What gives life value and makes it worth our daily toil? What does it mean to need another person, and what do we owe each other? It is a testament to the brilliant craft of Martyna Majok's …
In a radical departure from his usual intellectually esoteric style, Tom Stoppard's new play is an intensely personal family drama. "Leopoldstadt," which takes its name from the Jewish quart…
There is an opera of "The Crucible." Written by Robert Ward, it won the 1962 Pulitzer Prize. But this is not the opera… or is it? Lyndsey Turner's grandiloquent National Theatre production…
Madison Wells Live, the stage entertainment division of Gigi Pritzker's Madison Wells Media ("The Eyes of Tammy Faye"), has emerged from theater's lockdown phase with a lineup of brewing the…
Broadway hasn't been the same since the pandemic. Just consider "The Phantom of the Opera." The recent closing announcement of the landmark long-runner underscored just how unpredictable the…
After a bunch of peppy up-tempo numbers, you just know there is going to be at least one ballad somewhere in "The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation," the new musical with Broadway aspirations pre…
For the actor Gregg Mozgala, his Broadway debut in "Cost of Living" isn't just a step forward for him " it's a step forward for all of Broadway. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" podc…
Jonathan Spector's 2018 comedy "Eureka Day" first attracted attention in productions in Berkeley and Brooklyn. But in its sharp U.K. premiere starring Helen Hunt, this often very funny satir…
Few theater performances are as indelible as the original Broadway production of "Into the Woods," which raised a generation of theater fans through a legendary American Playhouse recording …
Get thee to Arden " or at least to the Arden depicted in the glorious, delightful and big-hearted musical adaptation of Shakespeare's "As You Like It," created as part of the Public Theater'…
The composer ("Once Upon a Mattress"), young adult author ("Freaky Friday") and philanthropist Mary Rodgers wanted to write a memoir that was candid, cutting, dishy and vanity-free " the exa…
The new musical "American Prophet" is now in the midst of its world premiere run at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. Next stop: Broadway? Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" podcast belo…
Taking an overly respectful and frankly miscalculated approach to its source materials " the 2003 roman à clef novel and the 2006 Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway-starring film " the new mu…
After nine seasons on the hit TV series "The Blacklist," actor Amir Arison's next step is starring on Broadway in "The Kite Runner." Which is pretty surprising for a guy who'd decided he was…
Playwright Matthew Spangler's adaptation of "The Kite Runner," Khaled Hosseini's bestselling 2005 novel about the friendship of two boys living parallel lives in Afghanistan, is a heartbreak…
Most people know Jodi Picoult as the busy author of more than 25 bestselling books, including "My Sister's Keeper," "Small Great Things" and "The Pact." But more recently, she's collaborated…
Before Danai Gurira returns this fall as the Wakandan general Okoye in "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," she's scheming and murdering her way onto the English throne in director Robert O'Har…
No one saw it coming. Reworking Goldoni's 18th-century comedy "A Servant of Two Masters" didn't look like the recipe for a transatlantic comedy smash, but that was before Richard Bean turned…
The aesthetic is austere, the emotional range fiercely compressed and the intent is relentlessly pure, but that's only to be expected in Samuel Beckett's "The Seagull." Wait, what? Obviously…
A place for everything and everything in its place. Although that maxim about neatness might apply to the intentions of the characters living in the English country vicarage in "The Southbur…
The playwright James Ijames is no stranger to audacious choices. His adaptation of "Hamlet," "Fat Ham," sets the story at a backyard barbecue thrown by a Black family in the South " and reim…
Jessica Lange was once asked if there couldn't have been someone on the set of the painfully overwrought Southern gothic movie, Beth Henley's "Crimes of the Heart," who could have got everyo…
Audiences already know Joaquina Kalukango as an actor onstage ("Slave Play") and on screen ("One Night in Miami") " and on the most recent Tony Awards telecast, when she capped off a roof-ra…
There's nothing like mechanical malfunction to make you want to break into song. Though that may well be unique to "Bruce" " unless you can name another musical with a spectacularly unruly p…
Broadway celebrated its first full season after the COVID lockdown with the 75th annual Tony Awards, hosted by a newly minted Oscar winner and spotlighting stage work that included a media-d…