Off-Broadway

“Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, America, Kuwait” at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre at the Gym at Judson (Closed Saturday June 27, 2015

June 23, 2015 | Off-Broadway > | Gym at Judson, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater

“Remember that feeling? Of endless energy?/Endless joy? Like when you’d have your/parents’ car late at night with your friends? All/the windows down? In the summer? Loud/music? Your hands on the wheel? Everything/felt so strong? So easy? So light?/Where is that?/Who feels that anymore?” – Mom to Smith Daniel Talbott has written one of the best surreal, kaleidoscopic fables about not…

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“For the Last Time” at the Clurman Theatre on Theatre Row (Closed Saturday June 20, 2015)

June 20, 2015 | Off-Broadway > | Clurman Theatre, Theatre Row

When Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote “The Marble Faun” (his last novel), he was concerned about themes that recur in his previous novels. Are there any benefits extant in human suffering? What happens when humans fall into sin? Does guilt result in changes in one’s identity? This last novel also includes Hawthorne’s interest in how prolonged exposure to a foreign culture exacerbates…

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“The Spoils” at the New Group at the Pershing Square Signature Center (Closed Sunday June 28, 2015)

June 8, 2015 | last stand city center, Off-Broadway > | Pershing Square Signature Center, The New Group

Jesse Eisenberg’s “The Spoils,” currently running at the New Group, is the “This Is Our Youth” for the twenty-first century millennial generation and captures the angst of this generation with gripping honesty and often disturbing realism. The complicated dynamics between the protagonist Ben (Jesse Eisenberg), his Nepalese roommate Kalyan (played with a charming innocence by Kunal Nayyar), Kalyan’s girlfriend Reshma…

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“Nice Girl” at the Labyrinth Theatre Company at Bank Street Theater (Closed Sunday June 21, 2015)

June 8, 2015 | Off-Broadway, the prom > | Labyrinth Theatre

What is a nice girl to do when her grieving mother insists she keep the promise made to her now deceased father that she would return home from her freshman year of college after the funeral to care for her mother? If the young woman were nineteen it might seem a reasonable and necessary – although temporary – decision: suspend…

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“The Assistant” Presented by Six Part Productions at the Treehouse Theatre (Closed Sunday May 31, 2015)

May 31, 2015 | a delicate, delicate balance, house that will, Off-Broadway, she loves me, the house > | Six Part Productions

“The Human Brain is such a fu** up” says Craig, praising the elegance of a computer and lamenting his learning-disabled daughter. It’s a sad, if vexingly relevant, notion that fits right at home in “The Assistant, “written by Ashley Minihan. (The Sunrise Side, Remission) A show about the future, family, and faulty-wiring, her play is a beautifully delicate balance of…

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“A Queen for a Day” at the Theatre at St. Clement’s (Closed Sunday July 26, 2015)

May 31, 2015 | Off-Broadway > | Theatre at St. Clement's

When Giovanni (David Proval) tells his attorney Sanford Weiss (David Deblinger), “I shouldn’t be here,” only he knows why that is true and the audience will not know until minutes before the end of Michael Ricigliano, Jr.’s beguiling thriller “A Queen for a Day” currently running at the Theatre at St. Clement’s in New York City. Mr. Ricigliano’s script is…

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Anthony Burgess’ “One Hand Clapping” at 59E59 Theaters (Closed Sunday May 31, 2015)

May 26, 2015 | Off-Broadway, sense and > | 59E59 Theaters

The world is going to hell in a handbasket and Howard Shirley (Oliver Devoti) knows that perhaps better than anyone. Not only does he have a photographic memory, but he is clairvoyant so Howard – if anyone would – knows the center is not holding and it might be time for him and his wife to check out. In an…

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“Cool Hand Luke” at 59E59 Theaters (Closed Sunday March 31st, 2015)

May 20, 2015 | hand to god, Off-Broadway, slave play, trouble in mind > | 59E59 Theaters

“No more my Lord/No more my Lord/Lord, I’ll never turn back/No more my Lord” (Traditional American Spiritual, Composed for Choir by R. Nathaniel Dett) What matters about “Cool Hand Luke” is the corpus of enduring questions Donn Pearce’s rich text raises and what matters about Emma Reeves’ stage adaptation of the 1965 novel is whether or not those enduring questions…

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Simon Callow in “Tuesday’s at Tesco’s” at 59E59 Theaters (Closed Sunday June 7, 2015)

May 20, 2015 | LGBTQ+, liberation, Off-Broadway, the piano > | 59E59 Theaters, LGBT

“Tuesdays that’s that. I spend the day there doing this and that dusting and all sorts. I shake out the tablecloth. I change the sheets. I empty the bin.” Pauline in “Tuesdays at Tesco’s” The only thing that interrupts the samsara of Pauline’s (Simon Callow) hum-drum life is the string of dream ballets that spontaneously burst forth from the piano…

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“Six Rounds of Vengeance,” at the New Ohio Theatre (Closed Saturday May 16, 2015)

May 16, 2015 | days of, days of rage theatre, long lost john, Off-Broadway > | New Ohio Theater

If you buy into the old adage ‘good writers steal,’ then Qui Nguyen is the best playwright in town. His post-apocalyptic epic ‘Six Rounds of Vengeance’ presented by the ever-infamous Vampire Cowboys is a flashy potpourri of Tarantino-esque homage. One could practically make a bingo game from the sheer volume of references to Mad Max, Blade, Fallout: New Vegas, Hack/Slash,…

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