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Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Hear How a ‘Smash’ Song Got a Broadway Makeover

by Alexis Soloski

“Let Me Be Your Star,” which evokes an actor’s longing to shine, has come a long way from its TV days. Here’s how the song evolved on its way to the stage.

Sunday, January 12, 2025

Los Angeles Is Starring in an All-Too-Real Disaster Story

by Alexis Soloski

A reporter, an L.A. native, has watched movies and TV destroy her hometown for years, but nothing can prepare someone for seeing real devastation.

Thursday, January 2, 2025

For Shailene Woodley, Every Day Is Christmas

by Alexis Soloski

The actress is starring in the Broadway hit “Cult of Love,” about a dysfunctional family gathered for the holidays. That means another month of caroling.

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

John Mulaney and Simon Rich, Former ‘S.N.L.’ Writers, Are ‘All In’ on Broadway

by Alexis Soloski

The former “S.N.L.” writing partners have reunited for Rich’s “superficially wacky” Broadway show, “All In: Comedy About Love.”

Saturday, December 7, 2024

‘Wicked’ Alumnae Class Notes: What They Learned at Shiz University

by Michael Paulson and Alexis Soloski

Only the women who’ve played Elphaba and Glinda in the show’s two decades onstage understand why the roles are so taxing — and so rewarding, too.

Wednesday, November 27, 2024

In ‘Yuletide Factory,’ Cirque Mechanics Manufactures a Family Holiday Show

by Alexis Soloski

It’s Christmas at the sweatshop, but the mood fluctuates between ho ho ho and ho hum.

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Big Apple Circus Review: A City Tour, Pizza Rats Included

by Alexis Soloski

This year’s show is an underwhelming exercise in nostalgia. But it’s still a joy to be under the big top with acts like the Wheel of Destiny.

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

‘The Wind and the Rain’ Review: How Sunny’s Bar Weathered the Storm

by Alexis Soloski

On a barge in Brooklyn, the story of a beloved watering hole and a neighborhood’s recovery after Hurricane Sandy.

Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler Are Star Crossed in Central Park

by Alexis Soloski

As the stars of the “Romeo + Juliet” that opens on Broadway, they will die for love. And to make that convincing, they need to become friends first.

Wednesday, August 28, 2024

In ‘Only Murders in the Building,’ Michael Cyril Creighton Is Above Suspicion

by Alexis Soloski

For years, Michael Cyril Creighton hoped one of his small TV parts would evolve into something more. With “Only Murders,” it finally happened.

Monday, July 15, 2024

In ‘Life and Trust,’ the Details Are in the Devil

by Alexis Soloski and Hiroko Masuike

A new immersive piece of theater from the producers of “Sleep No More” transports visitors to the Gilded Age through a retrofitted skyscraper in Manhattan.

Sunday, June 16, 2024

‘Stereophonic’ Wins the Tony Award for Best New Play

by Alexis Soloski

It was the fifth award of the night for the production, a meditation on the joy and torture of creative collaboration.

Saturday, June 15, 2024

Ariana DeBose, Tonys Host, Just Might Be the Busiest Woman on Broadway

by Alexis Soloski

Back in New York City after filming a movie, the actress has been racing to shows while also rehearsing for Sunday night’s ceremony.

Tuesday, June 4, 2024

Public Theater Takes Shakespeare in the Park Out on the Town

by Alexis Soloski

The Delacorte Theater is being renovated, so a musical version of “The Comedy of Errors” is touring some of the city’s outdoor spaces.

Thursday, May 2, 2024

Jeremy Strong on Tony Nomination for ‘An Enemy of the People’

by Alexis Soloski

Kelli O’Hara’s Ties to Opera, From ‘The Gilded Age’ to the Met Stage

by Alexis Soloski

O’Hara is an unusual kind of triple threat: a star of Broadway and television who is appearing at the Metropolitan Opera in a revival of “The Hours.”

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Tony Nominations 2024: Biggest Snubs and Surprises

by Jesse Green, Alexis Soloski and Scott Heller

It was a strong year for female directors, a play featuring music and American productions.

Thursday, April 25, 2024

Review: Jessica Lange Stars in Paula Vogel’s ‘Mother Play’

by Alexis Soloski

Jessica Lange stars as a ferocious matriarch alongside Celia Keenan-Bolger and Jim Parsons in Vogel’s latest family drama.

Monday, April 22, 2024

How ‘Stereophonic’ Made Musicians Out of Actors

by Alexis Soloski

The new Broadway play conjures a group as dazzling as peak Fleetwood Mac. This is how five actors with limited training (one never held a bass) became rock stars.

Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Christopher Durang, Playwright Who Mixed High Art and Low Humor, Dies at 75

by Alexis Soloski

In a career spanning more than 40 years, he established himself as a hyperliterate jester and an anarchic clown.

Monday, April 1, 2024

Madonna and Barbra Are Fans. Broadway, Meet Lempicka.

by Alexis Soloski

A new musical aims to restore the reputation, in life and art, of the ambitious yet undervalued painter Tamara de Lempicka.

Thursday, February 29, 2024

Jacqueline Woodson’s ‘The Other Side and ‘Show Way’ Go to BAM

by Alexis Soloski

A dance performance of “The Other Side” and a musical adaptation of “Show Way” head to the Brooklyn stage for young audiences.

Monday, February 26, 2024

Review: Fiasco Theater’s ‘Pericles,’ the Cruise of a Lifetime

by Alexis Soloski

If Fiasco Theater has mixed results in its production of this Shakespearean tragicomedy, it celebrates actors supporting and delighting in one another’s work.

Sunday, February 25, 2024

‘Water for Elephants’ Brings the Circus to Broadway

by Alexis Soloski and Peter Fisher

Based on the 2006 novel by Sara Gruen, the musical follows a young man who hops a train and falls in with a ragtag, traveling group of entertainers.

Friday, February 16, 2024

Tobias Menzies on ‘The Crown’ and His Role in ‘The Hunt’

by Alexis Soloski

The British actor excels at playing reserve, and what roils beneath, on “The Crown.” And now he brings that stoicism to “The Hunt,” onstage in Brooklyn.

Wednesday, February 7, 2024

The Vocal Coach Who Keeps Broadway (and Patti LuPone) in Tune

by Alexis Soloski

“She saved my career,” Patti LuPone said of this indispensable vocal therapist and coach whose clients include Madonna and Billy Porter.

Sunday, January 14, 2024

With ‘Mean Girls,’ When Trailers Hit Mute on the Musical

by Alexis Soloski

With “Mean Girls,” “Wonka” and “The Color Purple,” why have studios spent much of their marketing budget downplaying and disguising their movie musicals?

Thursday, January 4, 2024

Edge of the aisle seat: the case of the theatre critic who becomes a sleuth

by Alexis Soloski

Countless nights spent reviewing plays informed Here in the Dark, a novel of psychological suspense in which critical faculties are essential to solving a real-life drama My first professional theatre review ap…

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

At a Revamped Under the Radar, New York Greets a ‘Global Downtown’

by Alexis Soloski

No longer at the Public, the annual celebration of experimental theater disperses 17 productions across the city. About half are international works that are getting harder to import.

Friday, December 8, 2023

Mentalist Mayhem in ‘Mind Mangler’ and Other New Magic Shows

by Alexis Soloski

There is something for everyone, even the kids, in “Mind Mangler,” “The Magician” and “Mario the Maker Magician.”

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Casey Likes of ‘Back to the Future,’ Is on a Roll

by Alexis Soloski

At 21, he already has two Broadway leads under his belt. On Thursdays, he sheds Marty McFly’s signature vest for a bowling shirt.

Friday, November 24, 2023

‘Manahatta,’ Mary Kathryn Nagle’s Play About the Lenape, Comes Home

by Alexis Soloski

The show, which toggles between the 17th century and the early 21st, arrives on the island on which it is largely set.

Friday, November 17, 2023

Big Apple Circus Review: A Show That Bends Over Backward for You

by Alexis Soloski

The extraordinary within the everyday: A holiday season rite returns with aerialists, trapeze acts, funny clowns (really!) and cotton candy too.

Friday, November 10, 2023

Curtains Down, Bottoms Up: When the Show Ends, the Night’s Just Getting Started

by Alexis Soloski

“Dead Letter No. 9,” “Cocktail Magique” and “Hypnotique” are offering theatergoers a taste of nightlife.

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

‘Sleep No More’ to Close in January

by Alexis Soloski

The Off Broadway production opened at the McKittrick Hotel in 2011, and helped to alter and expand the landscape of immersive theater.

Friday, November 3, 2023

‘Sabbath’s Theater’ Review: John Turturro Embodies a Life and a Libido

by Alexis Soloski

Though a tour de force for its actors, an Off Broadway adaptation of Philip Roth’s willfully obscene 1995 novel is too faithful to its source.

Thursday, November 2, 2023

‘I’m Still Alive’: Sean Young Takes the Stage in ‘Ode to the Wasp Woman’

by Alexis Soloski

“I walk into a show and everybody’s kind of a little afraid. Then I hear, ‘Oh, but you’re so nice,’” the actress said of her Hollywood baggage.

Thursday, October 12, 2023

Under the Radar to Return, With New Partners

by Alexis Soloski

The festival of experimental work is planning a citywide event at multiple venues in January, after the Public Theater declined to fund the 2024 iteration.

Tuesday, October 3, 2023

In Season 3 of ‘Only Murders,’ the Show, and the Deaths, Went On

by Alexis Soloski

Tuesday’s finale of “Only Murders in the Building” wrapped a season that was a love letter to Broadway musicals, not least because it was a little silly.

Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Something for Everyone, Even Cannibals, at the Philadelphia Fringe

by Alexis Soloski

The festival presents a violent Shakespearean interaction with fruit, dance for neurodiverse and neurotypical audiences and showers of (play) money.

Thursday, September 14, 2023

In ‘The Refuge Plays,’ Nicole Ari Parker Comes Home

by Alexis Soloski

“What the theater gives me is the feeling that I’m using everything,” the actress said of returning to the stage after a decade away.

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Four Theater Artists to Watch This Fall

by Laura Collins-Hughes, Alexis Soloski, Brittani Samuel and Rhoda Feng

We spoke with two actors and two playwrights who will be in the spotlight this season.

Friday, September 8, 2023

Rachel Bloom Enjoys the Ride

by Alexis Soloski

The writer and actress visits Coney Island as the New York leg of “Death, Let Me Do My Show” arrives Off Broadway.

Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad Tackle Another Book (Not Mormon)

by Alexis Soloski

Twelve years after opening “The Book of Mormon,” the two actors — and good friends — return with “Gutenberg! The Musical!”

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Feminist Stories Are Being Set to a Pop Beat. But Are They Empowering?

by Alexis Soloski

Our critics debate how well shows like “Six,” “& Juliet” and “Once Upon a One More Time” engage with the inner worlds of women onstage.

Monday, August 21, 2023

‘El Mago Pop’ Review: Antonio Díaz’s Magic Show Is Charming

by Alexis Soloski

In his Broadway debut, the illusionist Antonio Díaz does levitation and teleportation. But it’s simple tricks, with cards and balls, that really wow.

Wednesday, August 9, 2023

In ‘Operation Mincemeat,’ the Theater of War Is a Comedy

by Alexis Soloski

How a theater collective transformed the too-weird-to-be-true story of a World War II counterintelligence scheme into a West End musical with heart.

Friday, July 14, 2023

Movie Stars and Broadway Veterans Share Theater Camp Memories

by Alexis Soloski

In honor of “Theater Camp,” a new movie about a fictional sleepaway site, we asked Broadway veterans and movie stars for their favorite camp memories.

Friday, June 30, 2023

‘The Democracy Project’ Brings Drama to Federal Hall

by Alexis Soloski

In a show staged in Federal Hall, five prominent playwrights tell the story of the site of significant events in the country’s founding, without glossing over the uglier parts.

Tuesday, June 20, 2023

In ‘A Simulacrum,’ Steve Cuiffo Has Nothing Up His Sleeves

by Alexis Soloski

The magician worked with the playwright Lucas Hnath to create “a more vulnerable version of magic performance,” Hnath said.

Monday, June 19, 2023

In NYC, an Immersive ‘Great Gatsby’ Takes You Back in Time

by Alexis Soloski

The theatrical performance of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel, opening this month at the Park Central Hotel, is the latest in a very long, heavily sequined line of “Gatsby” adaptations.

Wednesday, June 14, 2023

William Jackson Harper Needed to Do ‘Primary Trust’

by Alexis Soloski

The longtime New York actor explains why his character in Eboni Booth’s play about a lonely bookstore worker is closer to him than any other he’s taken on.

Monday, June 12, 2023

Best and Worst Moments of the 76th Tony Awards

by Jesse Green, Maya Phillips, Elisabeth Vincentelli, Laura Collins-Hughes, Alexis Soloski and Sarah Bahr

With a clever opening number and repeated support for striking writers, the Tonys celebrated Broadway’s shows, performers and creative teams.

Thursday, June 8, 2023

For the Under the Radar Festival, the Experiment is Over for Now

by Alexis Soloski

“It wasn’t a choice I would have made,” said Mark Russell, whose festival of experimental work will no longer be produced by the Public Theater.

Monday, May 15, 2023

Review: A ‘Romeo and Juliet’ That Clowns Around With Tragedy

by Alexis Soloski

Directed by Hansol Jung and Dustin Wills, this sportive, vividly acted production fails to make a convincing case for its new gags and directorial flights.

Thursday, May 11, 2023

Review: At ‘Tartuffe’ in the Park, Hypocrisy Is No Picnic

by Alexis Soloski

The 17th-century play, staged by the theater company Molière in the Park, skewers those who preach morality yet practice anything but.

Wednesday, May 10, 2023

In ‘Sweeney Todd,’ Annaleigh Ashford Puts It All Together

by Alexis Soloski

The musical comedy savant is a Tony nominee for playing Mrs. Lovett, a pie maker with an unusually gruesome recipe hack. “I can’t judge her. I just have to love her,” she said.

Friday, May 5, 2023

Review: In ‘Dimanche,’ a Climate Emergency Comes to Stay

by Alexis Soloski

Tornadoes whoosh dinner from the table and a shark swims through a flooded living room in a clown show that brings the environmental crisis home.

Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Jodie Comer on Her Tony Nomination: It ‘Has to Mean More Than Just Me’

by Alexis Soloski

The actress said she hopes that the play continues to generate discussions around sexual assault and said the response so far has been “beautiful.”

Tony Nomination Snubs and Surprises: Rachel Brosnahan, ‘Ain’t No Mo’’ and ‘& Juliet’

by Scott Heller and Alexis Soloski

Tony nominators singled out new faces and set up fascinating face-offs, but missed the chance to recognize a Native American breakthrough.

Thursday, April 27, 2023

‘The Knight of the Burning Pestle’ Review: Wielding His Trusty Kitchen Tools

by Alexis Soloski

With a 17th-century grocer as its hero, Red Bull Theater and Fiasco stage a 400-year-old comedy that’s both a satire of the theater and a valentine to it.

Monday, April 17, 2023

‘Like a Romance’: Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht’s Spring Fling Onstage

by Alexis Soloski

In David Auburn’s new play, “Summer, 1976,” the actresses play unlikely friends whose relationship has the intensity of a love affair.

Friday, April 14, 2023

‘The Phantom of the Opera’: Thinking of a Spectacle Fondly

by Joshua Barone, Alexis Soloski and Elisabeth Vincentelli

As the longest-running musical in Broadway history closes, Times critics with a lasting affection for the show take stock of its legacy.

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

In ‘Prima Facie,’ Jodie Comer Finds Her Light

by Alexis Soloski

The one-woman show, coming to Broadway, is the “Killing Eve” star’s first stage role. She dared herself to do it.

Thursday, April 6, 2023

Review: In ‘The Wife of Willesden,’ a Literary Marriage Falters

by Alexis Soloski

Zadie Smith brings her first play, an adaptation of Chaucer’s the Wife of Bath tale, to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Thursday, March 30, 2023

‘Life of Pi’ Review: A Boy and a Tiger, Burning Brightly

by Alexis Soloski

Human ingenuity and animal grace course through this rich, inventive play about difficult choices and the stories we tell to make sense of them.

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

In This ‘Peter Pan,’ Something Always Goes Awry. That’s the Plan.

by Alexis Soloski

Broadway’s slapstick comedy “Peter Pan Goes Wrong” is full of daring sequences. What does it take? Countless rehearsals (and bruises).

Monday, March 27, 2023

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street review – dazzling Broadway revival

by Alexis Soloski

Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford play Stephen Sondheim’s murderous Victorian couple in a bold and barnstorming take Despite having worn a beard for much of his career as a rec…

Friday, March 24, 2023

Review: In ‘Sancocho,’ a Family Crisis Is Cooking

by Alexis Soloski

Attention to culinary detail is the best part of this heavily seasoned family drama by Christin Eve Cato at the WP Theater.

Monday, March 13, 2023

‘The Coast Starlight’ Review: Strangers on a Train

by Alexis Soloski

Keith Bunin’s gentle, rueful play at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater settles down among six passengers traveling from Los Angeles to Seattle.

Monday, March 6, 2023

‘The Outsiders’ Review: Growing Pains Both Brutal and Poetic

by Alexis Soloski

At La Jolla Playhouse, the musical adaptation of the novel and film has considerable appeal, but is weighed down by too many characters and themes.

Tuesday, February 14, 2023

‘Cornelia Street’ Review: A Musical With Local Ambitions

by Alexis Soloski

An affectionate elegy to a Greenwich Village restaurant, Neil Pepe’s production at Atlantic Theater orders everything on the menu.

Friday, February 10, 2023

Billy Crudup Makes the Sale in ‘Hello Tomorrow!’

by Alexis Soloski

The actor stars in this new series as a slickster hawking time-shares on the moon. Now in his 50s, Crudup is getting some of the best roles of his career.

Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Oscar Isaac, Rachel Brosnahan and the Draw of a Neglected Hansberry Play

by Alexis Soloski

The first major New York revival of “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window,” Lorraine Hansberry’s 1964 Broadway play, comes to BAM this month. What took so long?

Monday, January 30, 2023

‘Asi Wind’s Inner Circle’ Review: Pick a Card, Not Just Any Card

by Alexis Soloski

A master at the top of his game, the magician Asi Wind performs fluidly and with obvious pleasure.

Friday, January 13, 2023

At Under the Radar, Stories Unfold via Sexts, Tweets and Puppeteers

by Jesse Green, Laura Collins-Hughes and Alexis Soloski

The Public Theater’s experimental theater festival is back in person for the first time since 2020. Here, our critics review a handful of the works on display.

Friday, January 6, 2023

Review: ‘Are We Not Drawn Onward to New Era’ Stages a Disaster in Reverse

by Alexis Soloski

The Under the Radar festival kicks off with an allegory about climate destruction by the Belgian provocateurs Ontroerend Goed.

Thursday, January 5, 2023

At Under the Radar, Theater That Jumps Right Off the Page

by Alexis Soloski

Literary influences suffuse this year’s festival of avant-garde performance. Artists from six shows share the stories that inspired them.

Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Review: In ‘Ye Bear & Ye Cubb,’ Colonial America Takes the Stage

by Alexis Soloski

A play first performed in a tavern in 1665 survives with its title, and the court case it precipitated, intact — but nothing else.

Tuesday, December 13, 2022

‘There’s No Way to Do a Good Job if You’re Judging the Character’

by Alexis Soloski

“Downstate” asks its performers to portray men who have done the unimaginable. Three of the play’s actors discuss what it takes to meet that challenge.

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