New York Theatre Reviews

Off-Broadway Review: “Animal Wisdom” at The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center (Through Sunday, June 14, 2026)

Currently playing at the Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at Pershing Square Signature Center, Heather Christian’s “Animal Wisdom” is a self-described “requiem within a requiem” that got terribly lost at the Mass’s Introit and never found its way back to the spiritual center it promised to disclose to the audience. Christian bills the piece as multiple things simultaneously: her life story,…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Indian Princesses” at The Atlantic Theater (Through Sunday, June 7, 2026)

The YMCA’s “Indian Princesses” program—rebranded in recent years as “Adventure Princesses”—bills itself as wholesome father-daughter bonding through Native-inspired activities. Playwright Eliana Theologides Rodriguez knows better. Her grandmother and great-grandmother were forced through assimilation schools designed to sever Indigenous families from their heritage, language, and identity. What the YMCA packages as “family fun” is cultural appropriation built on the machinery of…

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Off-Broadway Review: “The Receptionist” at The Irene Diamond Stage at The Pershing Square Signature Center (Through Sunday, June 7, 2026)

May 19, 2026 | Off-Broadway > | "The Receptionist", Adam Bock, costume design by Enver Chakartash, David Roberts, Irene Diamond Stage, Joan Marcus, Katie Finneran (Beverly Wilkins), Lighting design by Stacey Derosier, Mallori Johnson (Lorraine Taylor), Nael Nacer (Edward Raymond), New York Theatre Reviews, Pershing Square Signature Center, Sarah Benson, Scenic Design by dots, sound design by Bray Poor, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Will Pullen (Martin Dart)

Adam Bock’s “The Receptionist” arrived in 2007 as a searing response to the Bush administration’s torture memos and the Abu Ghraib revelations. The play asked audiences to consider Hannah Arendt’s concept of the “banality of evil”—how ordinary people enable extraordinary harm through the simple machinery of their daily work. Beverly answers phones, brews coffee, and gossips with her colleague Lorraine…

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Off-Broadway Review: “KENREX” at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (Through Sunday, June 27, 2026)

May 3, 2026 | Off-Broadway, Thriller > | "KENREX", David Roberts, Ed Stambollouian, Jack Holden, John Patrick Elliott, lighting and video design by Joshua Pharo, Lucille Lortel Theatre, Manuel Harlan, New York Theatre Reviews, set and costume design by Anisha Fields, sound design by Giles Thomas, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, with movement direction by Sarah Golding

Situational ethics and moral ambiguity take center stage in “KENREX,” the true crime thriller currently running at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. On July 10, 1981, in Skidmore, Missouri (population 400), a town bully was shot to death in broad daylight. Sixty witnesses watched it happen. Not one would identify the killer. Jack Holden’s astonishing solo performance—playing prosecutor David Baird, Ken…

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Theatre News: New York City Center Announces Complete Casting for Encores! “La Cage aux Folles”

Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins joins the cast of La Cage Aux Folles (running June 17 – 28, 2026) as Jacqueline, along with Peter Francis James as Edouard, and Rachel Webb as Anne. They join previously announced Emmy Award winner Wayne Brady (Georges), Emmy, Grammy, and Tony winner Billy Porter (Albin), Encores! alum Alaman Diadhiou (Jean-Michel), James Jackson Jr. (Jacob),…

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Broadway Review: “The Lost Boys” at the Palace Theatre (Currently On)

April 26, 2026 | Broadway, LGBTQ+, Music, Queer > | "The Lost Boys", aerial design by Gwyneth Larsen and Billy Mulholland, Ali Louis Bourzgui (David), Benjamin Pajak (Sam Emerson), Brian Flores (Marko), Caissie Levy (Lucy Emerson), casting by The Telsey Office's Kristian Charbonier CSA, Chris Hoch, costume design Fisher, David Hornsby, David Roberts, Dean Maupin (Paul), dramaturgy by Jenna Clark Embrey, electronic music design by Billy Jay Stein and Hiro Ida for Strange Cranium, fight direction by Rick Sordelet and Christian Sordelet, general management by Bespoke Theatricals with Mark Kaufman as Creative Consultant, hair & wig design by David Brian Brown, Jennifer Duka (Alan Frog), LGBTQ, LJ Benet (Michael Emerson), make-up design by Christina Grant, Maria Wirries (Star), Matthew Murphy, Michael Arden, Miguel Gil (Edgar Frog), Music Coordination by Kristy Norter, music direction by Julie McBride, New York Theatre Reviews, Paul Alexander Nolan (Max), production management by Juniper Street Productions, scenic design by Tony Award winner Dane Laffrey, Sean Grandillo (Dwayne), The Rescues, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited

The prologue to “The Lost Boys,” the new musical adaptation of the 1987 Warner Bros. film now at the Palace Theatre, immediately signals Michael Arden’s dark ambitions for this material. A police officer investigates the abandoned Coronado Ironworks factory by flashlight, interrupted by Ronald Reagan’s voice on a flickering television extolling “the strength and integrity of the family.” Before the…

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Broadway Review: “The Rocky Horror Show” at Studio 54 (Currently On)

“The Rocky Horror Show” featuring a book, music and lyrics by Richard O’Brien, premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 1973 and had its American debut in Los Angeles in 1974 where it ran for a successful nine months at several venues. It received a Broadway debut in 1975 at the Belasco Theatre but closed after three previews and forty-five…

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Broadway Review: “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” at the Barrymore Theatre (Through Sunday, July 26, 2026)

April 25, 2026 | Broadway > | "Joe Turner's Come and Gone", Abigail Onwunali (Martha Loomis), associate director David Blackwel, August Wilson, Bradley Stryker (Rutherford Selig), Cedric "The Entertainer" (Seth Holly), Christopher Woodley and Jackson Edward Davis alternating (Reuben Scott), costume design by Paul Tazewell, David Roberts, Debbie Allen, hair and wig design by Mia Neal, Joshua Boone (Herald Loomis), Julieta Cervantes, Lighting design by Stacey Derosier, Maya Boyd (Molly Cunningham), New York Theatre Reviews, Nimene Sierra Wureh (Mattie Campbell), original music and music supervisor Steve Bargonetti, Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Bynum Walker), Savannah Commodore and Dominique Skye Turner alternating (Zonia Loomis), Scenic design by David Gallo, sound design by Justin Ellington, Taraji P. Henson (Bertha Holly), The Barrymore Theatre, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Tripp Taylor (Jeremy Furlow), vocal coach Dawn-Elin Fraser

Joe Turner was real. Brother of the Tennessee Governor, he would swoop down on Black men in the early 1900s – gambling, preaching, just walking down the road – and keep them enslaved on chain gangs for seven years. “They tell me Joe Turner’s come and gone / Got my man and gone” – the women sang it, a blues…

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Broadway Review: “Schmigadoon!” at the Nederlander Theatre (Through Sunday, September 6, 2026)

April 22, 2026 | Broadway, LGBTQ+, Queer > | "Schmigadoon!", Afra, Alex Brightman, Ana Gasteyer, and Ashley Ryan (Makeup Design), Ann Harada, Ayaan Diop, Becca, Brad Oscar, Brandon Block, Christopher Gattelli, Cinco Paul, Clyde Alves, Donald Holder (Lighting Design), Isabelle McCalla, Ivan Hernandez, Jess LeProtto, Joseph Verlezza, Joshua Burrage, Kaleigh Cronin, Keven Quillon, Kimberly Immanuel, Lauralyn McClelland, LGBTQ, Linda Cho (Costume Design), Lyrica Woodruff, Maria Briggs, Matthew Lacey (Production Stage Manager), Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman, Maulik Pancholy, Max Clayton, McKenzie Kurtz, Miles McNicoll, Nathan Lucrezio, New York Theatre Reviews, Richard Riaz Yoder, Sara Chase, Scott Pask (Scenic Designer), Shina Ann Morris, The Nederlander Theatre, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Tom Watson (hair and wig design), Walter Trarbach (Sound Design), Zachary Downer

You don’t need an extensive knowledge about Golden Age Broadway musicals to thoroughly enjoy “Schmigadoon” which recently opened on Broadway, but it can enhance your enjoyment. Those who were fans of the television series will flock to see the live performance at the Nederlander Theatre starring Alex Brightman and Sara Chase, and directed by Christopher Gattelli. Book, Music and Lyrics…

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Broadway Review: “The Balusters” at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (Currently On)

April 21, 2026 | Broadway, LGBTQ+, Queer > | "The Balusters", Allen Lee Hughes (Lighting Design), Anika Noni Rose, Caparelliotis Casting & Kelly Gillespie (casting), Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Dan Moses Schreier (Original Music and Sound Design), David Lindsay-Abaire, David Roberts, Deborah Hecht (Vocal Coach), Derek McLane (Scenic Design), Emilio Sosa (costume design), Ioana Alfonso (Movement & Associate Director), J. Jared Janas (Hair & Make-up Design), Janette Braggs (Stage Manager), Jeena Yi, Jeremy Daniel, Kayli Carter, Kenny Leon, Manhattan Theatre Club, Margaret Colin, Maria-Christina Oliveras, Marylouise Burke, Michael Esper, New York Theatre Reviews, Ricardo Chavira, Richard Thomas, Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Thomas Schall (Fight Direction), Tripp Phillips (Production Stage Manager)

Balusters are the decorative posts that support a porch railing – without them, the whole structure collapses. In David Lindsay-Abaire’s wickedly sharp “The Balusters,” now at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, the title works both literally and metaphorically. The Vernon Point Neighborhood Association spends considerable energy debating historically appropriate balusters for the Crawfords’ front porch, but what they…

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