No two days are the same when you’re swinging in Guys and Dolls. Swings are the unsung heroes of every musical. Ready to step in at a moment’s notice, they cover multiple ensemble roles to ensure the show goes on no matt…
Wanted has rolled onto Broadway, guns blazin’. The new musical follows Mary and Martha Clarke, a pair of Black sisters in Reconstruction-era Texas who pass for white and embark on a series…
A report has raised the possibility of Steven Spielberg directing his first stage musical at the Public Theater, with Jeanine Tesori and Tony Kushner reportedly writing. A Christmas-linked p…
Honoree Thomas Kail photos by Ben Bomier for Mia Isabella Photography What can six playwrights, six directors, and two dozen actors create in just 24 hours? At The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway …
Powerhouse Parramatta has opened with five exhibitions, a 23-day festival and a 24-hour riverside public realm. The opening weighs the museum's access model against its published cost, deliv…
The Provincetown Playhouse in Greenwich Village, close by Washington Square Park, was probably the most important progressive theater in New York in the early 1920s, as witness two plays cur…
Rome wasn’t built in a day; but, 6 fun plays were. Thanks to 24 Hour Plays a packed audience in Todd Haimes Theatre, enjoyed an evening of fast paced fully produced entertainment on Monday…
As Rose in Stage 62’s "Gypsy," Becki Toth’s Broadway belt is creating seismic waves at the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall in Carnegie.
For America’s 250th, Teatro Grattacielo has offered something bracing and gentle at once: a new work that brings the Revolution close enough to touch and a Puccini reconceived as the shape…
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There is so much in this play, both in the script and in the tremendous physicalness of the acting, that some of the logic of the created world gets sidestepped, but let it go and let yourse…
When Gov. Wes Moore signed the State of Maryland’s FY2027 Capital Budget Bill in April, Young Artists of America® (YAA) crossed the halfway mark on their $8M Building Dreams capital campa…
This is a night of remembrance and discovery, of revisiting old stories while making room for new ones. Watching them felt less like observing a play than being welcomed into a family's ho…
A ravishing memory play set in Spanish Harlem where life in 1962 among Puerto Ricans is beautifully brought to the stage; an infant’s death is traumatic. The post Boy Santos appeared firs…
Civility is stomped on; adults act like children; selfishness and image override humanity and loyalties are forged and dissipated in the uproariously funny, deeply insightful God of Carnage …
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We all recall high school horror stories that served as fodder for TV and movies – Freak and Geeks, Gossip Girl, Glee, Heathers, Mean Girls.) Arriving on Broadway a decade after its Off-Br…
Take an exclusive look inside the Galileo sitzprobe with Raúl Esparza and Jeremy Kushnier singing "The Man You Think I Am." The clip gives another taste of the Zoe Sarnak and Michael Weiner…
There will be wars and rumors of wars: At Third Rail, actor Isaac Lamb and musician Jeff Kerestes bring an updated version of Homer's epic to vivid and ever-repeating life.
Aaron Sorkin's dialogue thunders through the courtroom in this revival of his breakout play. Lane Williamson reviews. The post Review: A Few Good Men at the Vivian Beaumont Theater appeared…
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By David Greenham A compelling cast brings warmth, humor, and resolve to Front Porch Arts Collective’s stirring portrait of Black washerwomen fighting for their rights in 1881 Atlanta. The…
The holidays are coming! If your holiday plans include seeing a Broadway show, take note of the special holiday schedules for this Christmas/New Year's week. All information is subject to…
At New York City Center, Lin-Manuel Miranda (music & lyrics) and Quiara Alegría Hudes’ (book) "In the Heights" arrives with the particular pleasure of a work whose cultural influence …
By JAMES H. LEWIS In 1878, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, coming off a disastrous marriage, retired to Italy where he completed the score for Eugene Onegin and his Fourth Symphony. Inspired by th…
A Toronto theatre review: Veronica Hortigüela and Annie Luján unleash an interactive clowning adventure of lentils, outrageous physical comedy, and occasional flashes of unexpected tendern…
Scott Colom, the Democratic Senate nominee in Mississippi who is currently 2,574 votes ahead of incumbent Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith in the race, would be the first Democratic US Senator elect…
On January 7, 2025 devastating wildfires spread quickly through the Pacific Palisades, Topanga and Malibu. They resulted in the deaths of 12 people, destroyed 6,837 structures and covered 37…
Gracie McGraw anchors an exhilarating world-premiere rock opera, despite uneven handling of its darker themes.
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The production is very much the musical we know and love, but with new flourishes that make for a movingly intimate experience. By D.R. LEWIS
(Lyndsey Winship’s article appeared in the Guardian, 11/6/2026; Photo: Gertrude is a goose, Claudius is a snake … Ben Duke in The Last Hamlet. Photograph: Jane Hobson.) Sadler’s Wel…
This week, Sterlin Harjo, creator of "Reservation Dogs" and "The Lowdown” explains why he could take us in a fight, and panelists Brain Babylon, Adam Felber, and Joyelle Nicole Johnson rid…
Few stories have shaped our cultural picture of institutional power quite like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Ken Kesey’s
There is nothing quite like the mating call of a fox to make you question your surroundings. A piercing, high-pitched shriek that sounds alarmingly like a woman being murdered, it is nature�…
Terrence Mann, Corey Glover, Vernon Reid, Alexa Ray Joel, and a formidable lineup of performers celebrated music, mentorship, and the next generation of artists. Sony Hall played host to Roc…
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The cast, creative team, and musicians of GALILEO, the new Broadway musical starring four-time Tony Award nominee Raúl Esparza, Jeremy Kushnier, and Joy Woods, recently came together for th…
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A sharp and heartfelt core gets buried under a lot of theatrical overaccessorizing. Loren Noveck reviews. The post Review: Tristan & Yseult at St. Ann’s Warehouse appeared first on Exe…
The main attraction here is the spectacle, the song and dance and aerial acrobatics and healthy helpings of comedy. And on that front, this show delivers. Every moment is inventive. Each sce…
Emma Rice’s revival of her breakout hit retells a medieval love story with rhymed couplets, pop songs, and aerial tricks. It’s a little needy, but it’s a joy.
The cast and creative team of 2:22 – A GHOST STORY celebrated the opening night of the play's New York premiere at the Lucille Lortel Theatre on Thursday, November 5. Check out photos from…
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CHICAGO will tour the UK and Ireland from February 2027, with Lauren Oakley as Roxie Hart and Adam Garcia as Billy Flynn, while Mica Paris and Sam Bailey share Mama Morton at selected venues.
A favourable Halloween-weekend review singles out Jake Shears in THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW at Studio 54, while a separate notice of the earlier Luke Evans-led company takes a far cooler view.
Tess Walsh reflects on Liz Westbrook’s "CENTERPIECE," presented at PRELUDE on Oct 9.
Tess Walsh reflects on Cori Diaz’s "Carpal Tunnel," presented as part of the 2026 Moxie Incubator at IRT Theater, Oct 7–11.
What to make of director and scenic designer Thaddeus Strassberger’s lavish new production of Bizet’s enduringly popular opera Carmen? This brand-new and extravagantly-staged co-produ…
