Spring Awakening Ken Fallin There is something almost unbearably poignant about the timing. On September 16, Seaview announced the young actors who will inherit Spring Awakening, the revolut…
Going Bacharach: The Songs of an Icon celebrated its opening night with a room filled not only with the music of Burt Bacharach, but with some formidable Broadway talent there to cheer on th…
If you love your musical theater packed with rafter-shaking singing, sexual tension, and deadly thrills, you are probably already a “Jeckie,” or ardent fan of the musical, Jeckyll and …
How did I not know this? That question has been following me around this week, especially after seeing Crow’s Theatre’s world-premiere stage adaptation of Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Bala…
At a time when our nation is at war, our country is divided, and common decency is vanishing from our daily discourse, we need experiences which remind us of the potential for good that we…
Andrew Scott is returning to Sea Wall, the Simon Stephens play written specifically for him, but this time the performance will exist somewhere between theatre, cinema and documentary. Scott…
Burt Bacharach’s music is stitched into the very fabric of the American sound. His uncanny ability to shape songs through atypical chord progressions, shifting time signatures and elegant,…
Twenty-five years after Our Sinatra became one of Off-Broadway’s unexpected musical pleasures, Eric Comstock, Christopher Gines and Hilary Kole have returned to the material that started i…
There are Broadway events, and then there are Broadway rituals. The Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction belongs firmly in the second category. On Sunday, September 27, the Theatre Distr…
Marin Ireland’s Pre-Existing Condition returns Off-Broadway to the Greenwich House Theatre 27 Barrow Street, carrying both considerable acclaim and an extraordinarily impressive roster of …
For nearly two decades, Lea Michele and Aaron Tveit have been traveling remarkably parallel Broadway roads. They arrived as young performers at almost exactly the same moment, became identif…
Broadway and Off-Broadway are heading into fall with major stars, surprising crossovers, record-breaking runs and a few farewells. Julia Roberts is returning to Broadway after two decades, &…
There are family secrets we inherit, family stories we repeat and family wounds we spend a lifetime trying to understand. In Crazy Mama: A True Story of Love and Madness, playwright Sharon S…
DamonHorowitz with-Truman Gaudoin, Desiree Baxter, Jim Pratzon and Tyler Moss Photo by Valerie Terranova There is a provocative idea buried inside Becoming Hamlet, Damon Horowitz’s new ada…
For composer and musical theatre artist Jaime Lozano, immigration is not an abstract political conversation. It is part of his own New York story. The Mexican immigrant artist arrived in the…
John Mellencamp’s America is heading to the stage. Ogunquit Playhouse will present the world premiere of Small Town: A John Mellencamp Musical, a new musical built around 24 songs from Mel…
There are certain conversations that simply belong in New York, and putting Gustavo Dudamel and Lin-Manuel Miranda together beneath the stars in Central Park feels like one of them. On Septe…
When I heard that Karen Ziemba and Marc Kudisch were starring in L.B. Browne’s world premiere of Safe House at Theatre Row, I was excited. Put two seasoned stage actors of this caliber tog…
There are performers who make you wonder how they did it. Then there are performers who make you stop caring how they did it because you’re having far too much fun watching them do it. Suh…
Before Rachel Zegler returns to Broadway as Eva Perón, she is making a considerably less formal stop in Cuba. The Olivier and Golden Globe Award winner will host the next “dance-along” …
Broadway is heading into fall with casting news, long-awaited arrivals and one New York tradition celebrating a milestone of its own. Krysta Rodriguez is joining A Few Good Men, Galileo has …
Broadway will go dark for a moment on Tuesday, September 8 at 6:45 p.m., when the marquees of all 41 Broadway theatres dim simultaneously in memory of 13 artists and industry figures whose w…
What began as one of the most intriguing theatrical reunions of 2027 has now lost both of its stars. Jonathan Bailey has withdrawn from the upcoming West End revival of Stephen Sondheim and …
There is something about a cast album that keeps theatre alive long after the curtain comes down. This late-summer crop is particularly eclectic: vampires, Eva Perón, 1979 New York nightlif…
New Yorkers have been looking up lately. From renewed fascination with Artemis to Hollywood’s continuing obsession with what waits beyond our atmosphere, space is once again capturing the …