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Sunday, December 22, 2024
Ticket-buyers are being charged as much as $800 a pop some weeks for what is little more than a sedate staged reading of New Yorker cartoon captions uttered by celebrities.
Friday, December 20, 2024
With stop-start direction from George C. Wolfe, the musical runs out of gas early on.
Saturday, December 14, 2024
“The Devil Wears Prada,” Elton John’s horrid musical that crashed and burned two years ago in Chicago, is giving it a second go in London.
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
For Elton John, Trump’s victory did not make Broadway great again.
Saturday, November 23, 2024
On Tuesday, the “Crocodile Rock” singer’s “Tammy Faye,” a migraine about mascara set to music, posted its closing notice only five days after opening night. Said a wag: “The shocker is that it’s g…
Thursday, November 21, 2024
There is a miracle elixir in the campy musical “Death Becomes Her,” which opened Thursday night at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre: Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard.
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Sir Elton knows his way around a flop. But even his 2006 vampire debacle "Lestat," which The Post's Clive Barnes declared as "bloody awful," ran a little longer.
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Something I won’t be saying on my death bed: “I wish I would’ve watched more shows about boats.”
Thursday, November 14, 2024
Unfortunately for Sir Elton, the godawful musical about flamboyant 1980s televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker is a lot more of a “Lestat” than an “Aida.”
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
The blissful, boundlessly creative gift of a musical from South Korea opened Monday night at the Belasco Theatre.
Monday, November 11, 2024
What’s onstage at Studio 54 is largely a deflating and cobbled-together wife story that fails to capture Armstrong the artist.
Friday, November 1, 2024
A tribute show honoring Joan Rivers, and the "Stand Up For Heroes" benefit event featuring Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa, are all part of the 2024 New York Comedy Festival.
Saturday, October 26, 2024
For everybody, Broadway — despite the nostalgic fun of putting on a show — comes at an enormous risk to a star’s pride and reputation.
Thursday, October 24, 2024
What an impressive, heart-stopping Broadway debut from the young British star of Netflix’s “Heartstopper.”
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Delia Ephron’s play starring Julianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher wants to be a moving romantic comedy, but it's sluggish and awkward.
Sunday, October 20, 2024
Andrew Lloyd Webber's “Sunset Boulevard,” which opened Sunday night at the St. James Theatre, is Broadway’s most exhilarating show in years
Thursday, October 17, 2024
What a joy it is to see “Something Rotten” transformed into something terrific. The caffeinated comedy, which played New York back in 2015, is the marquee musical of the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Can…
Saturday, October 12, 2024
The playwright and producers of “Stereophonic,” this year’s Tony Award winner for Best Play, and its landlord the Shubert Organization are being sued by writers Steven Stiefel and Ken Caillat, the Fleetwo…
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Director Kenny Leon’s staging of “Our Town” is among the most uninvolving and anemic our critic has ever seen.
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Ken Page, the formidable Broadway actor and voice of Oogie Boogie in the film “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” has died.
Monday, September 30, 2024
The tiresome Broadway play “McNeal,” starring Robert Downey Jr. at Lincoln Center, is about every windbag’s favorite topic — AI.
No, the former Pussycat Doll didn’t get into a fist fight in Shubert Alley — she’s the star of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Broadway musical “Sunset Boulevard,” which started previews last weekend.
Gavin Creel, the Tony Award-winning star of Broadway musicals such as “Hello, Dolly!” and “Hair,” died Monday in Manhattan, his partner confirmed. He was 48.
Sunday, September 29, 2024
At the Broadhurst Theatre, where Jez Butterworth’s new play “The Hills of California” opened on Sunday night, lives Laura Donnelly's stern and captivating Veronica Webb.
Monday, August 12, 2024
A show and a star have aligned. Mary Rodgers’ 1959 musical comedy has found Sutton Foster.
Saturday, August 10, 2024
Look out ‘cause here it comes. Disney Theatrical Group announced that a new stage musical of “The Greatest Showman” is in development at their D23 fan convention in Anaheim, Calif., on Friday night. T…
Monday, August 5, 2024
Max Wolf Friedlich’s spicy drama is a collision of all of those essays and studies you’ve read about that age group’s unique tendencies — especially their desire to get paid by doing “meaningful work,…
Saturday, July 27, 2024
Something I would have never guessed five years ago: One of Broadway’s hottest shows is a rip-roaring comedy about Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of Abraham Lincoln.
Thursday, July 11, 2024
The preposterously enjoyable non-musical play does the impossible —thanks to the irrepressible comic genius of playwright and actor Cole Escola.
Saturday, June 29, 2024
The behind-closed-doors scenes pitting the Speaker of the House against the upstart New York congresswoman are more like Disney’s Hall of Presidents — reverential and robotic — than Capitol Hill.
Thursday, June 20, 2024
The hottest show in town is… “Cats”? Nobody's said that since around 1984.
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
The iconic Broadway venue that’s played host to such luminaries as Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli and Bette Midler was dramatically lifted 30 feet.
Monday, June 17, 2024
“No more Carlyle! No more Carlyle!,” shouted Billy Porter.
Sunday, June 16, 2024
They weren’t outsiders on Sunday night. In a neck-and-neck race, the fantastic new musical “The Outsiders” ultimately took home the coveted Best Musical trophy at the Tony Awards, honoring the best of Bro…
Saturday, June 15, 2024
It’s not just the humidity that has Midtown Manhattan sweating bullets -- it’s the Tony Awards.
If you thought Broadway was Hollywood’s classier cousin, you thought wrong.
Friday, June 14, 2024
With a score as lush and transportive as this one, bigger is definitely better.
Saturday, June 1, 2024
Like a fly caught in a web, Tom Holland -- known best for playing Spider-Man in the MCU -- is trapped in a woeful West End production of “Romeo & Juliet.”
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
A new Broadway revival of “Gypsy,” starring Audra McDonald as Mama Rose, was officially announced on Wednesday.
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
When the list was read aloud by Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Renée Elise Goldsberry, it was snub city.
The nominations for the 2024 Tony Awards, honoring the best of Broadway, were announced Tuesday morning. The 2023-2024 Broadway season was a highly competitive and unpredictable one. Fifteen new musicals opened…
Saturday, April 27, 2024
This year, the nominations carry almost as much weight as the coveted prizes themselves.
Friday, April 26, 2024
Set to the songs of Sufjan Stevens, it is a transporting and soul-stirring experience.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Forget East Egg and West Egg. The creators of the new musical “The Great Gatsby,” which opened Thursday night on Broadway, have laid an egg. This song-and-dance version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s enduring 1…
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
While the revival of Anton Chekhov's play has got the jokes down pat, it is quite a bit shakier when it comes to the pathos and hardship that spring from them.
Rachel McAdams brings an instantly heartbreaking quality to her performance in “Mary Jane”: Her steadfast optimism.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
It’s as slow and frigid as a cross-country skiing expedition through Siberia.
Monday, April 22, 2024
There’s rock and rolling in the aisles.
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Walking into the August Wilson Theatre, which has been gutted and impressively transformed into a sexy nightspot called the Kit Kat Club, my immediate reaction was, “Wow. This is cool!” The audience enters,…
This girl is finally on fire.
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Although “Stereophonic” is not a musical, it’s easy to get swept up by the terrific original rock songs that throb through it. And as writer David Adjmi’s play, which opened Friday night at the John G…
Thursday, April 18, 2024
They’ve gotta keep marching.
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Yes, “The Wiz” should ease on down the road — but with boundless creativity and awe.
Sunday, April 14, 2024
What “Lempicka,” the mystifying new musical about Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka, needs more than anything else is turpentine.
Saturday, April 13, 2024
“He hasn’t needed a lecture about what makes a star, and what can cause a star to fall. He just gets it.”
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Driven by authenticity, earnestness, youth and ample heart, “The Outsiders” is very much an outsider itself.
In 2022, LuPone very publicly left Actors Equity, the professional actors union that a performer must be a member of to work on Broadway.
Thursday, March 28, 2024
That we all have an inner adult and an inner child is a deeply relatable idea, even in a cuckoosical such as this one.
Thursday, March 21, 2024
The proceedings have the pacing of a pachyderm.
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Midtown’s swell, but lately New York’s hottest tickets are well below 42nd Street. While theaters in the city and around the country have struggled in the face of skyrocketing expenses and sagging attendanc…
Monday, March 18, 2024
There is an unintentionally funny line in the compelling revival of “An Enemy of the People” that opened Monday night on Broadway. “We’re behind you like a wall!” a small-town newspaper printer named …
Friday, March 15, 2024
Sixteen going on 17? Try 18.
At Thursday night’s performance of “An Enemy of the People” on Broadway, starring Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli, three environmental activists interrupted the start of the second act with shouts of …
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Not a single change book writer Bekah Brunstetter has made improves the simple story’s effectiveness. In most cases, the alterations dull its punch and turn it into a wispy memory play. A memory for them beco…
Thursday, March 7, 2024
John Patrick Shanley wrote an immaculate work that can stand up to even adequate productions like the one starring Amy Ryan and Liev Schreiber that opened Thursday on Broadway.
Thursday, February 8, 2024
Director Sam Pinkleton stages this fabulously overdramatic display with both scrappiness and sheen.
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Liane Plane, who died a month ago at age 92, adored being in the vibrant picture nonetheless.
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
She really was all that jazz.
Chita Rivera, the dazzling Broadway star who originated roles in the musicals "Chicago," "West Side Story" and "Kiss of the Spider Woman" died Tuesday, her daughter Lisa Mordente said in a statement.
Monday, January 29, 2024
The worst bar sales on Broadway have got to be at Studio 54, where “Days of Wine and Roses” opened Sunday night.
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
She’s ditching Waystar Royco for the Great White Way. Sarah Snook, the “Succession” star who won the Emmy Award for best actress in a drama series on Monday night, plans to make her Broadway debut next se…
Thursday, January 4, 2024
Get ready, Mr. DeMille. The London revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “Sunset Boulevard,” starring Nicole Scherzinger, will arrive on Broadway later this year, a spokesman for the production said on…
Thursday, December 14, 2023
Message to Netflix: Stick to the flicks. “Stranger Things: The First Shadow,” the streamer’s freshman attempt at a stage play is a huge, insufferable embarrassment. Mega-fans of the TV series, like me, wi…
Sunday, December 10, 2023
“How To Dance In Ohio,” the new musical that opened Sunday night at the Belasco Theatre, marks a laudable first for Broadway: A show about autistic persons who are actually played by actors on the autism sp…
Sunday, November 19, 2023
It’s when the singing stops that this show with its sights set on Broadway is no longer on fire.
Thursday, November 16, 2023
Never hilarious, the revival stalls out at pleasant. Spamalot, laugh a little.
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Steve Carell, the Academy Award nominee who played Michael Scott on NBC’s “The Office,” will make his Broadway debut this spring in the play “Uncle Vanya,” Lincoln Center Theater announced on Tuesday.…
Monday, November 13, 2023
While “Harmony” is about a sextet of singers whose voices blend like milk and coffee, its elements do not similarly fuse into a cohesive and satisfying musical.
Friday, November 10, 2023
This major moment for Stephen Sondheim’s musicals is not limited to New York, where the late composer’s “Merrily We Roll Along,” “Sweeney Todd” and final show “Here We Are” are all playing at th…
Monday, November 6, 2023
“Stranger Things: The First Shadow" begins performances this month in London.
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