It’s hard to argue that we live in exciting times. They may be rife with amazing capabilities or with unbelievable challenges, but either way, the times, they are a-full of dramatic possibility. So why can’t Red Fern Theatre Company document them with a more rewarding play than Created Equal? more

Forget GRE scores, spell-checking personal essays or even worrying about what font to use in your application. For anyone looking to score admission to a prestigious grad school program, the results are entirely out of the applicant’s hands. At least that’s what Inadmissible, the amusing if sometimes obvious comedy running at Canal Park Playhouse, will have you believe. more

The major problem with this production of Wit is its misguided raison d’etre, star Cynthia Nixon. more

The heroes at the heart of Erin Browne’s Menders, now playing at downtown’s Judson Gym, exist in an alternate future where a select few must live on one side of a protective wall. more

Daniel Talbott’s Yosemite, an underwritten, underwhelming, over-wrought new play inexplicably produced by Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre and lugubriously directed by Pedro Pascal. more

Sometimes I love my job. It’s my great pleasure to direct you to Gob Squad’s Kitchen (You’ve Never Had It So Good), the first must-see of an unusually busy 2012. more

Family is a funny thing—especially in Joel Drake Johnson’s The Fall to Earth at 59E59 Theaters. Estranged mother and daughter Fay (Deborah Hedwall) and Rachel (Jolie Curtsinger) fractiously reunite to complete a gruesome task. more

Plays lit by candlelight are reliably murderous on one’s consciousness—but never more so than in the Broadway revival of Athol Fugard’s intimate three-hander The Road to Mecca. Stranding both Fugard’s story and actors Rosemary Harris, Carla Gugino and Jim Dale on a giant stage to chatter away for two-and-a-half hours with a marked lack of dramatic conflict is a recipe for nap-taking. more

Leakey’s Ladies would have an ambitious mission even if it weren’t an Off-Off-Broadway show playing the small Dixon Place and with a limited budget. But Gretchen Van Lente’s look at three very worthy women, with an experimental structure and a multimedia design that errs on the side of the amateurish, bites off more than it seems to be able to chew. more

The worst aspect of the super strain of SARS that is terrorizing the South in Matthew Maguire’s new drama Instinct is that it’s targeting the wrong people. more