After the Great Recession of '08 " not to mention anxiety about the current economy " will a Reagan-era comedy about insider trading and the glory of greed get the same laughs? Can it sing, …
When the Tony-winning musical "1776" debuted on Broadway in 1969, it celebrated America's ideals on the eve of its Bicentennial. Half a century later, a radical makeover brings critique fron…
It's June 2022, and Michael R. Jackson has a lot to be proud of. His musical "A Strange Loop" leads the Broadway awards-season race with 11 Tony nominations and stands poised to net the top …
With a cast headed by Amy Adams making her West End debut, you'd be forgiven for imagining the latest production of Tennessee Williams' play "The Glass Menagerie" might be everything you'd e…
Jesse Williams is coming to the end of his debut Broadway gig " but he's already betting it'll be the first of many stage engagements for him. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" podcas…
"What are you staring at? Have you never seen a murderer up close before?" Ever since her startlingly assured 2007 debut "Free Outgoing," shrewd playwright Anupama Chandrasekhar has calmly b…
Michael R. Jackson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical "A Strange Loop" scored 11 Tony nominations last week " and the ensemble cast of "A Strange Loop" is inviting everyone to share i…
On your mark, get set, go. The race for the Tony Awards has officially begun with the announcement of the 2022 nominations on Monday. In honoring and highlighting the work in a crowded, COVI…
Broadway just wrapped up its first season after the pandemic lockdown, and boy, was it a doozy: After all the delays, COVID surges and cast replacements, a whopping 35 new productions opened…
Debra Messing has only been in the Broadway play "Birthday Candles" since March, but in some ways, she feels more deeply connected to her character Ernestine than she felt to the leading rol…
A bare set. Actors making stew on stage. An abundance of hand-held fog machines. Vague contemporary setting and costumes. A generally spooky atmosphere. Put all the ingredients together and …
I am woman, hear me roar " with laughter, at "POTUS: or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive," playwright Selina Fillinger's delicious feminist farce about th…
Sometimes being nice has its rewards. Take Buddy Young Jr., the bitter, self-centered, self-destructive comedian from the 1992 flop film "Mr. Saturday Night," which Billy Crystal starred in,…
Subjectivity is conditional. We can only understand our own points of view in relation to the differences that separate us. If art often intends to complete the circle ("look at how these ot…
Thornton Wilder's allegorical play "The Skin of Our Teeth" is bizarre, abstract and convoluted; it's not to be taken seriously. Or so Sabina (Gabby Beans) tells the audience at Lincoln Cente…
"You ever feel like there's someone watching from the shadows?" asks Beanie Feldstein's Fanny Brice, as haunting apparitions from the Ziegfeld star's past waft in and out in a kind of "Fanny…
In the theatrical annals of wild and wicked stage plays, there are black comedies, blacker comedies, and blacker-than-the-dead-of-night comedies like "Hangmen." Â Prolific playwright Marti…
Ntozake Shange's iridescent choreopoem "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf" is the story of Black women and their often-disregarded human experiences. Wh…
Mommas, don't give your daughters the kind of nicknames that would appeal to their pedophile uncles. Cursed with a cutesy moniker like "Li'l Bit," what do you think might happen to a suppose…
Some stories creep up in disguise, hiding a ghastly scowl. "The Minutes" is an astonishing feat from playwright and star Tracy Letts, not least for its brilliant finesse in orchestrating aud…
Since 1997, composer-singer Barry Manilow and lyricist-librettist Bruce Sussman " the team behind iconic '70s pop classics such as "Copacabana" " have been looking to get their wise and witt…
Mike Bartlett's latest play is monstrous. In a good way. Shapeshifting actor Bertie Carvel, having shot to fame creating the marvelously alarming Miss Trunchbull in "Matilda," is back to wor…
When is a timeless children's tale not quite right for children's theater? When it is Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's beloved and ever-so-slightly surreal 1942 novella, "The Little Prince." Publ…
One minute you're a teenager ready to "rebel against the universe," then in the blink of an eye you're a senior making peace with the life that was handed to you. That's the short and sweet …
Oh, what mean and nasty things men said about women who dared to fight for the right to vote in America. Here are some of those choice insults, taken from the very first song ("Watch Out for…