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In the wake of the long-running "Jersey Boys" and the short-lived "Summer," director Des McAnuff is back on Broadway with another show built around the song catalog of a music act " and alth…
Any new play by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks ("Topdog / Underdog") demands " and deserves " attention. And in its premiere production at the Public Theater, her lat…
If you find yourself directing a Broadway play with a cast so big it includes a goose, two rabbits, more kids than you can count and an actual infant, what do you do? If you're Sam Mendes, y…
Anyone who doesn't have a cottage on the Cape or the Islands, as they say in Massachusetts, might be puzzled by the title of John Guare's new play. "Nantucket Sleigh Ride" is no Revere B…
No, Kate doesn't get spanked. And for those wondering how the dicey ending of "Kiss Me, Kate" " that musical mashup of "The Taming of the Shrew" and backstage battling exes " would come acro…
It takes three to tango, and Jamie Lloyd's "Betrayal" completely grasps that. Having made it his mission to modernize the way we stage Harold Pinter's plays, his chic, stripped-down staging …
Sound design might be the most thankless job on Broadway " because when you get it right, nobody notices. Besides, a lot of theatergoers " and more than a few Tony voters " don't quite know …
Like "The Father," which won the 2016 Tony Award for Frank Langella in the titanic lead role, "The Mother," which features a searing performance by Isabelle Huppert, advances French playwrig…
"Be More Chill" is already a Broadway Cinderella story. A tale of nerdy teen angst and technology by songwriter Joe Iconis and bookwriter Joe Tracz, this geek-love, sci-fi, high school music…
Watching Phoebe Waller-Bridge, as the lead character of "Fleabag," trying to resist saying something bitingly perceptive, inappropriately funny and completely unexpected is a study of comic …
Possible spoiler:Â The kid ain't worth it! Some breathtaking design work has gone into the sleek production of Jeremy O. Harris' "Daddy," directed by Danya Taymor ("Pass Over"), who's don…
Producer Eva Price has been working on Broadway for years now " but this year, she's really making her mark, first as the lead producer of this spring's edgy new revival of "Oklahoma!," and …
A 15-year-old misfit, sitting alone on the fire escape and drawing cartoon dreams of a larger-than-life hero to rescue him from the perils of being a teenager. Haven't we seen this one befor…
Laura Benanti is now playing her dream role on Broadway. At the same time, the Tony winner (“Gypsy”) is also playing her toughest part ever. Listen to this week's podcast below: …
Time is money. Money is time. Both come unstuck in "The American Clock." Arthur Miller's kaleidoscopic account of the Great Depression, part autobiography, part social history, crawls throug…
Comfy? Okay, let's talk Death: sudden death, painful death, lingering death, accidental death, and whatever other kinds of death happen to come into the receptive minds of playwrights Simon …
To adapt a crass old adage: it's "All About Eve," not "All About Steve." Stripping Joseph L. Mankiewicz's sharp-witted screenplay about a waning theater star of its period trappings, Ivo van…
Director Adam Shankman’s latest movie, the Taraji P. Henson comedy “What Men Want,” isn’t a musical. But as one of Hollywood’s top director-choreographers of mu…
"Pinter at the Pinter" has been an education — a crash course in Britain's greatest post-war playwright. Director-producer Jamie Lloyd's star-studded, six-month sprint through Harold P…
Jeremy Pope is having the kind of year most young actors dream of: He’s currently making his Broadway debut in the title role of “Choir Boy,” the play by Oscar winner Tarel…
Scott Ellis and Warren Carlyle never thought they'd bring Kiss Me, Kate back to Broadway. The duo behind Roundabout Theatre Company's recent popular revivals of She Loves Me, On the Twentiet…
Back when “The Prom” opened on Broadway in the fall, critics swooned over the musical comedy with a message. But for a while there, the creators had begun to think that their sho…
During its journey to Broadway, the buzzy Hadestown wasn't just establishing an ardent fan base. It was also growing and developing from a rousing concert staging into a full work of musical…
Do you believe in divine inspiration? Talk to indie singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell about Hadestown, and you just might. To hear Mitchell tell it, the first flash of what would become Ha…
"Leave to Remain" was almost a graphic novel. And a concept album. And a television series. Eventually Bloc Party's frontman Kele Okereke and co-writer Matt Jones swung behind the idea of a …
