SAG HARBOR, NY — Some honors feel ceremonial. Others feel deeply personal. On Saturday evening, Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts celebrated one of Broadway’s most …
There are performers you admire. Then there are performers you look forward to seeing because you know, without question, they are going to make the evening better. Josh Grisetti was one of …
Broadway’s 2026–2027 season is taking shape with an impressive lineup of star-powered productions, acclaimed London transfers and ambitious new plays, while several noteworthy cast recor…
The most persistent conversations often happen inside our own heads. Medusa asks, or maybe demands, us to listen to them. Before the space ignites, audience members slip on a pair of headpho…
There are solo shows built around larger-than-life personalities, and then there are those rare evenings where the storyteller quietly becomes the star. I Want Joan Crawford’s Oscar belong…
History has a way of repeating itself—sometimes so loudly that it becomes impossible to ignore. Beginning July 14, Are You Now or Have You Ever Been welcomes an extraordinary new lineup of…
Live From The Hotel Edison Times Square Chronicles Presents, is normally filmed from the Hotel Edison, but today we went on location at The Bay Street Theatre for the opening of Cagney. Live…
For the first several minutes of Sleuth, I wasn’t entirely sure what kind of game playwright Anthony Shaffer (“Death on the Nile“) wanted me to play. Sitting in the beautifully reimagi…
Most people dream of winning an Oscar. Craig Horsley simply decided to buy one. That audacious premise fuels I Want Joan Crawford’s Oscar, a humorous and surprisingly suspenseful new solo …
For a nation preparing to celebrate its 250th birthday, Cagney The Musical feels like exactly what America ordered. Produced in association with Riki Kane Larimer, Cagney opened tonight July…
Some overtures begin a musical. Others seem to unlock an entire lifetime of theatrical memories. Both are true as the first notes of Jule Styne’s unmistakable score fill Shaw’s Festival …
A musical flourish accompanies the parting of the red curtains, and a man stands, just to the right of the spotlight. He seems caught off guard, as he thought we were starting a wee bit late…
The first image grabs hold, even before Shakespeare has begun his relentless march toward tragedy. A body slowly emerges from beneath the stage, crawling upward as though clawing its way out…
There are moments in history when society collectively begins to question the values it once held sacred. The summer of 1969 was one such period. America watched astronauts land on the moon,…
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s classic musical, “South Pacific”, based on James A. Michener’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, “Tales of the South Pacific” opened on Bro…
Pride weekend arrived in Midtown with its usual electric energy as New York City Center welcomed audiences to Encores!’ reimagining of La Cage Aux Folles, led by Billy Porter and Wayne Bra…
Forget Broadway this summer, some of the best shows are Off Broadway. There is an honesty pulsing through Music City that makes it impossible to resist. With infectious music and lyrics by h…
As Animus Theatre Company‘s extraordinary Twelve Hours with Tracy Letts came to its emotional conclusion in support of Circle in the Square Theatre School, there could have been no more fi…
By Rick Ruiz and Cindy Marinangel Happy 100th birthday to Phyllis Lynd, a wonderful, internationally known singer whose life as a performer and an activist helped shape the New York City ent…
By the time Man From Nebraska arrived during Twelve Hours with Tracy Letts, one thing had become abundantly clear: Tracy Letts refuses to repeat himself. Presented by Animus Theatre Company�…
Eric William Morris By the time Killer Joe arrived as the third reading in Twelve Hours with Tracy Letts, one thing had become abundantly clear: Tracy Letts has never been interested in poli…
After the political mythology and civic reckoning of, the second offering in Twelve Hours with Tracy Letts shifted gears entirely. Yet in many ways, Linda Vista explores a similar question: …
If Tracy Letts has a superpower, it is his ability to lure audiences into believing they know what kind of play they are watching. Then he pulls the rug out from under them. The first readin…
For one day only, Broadway is handing the mic to Tracy Letts. On June 22, Twelve Hours with Tracy Letts will transform Circle in the Square Theatre into an all-day celebration of one of Amer…
Broadway’s most unforgettable stars don’t always take a bow. Some are carved from wood, stitched from fabric, manipulated by invisible hands, and infused with such extraordinary artistry…