457 stories by "David Roberts"
“The Loved Ones” seems to open with a rather accessible setup. Gabby, a young Black college student, arrives at Nell’s house with suitcase and backpack in tow. Her arrival is unexpecte…
Irish Repertory Theatre (Charlotte Moore, Artistic Director and Ciarán O’Reilly, Producing Artistic Director) announced today four productions for its 2026 Fall Season. Irish Rep’s 2026…
Olney Theatre Center announced that it will open its newly renovated Bernard Family Theatre with the first regional theatre production of the Broadway musical Some Like It Hot (September 18 …
Rising Star Project recently produced a weekend run of the classic rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar at The 5th Avenue Theatre in downtown Seattle. The organization is the venue’s tuition-…
“A Walk on the Moon” arrives at the Laura Pels Theatre promising a contemporary reimagining of Pamela Gray’s 1999 screenplay. Instead, it offers a production that settles for sentiment…
Bluebird Theatre Company is pleased to announce the 2026 run of Significant Contacts, written by Amanda Stamm and directed by Sean Szak Prasso. The production will play a limited engagement …
“The Public Theater’s latest offering, “Girl, Interrupted,” transcends the conventional musical. It is based on the 1993 memoir by Susanna Kayson, chronicling her eighteen-month stay…
This new play with music was commissioned by Vineyard Theatre and American Conservatory Theater, and Eisa Davis’s intimate portrait of four gifted teenage girls navigating a transformative…
John J. Caswell Jr.’s “Jerome” arrives at Playwrights Horizons this May as both a homecoming and a reckoning. The acclaimed playwright returns to the theater where his previous work �…
The Broadway Bound Theatre Festival Announces Performance Schedule — Tickets Now on Sale 2 Musicals and 10 New Plays to Have World Premieres July 23–August 16 at AMT Theater in the Theat…
Situational ethics and moral ambiguity take center stage in “KENREX,” the true crime thriller currently running at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. On July 10, 1981, in Skidmore, Missouri (po…
Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins joins the cast of La Cage Aux Folles (running June 17 – 28, 2026) as Jacqueline, along with Peter Francis James as Edouard, and Rachel Webb as Anne. They jo…
The prologue to “The Lost Boys,” the new musical adaptation of the 1987 Warner Bros. film now at the Palace Theatre, immediately signals Michael Arden’s dark ambitions for this materia…
Joe Turner was real. Brother of the Tennessee Governor, he would swoop down on Black men in the early 1900s – gambling, preaching, just walking down the road – and keep them enslaved on …
Balusters are the decorative posts that support a porch railing – without them, the whole structure collapses. In David Lindsay-Abaire’s wickedly sharp “The Balusters,” now at Manhat…
The play "Fallen Angels" written by Noel Coward, originally premiered on Broadway nearly one hundred years ago in December of 1927. The second Broadway revival that is currently on stage at …
In Samuel D. Hunter's "Little Bear Ridge Road," currently playing at the Booth Theatre, James, an astrophysics graduate student, explains to his boyfriend Ethan that the three stars forming …
After garnering mostly rave reviews in London's West End and Stratford-upon-Avon, "Kyoto" by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson is currently running Off-Broadway at Lincoln Center Theater's Mitzi …
It is very rare that a revival of a musical is imagined better than the original production and exceptional that its message is more relevant now than when it first opened on Broadway nearly…
With HBO's "The Gilded Age" drawing record-breaking viewership, it's clear America remains fascinated by the elegance, extravagance and traditions of that dazzling era. Now, food writer and …
Jen Tullock's "Nothing Can Take You from the Hand of God" has been hailed as a searing examination of how evangelical Christianity wounds its queer children. Critics have called it "the best…
A new solo show has opened at the Greenwich House Theater, written and performed by Ari'el Stachel, who won the Tony award for best supporting actor in the musical, "The Band's Visit." It is…
Jordan E. Cooper's "Oh Happy Day!" at The Public Theater promises to explore whether a queer man rejected and abused by the church can choose his own happiness on his own terms. It's a radic…
The latest production to open at Atlantic Theater Company is "Let's Love," a trio of one-acts penned by Ethan Coen. No surprise the subject matter addressed is love, what love is, how to exp…
The question asked in the title of the new play being presented by Bedlam Theater is "Are the Bennett Girls OK?" Well, the simple answer is, "Yes!" They are doing just fine in a new adaptati…