Monday, 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 …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMSunday, October 19, 2025
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…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 04:00PMWhy settle for one stand-up routine when you can deliver The First Three Minutes of 17 Shows? That’s the high-concept premise of American-born comedian Abby Wambaugh’s delightfully daffy…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 12:30PMTuesday, September 30, 2025
Homecomings can be a tricky thing, as Chloë Grace Moretz’s Maddie learns in Preston Max Allen’s new drama Caroline. After fleeing home as a teenager amid drug-fueled rebellion, stealing…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 08:00PMMonday, September 29, 2025
It’s only been two years since Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera ended its 35-year run on Broadway but the beloved sung-through musical that once carried the tagline “Now and …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMHow do we make sense of a senseless act? James Graham’s searing and unforgettable new drama, Punch, digs into a real-life incident in Nottingham, England in 2011 when a 19-year-old hooliga…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:30PMSunday, September 28, 2025
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, who famously played stoner time travelers in the Bill & Ted comedies 35 years ago, were not high on anyone’s list to tackle the philosophizing tramps Estr…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMIreland can never seem to outlive the long, dark legacy of The Troubles — a period that looms large in Leo McGann’s often gripping new thriller, The Honey Trap, which opened Sunday at th…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMTim Blake Nelson, the beloved character actor best known for his work in Coen Brothers films like O Brother, Where Art Thou? and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, continues his foray into playwr…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 04:00PMMuch ink has been spilled about Rupert Murdoch, the Australian born media mogul who at 94 remains an influential force in politics and society who’s become a hero to the right and a bogeym…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 03:00PMThursday, September 25, 2025
John Leguizamo is no stranger to live theater, but he’s best known for solo shows like Spic-O-Rama and the 2018 Tony winner Latin History for Morons. His new play, premiering at the Public…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMSunday, September 21, 2025
How do we face the apocalyptic horrors of climate change? If you’re Stacey Gross, the Fresno, California, TV weather reporter at the center of Brian Watkins’ frenetically funny new one-w…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 06:00PMFriday, September 19, 2025
The teen coming-out story has become an all-too-familiar genre, but Saturday Church updates the form with surprising club beats as well as a starry creative team that hail from the worlds of…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 06:00PMThursday, September 18, 2025
Theater can be a powerful force, both for education and entertainment. The electric new two-man musical Mexodus, which opened at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre following a successful run l…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMTuesday, September 16, 2025
It’s easy to see why actors are drawn to the showy comedic roles in Yasmina Reza’s zippy three-man comedy Art, which is getting a zippy, high-profile revival on Broadway nearly three dec…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMSunday, September 14, 2025
Charles Ludlam was a pioneering figure in queer theater in the 1980s with campy send-ups of classic works (Satyricon in Turds in Hell, Hamlet in Stage Blood) as well as Old Hollywood (like h…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMTwo years after Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, in which a community rejects a truth-telling Cassandra in their midst warning about a public health scandal unfolding in their town�…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 04:00PMWednesday, September 10, 2025
Otis Redding’s “Try a Little Tenderness” features prominently in Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brothers Size, and for good reason. The play, which I first saw in 2009 as the middle sec…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMTuesday, September 9, 2025
The best part of House of McQueen, a paean to the late fashion designer Alexander McQueen, doesn’t even occur on the stage of the cavernous new Off Broadway venue dubbed the Mansion at Hud…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMThursday, August 21, 2025
Huzzah! Shakespeare in the Park has returned to Central Park’s newly refurbished Delacorte Theater — the perfect venue to celebrate one of the city’s most remarkable and entirely free …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMMonday, August 18, 2025
Jeff Ross has earned the moniker “Roastmaster General” for a brand of insult comedy he’s honed on stage and in multiple Comedy Central specials over the years. But he proves himself to…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMThursday, August 14, 2025
Nobody could mistake Mamma Mia! for high art. Cardboard-cutout characters vamp through a ridiculous romantic plot, while beloved disco-era ABBA hits are shoehorned in often as clumsily as Ci…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMThursday, August 7, 2025
It’s easy to see why Elizabeth McGovern might have been drawn to the story of Ava Gardner, another American actress who found Hollywood fame in her 20s and 30s and then moved to London as …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMQuincy Tyler Bernstine, one of the finest actors of her generation, is the heart and soul of Bubba Weiler’s transcendent new drama Well, I’ll Let You Go, which opened Thursday in a magni…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 08:00PMMonday, August 4, 2025
Frank Maya was a true pioneer, arguably one of the first out gay American comics to reach a mainstream audience. In the early ’90s, he appeared on MTV and landed a half-hour special on Com…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 08:00PMThursday, July 24, 2025
Parody is a tricky art form. Off Broadway iterations like Ginger Twinsies, an unauthorized sendup of the 1998 Nancy Meyers family comedy The Parent Trap, seem to thrive on inside jokes but n…
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