Monday, November 24, 2025
It’s apt that Else Went’s epic theater piece Initiative is opening at the Public Theater just as Netflix prepares to roll out the final season of Stranger Things. Both projects are binge…
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Kara Young and Nicholas Braun make an engaging odd couple as emotionally (and physically) damaged young people in a decades-long situationship in Gruesome Playground Injuries, which opened S…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 04:00PMThursday, November 20, 2025
Every now and then, an enchanting new musical classic comes along out of nowhere. Two Strangers Carry a Cake Across New York, which opened Thursday at Broadway’s Longacre Theatre, is a mod…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMWednesday, November 19, 2025
Chess, which began its life as an early 1980s concept album, has always been an unwieldy stage project — a blend of some of ABBA’s best music with an overly convoluted story (by frequent…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 11:30PMTuesday, November 18, 2025
Over a career that has spanned nearly half a century, Tom Hanks has established himself as a successor to James Stewart, an avatar of aw-shucks regular-guyness that is distinctly American in…
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Kim Kardashian may be the most famous Armenian American to ever live — and a character very much modeled on the ubiquitous reality TV star and entrepreneur makes a noteworthy cameo toward …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMWilliam Morris Barfée and his “magic feet” are back, and that spells a whole lot of fun for fans of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which arrives at Off Broadway’s New Wor…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 08:00PMFriday, November 14, 2025
There’s more than a bit of sleight of hand behind the awkwardly titled new show Rob Lake Magic With Special Guests the Muppets. Lake, an America’s Got Talent finalist, has made the appea…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00AMThursday, November 13, 2025
The most contemporary, trenchant new play on Broadway is Robert Ickes’ searing new adaptation of Sophocles’ Oedipus, which opened Thursday in a mesmerizing production that stands as one …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 11:59PMIt takes a truly oddball sensibility to try to make a musical out of Thornton Wilder’s Finnegan’s Wake-inspired three-act dramedy The Skin of Our Teeth. Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Leona…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:15PMWednesday, November 12, 2025
Rajiv Joseph’s Archduke, a comedic retelling of the recruitment of the anarchist whose 1913 assassination of Austro-Hungarian ruler Franz Ferdinand triggered World War I, is like a contemp…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:30PMTuesday, November 11, 2025
After nearly half a century, Stephen Schwartz’s 1976 musical The Baker’s Wife can finally claim a proud place in the American musical pantheon. Best known for the cabaret-standard ballad…
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There are good reasons why Richard II, the first play in William Shakespeare’s Henriad tetralogy, is less frequently performed than its successors, the two Henry IV plays (revived this pas…
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Jackie Siegel, the buxom pageant queen turned billionaire’s wife who was the subject of Lauren Greenfield’s 2012 documentary The Queen of Versailles, was present at the performance of th…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 11:59PMAnne Washburn is one of our most gifted young playwrights, often interested in the nature of storytelling and the sense of community that can be built from shared public narratives. The Burn…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 08:00PMWednesday, November 5, 2025
Martyna Majok’s ensemble drama Queens, which debuted in 2018 in the early years of the first Trump administration, remains a timely exploration of marginalized immigrant women forced into …
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International negotiations about climate change do not seem like the most promising subject for theater and yet Kyoto defies the odds in ways that are both surprising and utterly riveting. C…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:30PMThursday, October 30, 2025
All the lonely people, where do they all come from? Samuel D. Hunter grapples with this question in his heartfelt one-act drama Little Bear Ridge Road, which opened on Broadway Thursday afte…
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In the last decade, Bess Wohl has emerged as one of the most talented and eclectic voices in American theater — whose work ranges from historical pieces (Camp Siegfried) to broad domestic …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMNot every semipopular movie from the last half century needs to get the stage musical treatment. That’s the takeaway from the lukewarm mess that is Romy & Michele: The Musical, which t…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 07:00PMMonday, October 27, 2025
The producers of the big-hearted new country-pop musical Beau have turned the subterranean black-box space at Off Broadway’s St. Luke’s Theater into a Nashville tavern/concert space, com…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMFriday, October 24, 2025
Early on in her brave and bravura solo performance piece Did You Eat? ((밥 먹었니?), Zoë Kim lulls you into thinking that hers will be a typical immigrant’s yarn about generational di…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:30PMWednesday, October 22, 2025
There are throwbacks and then there’s The Art of Leaving, a new one-act comedy that could pass for a middling revival of a Neil Simon knockoff from a half century ago. The characters in An…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 08:00PMEthan Coen, whose best known for his Oscar-winning film work with his older brother, Joel, brings his distinct sensibility to Let’s Love!, a collection of three short playlets that are les…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 05:55PMMonday, October 20, 2025
We’re all familiar with the sketches that air during the final half hour of Saturday Night Live, the ones that start with a half-decent premise but outstay their welcome and only cling to …
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There’s an old adage that actors should work hard to make their performance seem effortless. Ari’el Stachel doesn’t do that — but he offers a solid excuse in his labor-intensive one-…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMThursday, October 16, 2025
When Ragtime was first staged in the mid-1990s, it embodied a certain post-Reagan excess with producer Garth Drabinksy’s elaborate, budget-busting staging (fireworks! a working Model T!) a…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 11:00PMWednesday, October 15, 2025
Jordan E. Cooper, who delivered a satirical wake-up call to the theater world with his extended sketch comedy Ain’t No Mo’, is back with a new play. Oh Happy Day!, which is billed as a �…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:15PMMonday, October 13, 2025
The appeal of classics is how they continue to speak to us across the centuries. Molière’s 1664 comedy Tartuffe is a telling example, offering both acute insights into religious hypocrisy…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMTuesday, October 7, 2025
Dylan Mulvaney, the transgender performer best known for an ill-fated 2023 branding deal with Bud Light that created a media firestorm that led to boycotts of the beer, embraces all of her m…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMSunday, October 5, 2025
Monet Hurst-Mendoza’s Torera, which opened Sunday at the WP Theater, simulates the experience of binge-watching a telenovela-style saga set in the world of a Mexican bullfighting. The twis…
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