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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: “Ulysses” at the Public Theater’s Martinson Hall (Through Sunday, March 1, 2026)

“Parsing Joyce: ERS’s ULYSSES Demonstrates Without Embodying” Good readers create images as they navigate dense text, constructing a personal vision of the world on the page. Elevator Repair Service’s production of James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” currently playing at the Public Theater’s Martinson Hall, offers the company’s own kaleidoscopic image of Joyce’s epic novel—a playful, fragmented encounter with one of modernism’s most…

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Off Broadway Review: “The Other Place” at The Shed (Through Sunday, March 1, 2026)

Don’t Look at Me: “The Other Place” and the Tragedy Critics Missed When Alexander Zeldin’s “The Other Place” premiered at London’s National Theatre in 2024, critics hailed it as “the outstanding play of the year” and praised its “taut, riveting naturalism.” That same production, now transferred to The Shed with most of its original cast, has met a decidedly cooler…

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Broadway Bound Theatre Festival Submissions Now Open

January 29, 2026 | Uncategorized > | AMT Theater, BBTF, Broadway Bound Theatre Festival, David Roberts, Lenore Skomal, New York Theatre Reviews, Rick Sayers, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited

Calling all playwrights! We are excited to announce an open call for submissions for the 2026 Broadway Bound Theatre Festival . Showcase your new play in the heart of NYC Get support from page to stage with our expert team Don’t miss out as we celebrate 10 years of premiering new plays and new musicals from emerging and established playwrights. We…

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

Twenty-nine years after its London premiere, Tracy Letts’ “Bug” has finally crawled onto Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, and the question that matters most isn’t whether this David Cromer-directed production succeeds or fails—it’s whether Cromer understood what play he was directing. “Bug” is a psychiatric horror about folie à deux, the clinical term for shared psychotic…

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Broadway Review: “Chess” at the Imperial Theatre (Through Sunday, May 3, 2026)

December 16, 2025 | Broadway > | "Chess", Aaron Tveit, Adam Halpin, Aleksandr Ivan Pevec, Aliah James, Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, Bradley Dean, Brian Usifer, Bryce Pinkham, Casey Garvin, costume design by Tom Broecker, Daniel Beeman, Danny Strong, Emma Degerstedt, Fredric Rodriguez Odgaard, Hair, Hannah Cruz, Jason Thinger CSA, Jim Carnahan CSA, Johanna McKeon, Joseph Verlezza, Katerina Papacostas, Katie Webber, Kyla Bartholomeusz, Lea Michele, lighting design by Kevin Adams, Lorin Latarro, Matthew Murphy, Michael Mayer, Michael Milkanin, Michael Olaribigbe, New York Theatre Reviews, Nicholas Christopher, Ramone Nelson, Regine Sophia, Samantha Pollino, Sarah Meahl, Sarah Michele Lindsey, scenic design by David Rockwell, Sean Allan Krill, Sean MacLaughlin, Shavey Brown, sound design by John Shivers, Sydney Jones, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Tim Rice, Travis Waldschmidt, video design by Peter Nigrini, Wig and Makeup Design are by Luc Verschueren for Campbell Young Associates

The recent revival of “Chess “on Broadway comes nearly forty years after its first opening on London’s West End in 1986, with a subsequent move to Broadway after major revisions, in 1988. The Broadway production directed by Trevor Nunn closed after two months recording good attendance, but unfavorable financial returns. This recent incarnation, deftly directed by Michael Mayer, confines the…

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Broadway Review: Second Stage’s “Marjorie Prime” at the Helen Hayes Theatre (Currently On)

December 12, 2025 | Broadway > | "Marjorie Prime", Anne Kauffman, Christopher Lowell, costume design by Márion Tálan de la Rosa, Cynthia Nixon, Danny Burstein, David Roberts, Joan Marcus, Jordan Harrison, June Squibb, lighting design by Ben Stanton, New York Theatre Reviews, scenic design by Lee Jellinek, sound design and original music by Daniel Kluger, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited

Where do our memories go when we die? Jordan Harrison’s “Marjorie Prime,” now receiving its Broadway premiere at the Helen Hayes Theatre, asks this question with stunning simplicity and devastating honesty. In Harrison’s near-future, holographic AI companions called “Primes” serve as repositories for family stories, programmed by the living to remember what we tell them—and only what we tell them….

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