Articles by Sid Ross

Maria-Luiza Müller’s delightfully devious one-act, On How to Be a Monster, which just finished a three-performance run earlier this week at The Tank on 36th Street, features a distinctive cast: a smooth-talking, sequin-clad, emcee (Adam […]

The thing about Confidence (and The Speech)—playing now at the Lion on Theater Row by way of Charlotte’s Off-Broadway, a North Carolina production group that dramatizes “authentic female experiences” as well as questions of “social […]

There is no actual Nomad Motel in Carla Ching’s new, gripping play of the same name, now running at Atlantic Stage 2 on 16th Street. Nonetheless, the ethereal specter of such a place seems to […]

When Emily Kuroda, as Tasanee, the matriarch of the Thai-American family we are introduced to in The Brothers Paranormal, explains to her son why the dead might linger in some places, the play achieves a […]

As you make your way down the single, storied aisle at the Soho Playhouse on Vandam Street, having passed the gleaming posters of past productions cluttering the space above the staircase—the ghosts inside these frames […]

This city is old enough to remember. And, thankfully, Tim Pinckney’s Still at Risk, a play about the activists who fought for change during the early onset of the AIDS crisis, refuses to let us […]

When Sarah (Sarah Baskin) and Kennedy (Patrick J. Ssenjovu) first meet, in Will Snider’s new play, Death of a Driver, she is 26. She is astonished to learn how old he is. “You’re twenty-one,” she […]

In The Light, a piercingly stunning new work by Loy A. Webb, now playing at the MCC Theater, Rashad and Genesis have been seeing each other for two years. That is saying something in a […]