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Off-Broadway Review: “Initiative” at the Public’s LuEsther Hall (Closed Sunday, December 7, 2025)

December 2, 2025 | LGBTQ+, Off-Broadway, Queer > | "Initiative", "Spring Awakening", Andrea Lopez Alvarez (Kendall), Brandon Burk (Offstage Voice/Understudy Em/Lo/Tony), Carson Higgins (Lo), Christopher Dylan White (Em), costume design by Kindall Almond, costume design dramaturgy by Susan Hilferty, David Roberts, dramaturgy by Sarah Lunnie, Else Went, Emma Rosa Went, fight direction by Dan Renkin, Greg Cuellar (Riley), Harrison Densmore (Ty), intimacy direction by Laura Hackman, Jamie Sanders (Tony), Janelle Caso is the production stage manager, Jose Useche (Understudy Riley/Ty), lighting design by Christopher Akerlind, LuEsther Hall, Marisa Brau-Reyes (Understudy Clara/Kendall), Molly Foy is the stage manager., New York Theatre Reviews, Olivia Rose Barresi (Clara), projection design by S Katy Tucker, prop management by Aisha Hamida, Public Theater, scenic design by Mikiko Suzuki MacAdams, sound design by Angela Baughman, Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited

Most coming-of-age plays invite us to relate to individual characters as they navigate adolescent turmoil. We watch from outside, recognizing ourselves in their struggles. Else Went’s “Initiative,” receiving its world premiere at The Public Theater, does something far more ambitious and profound: it draws us inside the collective unconscious of seven teenagers coming to terms with trauma, sexuality, violence, and…

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Broadway Review: “Little Bear Ridge Road” at the Booth Theatre (Through Sunday, February 15, 2026)

In Samuel D. Hunter’s “Little Bear Ridge Road,” currently playing at the Booth Theatre, James, an astrophysics graduate student, explains to his boyfriend Ethan that the three stars forming Orion’s Belt look aligned from Earth but are actually separated by eight hundred light years. It’s a casually delivered bit of astronomy that becomes the play’s quiet revelation: perspective changes everything,…

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Off-Broadway: “Kyoto” at Lincoln Center Theater’s Mitzi Newhouse Theater (Closed Sunday, November 30, 2025)

November 3, 2025 | Broadway, LGBTQ+, Queer > | "Kyoto", Aideen Malone (lighting design), Akhila Krishnan (video design), Amelia McClain, Christopher Reid (sound design), Clark Carmichael, CSA (casting), CSA and Alexandre Bleau, Daniel Jenkins, Dariush Kashani, David Roberts, Diana DiVita (stage manager), Ed Burnside (associate director), Emilio Madrid, Erin Darke, Ferdy Roberts, Gemma Stockwood (Dramaturg), Imani Jade Powers, Jim Carnahan, Joe Murphy, Joe Robertson, Jorge Bosch, Julia Horan (original UK casting director), Justin Martin, Kate Burton, LGBTQ, Lianah Sta. Ana, Lincoln Center Theater, Luis Carlos de La Lombana, Miriam Buether (set design), Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, Natalie Gold, Natalie Pryce (costume design), New York Theatre Reviews, Odera Adimorah, Paul Englishby (original music), Paul Juhn, Peter Bradbury, Rob Narita, Roslyn Ruff, Stephen Daldry, Stephen Kunken, Taiana Tully, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited

After garnering mostly rave reviews in London’s West End and Stratford-upon-Avon, “Kyoto” by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson is currently running Off-Broadway at Lincoln Center Theater’s Mitzi Newhouse Theater. The play spans 1989-1997 and is narrated from the point of view of Don Pearlman (Stephen Kunken), an American oil lobbyist who works to sabotage UN climate negotiations. It’s framed as…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Nothing Can Take You from the Hand of God” at Playwrights Horizons’ Peter Jay Sharp Theater (Closed Sunday, November 16, 2025)

October 22, 2025 | LGBTQ+, Off-Broadway, Queer > | “Nothing Can Take You from the Hand of God”, Amith Chandrashaker (Lighting Designer), David Roberts, Emmie Finckel (Scenic Designer), Evdoxia Ragkou (Sound Designer), Frank Winters, Jared Mezzocchi, Jen Tullock, Jenny Kennedy, Maria Baranova, New York Theatre Reviews, Stefania Bulbarella (Projection and Video Designer), Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited

Jen Tullock’s “Nothing Can Take You from the Hand of God” has been hailed as a searing examination of how evangelical Christianity wounds its queer children. Critics have called it “the best solo show in years,” praising Tullock’s tour-de-force performance as she embodies multiple characters to tell the story of Frances Reinhardt, a writer whose memoir about growing up gay…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Other” at Greenwich House Theatre (Closed Saturday, December 6, 2025)

October 21, 2025 | LGBTQ+, Off-Broadway, Queer > | "Other", Allison Madrazo, Ari’el Stachel, Greenwich House Theatre, Joseph Verlezza, LaChanze Productions, LGBTQ, New York Theatre Reviews, scenic design by Afsoon Pajoufar; lighting & projections design by Alexander V. Nichols, ShowTown Theatricals, sound design by Madeleine Oldham, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Tony Taccone

A new solo show has opened at the Greenwich House Theater, written and performed by Ari’el Stachel, who won the Tony award for best supporting actor in the musical, “The Band’s Visit.” It is not a “coming out” story, but it is about his personal struggle with anxiety and his journey to “figure out” his identity. It started when he…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Oh Happy Day!” at the Public’s Martinson Hall (Closed Sunday, November 2, 2025)

October 21, 2025 | LGBTQ+, Off-Broadway, Queer > | "Oh Happy Day", Brian D. Coats (Lewis), choreography by Eboni Nichols, Cole Taylor (Understudy), Costume Design by Qween Jean, David Roberts, Donovan Louis Bazemore (Kevin), dramaturgy by Jack Phillips Moore, hair and wig design by Mia Neal, Jakob W. Plummer, Jayna Elise (Understudy), Joan Marcus, Jordan E. Cooper, Jordan E. Cooper (Keyshawn), Latrice Pace (Glory Divine), lighting design by Adam Honoré, makeup design by Kirk Cambridge Del-Pesche, Martinson Hall, Monét Thibou, music contracting by Sara Jacovino and Kristy Norter, music direction/supervision/orchestration/additional music by Daniel Rudin, New York Theatre Reviews, prop management by Samantha Llanes Gordon, Public Theater, scenic design by Luciana Stecconi, Sheléa Melody McDonald (Mighty Divine), sound design by Taylor J. Williams, Stevie Walker-Webb, Tamika Lawrence (Niecy), Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Tiffany Mann (Holy Divine)

Jordan E. Cooper’s “Oh Happy Day!” at The Public Theater promises to explore whether a queer man rejected and abused by the church can choose his own happiness on his own terms. It’s a radical question that deserves a radical answer. But Cooper delivers a morality tale about earning God’s love through forgiveness and obedience instead. His protagonist Keyshawn (played…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Saturday Church” at New York Theatre Workshop (Closed Friday, October 24, 2025)

September 24, 2025 | LGBTQ+, Off-Broadway, Queer > | "Saturday Church", Anania, B Noel Thomas, Bryson Battle, Caleb Quezon, Chris Penny, Costume Design by Qween Jean, Damani Van Rensalier, Damon Cardasis, Dava Huesca, Dave Anzuelo/Unkle Dave's Fighthouse, Deah Love Harriott, Erica Hart, features scenic design by David Zinn, Fernell Hogan, hair & wig design by Darius Thomas, J. Harrison Ghee, J'Quay Gibbs, Jackson Kanawha Perry, James iJames, Jhanaë K-C Bonnick, Joaquina Kalukango, Joseph Verlezza, Kareem Marsh, Kelsey Rainwater, Kristolyn Lloyd, LGBTQ, LGBTQ+ Youth, lighting design by Adam Honoré, Marc J. Franklin, Michael Samarie George, New York Theatre Reviews, New York Theatre Workshop, Nicholas Petrovich, NYTW, Oyoyo Joi, Primo Thee Ballerino, sound design by Gareth Owen, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Veyonce Deleon, Wade Watson, Whitney White

The new musical “Saturday Church” which is now playing at NYTW, is based on the 2017 film written and directed by Damon Cardasis, who also co-wrote the book for this production alongside James Ijames. This quasi-jukebox musical attempts to weave the music of Sia into the storyline, but it is also only quasi-successful in this endeavor. Too often the music…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Angry Alan” at Sound Seaview (Closed Sunday, August 3, 2025)

The inaugural production of Seaview Studio, the newly renovated Off-Broadway theater (formerly known as the Tony Kiser), is titled “Angry Alan,” penned by playwright Penelope Skinner and starring John Krasinski. Mr. Krasinski is not Alan, he is Roger, an insecure, confused, gullible “everyman” who quickly falls down a rabbit hole on the internet, where he learns how to place blame…

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Cabaret Preview: “The Ballad of JonBenet Ramsey” at Joe’s Pub (Opens Friday, September 12, 2025)

July 22, 2025 | Cabaret, LGBTQ+, Queer > | "The Ballad if JonBenet Ramsey", Brandon James Gwinn, Cabaret, Isaac Davidson, Jay Turton, Joe's Pub, LGBTQ, Ryan Rafferty, The Public Theater

This fall, “the Shakespeare of pop culture satire” (NYT), playwright and performer Ryan Raftery (Mother of the Year: The Kris Jenner Musical, The Trial of Andy Warhol, The Rise and Fall and Rise of Martha Stewart) returns to Joe’s Pub with his latest creation, The Ballad of JonBenét Ramsey, a satire about our society’s insatiable obsession with true crime. Opening September…

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A Post-Run Look and Interview Questions: “Giovanni’s Room” at Quintessence Theatre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Closed Sunday, July 6, 2025)

After a successful run, including two extensions, “Geovanni’s Room” at Quintessence Theatre, the show closed on Sunday, July 6, 2026. Although the adaptation could have had a third extension, contractual considerations made that impossible. On May 28, Quintessence Theatre Group in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania brought a literary classic to life in the world premiere of James Baldwin’s “Giovanni’s Room,” adapted by…

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