Monday, November 23, 2015
Raymond 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 05:05AMTuesday, November 17, 2015
Ana Villafañe and Josh Segarra in On Your Feet
(©Matthew Murphy)
Will the rhythm get you at the new bio-tuner On Your Feet, which tracks Gloria Estefan’s journey from an or…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 03:00PMMonday, November 16, 2015
Laurie Metcalf and Bruce Willis in Misery
(©Joan Marcus)
At this juncture, a critical response to Misery, which opened at the Broadhurst Theatre last night, feels more than a little un…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 08:57AMSaturday, November 14, 2015
Tasha Lawrence, Meghann Fahy, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Piper Perabo in Lost Girls
(©Joan Marcus)
In John Pollono’s Lost Girls, Linda, a fiftysomething grandmother, proudly tells …
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 10:34AMFriday, November 13, 2015
Jordan Ahnquist, Lynne Wintersteller, Jeremy Kushnier, and Kate Middleton in Shear Madness
(©Carol Rosegg)
Interactive theater comedies don’t get much daffier or more featherwe…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 12:07PMMonday, November 9, 2015
Lea Salonga and George Takei in Allegiance
(©Matthew Murphy)
Based purely on the emotional resonance of its subject matter, the new musical Allegiance, which opened last night at Broa…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 09:07AMFriday, October 30, 2015
Gabriel Ebert, Matt Ryan and Keira Knightley in Therese Racquin
(©Joan Marcus)
The painterly precision of Evan Cabnet’s staging of Therese Raquin astonishes. Beowulf Boritt̵…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 09:37AMTuesday, October 27, 2015
Daniel Jenkins and Thomas Jay Ryan in Travels With My Aunt
(©Carol Rosegg)
Auntie Mame meets The Third Man in Graham Greene’s Travels With My Aunt as Henry, a straight-laced ret…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 08:55AMMonday, October 26, 2015
Sarah Steele, Arian Moayed, Jayne Houdyshell, and Lauren Klein in The Humans
(©Joan Marcus)
The Blake family may be gathering to celebrate Thanksgiving in Stephen Karam’s richly…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 08:54AMFriday, October 23, 2015
Hasan Minhaj in Homecoming King
(©Andrew Kist)
The impish gleam that frequently crosses Hasan Minhaj’s face as he performs his solo show Homecoming King, which opened last night…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:07AMJohn Bolton, Cary Tedder, Eloise Kropp, Mara Davi, Danny Gardner in Dames at Sea
(©Jeremy Daniel)
Goofy and loveable, the musical Dames at Sea has been delighting fans of stage and sc…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 06:02AMThursday, October 22, 2015
Carly Tamer and Alison Fraser in First Daughter Suite
(©Joan Marcus)
Back in 1993, musical theater writer Michael John LaChiusa tickled audiences’ fancies and teased their ears …
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 09:15AMDaphne Rubin-Vega in Empanada Loca
(©Monqiue Carboni)
One of the masterstrokes of the original production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd was the way in whic…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:42AMWednesday, October 21, 2015
Gardiner Comfort in The Elephant in Every Room I Enter
(©Jenny Anderson)
Purposefully writing a one-man-show with a rambling, confused text sounds like a risky proposition. The Elepha…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 02:34PMCésar Alvarez (center) and company in Futurity
(©Ben Arons)
One of the most audacious concepts for a new musical can be found in Futurity, which opened last night at the Connelly…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 08:33AMFriday, October 16, 2015
Victoria Mack and Ian Kahn in Hard Love
(©Clark Kim)
Questions of faith complicate those of romance in Motti Lerner’s contemporary potboiler Hard Love, now playing at the Becket…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 02:34PMJulia Coffey, Christopher J. Hanke, Jennifer Van Dyck, Kevin O’Rourke, Robert Eli, and Kelly McAndrew in Perfect Arrangement
(©James Leynse)
As Topher Payne’s funny and th…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 10:24AMThursday, October 15, 2015
James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson in The Gin Game
(©Joan Marcus)
Scenic designer Riccardo Hernandez provides an exquisitely gritty backdrop for the new production of D.L. Coburn̵…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:26AMFriday, October 9, 2015
Christina Bennett Lind, Danny Bernardy, Ethan Slater, Nick Flint, and Sarah-Jane Casey in Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally
(©Russ Rowland)
After taking in One Year Lease Theater Comp…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 11:08AMSam Rockwell in Fool for Love
(©Joan Marcus)
Sam Shepard’s ability to channel a Greek tragedy--like sense of inexorable doom into the modern world never fails to impress. Last …
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 08:05AMWednesday, October 7, 2015
Kelly Reilly, Eve Best, and Clive Owen in Old Times
(©Joan Marcus)
The music, courtesy of Thom Yorke of Radiohead, that pulses through the American Airlines Theatre as audiences arri…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 08:13AMTuesday, October 6, 2015
Chris Perfetti and Izzie Steele in Cloud Nine
(©Doug Hamilton)
Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine centers on events taking place in Africa in the Victorian era and London in 1979, and…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:47AMSaturday, October 3, 2015
Lauren Luna Velez and Jonathan Walker in Catch the Butcher
(©Carol Rosegg)
Three shows have opened off-Broadway in the past week, and they all share one commonality: a kind of retro-T…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 11:28AMMonday, September 28, 2015
Sandra Mae Frank and Austin P. McKenzie in Spring Awakening
(©Joan Marcus)
Reviving a hit musical less than ten years after its original production closed could be considered foolhar…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 09:14AMTuesday, September 22, 2015
Susannah Flood and Gbenga Akinnagbe in Fulfillment
(©Hunter Canning)
When audiences meet Michael (Gbenga Akinnagbe), the central character in Thomas Bradshaw’s new play Fulfillm…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 08:25AMMonday, September 21, 2015
Charles Socarides and Amelia Workman in How to Live on Earth
(©Hunter Canning)
There are a host of dreamers filling off-Broadway stages right now. Sadly, most of them are finding them…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 05:02PMFriday, September 18, 2015
Michael Laurence and Annette O’Toole in Hamlet in Bed
(©Tristan Fuge)
Writer-performer Michael Laurence enjoys riffing on classic texts. About six years ago in Krapp 39, he offe…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 01:59PMLinda Powell, Andrew Garman, Larry Powell, and Philip Kerr in The Christians
(©Joan Marcus)
Can people change their fundamental beliefs? Can religions evolve? These two questions lie a…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:36AMWednesday, September 16, 2015
Playwright Pat Fenton delivers a gentle ode to an era, a place, and a romance which have all seemingly disappeared forever in Stoopdreamer, now playing at the cell in Chelsea.
A collection …
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 08:41AMTuesday, September 15, 2015
Todd D'Amour in Empire Travel Agency
(©Mitch Dean)
At this juncture, raving about Woodshed Collective’s Empire Travel Agency feels incredibly unfair. This immersive thriller tha…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:47AMMonday, September 14, 2015
Matthew-Lee Erlbach, Marinda Anderson, and Devin Norik in Sex of the Baby
(©Russ Rowland)
The characters in Matthew-Lee Erlbach’s Sex of the Baby, which has just opened at the A…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 10:08AM 
