1,121 stories by "Charles Isherwood"
The groundbreaking classic from the '70s is a featured part of the American Ballet Theatre's Tharp Trio performances beginning May 30.
For a musical jubilantly proclaiming that its overriding theme is death, "Beetlejuice" has a surprisingly lively spring in its step. As is well known by now, popular movies never die; they a…
"People like stories," says Rupert Murdoch " a fictional Rupert Murdoch, that is " just before the lights dim on the last scene of "Ink," James Graham's play about the media magnate's early …
The familiar rap on flawed Broadway musicals usually goes something like this: "Well, the score is great…but the book has problems." Enter "Tootsie," red sequins ablaze, a new musical adap…
Former NYCB dancers Jonathan Stafford and Wendy Whelan discuss their plans for the future as the new season kicks off April 23.
Hillary: Likable or not? Likable enough? And if not, why not? Those much-discussed questions, asked and answered ad nauseam over the course of her two terms as a presidential wife, and her t…
The road to hell is paved with heavenly music in "Hadestown," the exuberant, exhilarating new musical that stands tall among a season of mostly (so far) lackluster Broadway competition. A re…
Winter storms may be in the rearview mirror, but idle storm chasers should know that there's a tempest being whipped up nightly at the Hudson Theatre, where a ferociously good Adam Driver is…
The new Broadway revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!" could be compared to a surrey with a little too much fringe on top, to swipe the nearest metaphor. It may get you where yo…
Women are in firm control of the kingdom in Broadway's Cort Theatre, where a new revival of "King Lear," starring Glenda Jackson in the title role, opened Thursday. Jackson's Lear is, natura…
Broadway's proudest moments of the past couple of decades have rarely " er, make that never " included any of the long parade of jukebox musicals that flooded the zone. (Perhaps it's time to…
Spring was tardy this year, so if you are still suffering from seasonal affective disorder, you might try some therapeutic theater courtesy of the radiant revival of "Kiss Me, Kate," which i…
Toxic masculinity may be a growing blight on society, but for spectacular proof that onstage, at least, it can also be vital entertainment, look no further than the sizzling Broadway revival…
Toward the merciful end of "Ruben & Clay's First Annual Christmas Show," or as it is also called, "Ruben & Clay's First Annual Christmas Carol Family Fun Pageant Spectacular Reunion …
If satire is what closes on Saturday night, as George S. Kaufman famously said, how can one explain the roaring success of Broadway's "Network," smashing box office records at the Belasco Th…
Fame may be a "fleeting bitch," according to the title character in "The Cher Show" " and who would know better? Temperamental she may be, as the musical illustrates while churning throug…
He can't sing a note. They definitely don't make tap shoes in his size. And, aside from some extremely expressive growls and roars, he doesn't exactly sizzle at delivering dialogue. And yet …
"Everything's coming apart," cries Kendra, a distraught mother who's awaiting news of her missing boy, in "American Son," an arrestingly topical drama by Christopher Demos-Brown at the Booth…
To laugh or to cry? That mostly theoretical cliché becomes a matter of actual, uncomfortable urgency as you watch the superlative Broadway revival of "The Waverly Gallery," Kenneth Lonergan…
A man's death casts a seemingly endless shadow over a family's life in "The Ferryman," the breathtakingly good, devastating drama by Jez Butterworth that instantly kicks the Broadway season …
Fact: I began my career in journalism as a fact-checker at a magazine in Los Angeles. Opinion: My experience with this oft-tedious task unfortunately did little to enhance my affection for "…
Snooker, anyone? Anyone? British plays may be as abundant on Broadway as mushrooms in a rain-soaked forest, but "The Nap," by Richard Bean, may seem exotic even to the most obsessive theatri…
Mr. Simon started out writing for television and later wrote for the movies, but his plays were his biggest successes, among them "The Odd Couple" and "Barefoot in the Park."
It's very sweet that, as in the movie, the two unlikely lovers in the musical "Pretty Woman" end up rescuing one another from their respective lives of streetwalking and soulless moneymaking…
Before the curtain rises on the new musical "Gettin' the Band Back Together" at the Belasco Theatre, Ken Davenport, the show's lead producer, who also co-wrote the book, takes the stage to w…
