Tag Archives: off-off-Broadway

Alberto Bonilla's powerful staging set in postwar Italy does just about everything right.

Welsh villagers are pressured to leave their ancestral homes when the government suspects their mountain may collapse.

The text of this well-staged new adaptation strikes a smile-inducing, attention-grabbing, and surprisingly believable balance between literary authenticity – this is indeed Euripides' play in all its essentials – and contemporary informality and even snark.

At moments, the refreshed production of NYC's longest-running play reminded me of looking at those books of old New Yorker cartoons from the 1950s and '60s, with their wordless multi-panel stories and their hapless Organization Men. But for most of its length, I wished I'd gotten on line for something else.

New Light Theater Project's new production gives us an uncommon triple portrait of common anguish, straight from the strange country of the human condition.

This intense new play hurls us into a deadly thicket of politics and diplomacy, international business intrigue, the clash of cultures, and jihad through the fictional story of a British hostage in Somalia.

Lovely writing and solid acting make Will Coleman's literate, thoughtful one-act shine, but an unorthodox structure prevents it from achieving a dramatic arc.

Flux Theatre Ensemble executes Tseng's brash post-zombie-apocalypse premise with equal parts psychological grace and horror-story panache.

Late in his career, August Strindberg wrote four short works he called "chamber plays" for his own new theater, which opened in Stockholm in 1907 with this weird one-act influenced by the playwright's studies of Swedenborg and incorporating his interest in the occult.

'The Sensuality Party' is a disturbing, fascinating, weirdly funny dive into the psyche of a generation as seen through one very talented writer's novelistically observant eye.