Friday, April 22, 2016
Benjamin Walker and the company of American Psycho
(©Jeremy Daniel)
Gory, funny, gorgeous, over-the-top, and a little confused, Duncan Sheik and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's musical versio…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 10:19AMFriday, April 15, 2016
Frank Langella and Kathryn Erbe in The Father
(©Joan Marcus)
The onslaughts of aging and their cross-generational effects have become ripe fodder for drama this season. In The Humans,…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 08:22AMTuesday, March 29, 2016
Phylicia Rashad and Francois Battiste in Head of Passes
(©Joan Marcus)
A deeply religious woman's faith gets rocked to its core in Tarrell Alvin McCraney's Head of Passes, a concurren…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 05:46AMMonday, March 28, 2016
Carmen Cusack and Paul Alexander Nolan in Bright Star
(©Nick Stokes)
The hands of time sweep backward in Bright Star, the musical which has just opened at Broadway's Cort Theatre. It'…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:32PMHank Azaria, Claire Danes, and John Krasinski in Dry Powder
(©Joan Marcus)
High-powered financiers slug it out in Sarah Burgess' new play, Dry Powder, which recently opened at the Pub…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 12:00PMTuesday, March 22, 2016
Shiloh Fernandez and Marin Ireland in Ironbound
(©Sandra Coudert)
Playwright Martyna Majok distills a Polish woman's tumultuous and difficult life in America to absorbing effect in th…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 06:22AMFriday, March 18, 2016
Laura Benanti in She Loves Me
(©Joan Marcus)
Delicacy abounds in Scott Ellis' gorgeous revival of She Loves Me, which opened last night in a Roundabout Theatre Company production at St…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 08:07AMWednesday, March 9, 2016
Faith Prince, Kevin Chamberlin, and Kerry Butler in Diaster!
(©Jeremy Daniel Photography)
All of the stereotypical characters and confoundingly contrived relationships found in 1970s …
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:39AMTuesday, March 8, 2016
Pascale Armand, Lupita Nyong'o, and Saycon Sengbloh in Eclipsed
(©Joan Marcus)
Five performers are turning in immaculate and heartrending performances in Danai Gurira's Eclipsed, whic…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:38AMFriday, February 5, 2016
Len Cariou in Broadway and The Bard with Mark Janas at the piano.
(©Carol Rosegg)
A bit of theatrical lore from 45 years ago informs Len Cariou's appealing new show Broadway and The B…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 06:49AMWednesday, February 3, 2016
Nandita Shenoy and Johnny Wu in Washer/Dryer
(©Isaiah Tanenbaum)
Nandita Shenoy has the makings for a pretty good sitcom in her new play Washer/Dryer that opened last at Theatre Row i…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 06:23AMFriday, January 29, 2016
Chinasa Ogbuagu and Hubert Point-Du Jour in Sojourners
(©Chasi Annexy)
A potentially moving play lies underneath the surface of Mfoniso Udofia's Sojourners, which opened at the Peter …
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 11:15AMFriday, January 22, 2016
Tony Naumovski, Ben Cole, and Clea Alsip in Wide Awake Hearts
(©Carol Rosegg)
Theatergoers enter a multimedia Pirandellian universe in Brendan Gall's Wide Awake Hearts, which opened l…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:21AMThursday, January 21, 2016
Kate Arrington, Greg Keller, Linda Lavin, and John Procaccino in Our Mother's Brief Affair
(©Joan Marcus)
Richard Greenberg offers up a trio of intertwined memory plays in Our Mother'…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:30AMWednesday, January 20, 2016
Jason Dirden, Lynda Gravatt, and Nikiya Mathis in Skeleton Crew
(©Ahron Foster)
A timeless and moving human drama unfolds in Dominique Morisseau’s Skeleton Crew, which opened la…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 12:01PMBravery abounds in Brian Kulick’s new staging of Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage in Her Children thanks to Kecia Lewis, who took on the herculean title role after the much-public…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 06:10AMFriday, January 15, 2016
Jeremy Shamos, Kate Jennings Grant, David Furr, Andrea Martin, and Campbell Scott in Noises Off
(©Joan Marcus)
Having the inspired zaniness of Michael Frayn’s Noises Off back on…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 08:01AMWednesday, January 13, 2016
Maurice Hines in Tappin’ Thru Life
(©Carol Rosegg)
Maurice Hines knows how to charm from the stage. It’s little wonder. He’s been performing for nearly six decades n…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 09:31AMTuesday, December 22, 2015
Christmas memories don’t get much more tuneful or joyously poignant than those found in the new musical The First Noel, currently playing in a Classical Theatre of Harlem production in…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 01:57PMMonday, December 21, 2015
Danny Burstein and company in Fiddler on the Roof
(© Joan Marcus)
As Sheldon Harnick, Jerry Bock, and Joseph Stein’s landmark musical Fiddler on the Roof enters its middle age--…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:52AMTuesday, December 15, 2015
Adam B. Shapiro and company in The Golden Bride
(© Ben Moody)
One of the most delightful theatrical surprises for the end of 2015 comes courtesy of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbi…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:47AMFriday, December 11, 2015
Cynthia Erivo and Jennifer Hudson in The Color Purple
(© Matthew Murphy)
Stunning. It's the best word to describe both John Doyle's remarkable new production of The Color Purple that …
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 08:32AMTuesday, December 8, 2015
Brynn Williams, Cristin Milioti, Michael C. Hall, Krista Pioppi, and Sophia Anne Caruso in Lazarus
(©Jan Versweyveld)
If nothing else Lazarus, the new musical with David Bowie songs …
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 06:32AMMonday, December 7, 2015
Alex Brightman and the company of School of Rock – The Musical
(©Matthew Murphy)
Andrew Lloyd-Webber rocks the theater once again with School of Rock – The Musical, which …
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 08:04AMFriday, December 4, 2015
Al Pacino in China Doll
(©Jeremy Daniel)
For anyone who has ever wondered what it might be like to listen to Al Pacino talk on the phone for a couple of hours, they now have the oppor…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:48AMRyann Redmond in Gigantic
(©Carol Rosegg)
Attempting to combine snark and silliness with sentimentality in a new musical is a dangerous proposition. Balancing the former two qualities…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:43AMWednesday, December 2, 2015
Sydney Blaxill and Connor Johnston in Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom
(©Hunter Canning)
Something’s going very, very wrong in the suburban world where Jennifer Haley’s …
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 12:52PMMonday, November 30, 2015
Kathleen Chalfant in Rose
(©Carol Rosegg)
Kathleen Chalfant has found a terrific showcase for her estimable talents in Laurence Leamer’s Rose, which opened last night at the Clu…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 09:03AMWednesday, November 25, 2015
Todd Gearhart and Jean Lichty in Nora
(©Carol Rosegg)
Ingmar Bergman’s Nora, an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, can be an immensely moving experience as…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 03:16PMMonday, November 23, 2015
Clyde Baldo and Matt Pilieci in The Eternal Space
(©Mike Scully)
Generally words such as “soaring” and “majestic” do not spring to mind when theatergoers conte…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 09:44AMRaymond Crowe in The Illusionists
(©Photo used with permission of The Illusionists)
Last holiday season, aficionados of magic, sleight of hand, and derring-do got a special treat when …
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 05:05AM 
