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Plays

A man in a blue shirt yells at a woman wearing a red dress

‘Giant’ and the Seduction of Certainty

Director and playwright Moisés Kaufman sees the play's power not in its denouncement of antisemitism but in its depiction of how antisemitism persists.
By Moisés Kaufman
A bearded man in a gold-trimmed period costume embraces another man in dark clothing who rests his head sideways against the first man’s chest, both seated on a low bench in a stylized theatrical interior.

Old French Bores: Molière Is Blasphemed in This Tin-Eared ‘Tartuffe’

What a misguided affair from such an accomplished team.
By David Cote
An image shows a woman in a red sweater sitting close to a man with visible cuts on his face, both turned toward each other in an intense, quiet exchange on a dark stage.

Review: Michelle Williams Navigates Choppy Waters in ‘Anna Christie’

This production leans heavily on Williams to humanize a century-old script whose language can feel insistently blunt.
By David Cote
A poster of the 2025 audio version of Hamlet produced by Make-Believe

Jeremy McCarter’s Audiodrama Puts Us Inside Hamlet’s Head

By Alex Ullman
An image shows actors Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves standing side by side in bowler hats against the large circular wooden tunnel set of Waiting for Godot.

Review: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter’s ‘Waiting for Godot’ Is Excellent

By David Cote
A stage photo shows two actors in The Brothers Size, one in a gray work shirt standing with eyes closed in the foreground and another in a blue shirt standing behind him with his hand to his chest.

Review: ‘The Brothers Size’ Sings a Powerful Song of Family and Freedom

By David Cote
An older woman with short brown hair, wearing a gray tracksuit, sits barefoot in an upholstered chair holding a wine glass filled with red liquid, looking upward with a pensive expression beside a green-shaded table lamp.

Elizabeth McGovern’s ‘AVA: The Secret Conversations’ Leaves the Best Stories Untold

By Rex Reed
An older woman with curly blond hair, wearing a gray hoodie over a plaid shirt, raises both hands expressively while speaking on a dark stage during a theatrical performance.

Review: Jean Smart Can’t Save the Overwrought and Underwritten ‘Call Me Izzy’

By Rex Reed
A strawberry blond woman in glasses and a brown cardigan pours coffee on a kitchen island while a brunette woman across from her holds a bottle of creamer

Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone Are a Perfect Pair in ‘The Roommate’

By Rex Reed

Jessica Lange Finds New Ways to Melt Hearts in ‘Mother Play’

By Rex Reed

All the Best Looks from the 2022 Tony Awards Red Carpet

By Morgan Halberg

New York City Theatrical Venues Can Reopen in April at 33% Capacity, Cuomo Announces

By Helen Holmes

The Shows Must Go Online: 12 Ways to Stream the Stage

By David Cote

‘A View From The Bridge,’ by Arthur Miller, Kills It

By Celia Farber
Clever Little Lies' Marlo Thomas. (Photo: Matthew Murphy)

Marlo Thomas Stars in Off-Broadway Marriage Comedy ‘Clever Little Lies’

By Harry Haun
Martin Short plays a TV star happy he escaped the flop.

Martin Short to Takeover for Nathan Lane in ‘It’s Only a Play’

By Harry Haun
Sticks and Bones. (Photo by Monique Carboni)

A Revival of David Rabe’s ‘Sticks and Bones’ Tackles the Vietnam War Four Decades On

By Harry Haun
Larry Pine as Raymond Chandler and Vincent Kartheiser as Billy Wilder in a scene from Billy & Ray.

Film Fades to Noir: Vincent Kartheiser and Larry Pine Star in ‘Billy & Ray’

By Harry Haun

‘Found’ Is a Theatrical Compendium of Discarded Notes, Ideas, and Poems

By Rex Reed
Ai Weiwei, Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn, 1995.

At NYO, a Changing Picture of the Arts

By The Editors

AG Candidates Make Rival Plays For Women’s Votes–UPDATED 2X

By David Freedlander
Two people are standing in the photo, a man in a tuxedo on the left Dylan Baker, and Cherry Jones a woman in a dress standing in front of him on the right—a black and white photograph.

Cherry Jones Makes History in Pride’s Crossing

By Rex Reed
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