Mary Beth Peil

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…

Off-Broadway Review: “A Man of No Importance” Disappoints at Classic Stage Company” (Closed Sunday, December 18, 2022)

Currently running at Classic Stage Company, “A Man of No Importance” chronicles gay middle-aged bus conductor Alfie Byrnes’s (a gloomy and dispirited Jim Parsons) struggles to claim his agency in 1960s Dublin, Ireland’s repressive homophobic environment. His sexual status defines him as a criminal; however, Alfie self-defines as an ordinary man who secretly loves Robbie Faye (a spirited and generous…

Off-Broadway Review: “Macbeth” at the Lynn F. Angelson Theater at Classic Stage Company

There has always been a curiosity and appreciation for bold attempts at new interpretations or the reimagining of the classics and it seems there have been endless attempts on putting a new spin on more than one of these masterworks. There appears to be one more paradigm of this artistic endeavor in the Classic Stage Company’s new production of “Macbeth”…