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"I'm in this world but I'm not," the middle-aged woman confesses to an unseen interviewer in Lucas Hnath's "Dana H.," a mesmerizing solo show of theatrical shamanism that is receiving its Br…
Welcome to America, all ye wretched immigrants from impoverished foreign lands. Watch closely and learn as the three Lehman brothers from Bavaria " Henry the brainy head, Emanuel the powerfu…
The title character of "The Tragedy of Macbeth" is unequivocal: "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it was done quickly." Director Yaël Farber begs to differ. She takes one …
A hope for the future arrives in the final moments of "Thoughts of a Colored Man," a dutiful and expansive cataloguing of its title subject by Keenan Scott II. "I can't wait for the day when…
The fan-favorite Broadway veteran Norm Lewis is doing something he's never done before: starring on Broadway in a play. After a career marked by many of the great roles in musical theater ("…
Everyone knows more than they let on at the top of "Is This a Room," a taut and pulse-prickling docudrama conceived and directed by Tina Satter. That includes audiences who are likely famili…
"Chicken & Biscuits" is a feast of a production, and there is enough sustenance and libation for the entire family. Zhailon Levingston, who at 27-years-old becomes the youngest Black dir…
Here's a treat: a restorative evening of Ruben Santiago-Hudson's loving recollections of growing up in an upstate New York boarding house run by a life force known as Nanny. When Nanny made …
The all-powerful family firm has assets aplenty, but its troubled future is being massively fought over with everyone plotting over the next generation. No, not the upcoming third season of …
Eighteen months after theaters around the country shut down, Jerry Zaks is back doing exactly what he was the moment things went dark: rehearsing his next big Broadway comedy. One of the ind…
When Stephen C. Byrd began producing on Broadway 16 years ago, he and his partner Alia Jones-Harvey were usually the only Black faces they saw in the business. "We would walk into marketing …
Like everyone on Broadway at that moment, British director Michael Longhurst remembers exactly where he was when the COVID-19 shutdown came. "We had just done our dress rehearsal of 'Carolin…
There are two reasons that, among recent Hamlets, Cush Jumbo ("The Good Fight") is right up there alongside Benedict Cumberbatch and Ian McKellen. Like those two actors, Jumbo has dazzling e…
Strutting strong, arms akimbo and ready for a royal rumble, the sextet of cheeky spouses of King Henry VIII take to the stage in triumph " not just over the much-married monarch who did them…
In "A Crossing," the new dance musical premiering at Barrington Stage in the Berkshires, a group of desperate immigrants confront hazardous terrains, punishing weather, threatening vigilante…
The playwrights Jocelyn Bioh and Martyna Majok have a bond, in life and in their work. "I feel like Martyna and I are these playwriting sisters in terms of the groups of people and the stori…
The long-delayed Tony Awards ceremony has happened at last, and much of it played out as expected " see, for instance, the string of wins for "Moulin Rouge!," which seemed the likely winner …
A Tony predictions story? In this climate? Yes, the Tony Awards are happening Sunday, although you might not know it. Publicity has been hampered by the confusing roll-out of the plan for th…
With all the uncertainty around Broadway right now, one thing's for sure: The Tony Awards this year will be unlike any other. The 2021 ceremony comes just as Broadway has begun its recove…
The claim to theatrical fame of the Long Island hamlet of Yaphank has thus far rested with PG Wodehouse, who included the town in his lyrics for Jerome Kern's satirical hymn to the simple li…
"I don't want to take live theater for granted ever again, do you?" That was Lin-Manuel Miranda, in a brief curtain speech welcoming back the first Broadway audience at "Hamilton" since the …
Broadway is back " and it's looking to make some changes to how it used to operate. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" podcast below: With producers, creators, advocates and executives…
In recent decades, numerous musical have arrived in London with outsized production values swamping the material, leading critics to wish for time machines so that they can fast-forward to t…
Is the quite splendid "Operation Mincemeat" ridiculously clever or cleverly ridiculous? Both. Making a song-n-dance show out of a real-life, stiff-upper-lip, British World War II intelligenc…
From "Aladdin" in Mexico City to "Frozen" in London to "The Lion King" in Tokyo " not to mention "Lion King" and "Aladdin" on Broadway " Disney Theatrical Productions is in the midst of open…
