Forty-six years after the original production of Ntozake Shange's legendary choreopoem "for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf," a sterling revival has retur…
Twenty five years after the Off-Broadway debut of Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "How I Learned to Drive," the contemporary American classic has at long last made its bow on Broad…
In a Broadway season teeming with exciting plays, musicals, and revivals, a dramatization of a small city council meeting may sound dull. Perhaps in the hands of a lesser playwright than Pul…
Over two years after its slated pre-pandemic bow, the fourth production of David Mamet's "American Buffalo" has arrived on Broadway. The nearly 50-year-old play takes place in a junk shop ow…
Almost a decade after her Broadway debut, Emmy-winner Debra Messing has returned to the New York stage in new play "Birthday Candles," which taps into her gifts of comedy and sentimentality.…
The ensemble of Second Stage Theatre's revival of "Take Me Out" has waited over two years for the first pitch of this baseball drama on Broadway, but after the lengthy pandemic delay the rem…
Broadway's mad dash to the Tony Award nominations began on April 3 with the opening of original musical "Paradise Square," the first of 17 new productions set to bow this month. Set during t…
Twenty-five years after her last appearance on Broadway, Sarah Jessica Parker has returned to the stage in the first revival of Neil Simon's "Plaza Suite." For her long-awaited bow, Parker h…
"It's been a great season for Black playwrights," Sam Eckmann says as he introduces Gold Derby's first slugfest of the 2022 Tony Awards season. A whopping 20 new plays and play revivals are …
It has been eight years since Hugh Jackman notoriously hopped his way into Radio City Music Hall to host the 68th Tony Awards and even longer since he won a Tony himself. But at long last, J…
Two weeks after the closing of her play "Clyde's," Lynn Nottage has opened a new jukebox musical about a star who needs no introduction. Penned by the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, "MJ The…
Ten days after her first Broadway show ended an acclaimed run, playwright Dominique Morisseau has just opened another. The Tony-nominee penned the libretto for musical "Ain't Too Proud: The …
Cary Grant back on Broadway? For five weeks this winter, the debonaire actor treaded the boards again in spirit in the form of Tony Yazbeck, who portrayed the Golden Age movie star in the mu…
Over fifty years after its debut on Broadway in 1970, Stephen Sondheim's genre-redefining musical "Company" has returned in a reimagined production by Tony Award-winning director Marianne El…
Almost thirty years after Robin Williams played "Mrs. Doubtfire" on the big screen, a musical adaptation has bowed on Broadway. The farcical plot follows divorced father Daniel, who dress…
It has been almost five years since playwright Lynn Nottage made her Broadway debut with "Sweat" and almost 10 since Uzo Aduba last appeared on a Broadway stage. They both return, triumphant…
Many plays and musicals have had to wait a long year and a half to open on Broadway, with premieres delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic. But none are more overdue than Alice Childres…
Diana, Princess of Wales has been portrayed in no shortage of high profile works of fiction this past year, from her introduction on the fourth season of Netflix's "The Crown" to Pablo Larra…
Seventeen years after its Broadway debut, musical "Caroline, or Change" has returned in what critics describe as an "electrifying" production. The show is set in 1960s Louisiana and centers …
Last week, "Is This a Room" opened on Broadway to rave reviews as one half of a repertory production that also features Tony-nominee Lucas Hnath's "Dana H." This companion piece, of sorts, o…
"The Lehman Trilogy" has had a protracted journey to Broadway. Not quite as long as the nearly two centuries of history that the play chronicles, of course, but what began in London in 2018 …
Back in March 2020, the Bob Dylan songbook musical "Girl From the North Country" opened on Broadway on March 5, just one week before theaters shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic. Now m…
Back in February, the new play "Thoughts of a Colored Man" installed its marquee at the Golden Theatre, an encouraging sign almost a year into the coronavirus pandemic that the frost on Broa…
The long-awaited reopening of Broadway has just welcomed one of its most unique offerings of the season with the debut of new drama "Is This a Room." One of a duo of transcript plays to bow …
Ten years after making his Broadway debut as an actor in "The Book of Mormon," Douglas Lyons just took his first bow as a playwright with "Chicken & Biscuits," which opened at the Circle…