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The 79th annual Tony Awards really spread the love — starting with a dynamic performance from host Pink, a theater newbie whose sole Broadway credit is having written one of the Billboard …
One way to grapple with the mostly white, mostly male classics of American drama is to rethink them entirely, from a female point of view. That’s the mission of Julia May Jonas in a A Woma…
A lot has changed in the world since 1967, when 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen checked into a psychiatric hospital following a suicide attempt. Mental health issues were more stigmatized and les…
A sign in front of the curtain at John J. Caswell Jr.’s new drama Jerome informs us that the title is not the protagonist of the show — or even a secondary character — but a “ghost c…
In less than a week, Pink will get the party started at Radio City Music Hall for the 79th annual Tony Awards. It’s been an interesting year on Broadway, with a surprisingly deep field of …
There’s a too-muchness to Eisa Davis’s new play with music that goes beyond the overstuffed typography of the title. ||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :|| is an evocation of female adoles…
As the shortest kid in his seventh grade class in a Long Island school in the 1970s, Robert Montano yearned for a way to make himself bigger, perhaps even using his diminutive stature to his…
Jean Genet’s 1947 dramatic provocation The Maids gets a new-millennium update in Kip Williams’ slick but surface-heavy new revival, now playing at Brooklyn’s St. Ann’s Warehouse foll…
It’s 2008, in the middle of the financial crisis, and a group of white suburban dads has signed up to connect with their young daughters, ages 9 to 12, in the YMCA program known as Indian …
Heather Christian made a name for herself with Oratorio for Living Things, a singular concert-cum-theater piece that won numerous awards after its 2022 premiere. Now Signature Theatre is mou…
Thornton Wilder has been having something of a resurgence in recent years, with acclaimed productions of his two most famous plays, Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth as well as a lovely mus…
Bubba Weiler’s transcendent one-act drama Well, I’ll Let You Go, which debuted last summer at Brooklyn’s The Space at Irondale, was my pick as the best New York theater production of l…
Hugh Jackman seems to be a one-man dynamo working for accessibility in live theater. Last year, he teamed with producer Sonia Freeman on a project called Together that mounts shows in Audibl…
The Receptionist, Adam Bock’s dark satire about the dark Arendtian currents in American corporate culture, returns to Off Broadway nearly a decade after its premiere in a solid, suitably c…
It’s Tony time, all you Broadway babies! The season that just wrapped was notably thin — just 30 new productions, compared to 43 last year — but there was still plenty of drama. And ha…
Director Robert Hastie’s fresh update of Hamlet arrives at BAM’s Harvey Theater with visual flair, a first-rate cast at home with the Bard’s poetry, and a decidedly modern and upbeat a…
Off Broadway’s Bedlam troupe returns to its bare-bones theatermaking roots with a production of Othello that requires its four-person cast to double (and triple and quadruple) up to play 1…
Two men break into an abandoned house and soon wind up in a standoff with guns drawn. That’s the intriguing premise at the top of Ben Andron’s misguided and muddled three-hander Broken S…
A remarkable, and in some ways remarkably strange Broadway season is winding down. The number of musicals — new musicals in particular — has been remarkably light. I’ll bet that the pr…
The British actor Jack Holden is a good-looking guy with a profound ordinariness about him: a kind and expressive face, the barest hint of a paunch, and light brown hair combed up to suggest…
The creators of The Lost Boys, the new stage musical based on the cheesy 1987 teenage-vampire flick of the same name, know what you’re thinking. Early on, the owner of the local video stor…
August Wilson is arguably the greatest American playwright of the last century. In a remarkable career, particularly the 10-play saga set in each decade of the 20th century, he chronicled th…
Is there any experience quite as unsettling as a first date? Tom Noonan’s absorbing What Happened Was… captures the hopefulness, awkwardness, and gamesmanship of an evening spent by two …
There’s something almost quaint about The Rocky Horror Show, the rock musical tribute to classic B-movies that had seemed like an outrageous one-finger salute to traditional mores when it …
More than a decade after its premiere at Virginia’s Signature Theatre, the stage adaptation of the 1988 big-screen melodrama Beaches has washed up on Broadway. Time and many years of devel…
Hell may be other people, but the most nefarious circle of Hades belongs to the neighbors who organize themselves into HOAs. David Lindsay-Abaire’s well-polished comedy The Balusters boast…
Schmigadoon!, a celebration and send-up of classic Broadway musicals that streamed for two seasons on Apple TV, has now made the inevitable if unnecessary transfer to the stage. Unlike last …
From 'Maybe Happy Ending' to 'Oh, Mary!' here are critic's picks of the best shows currently on the New York stage
Even after a century on the shelf, champagne doesn't always lose its fizz. Noël Coward's bubble-light 1925 comedy Fallen Angels, back on Broadway for the first time in 70 years, is a bit …
Ayo Edibiri and Don Cheadle are two of our finest screen performers, radiating an intelligence and likability that should serve them well in the first Broadway revival of David Auburn's Puli…
The latest film-to-stage adaptation to land on Broadway is a curious fact-based yarn about a Pennsylvania man unjustly convicted of a brutal rape and murder who sat on death row for two deca…
Elmer Rice, the grandson of 19th-century German-Jewish revolutionaries who wrote socially conscious plays in the early 20th century, is no longer the household name he once was. But you can …
TitanÃque, a sendup of the 1997 Oscar winner Titanic by way of the jukebox musical, shouldn't work. On paper, there's no reason to revisit James Cameron's bombastic big-screen blockbuster…
Some of our very best actors got their start in comedy " so it's only natural that sitcom veterans Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf should arrive on Broadway as that most deadly serious couple…
If there's any bygone hit musical that's ripe for reinvention, it's Andrew Lloyd Webber's bombastic furball Cats " a 1981 musical megahit with mostly interchangeable characters crooning lite…
Stop me if you've heard this one before: A narcissistic psychopath, an insecure dependent, a borderline, and a perpetual savior walk into a theater… and create one of the funniest and most…
Proximity to fame can do a number on one's self esteem. That's the big takeaway from Nicole Travolta Is Doing Alright, a gently comedic one-woman show by a personable and talented thirtysome…
Alexander Molochnikov was a rising theater director in Moscow until his outspoken denunciation of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 forced him to flee to the United States. In Seagull: Tr…
In his Broadway debut, Jon Bernthal struts and frets in a serviceable facsimile of Al Pacino in the new stage adaptation of Dog Day Afternoon " but the new production joins a recent list of …
The program for Milo Cramer's new musical revue No Singing in the Navy includes a witty and well-researched note from the playwright suggesting that sailors are "*the* True Subject of the Am…
The collected works of William Shakespeare are studded with so-called problem plays. Few are as problematic as Titus Andronicus, the Bard's first tragedy and generally co-credited to his pla…
You've never seen a procedural drama quite like the one in Public Charge, a fact-based play now running at the Public Theater. The show, by former State Department official Julissa Reynoso a…
They say that you should never meet your heroes. Fans of the late British children's author Roald Dahl, creator of Willy Wonka, Matilda, and James and the Giant Peach, are in for a very rude…
In her stunning playwriting debut, Korean American actress Jeena Yi has managed to create a masterpiece. Jesa, a Ma-Yi Theater Company production now playing at the Public Theater, is an ins…
In the 180 years since it was first published, Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo has continued to cast its spell on readers and audiences. The French produced a pricey feature adap…
Musical theater can create stars in virtually no time at all. Consider the remarkable rise of Jasmine Amy Rogers, who scored a Tony nomination last year for her Broadway debut in the flawed …
The indie folk-rock duo known as the Bengsons have been a regular fixture on Off Broadway stages over the last decade (and even made an appearance on Broadway last year performing Stephen Me…
It's the early days of perestroika in St. Petersburg and Evgeny (Adam Chanler-Berat), the son of a local Communist Party boss turned budding oligarch, is struggling to please his dad with un…
David Ireland's Ulster American, now playing at the Irish Rep, is a well-crafted skewering of straight, white, male creative types of a certain age who are desperate to maintain their releva…
The theater can be like a campfire from childhood, a place where you gather in the darkness to listen to a story about things that go bump in the night. David Cale's The Unknown makes the mo…
