democracy in some dozen countries in the Middle East and North Africa, now seems like distant history. But the uprisings were a fre...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/10/27/we-live-in-cairo-review/

Adam Driver as superstar Strings McCrane seems to loom over the cramped set in a black ten-gallon hat, as he screams at a personal assistant who is about half his size, smashes his guitar, strips...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/10/16/hold-on-to-me-darling-adam-driver-is-the-celebrity-draw/

“Vladimir” is the second play in New York this year set in Russia decades ago at the beginning of the reign of Vladimir Putin. Opening tonight Off-Broadway, Erika Sheffer’s new play is simi...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/10/15/vladimir-review/

Most of us think about climate change in the wrong way, David Finnigan tells us. It is not “this apocalyptic event that’s on its way, and we need to prevent it from hitting,” Rather, “it�...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/10/10/deep-history-review-the-climate-crisis-is-here/

Early every morning, Paul buys a cup of coffee and jokes around with Katie, the waitress in the otherwise empty local diner in the kind of small town in Upstate New York where the townsfolk talk ...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/10/09/the-counter-review/

“Good Bones,” by James Ljames, the Pulitzer-winning author of “Fat Ham,” is essentially a debate about gentrification, with sharply different views expressed by the characters, and also, ...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/10/01/good-bones-review/

“Fatherland” is an unsettling title, a word that movie-goers associate with Germany under the Nazis, but there are several reasons why it fits this true story of the first man to be put on tr...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/09/26/fatherland-review-a-january-6-insurrectionist-turned-in-by-his-son/

Pedro Antonio Garcia, who is a criminal defense attorney as well as a playwright, explains in a program note that he wrote “The Witness Room” in “an attempt to explore moral issues within t...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/09/21/the-witness-room/