Rarely, if ever, has listening to a man describe his life's work as he gets dressed been as horrifyingly entertaining as it is in "Absolution," writer-actor Owen O'Neill's one-man play.
Off-Broadway Review
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Spatter Pattern or, How I Got Away With It
Neal Bell's story of two death-haunted men has some of the attributes of a Hitchcock thriller but plays better as a stark, low-key psychological drama.
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The always genre-defying Laurie Anderson's new music-theater piece is as full of craft as of magic, resulting in an enchanting journey to the limits of the imagination.
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Derek Ahonen's play, here in its Off-Broadway premiere after debuting Off-Off-Broadway in 2008, is as ambitious and self-defeating as the culture it sets out to save.
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In this one-man show, NPR host Al Letson proves that he can make words spellbinding yet somehow never fully connects with his audience.
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In a world in which Blue Man Group and Cirque du Soleil are staples of the mainstream, the troupe's abstract puppets seem oddly antiquated.
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This moral fable of contemporary Ireland—written, performed, and accompanied at the piano by Raymond Scannell—is a story that more often bewilders rather than informs.
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This dance-theater offering is an inauthentic employment of flamenco dance, set against hip-hop sensibilities, in the service of a pummeling, percussion-driven music and movement spectacle.
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The attention-grabbing premise promises more than the show can deliver, despite the cast's commitment and one actor's magnificent physique.
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Wolves at the Window (and Other Tales of Immorality)
If only the dramaturgy of the evening matched the individual moments—a theatrical way of saying if only the whole were greater than the sum of its parts.
