Max Wolf Friedlich wastes no time establishing the stakes — life or death — in Job, his taut and verbally lacerating two-person drama now making its world premiere at SoHo…

Irish director John Carney has made a name for himself as a storyteller with a heart for feel-good, romantic movies, often using music to unite his characters. His latest creation,…

Towards the first-act end of Melissa Etheridge: My Window, the woman whom Island Records founder Chris Blackwell called the “new face of rock ‘n’ roll” in 1988 reprises one of…

Swing State, set in the summer of 2021 during the Covid pandemic, makes its chief claim to contemporaneity in its concern for topics of current environmental importance; these offer a…

Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch, a play written by the late, prolific, and legendary actor/writer/director Ossie Davis, hasn’t been performed on Broadway since its original 1961-62…

Fifty-five years ago. the film "Oliver!" was released, and it's one of the most enjoyable literary adaptations and stage-to-screen musicals of all time. Oliver! is a 1968 British period musical…

The levels of the adjective Cuteness are Cute, the comparative Cutesie, and the superlative Cutesie-poo. Emma Horwitz’s Mary Gets Hers fits into the superlative slot. It’s Cutesie-poo at its most…

Putting the blackened, flash-frozen heart of Chile’s undead past into a blender, blitzing it to a lumpen pulp and guzzling down the result with grimly comic relish, Pablo Larraín, after…

Rivalry is a kind of haunting. It takes place over time. The longer it goes on, the more the initial question — “How much did they hate each other?” —…

There are very few romantic comedies where it’s compelling to watch your two leads go through the story without much interaction. Sleepless in Seattle may, in fact, be the only…