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Off-Broadway Review: “Chinese Republicans” at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Laura Pels Theatre (Through Sunday, April 5, 2026)

A Theatrical Rorschach Test: CHINESE REPUBLICANS at Roundabout Alex Lin’s “Chinese Republicans” arrives at Roundabout Theatre Company with considerable ambition: a world premiere examining Asian-American identity through the lens of corporate culture, intergenerational trauma, sexual harassment, immigration policy, economic justice, and political ideology. Director Chay Yew stages the action primarily at Golden Unicorn, a Chinatown dim sum restaurant where four…

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Off-Broadway Review: “The Reservoir” at Atlantic Theater’s Linda Gross Theater (Through Sunday, March 15, 2026)

“We’re Here. Right Now: THE RESERVOIR’s Hard-Won Grace” Jake Brasch’s “The Reservoir,” now playing at Atlantic Theater Company, operates through counterpoint: addiction and dementia, comedy and grief, the impulse to fix and the necessity of letting go. Josh (Noah Galvin), a 20-something alcoholic fresh from a Florida rehab disaster, returns to Denver convinced he can save his four aging grandparents…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Marcel on the Train” at Classic Stage Company (Through Sunday, March 22, 2026)

Many plays are based on factual events that had a great impact on society during the time they took place and usually make the protagonist the person who was responsible for the course of action. Such is the case of “Marcel on the Train,” penned by Marshall Pailet and Ethan Slater, now playing at Classic Stage Company. The plot revolves…

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Off-Broadway Review: “The Monsters” at New York City Center Stage II (Through Sunday, March 22, 2026)

Life can be compared to a fighting match, where once you step into the ring you are alone. You become a monster defending themselves and fighting for their life, suffering from cuts and bruises but still determined to stay alive and win, not for fortune and fame, but just to survive. The new play “Monsters,” penned and directed by Ngozi…

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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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Off-Broadway Review: “The Seat of Our Pants” at the Public’s Newman Theater (Closed Sunday, December 7, 2025)

November 24, 2025 | Off-Broadway > | "Seat of Our Pants", "The Skin of Our Teeth", Alex Luong, Allison Ann Kelly, Ally Bonino, Amina Faye, Andy Grotelueschen, Angela Travino, Ben Beckley, Bill Buell, Caroline Englander, Cole Burden, costume design by Kaye Voyce, Damon Daunno, Daniel Kluger, David Roberts, David Ryan Smith, Ethan Lipton, fight direction by Jordan Laroya, Geena Quintos, Joan Marcus, Kelly Belarmino, Leigh Silverman, León Ramos Tak, lighting design by Lap Chi Chu, Micaela Diamond, Michael Lepore, Nat Lopez, Nathan Koci, New York Theatre Reviews, Newman Theater, Prop management by Claire M. Kavanah, Public Theater, Ruth E. Sternberg, Ruthie Ann Miles, Sarah Lunnie, scenic design by Lee Jellinek, Shelley Miles serves as stage manager, Shuler Hensley, sound design by Drew Levy, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Thornton Wilder, Tomoko Akaboshi

Thornton Wilder wrote “The Skin of Our Teeth” in 1942 as the world burned. Ethan Lipton’s musical adaptation “The Seat of Our Pants,” now at the Public Theater, arrives as history repeats itself with eerie precision. The Announcer’s opening number catalogs our contemporary disasters—”We made it through the recession-pandemic-wildfire-oligarchy by the seat of our pants”—and suddenly Wilder’s absurdist chronicle of…

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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: “Let’s Love!” at the Atlantic Theater Company (Closed Saturday, November 22, 2025)

The latest production to open at Atlantic Theater Company is “Let’s Love,” a trio of one-acts penned by Ethan Coen. No surprise the subject matter addressed is love, what love is, how to express love, or how people try to find love. It is a love fest where love is examined under many different circumstances. All three one-acts resemble short…

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