Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Ryan J. Haddad’s new monologue/play Hold Me in the Water, which opened Wednesday at Off Broadway’s Playwrights Horizons, has the confessional energy of an overdue catch-up session with a…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 08:30PMTuesday, April 22, 2025
Netflix’s sci-fi series Stranger Things, which is expected to stream its fifth and (supposedly) final season later this year, has developed a rabid following since its 2016 debut for its s…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 08:00PMMonday, April 21, 2025
America has always found a place in its heart for dreamers, however flawed or misguided. Almost exactly a century ago, the story of a Kentucky cave enthusiast and natural risk-taker named Fl…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMWednesday, April 16, 2025
There’s nothing particularly new about reframing William Shakespeare’s Scottish play around the hero’s notoriously ruthless and manipulative wife, Lady Macbeth. Zinnie Harris’s Macbe…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 11:59PMCaryl Churchill may be the best living playwright in the English language. And at 86, she’s still producing work of remarkable vigor and nuance in her quintessentially absurdist style. Her…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMMonday, April 14, 2025
There’s something refreshing about seeing a Broadway theater packed with Gen Alpha patrons. Many of them flocked to the recent Romeo + Juliet with barely-twentysomething stars Kit Connor a…
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If you’ve had the pleasure of attending performances at the Irish Repertory Theatre, you’ve grown accustomed to certain recurring themes and tropes in the grand tradition of Irish drama:…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 08:00PMSaturday, April 12, 2025
Even before winning the Tony Award last year for his pointed dramedy Appropriate, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins had emerged as one of the brightest lights in the current American theater scene with…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 12:30PMThursday, April 10, 2025
The first episode of Smash — a backstage look at the making of a Broadway biomusical about Marilyn Monroe — was one of the most perfect TV pilots produced in the new millennium. Playwrig…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMWole Soyinka is a seminal figure in world literature and drama, but the 90-year-old Nigerian Nobel Prize winner’s works are seldom performed in New York. That’s particularly true of his …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMTuesday, April 8, 2025
Even four years after his death at age 91, Stephen Sondheim remains a towering figure in American musical theater. The breadth of his talents as a composer, lyricist, and storyteller get a l…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMMonday, April 7, 2025
Betty Boop, the baby-voiced Jazz Age flapper from black-and-white Max Fleischer cartoons of the 1930s, is not the most obvious piece of ancient IP to become the center of a new Broadway musi…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMSarah Snook, the Australian actress best known for her Emmy-winning turn as Siobhan “Shiv” Roy on Succession, goes more than a little Wilde in the spellbindingly high-tech adaptation of …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 01:00PMSunday, April 6, 2025
Composer Jason Robert Brown was something of a wunderkind, winning a Tony Award before the age of 30 for his rapturous, symphonic score for the 1999 musical Parade. He followed that critical…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 11:00PMSaturday, April 5, 2025
The Chicago salesmen cursing and scheming in David Mamet’s 1983 drama Glengarry Glen Ross are just as small (and petty) as ever, but to invert the words of Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevar…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 12:00PMThursday, April 3, 2025
Nearly two decades have passed since George Clooney directed and co-wrote Good Night, and Good Luck, a black-and-white drama depicting beloved CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow’s challenge to S…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 11:59PMStar power can be a curious thing, especially when it’s the driving force behind the revival of a problematic play like Othello. Shakespeare’s drama famously centers on a Black antihero …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 12:00PMThursday, March 20, 2025
It’s been a decade since Hamilton exploded the possibilities of what musical theater could do with historical subject matter, jam-packing a lot of narrative and footnote-worthy tangents in…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMWednesday, March 19, 2025
You don’t have to be a fan of Cuban music, or even understand Spanish, to get caught up in the infectious, rhythmic joy that is Buena Vista Social Club, the new musical based on Wim Wender…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMLike many a gay man, playwright Joshua Harmon has been shaped at least in part by the dynamic of, dare-I-say-it, domineering women in his life. As he demonstrates in his remarkable but spare…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMTuesday, March 11, 2025
The British director Rebecca Frecknall has unearthed new depths in Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire, turning a classic that can be played as maudlin melodrama into a kinetic p…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMMonday, March 10, 2025
Lily Rabe, the gifted actress last seen on the New York stage in the 2015 Shakespeare in the Park production of Cymbeline, is a natural choice to play Helena Alving, the wealthy, long-suffer…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMIn the three decades since the premiere of Rent and the sudden death of its 35-year-old creator, Jonathan Larson has become an almost mythic figure in the musical theater world. The admirati…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMNia Akilah Robinson, a recent Juilliard grad now at the Yale School of Drama, stakes a claim as a major playwright to watch with her genre-bending drama The Great Privation, which premiered …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMSunday, March 9, 2025
There are not many plays that truly capture the liminal period when young adults are in the thick of that awkward, exhilarating process of becoming. Natalie Margolin’s one-act dramedy All …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:30PMSaturday, March 8, 2025
Date: March 6, 2025
Author: Thom Geier
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For nearly three decades, the theater company Clubbed Thumb has nurtured some of the finest new plays to hit the New York stage, from the …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 12:37PMWednesday, March 5, 2025
There is much to admire in Lisa Sanaye Dring’s Sumo, a deep dive into Japan’s national sport by way of a conventional Karate Kid-style framework. We follow an orphaned teenage apprentice…
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From 'Maybe Happy Ending' to 'Oh, Mary!' here are critic's picks of the best shows currently on the New York stage
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 11:30AMFriday, February 28, 2025
Adapted from my Broadway Bulletin column in the March issue of U.K.-based Musicals magazine. New York theatre doesn’t just happen on Broadway. These days, there are plenty of commercial Of…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 11:30AMThursday, February 27, 2025
Is there a dark secret in the past of Rajiv Joseph, the playwright best known for his 2009 Iraq war parable Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo and the recent sports-themed dramedy King James (o…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMWednesday, February 26, 2025
D.A. Mindell’s On the Evolutionary Function of Shame is a timely, trenchant, and often funny new play that explores the issue of trans visibility. Mindell initially sets the scene in the b…
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