468 stories by "David Roberts"
You will get sick. It happens. You do not know why. Often you do not want to tell anyone you are sick. Perhaps you might even pay someone to talk to you about your illness. Yet after all tha…
Playwright Mia Chung intends to raise a rich and enduring question in her play "Catch as Catch Can" currently running at Playwrights Horizons Peter Jay Sharp Theater: "What is inherent in ou…
Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" debuted on Broadway in 1959 and appeared in London's West End five months later. The musical adaptation "Raisin" won the Tony Award for Best Musica…
Marin Gazzaniga's "The Unbelieving" is based on select interviews from the 2013 book "Caught in the Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind" by Daniel C. Dennett and Linda LaScola. The authors intervi…
Every once in a while, there comes along a little gem of a play that certainly will knock you off your feet, especially if it is a first-rate production and impeccably performed by two remar…
Some may say that Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman" may be the greatest play of the 20th century and there is evidence that supports that claim. It premiered on Broadway in 1949, wi…
Sometimes there is no reason to try and improve or change something which would adhere to the adage "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Adjusting, tweaking, or trying to improve things when t…
Currently running at Classic Stage Company, "A Man of No Importance" chronicles gay middle-aged bus conductor Alfie Byrnes's (a gloomy and dispirited Jim Parsons) struggles to claim his agen…
In the current 20th anniversary production of "Topdog/Underdog," Suzan Lori-Parks reminds the audience that when one does not receive unconditional and nonjudgmental love and chooses to disc…
There is too much noise on the set of Victor I. Cazares's "american (tele)visions" currently running at New York Theatre Workshop (co-produced with Theatre Mitu). Although that noise comes f…
Applause Books is proud to announce the November 2022 release of Magic to Do (192 pages ' 978-1-4930-6435-9' Hardback) by Elysa Gardner. In Magic to Do, which celebrates the 50th anniversary…
"Cost of living indexes are meant to compare the expenses an average person can expect to incur to acquire food, shelter, transportation, energy, clothing, education, healthcare, childcare, …
The rags to riches story of one of the world's most charismatic and controversial political figures receives a new look, in an exciting, intimate production at Bucks County Playhouse, runnin…
Elodie (Francesca Carpanini) and Otto (Uly Schlesinger) reunite in a bedroom after they meet in a town square in Chartres, France in August 1944. Crazy things happened in the square includin…
According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary the definition of "cycle" is a permutation of a set of ordered elements in which each element takes the place of the next and the last becomes the…
The box office for the critically lauded and wildly popular new musical, Kimberly Akimbo, will open on Wednesday, September 7 at 10 a.m. at the Booth Theatre (222 West 45th Street). The Boot…
Tony and Grammy-nominated multi-platinum recording artist Josh Groban and Tony Award winner Annaleigh Ashford will both return to Broadway this spring in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fl…
Theatergoers who missed the successful Broadway production of "Kinky Boots" should make their way to Stage 42 for the Off-Broadway revival which will be sure to please. A more condensed vers…
Promising a touching love story following a one-nightstand encounter in Amsterdam, Clarence Coo's "On That Day in Amsterdam" (currently on at 59E59 Theaters) delivers instead a convoluted st…
The most recent revival of the 1987 Broadway musical "Into the Woods" featuring music and lyrics from the late, great Stephen Sondheim is now making its triumphant return, playing at the St.…
As children fishing together and hanging out at the hide they had built in the chicken house, Francie Brady (an emotive and troubled Nicholas Barasch) and Joe Purcell (the effervescent and s…
New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) (Artistic Director Patricia McGregor and Managing Director Jeremy Blocker) announced today that Jonathan Groff will star as "Franklin" and Lindsay Mendez wil…
Drawing inspiration from concerts that evolved from Brooklyn front porches to its own rooftop balcony and large-scale exhibitions mounted on its exterior facade, St. Ann's Warehouse returns,…
The Joyce Theater Foundation (Linda Shelton, Executive Director) is pleased to welcome Danni Gee as the organization's new Director of Programming, effective September 12, 2022. A f…
Producers Michael Cohl and EMC Presents, in association with Larry Mestel, Deborah Klein, and Steven Greener for Primary Wave Music announce today the world premiere of Grammy & Academy …