Four months after the July 17 death of the great Broadway battleax Elaine Stritch, more than a thousand people packed the Al Hirschfeld Theatre at 4pm yesterday for Everybody, Rise! A Celebr…
"…suck on that, you little bitch!": This bon mot is the first line of dialogue in The Money Shot, and little else in the play surpasses it in wit. Neil LaBute's snide comedy, about movie s…
Joe Assadourian plays 18 characters in his solo show about a man on trial, which he developed while serving 12 years in prison for attempted murder. Richard Hoehler directs under the aegis o…
Neil Patrick Harris leads the pack in one of the year's most crowded Tony races
Broadway's loyal opposition, Gerard Alessandrini, returns to skewer Pippin, Kinky Boots, Matilda, Motown and more in a new edition of his beloved satirical revue, which has ribbed the Great …
Who got the nod? Who was snubbed? Here are our first thoughts on the announcement of the 2014 Tony Award nominations.
Cabaret is on Broadway again: Willkommen home, you magnificent beast. Originally staged in 1966, then brought to a sordid cinematic life in Bob Fosse's (heavily adapted) 1972 film, the Kande…
Sutton Foster takes a trip to beautiful in Violet, but the journey matters more than the destination. Adapted from Doris Betts's short story "The Ugliest Pilgrim," Jeanine Tesori and Brian C…
Audra McDonald is just one statue shy of a Tony Award six-pack; perhaps this tribute to jazz legend Billie Holiday will bring more gold. Lonny Price directs the cabaret-style monodrama, scri…
Martha Clarke's staging of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's 1928 The Threepenny Opera, a scabrous and disjointed work of epic musical theater, is almost perverse in its bloodlessness. This is…
What happens to a play revived? A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry's powerful 1959 drama, has certainly not dried up: It bursts with intense family conflict, racial politics and social …
Tyne Daly plays a mother coming to terms with her dead son's ex-lover, who has moved on and started a family. Sheryl Kaller (Next Fall) directs the new play by multiple"Tony Award winner Ter…
What do we wish for in a Disney musical? It is unrealistic to expect aesthetic triumph on par with The Lion King, but neither need we settle for blobs of empty action like Tarzan or The Litt…
Jim Brochu's Character Man is a show for the ages, if the ages are 60 and up.
They may be in the background, but these sexy Broadway dancers and singers are heating up the stage
They may be in the background, but these sexy Broadway dancers and singers are heating up the stage
First a best-selling book, then a 1995 movie starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep, this tale of a photographer and the unhappy Italian wife he tenderly romances has returned as a Broadwa…
A toast to the invincible Elaine Stritch
Ethan Hawke plays the ambitious Scot in a new production for Lincoln Center Theater. Veteran director Jack O'Brien handles the staging, which emphasizes the abstract, nightmarish qualities o…
Tim Burton's 2003 film"about fathers, sons and tall tales"gets a Broadway musical makeover from composer-lyricist Andrew Lippa (The Addams Family). Triple threat Norbert Leo Butz (Catch Me i…
Physicist, genius and international hair icon Albert Einstein is the subject of Jay Prasad's bioplay, directed by Randolph Curtis Rand for Variations Theatre Group. Richard Kent Green plays …
Good people of New York, be warned: The execrable 1990s musical Jekyll & Hyde has returned to Broadway for what we've been promised will be a limited run. Any performance of Frank Wildhorn a…
Each spring brings a fresh crop of musicals to Broadway, with new ensembles of dancers and singers to razzle-dazzle us. And each year, we help whet your appetite for the season with a previe…
They may be in the background, but these sexy Broadway dancers and singers are heating up the stage.
The show's new incarnation is very different from the first; it features dialogue as well as multiple new songs (with music by Lynne Shankel), a changed set of characters and an updated sens…