Monday, 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 10:08AMTuesday, September 1, 2015
Donald Webber, Jr.; Chris Myers; Derrick Baskin; Daniel J. Watts; Nicholas Chris in Whorl Inside a Loop
(©Joan Marcus)
The semi-autobiographical new play Whorl Inside a Loop, which r…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:35AMFriday, August 28, 2015
Nick Westrate, Miriam Silverman, and Matt Dellapina in A Delicate Ship
(©Jenny Anderson)
Anna Ziegler offers up a dark and fractured Christmas memory in A Delicate Ship, which the Pla…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 06:36AMWednesday, August 26, 2015
Maureen Anderman in Love & Money
(©Joan Marcus)
A.R. Gurney riffs on Charles Dickens and John Guare in his newest play, Love & Money, which opened the other night at the Signa…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 08:28AMMonday, August 24, 2015
DeLanna Studi and Tina Benko in Informed Consent
(©James Leynse)
One of the world’s oldest conflicts lies at the center of Informed Consent, running at the Duke on 42nd Street i…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:52AMThursday, August 13, 2015
Phillipa Soo and Lin-Manuel Miranda in Hamilton
(©Jaon Marcus)
The magnificent achievement that is Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton arrived at Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Thea…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 12:18PMColin Summers in Steve: A Docu-Musical
(©Hunter Canning)
A trans-Pacific meeting of kindred souls gets chronicled in the endearing and delightfully offbeat Steve: A Docu-Musical, whic…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 08:47AMWednesday, August 12, 2015
Georgia Engel, Christopher Abbott, and Lois Smith in John
(©Matthew Murphy)
When the curtains are pulled aside to reveal Mimi Lien’s meticulously realized set for Annie Baker…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 06:02AMTuesday, August 11, 2015
Kate Burton, Lily Rabe, and Hamish Linklater in Cymbeline
(©Carol Rosegg)
In Cymbeline, one of Shakespeare’s late romances, the Bard liberally borrows from himself, melding plot …
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 08:07AMThursday, July 30, 2015
Erin Mackey and Josh Young in Amazing Grace
(©Joan Marcus)
Theatergoers should expect a rocky theatrical voyage if they’re planning on seeing Amazing Grace, now playing at the N…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 09:02AMTuesday, July 28, 2015
Russell G Jones, Jeremie Harris and Karen Pittman in King Liz
(©Carol Rosegg)
Karen Pittman wowed last season in Disgraced on Broadway, playing a high-powered attorney, who found hers…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 08:14AMJames Lecesne in The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey.
(©Matthew Murphy)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, which opened last night in a new productio…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 05:44AMMonday, July 27, 2015
Zoe Wilson (center) and Barbara Walsh (rear), along with, clockwise, Ito Aghayere, Chinaza Uche, Theresa McCarthy, Patrick Boll, Marc de la Cruz in Three Days to See
(©Carol Rosegg)
F…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 05:44AMFriday, July 24, 2015
Colin Quinn in The New York Story
(©Mike Lavoie)
Colin Quinn misses the “old” New York. You know, the one that so many of us loathed and loved before 42nd Street began to …
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:40AMTuesday, July 21, 2015
Peter Land, Tori Muray, and Kim Maresca in Ruthless!
(©Carol Rosegg)
Watching folks being evil can always be so much fun, can’t it? And, if you’re unconvinced by the idea,…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:49AMThursday, July 16, 2015
A scene from in SeaWife
(©Caitlin McNaney)
A rousing new musical has docked at South Street Seaport this summer. Featuring a book by Seth Moore and music by The Lobbyists (actor-musi…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 09:08AMFriday, June 19, 2015
Gideon Glick in Significant Other
(Photo courtesy of the company)
Jordan, the quirky and looking for love hero of Joshua Harrison’s new play Significant Other, can’t suppress a…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 08:37AMWednesday, June 17, 2015
Arliss Howard, Mary McCann, and Jason Ritter in Ghost Stories: The Shawl & Prairie du Chien
(©Ahron Foster)
Think of the two short David Mamet plays that opened last night at Atla…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 01:42AMFriday, June 12, 2015
Omar Metwally and Arian Moayed in Guards at the Taj
(©Doug Hamilton)
Rajiv Joseph’s new play Guards at the Taj, which opened last night at the Atlantic Theater Company, unfolds l…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:42AMThursday, June 11, 2015
Josh Walden, Robert Creighton, and Jeremy Benton in Cagney
(©Carol Rosegg)
The new musical Cagney, playing at the York Theatre, aptly resembles the screen legend whose life story has …
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 08:24AMFriday, June 5, 2015
Jim Parsons in An Act of God
(©Jeremy Daniel)
If you’ve ever had suspicions that “God has a screwed-up sense of humor,” a trip Studio 54 for David Javerbaum’s …
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 10:01AMThursday, June 4, 2015
Denis Arndt and Mary-Louise Parker in Heisenberg
(©Joan Marcus)
A compelling---and surprisingly touching---fusion of scientific theory and theater takes place in Simon Stephens’…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 06:52AMSunday, May 31, 2015
The executive producers of the Tony Awards share the secrets that keep the award-winning "machine" of a broadcast running.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, May 25, 2015
The precision of writer-director Patrick Harrison's "Butterfly, Butterfly, Kill Kill Kill!" rarely fails to impress, but the slight story never seems to merit the care th...
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMKevin R. Free's post-racial comedy features some fine performances, but uneven writing and glacial pacing make it a wearisome endeavor.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMDespite a quintet of spirited performances, this rambling 1993 comedy from the Five Lesbian Brothers is a decidedly wan excursion into camp.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMBoth the strengths and weaknesses of director John Gould Rubin's production of "Hedda Gabler" come into sharp relief in this ultra-intimate environmental staging that unfolds in the parlor o…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMKim Rosenstock's dramedy is the latest from Roundabout Underground
SOURCE: Village Voice at 05:58PMDespite a book filled with crackling zingers and some grand Cole Porter tunes, "Panama Hattie" proves to be a wearisome experience in this colorless script-in-hand staging.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMEnda Walsh's latest play, which riffs on the final section of Homer's "Odyssey," combines comedy with existential drama to excellent effect.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMPerformer Todd Robbins serves up some chills, a few laughs, a little macabre history, and several incredible illusions in this contemporary riff on midnight spook shows.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM 
