Review: Timon of Athens at Polonsky Shakespeare Center
Lady Timon (Kathryn Hunter) is a wealthy hostess in Athens, famed for her generosity. And she certainly seems to be the bee’s knees. Her guests gush about her: the connoisseur ...
Review: Little Shop of Horrors at Westside Theatre
The current Off-Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors is exactly what fans want. It’s a tight, intimate production with quality singing and an A+ puppet. I’ve never seen the show ...
Review: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice at the Pershing Square Signature Center
How can anyone not love the decade of free love? The sixties, home to tie dye and loud patterns and the woo-woo culture of mysticism, psychedelia, and uninhibited intellectual and ...
A Contemplation of Design
As the meltdown over the removal of the Les Miserables revolve has taught us, audiences care about design (and possibly they also hold onto the past a little too tightly). Far ...
Review: Anatomy of a Suicide at Atlantic Theater Company
The emotional weight in Alice Birch’s Anatomy of a Suicide (winner of the 2018 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize) is almost unbearable: three generations of women unable to escape a legacy ...
Reviews
Review: Joinification Ceremony for the Church of FemAnimism
online
7 Daughters of Eve and Sibyl Kempson gather worshipers together for a delicate new form of theater-church. Janaki Ranpura gives thanks and praise.
28 May
Features
Stage Managing One Zoom At A Time
Stage managers pivot to Zoom. Joey Sims reports on how this job has shifted in pandemic times.
24 June
Reviews
Review: The Homebound Project Second Edition
online
The Homebound Project offers a tasty theatrical buffet with 11 bite-sized shorts by playwrights like Anne Washburn and Ngozi Anyanwu. Daniel Krane sups on the series' sustenance.
28 May
Reviews
Review: The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church
online
Revisiting a personally pivotal Daniel Kitson show now streaming online, Nicole Serratore visits her past self.
20 May
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Reviews
Review: Performance for One
online
A one-on-one theater theater piece online asks questions about the role of audience and the power of memory. Nicole Serratore reviews.
18 May
Reviews
Review: Beirut and The Honeycomb Trilogy
online
Joey Sims compares two approaches to Zoom plays that have emerged during quarantine: the more traditional theatre-like style of MCC's "Beirut" and the scrappier, internet-acknowledging "The Honeycomb Trilogy" from Gideon Productions.
15 May
Features
Exeunt Staff
Online Theater: The Familiar vs. The New
Our critics gather to talk about what theater they are watching online and why.
Loren Noveck
Viral Content for Our Viral Moment?
Loren Noveck muses on capturing a little bit of live theater's spark in Instagram monologues.
Joey Sims
Finding Connection With Theater Online
While the impact of online theater varies, Joey Sims finds there is still connection to be made and even something new to discover.
Reviews
Review: November on Spotlight on Plays
online
A polished streamed reading shows the possibility of the format, but launches with a dated satirical Mamet play. Cameron Kelsall streams and reviews.
8 May
Reviews
Review: What Do We Need To Talk About?
online
Richard Nelson brings his Apply Family back for a Zoom call for our times. Joey Sims reviews the streaming experience.
30 April
Reviews
Review: Hamlet at Festival D’Avignon 2008
Schaubühne Theatre
Mud, laughs, and tears. Nicole Serratore streams Hamlet with Lars Eidinger and she's not okay.
5 April
Reviews
Review: 72 Miles to Go…at Roundabout Theatre
Laura Pels Theatre
Hilary Bettis’s new play works best when it trusts its smallness. Joey Sims reviews.
18 March
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28 March
Joey Sims
Two Weeks of Theater Streaming
Self-isolation has led to an explosion of online theater streaming options. Joey Sims shares a few.
1 March
Exeunt Staff
Exeunt NYC Recommends: March 2020
Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Claudia Rankine, Rose Byrne, Katrina Lenk, and Katori Hall -- those names barely scratch the surface of all there is to offer on New York stages this month!
30 January
Exeunt Staff
Exeunt NYC Recommends: February 2020
Off-Broadway dominates this month's recommendations column. Our critics celebrate the diversity of material on display all over New York City stages.
29 December
Exeunt Staff
Most Memorable of the Decade
Exeunt critics reflect on the their most memorable theatrical experiences of past ten years.