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David Raposo & Nicole Orabona. Photo by Mia Aguirre: Unmaking of Toulouse-Lautrec

Sure, Broadway can do it bigger and splashier. It’s Off-Broadway, and its sister wife, off-off, that can take the bigger risks.

This means that, often enough, it is the offs’ productions that are the more interesting and provocative.

This is not to say that we don’t appreciate the tone and tenor of a big…

Kathleen Chalfant & Ron Crawford in For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday Photo by Joan Marcus. There are those who proclaim that “age is just a number” and trill about being “young at heart.” Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie’s enduring and oft-Disney-fied character, is the poster boy for this way of looking at life. Others find that hitting the BIG 4-0, 5-0, or 6-0 is fraught with crises, both midlife and…

Ali Reza Farahnakian & Babak Tafti in The Profane by Zayd Dohrn at Playwrights Horizons. Photo by Joan Marcus. The great divide of 2016 has made it clearer  than ever before that there are liberal prejudices and conservative ones. All of them, of course, are illiberal, and results of a closed mind and set assumptions. In his The Profane, at Playwrights Horizons through April 30th, Zayd Dohrn…

Here are three shows playing “off-Broadway” but in the Times Square area you may find of interest: The Wolves at the Duke on 42nd, Yours Unfaithfully at the always brilliant Mint at Theatre Row’s Beckett Theatre, and Rancho Viejo at Playwrights Horizons. Comeback Kids Sports-themed stories are compelling because they are usually about fair play and, well, sportsmanship. Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves…

The summertime blues….

Indian Summer by Gregory S. Moss atPlaywrights HorizonsDirected by Carolyn Cantor. Pictured Jonathan Hadary, Owen Campbell & Elise Kibler. Photo © Joan Marcus Fleeting and deeply emotional relationships between teens-at- leisure flare up regularly during vacations by the shore. Gregory S. Moss’ dramedy, Indian Summer, at Playwrights Horizons through June 26th, is on the face of it about teen…