Review: The Cher Show at Neil Simon Theatre

The thing about The Cher Show is that, at some point, you pass through the veil of real life where things like logic and sense bear down and you emerge ...

A Dialogue on Dialogues

In the wake of Ben Brantley and Jesse Green’s much-discussed joint review of King Kong, Exeunt NYC’s staff gathered to consider the virtues and drawbacks of a form the site ...

Elaine May in The Waverly Gallery (Photo: Brigitte Lacombe)

Review: The Waverly Gallery at Golden Theatre

The Waverly Gallery, on Broadway for the first time twenty years after its premiere, shows off playwright Kenneth Lonergan’s well-honed ability to craft naturalistic dialogue. But in chronicling how dementia ...

Cherise Boothe, Nikiya Mathis, and Heather Alicia Simms in Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine by Lynn Nottage and directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz. (Photo: Monique Carboni)

Review: Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine at Signature Theatre

Undine Barnes (Cherise Boothe), fabulous and successful New York PR agent, is a self-made woman: she was born Sharona Watkins, a black girl from the Brooklyn projects who got a ...

A family in turmoil in The Ferryman (Photo: Joan Marcus)

Review: The Ferryman at Bernard Jacobs Theatre

Like one of those Celtic knots, Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman, a story about a family in Northern Ireland set in 1981 amid the heyday of IRA menace, wills and weaves ...

Reviews

Review: Clueless at The Pershing Square Signature Center

Pershing Square Signature Center

Amy Heckerling's musical adaptation of her classic '90s film is a good time, but not necessarily good theatre. Joey Sims reviews.

Published Yesterday

Features

Exeunt NYC Recommends: Winter

Broadway and music and festivals -- oh my! New York has it all this winter, and our critics share their top picks for December and January.

28 November

Reviews

Review: The Net Will Appear at 59E59

59E59 Theaters

Erin Mallon's play is a welcome escape into something nice. Dan O'Neil reviews.

Published Yesterday

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Review: Slave Play at New York Theatre Workshop

New York Theatre Workshop

Explicit, provocative, and rich with intentional ambiguity, Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play mixes shocked laughter with deep discomfort.

12 December

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Review: Network at the Belasco Theatre

Belasco Theatre

A multimedia adaptation of Paddy Chayefsky's film by Ivo van Hove rams home the contemporary relevance of how media can go completely mad.

12 December

Reviews

Review: Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine at Signature Theatre

Signature Theatre

The tragicomic, or comitragic, epic journey of a woman who made herself once, and now has to do it all over again. Loren Noveck reviews.

11 December

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Exeunt Staff

A Dialogue on Dialogues

Our critics discuss the merit of dialogue reviews, the New York Times experimenting with them, and King Kong.

Exeunt Staff

Exeunt NYC Recommends: November

Timely and topical plays debut on and off Broadway this November. A bit farther uptown, a Puccini masterpiece returns to the Metropolitan Opera for its hundredth anniversary. Our staff recommend all that and more!

Exeunt Staff

Exeunt NYC Recommends: October

Elaine May returns to Broadway. Anne Bogart brings ancient Greece to Brooklyn. Bedlam mashes up two classic plays. Our staff recommends all that and more this October.