Thursday, April 9, 2026
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 co…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMTuesday, April 7, 2026
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 cro…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMMonday, April 6, 2026
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 mo…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMProximity 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 thirty…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 12:30PMTuesday, March 31, 2026
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: …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00AMIn 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 o…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 12:00AMSunday, March 29, 2026
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 th…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMThe 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 p…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 07:00PMWednesday, March 25, 2026
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…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMMonday, March 23, 2026
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 ru…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 11:00PMFriday, March 20, 2026
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…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMThursday, March 19, 2026
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 ad…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMMusical 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 …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 12:00PMTuesday, March 17, 2026
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…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 06:00PMMonday, March 16, 2026
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 …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00AMSunday, March 15, 2026
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 rele…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 08:00PMSaturday, March 14, 2026
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 …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMThursday, March 12, 2026
It’s not every day that Harry Potter calls you old. To be clearer, it was Daniel Radcliffe, now a bearded young dad in his mid-30s, who approached my partner and me minutes before the star…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 11:00PMWednesday, March 11, 2026
Sophocles is having a moment. Robert Ickes’ Oedipus, recently on Broadway, recast the title character as an Obama-like political upstart facing down birtherism allegations, while Lee Zeldi…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMDirector/choreographer Martha Clarke made her name with a danced drama inspired by Hieronymus Bosch’s symbolism-heavy 16th century masterpiece “The Garden of Earthly Delights.” It’s …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 08:00PMTuesday, March 10, 2026
Ro Reddick’s absurdist historical drama Cold War Choir Practice was inspired by her experience growing up in Syracuse, New York, as one of the only Black members of a Reagan-era children�…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 07:00PMFriday, March 6, 2026
Millennial anxiety runs deep in Clare Barron’s You Got Older, which is getting an insightful revival at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Alia Shawkat stars as Mae, a thirtysomething who decides to…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 01:00PMWhen receiving a diagnosis of cancer, it’s tempting to retreat into yourself, to shut out all friends and family, and bear the burden of an uncertain future alone. Yasmine (Brooke Ishibash…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00AMThursday, March 5, 2026
Wallace Shawn’s best known collaboration with director André Gregory is the 1981 Louis Malle film My Dinner With André, in which the two denizens of the downtown arts scenes engage in a …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:30PMOrganized mayhem is the overriding aesthetic of Burnout Paradise, a celebration of multitasking produced and performed by the Pony Cam theater troupe from Melbourne, Australia. Four performe…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMSunday, March 1, 2026
There are laughs aplenty in the Fringey new musical Bigfoot! — which is perhaps not surprising since the book and score are by veteran comedy writer Amber Ruffin (with an assist from David…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:30PMNoah Galvin, a former Evan Hansen on Broadway who starred in the TV shows The Real O’Neals and The Good Doctor, delivers a star-making performance in the new dramedy The Reservoir that rec…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 07:00PMThursday, February 26, 2026
Investment banking is not the most welcoming of industries — especially for folks who don’t carry the privilege of being white and male. That familiar truth gets a fresh reworking in Ale…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMMonday, February 2, 2026
A thread of Gen X nostalgia runs strongly through British illusionist Jamie Allan’s Amaze, where the walls of the auditorium at New World Stages are lined with posters of ’80s films and …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 07:00PMWednesday, January 28, 2026
Who says Silicon Valley techies don’t have a conscience? Matthew Libby’s unbelievably timely drama Data centers on computer scientists at a firm called Athena trying to develop a top-sec…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMTuesday, January 27, 2026
You can see why rising Hollywood stars Abbey Lee (Mad Max: Fury Road) and Owen Teague (IT) were drawn to Joe White two-handed drama Blackout Songs, making its New York debut at the MCC Theat…
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