Ro Reddick's 'Cold War Choir Practice' detonates: magical realism, a fractured family, and America's gift for global anxiety.
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‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ star Bosco goes full supervillain on 33-city tour
Bosco's solo tour "The Marvelous Miss Gender" hits 33 cities this summer—a full theatrical production blending camp, burlesque, and comic…
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‘About Time’ embraces aging wisely and warmly, then overstays its welcome
"About Time" musical review: Maltby and Shire at their best is very good, but the duo doesn't always know when…
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‘Burnout Paradise’ stacks the odds against itself and wins anyway
Four treadmills, a grant application, and an Italian dinner: Pony Cam's "Burnout Paradise" is participatory theater with a mission.
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Goodman’s ‘The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao’ has a gifted cast and one glaring problem
Goodman's The Brief Life of Oscar Wao wants to celebrate Dominican lives. It just keeps stepping on the women to…
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Liza Minnelli finally tells her own story and 4 more March must-reads
Five essential books for March 2026 — from Liza Minnelli's memoir to Fab 5 Freddy's hip-hop origin story.
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Can a sing-along musical about cancer break your heart? ‘Night Side Songs’ never quite finds its pulse
"Night Side Songs" at Lincoln Center Theater asks you to feel something about life, illness, and death—but mostly asks you…
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In ‘Bigfoot!’ everyone’s a little othered. Until one very hairy hero takes a giant leap for all of them
'Bigfoot!' is a furry, funky love letter to misfits, packed with kooky characters, 80s synth-pop charm, and a heart bigger…
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‘Here Lies Love’ asks who gets to tell Filipino history, then dances around the answer
Center Theatre Group's 'Here Lies Love' captivates with Filipino talent but can't reconcile disco spectacle with political history.
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‘Chinese Republicans’ bickers brilliantly. Until it doesn’t.
Alex Lin's Off-Broadway workplace dramady "Chinese Republicans" crackles with sharp dialogue but stumbles when it reaches for slapstick.
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