Aya Cash as Jesse Stone and John Lithgow as Roald Dahl in Mark Rosenblatt's Giant , directed by Nicholas Hytner. Photo: Joan Marcus. Mark Rosenblatt’s new play Giant is a sensational, admirable, and courageous effort to Make Anti-Semitism Despicable Again. MADA baseball caps coming soon. You read it here first. The play, just opened on Broadway after much acclaimed London runs in 2024 and 2025, is about the venomous, defiant, and utterly unrepentant anti-Semitism of the reno

Mary Beth Peil, Caroline Aaron, Noah Galvin, Chip Zien, and Peter Maloney in Jake Brasch's The Reservoir , directed by Shelley Butler at Atlantic Theater. Photo: Ahron Foster. Jake Brasch’s The Reservoir  tells the story of a charmingly self-deprecating, openly gay NYU theater student named Josh who is a chronically relapsing drunk. Josh wakes up after a blackout near his home in Denver, doesn’t know how he got there, and is reluctantly taken in by his fed-up, divorced mother

Aigner Mizzelle (Lil) and Okieriete Onaodowan (Big) in Ngozi Anyanwu's The Monsters at Manhattan Theatre Club's NY City Center Stage II. Photo: Christian Heino. Ngozi Anyanwu’s The Monsters is a poignant and muscular two-hander about a Black brother and sister, estranged for 16 years, who reconcile over intensive training in MMA fighting. It’s a sweet play, directed by the author at MTC’s City Center, written in a spare, mellifluous vernacular that fits well with its athlet