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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In ‘The Reservoir,’ Noah Galvin faces addiction & a family at its limit
Noah Galvin anchors this tender memory play about sobriety and family — moving when it matters, even if the script…
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Joshua Harmon gets personal in ‘We Had a World’—and it pays off
Joshua Harmon's most personal play, "We Had a World" is also one of his best—a sharp, tender tug-of-war between love,…
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Arena Stage’s ‘Chez Joey’ has big ambition. Does the classic framework hold it back?
In the opening sequence of Arena Stage’s Chez Joey, a bustling group of musicians and dancers arrives in a 1940s…
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