Will Robert Downey Jr. earn a 2025 Tony nomination for ‘McNeal’ following 2024 Emmy and Oscar wins? by David Buchanan

Over the past 10 years Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar has batted a thousand at the Tony Awards. Both of his past Broadway outings — “Disgraced” in 2014 and “Junk” in…

Brian Sanders’ JUNK presents Urban Scuba by Melissa Strong

Brian Sanders’ JUNK presents a limited-run showcase of Urban Scuba featuring a new musical score. Melissa Strong previews.

Theatre Review: Ayad Akhtar’s ‘Junk’ at Silver Spring Stage by Susan Brall

McNeal by Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief

As in Ayad Akhtar’s plays "Disgraced," "JUNK" and "The Who and the What," all of which have been produced by the Lincoln Center Theater, "McNeal" is always interesting, always arresting. U…

McNEAL at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre of Lincoln Center by Richard Seff

The management at New York’s Lincoln Center has brought into its spacious Beaumont Theatre a flashy new production called McNeal  by the highly regarded Ayad Aktar whose plays Disgraced a…

Bette Bourne obituary by Neil Bartlett

Actor, activist and founder of the radical drag troupe the Bloolips whose performances influenced mainstream theatre In 1980, the New York magazine the Village Voice captioned a centre-sprea…

Tracking the Changes of My Life Via a Survey of Constantly Changing Communicating Tools by Elyse Sommer

Tracking the Changes of My Life Via a Survey of Constantly Changing Communicating Tools By Elyse Sommer My first writing tool was a fountain pen and the "platform" on which my scribblings la…

Friday 5: 5 Musicals Based on Children's and Young Adult Books by JK

  5 Musicals Based on Children's and Young Adult Books With the success of The Outsiders on Broadway these days, it got me to thinking about other musicals based on children's and young …

Inside JUNK's Priceless Opening Night on Broadway! by BroadwayWorld

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Lincoln Center Theater presents Junk, a new play by Ayad Akhtar, directed by Doug Hughes, which just opened last night, November 2, at the Vivian Beaumont Theat…

Highlights of MTC'S DAN CODY'S YACHT; Opens June 6 by BroadwayWorld

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Dan Cody's Yacht is now in previews ahead of a Wednesday, June 6 opening night at MTC at New York City Center - Stage I (131 West 55th Street). The cast of Dan …

Academy Award Winner Robert Downey Jr. to Make Broadway Debut in New Play by Ayad Akhtar by Darryn King

Academy Award winner Robert Downey Jr. will make his Broadway debut in McNeal, a new play by Tony nominee and Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar (Junk, Disgraced), directed by Tony winner Bar…

Robert Downey Jr. To Make Broadway Debut This Fall In Ayad Akhtar’s New Play ‘McNeal’ by Greg Evans

Robert Downey Jr. will make his his Broadway debut in the lead role of McNeal, the new play by Ayad Akhtar, author of the Tony-nominated Junk and the Pulitzer-winner Disgraced. Downey will p…

REVIEW: Appropriate by JK

Review of the Wednesday, April 24, 2024 matinee performance at the Belasco Theatre in New York City. Starring Sarah Paulson, Corey Stoll, Michael Esper, Natalie Gold, Ella Beatty, Graham Cam…

Marius von Mayenburg’s Nachtland at the Young Vic: Satire on Art and Anti-Semitism Is Both Absurdist and Unsettling by Aleks Sierz

We’ve all heard of the metaphorical madwoman in the attic, but what about the symbolic unexploded bomb under the roof, tucked away among the junk, accumulating dust and lying quietly undis…

Nachtland review – a provocative plunge into art history by David Jays

Young Vic, LondonThe discovery of what could be a painting by Hitler leads to a moral quagmire in Patrick Marber’s punchy staging of Marius von Mayenburg’s play Arrive early, and you’l…

Full Cast Set for Broadway's Days of Wine and Roses, Starring Kelli O'Hara and Brian d'Arcy James by Darryn King

The complete cast is set for Days of Wine and Roses, starring the previously announced Kelli O’Hara and Brian d’Arcy James. The new musical, adapted from the 1962 film and 1958 telepla…

‘I Need That’ Review: It’s Always Messy in New Jersey by Jesse Green

Danny DeVito returns to Broadway in a Theresa Rebeck comedy about a lonely old man lost in a houseful of junk.

‘I Need That’ Broadway Review: Danny DeVito Steals Laughs From A Junk Pile

Clutter – physical, emotional – is the subject of Theresa Rebeck’s new Broadway play I Need That, a comedy-drama that star Danny DeVito works mightily and with increasing futility to s…

I Need That Broadway Review. Danny DeVito as a hoarder by New York Theater

Theresa Rebeck’s play about a hoarder is the slightest of comedies. Its plot is paltry. Its insights are pat. It promises more laughs than it delivers.  It even promises more junk than i…

FTC Proposing Transparency Rules For Ticketing Fees by Joe Patti

A couple hours after I made my post about an article addressing the problem with “drip fees” in the UK and the psychology that reinforces their use, I saw that the FTC is proposing new r…

40 Years of Broadway: 2003-2013: Favorite Songs and Scores by JK

40 Years of Broadway: 2003-2013: Favorite Songs & Scores Continuing with that third decade (August 20, 2003 - August 19, 2013), I've been thinking of my favorite songs and scores from …

Dances Like a Bomb review – age-old questions of bad elastic, death and hypnosis by gin by Lyndsey Winship

Zoo Southside, EdinburghMikel Murfi and Finola Cronin have laughs, despair and arresting moments of connection in a dance-theatre show about the realities of ageing The flub, that’s what …

ReDISCoveries: Spring Awakening (2006 OBCR) by JK

ReDISCoveries: Spring Awakening (2006 Original Broadway Cast Recording) Jeff has kindly invited me to revisit and review some of the older cast recordings in my collection. Every other week …

London theatre show’s cake poster falls foul of junk food ad rules by Matthew Weaver

Theatre boss calls TfL decision ‘ridiculous’ after poster found to breach rules aimed at tackling obesity London’s transport network has defended a decision to ban a theatre poster fea…

Biden: Ticket Fees Are Junk Fees. Off Broadway Week Begins. I’ll Never Fall In Love Again. #Stageworthy News of the Week by New York Theater

“Americans are tired of being played for suckers,” President Joe Biden said at the State of the Union Address last week, asking Congress to “pass the Junk Fee Prevention Act so compani…

Oscar-Winning Movie Musical La La Land Will Be Adapted for the Stage by Ruthie Fierberg

La La Land has its eyes on Broadway. The Academy Award-winning movie musical is being adapted into a stage project. Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony Award-nominated playwright Ayad Akhtar an…

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Musical review – a burst of colour in a junk-filled world by Catherine Love

Leeds Playhouse The rags-to-riches roots of the Roald Dahl story are emphasised in this family show, but video effects blunt the rough magic There’s something of the fairytale about Charli…

Fringe in Sketch: LUSTER (Junk) by Aaron Krolikowski

Lust for exposure and success turns… TRAGIC. Set in an underground shopping mall turned nightclub, Junk’s newest experience, Luster, reveals the twisted nature of reality show… The p…

Philly Fringe 2022: Brian Sanders’ JUNK presents Luster by Melissa Strong

Brian Sanders’ JUNK presents Luster, an immersive show exploring the lengths people go for fame and success. Melissa Strong reviews.

James Monroe Iglehart, Jessie Mueller, Steven Pasquale & Phillipa Soo to Star in Guys and Dolls at the Kennedy Center by Caitlin Moynihan

The Kennedy Center's Guys and Dolls has found its stars. Tony winner James Monroe Igleahart will play Nathan Detroit, Tony winner Jessie Mueller will take on the role of Miss Adelaide and�…

AMERICAN BUFFALO at the Circle in the Square Theater by Richard Seff

A smashingly vital revival of David Mamet’s “American Buffalo’” is heating up Broadway in a rare revival at the Circle In The Square Theatre. That space has an elliptical playing are…