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…
On a superficial level, the new musical "Suffs" looks a lot like "Hamilton" " so much so that "some people are calling it 'Hermilton,'" said one of the show's stars, Jenn Colella, on the new…
Public and personal identities are constantly being examined, teased and tested in Richard Greenberg's "Take Me Out," his grand paean to baseball and ontological quandaries, which is receivi…
The body can sometimes say more than words, but even the most expressive moves cannot make a coherent case for "Paradise Square." The blunt and belabored history lesson of a new musical set …
"We've discussed this. We've discussed this many times." That wearied line, which appears in the final scene of David Hare's new play "Straight Line Crazy," is spoken by Ariel Porter (Samuel…
Expanding accessibility is an ongoing concern for Broadway " and this spring, the musician Gaelynn Lea arrives with lessons she learned from advocating for the cause in the music industry. L…
John is desperate: "It's not a competition. Please, please it mustn't be that." Cue his girlfriend's snapped retort: "Then what is it really?" Good question. As revealed by the climactic rou…
Now that omicron is in decline, Broadway optimism is on the rise. After a bumpy holiday season rife with performance disruptions, show closures and hiatuses due to the highly contagious COVI…
Just how vocally demanding are roles in Broadway musicals like "Hamilton" and "Dear Evan Hansen" " and how much singing is too much? If two professors at New York University had their way, B…
At the start of the second half of Anthony McCarten's art-world bio-drama "The Collaboration," the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat's agent finds himself alone on the scrappy sofa of Basquiat's N…
Brittney Johnson is currently making history as the first Black actor to play Glinda in "Wicked," but she's also had a lot of Broadway experience in jobs that are in many ways even more chal…
The gap between what you see and what you get has long proved fertile territory for playwrights. At his considerable best, not least his Oscar-winning adapted screenplay of his play "The Fat…
Hugh Jackman dazzles as Professor Harold Hill, the charismatic con man who fires up an entire Midwestern town, in this abso-tootin'-lutely smashing revival of Meredith Willson's adorably cor…
Lynn Nottage has had a hat-trick of shows on New York stages this season: the new opera "Intimate Apparel," the Michael Jackson musical "MJ" and the play "Clyde's." How does she top that? Li…
In answer to the question of whether it's possible to separate the art from the artist, "MJ" performs a slick, crotch-grabbing sidestep. Packed with nearly 40 hits from Michael Jackson's irr…
Passions were never in short supply in Lynn Nottage's 2003 play "Intimate Apparel," where loneliness, longing and hope hover in every scene. In the latest, long-in-the-making collaboration b…
The playwright Dominique Morisseau knows what she is doing. That's clear not only because she says it so convincingly in her Playbill note for Manhattan Theatre Club's production of "Skeleto…
Playwright Dominique Morisseau has a lot going on right now " but then, she's just following the advice that the late Chadwick Boseman once gave her. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft"Â�…
"It just turned into triage." That's how Anne Quart describes the past few weeks on Broadway. As senior VP of production and co-producer at Disney Theatrical, Quart saw first-hand the chaoti…
Robin de Jesús is a three-time Tony Award nominee who's currently co-starring in "Tick, Tick… Boom!," one of this year's film awards season contenders. But de Jesús will be the first…
No one stages something set across mountainous ski slopes in a 251-seat, three-sided theater without a sense of humor. Which is why director Michael Longhurst has attached the bold and perky…