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Playwrights Horizons

Fall Theater Preview: A Dozen Shows Gets You Back to (Drama) School

Experiments, parodies, Sondheim, Godot, and much more await you this fall.
By David Cote

Review: Adult Fairytale ‘The Trees’ Gets to the Root of Modern Angst 

Existential upheaval is fun in this magic-realist mini-epic from Agnes Borinsky that moves the beyond theatrical binaries of comedy and tragedy.
By David Cote

Off-Broadway’s Bathrooms: A Ranked Love Letter

We freshen up in them, overhear theater gossip in them, and wash our hands before leaving them. Now we rank them.
By Billy McEntee

Bruce Norris On The Moral Complexities of ‘Downstate’

By Harry Haun

Jukebox Heroes and Experimental Icons Star in the Best Fall Theater Shows

By David Cote

New York Theater Is About to Get F**ked Up

By Joe Dziemianowicz
André De Shields in Mankind.

André De Shields Talks Turning 72, Taking on Two Full-Time Jobs

By Harry Haun
Deanna Dunagan and Peter Friedman in The Treasurer.

Deanna Dunagan on Playing Yet Another Unlovable Mother

By Harry Haun
Kathleen Chalfant, Daniel Jenkins, Keith Reddin and Lisa Emery in For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday.

Playwright Sarah Ruhl’s New Work Is a Birthday Present to Her Mom

By Harry Haun
Phillip James Brannon, Jesse Pennington and Lance Coadie Williams in Bootycandy. (Photo by Joan Marcus)

‘Bootycandy’ Is a Tasteless Mish-Mash of Ugly Stereotypes Verging on Racism

By Rex Reed
Scroggins and Strolle in The Big Meal

The Big Meal: Whose Role Is it Anyway?

By Rex Reed
Esper and Kull in Assistance, of which the play offers little.

Assistance: Office Dramedy as Tedious as the 9-to-5 Trudge

By Rex Reed

Who’s Confused by Edward Albee?

By Jesse Oxfeld

Make Way for Mamet the Didact!

By Jesse Oxfeld

Revenge Fantasy Theater

By Jesse Oxfeld

Dylan McDermott Joins Playwright Horizons' Changes

By Gillian Reagan
Kenneth Anger (courtesy Getty Images)

The Case Against Drabinsky And Lincoln Center

By John Heilpern
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