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Tuesday, February 18, 2025
“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
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
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
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
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
It’s Christmas at the sweatshop, but the mood fluctuates between ho ho ho and ho hum.
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
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
On a barge in Brooklyn, the story of a beloved watering hole and a neighborhood’s recovery after Hurricane Sandy.
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It was a strong year for female directors, a play featuring music and American productions.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Jessica Lange stars as a ferocious matriarch alongside Celia Keenan-Bolger and Jim Parsons in Vogel’s latest family drama.
Monday, April 22, 2024
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
In a career spanning more than 40 years, he established himself as a hyperliterate jester and an anarchic clown.
Monday, April 1, 2024
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
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
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
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
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
“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,” “Wonka” and “The Color Purple,” why have studios spent much of their marketing budget downplaying and disguising their movie musicals?
Thursday, January 4, 2024
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
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
There is something for everyone, even the kids, in “Mind Mangler,” “The Magician” and “Mario the Maker Magician.”
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
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
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
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
“Dead Letter No. 9,” “Cocktail Magique” and “Hypnotique” are offering theatergoers a taste of nightlife.
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
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
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 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
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
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
The festival presents a violent Shakespearean interaction with fruit, dance for neurodiverse and neurotypical audiences and showers of (play) money.
Thursday, September 14, 2023
“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
We spoke with two actors and two playwrights who will be in the spotlight this season.
Friday, September 8, 2023
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
Twelve years after opening “The Book of Mormon,” the two actors — and good friends — return with “Gutenberg! The Musical!”
Tuesday, August 22, 2023
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
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
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
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
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
The magician worked with the playwright Lucas Hnath to create “a more vulnerable version of magic performance,” Hnath said.
Monday, June 19, 2023
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
An affectionate elegy to a Greenwich Village restaurant, Neil Pepe’s production at Atlantic Theater orders everything on the menu.
Friday, February 10, 2023
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
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
A master at the top of his game, the magician Asi Wind performs fluidly and with obvious pleasure.
Friday, January 13, 2023
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
The Under the Radar festival kicks off with an allegory about climate destruction by the Belgian provocateurs Ontroerend Goed.
Thursday, January 5, 2023
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
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
“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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