Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' family drama "Purpose" is already one of the big winners of the Broadway awards season: The play won the Pulitzer Prize for drama and the New York Drama Critics Circl…
Michelle Williams may not be a Tony nominee this year, but in her estimation, she still has plenty to celebrate. The former member of Destiny's Child is back on Broadway for the first time i…
Bob Odenkirk ("Better Call Saul") earned a Tony nomination for his Broadway debut in the hit revival of "Glengarry Glen Ross." But almost 30 years ago, if he'd gotten his way, he would have …
The biggest, most trenchant laugh on the London stage is nightly cracking up the audience at the West End staging of "Giant" " and it's a moment indicative of the blissful timing in the writ…
It's been a busy season on Broadway, crowded with big stars, boffo hits " and strong contenders for awards attention. This year's Tony Awards nominations seemed particularly hard to predict,…
Grammy-winning musician Joy Huerta and musical theater songwriter Benjamin Velez didn't know each other before they started working together on the score for "Real Women Have Curves." But th…
The Latina seamstresses at a dressmaking workshop in East L.A. express their credo at the top of the new musical "Real Women Have Curves." With the pulsating song "Make It Work" these women …
Unlike the mobile British corpse in "Operation Mincemeat," the traveling American cadaver in the Broadway musical "Dead Outlaw" has a far less noble posthumous purpose than winning World War…
It might be time to call it quits on biographical jukebox musicals. "Jersey Boys" ignited a trend, but its many spawn have been mostly ill-conceived. Recently we've had "Summer: The Donna Su…
What ever happened to Gilbert and Sullivan? Once theatrical icons, Gilbert and Sullivan " co-creators of famed comic operettas including "H.M.S. Pinafore" and "The Mikado" " have taken a not…
With the Broadway arrival of "Stranger Things: The First Shadow," a stage prequel to the popular Netflix series, comes the question: Will this stand-alone tale appeal " and then satisfy " au…
Spelunking is not exactly a go-to subject for a musical. Yet Adam Guettel and Tina Landau saw something in the true story of Floyd Collins, a cave explorer who famously got trapped undergrou…
Idina Menzel is back on Broadway in a new musical " and for the Tony-winning actor, now starring in "Redwood," it's exactly the kind of work she loves most. Listen to this week's "Stagecr…
The first word spoken in "John Proctor Is the Villain" is "sex," a portent of things to come. Mr. Smith (Gabriel Ebert), a high school English teacher, has been tasked with handling sex-ed f…
On the surface, "Smash" is a new backstage musical about the making of the fictional Broadway musical "Bombshell: The Marilyn Monroe Story," but for diehard fans of the cult-classic TV show …
After three Broadway revues of Stephen Sondheim's music you would think a fourth wouldn't offer anything fresh, have any surprises, or be anything special. Think again. "Old Friends" began l…
Following on the high heels of the 2023 hit film "Barbie," "Boop! The Musical" likewise aims to remake and rebrand another dated pop character for contemporary times and audiences. Unlike Ba…
Like television journalist Edward R. Murrow's historic broadcasts, the stage adaptation of the 2005 film "Good Night, and Good Luck" has a seriousness of purpose that is again dr…
The creators of "Stranger Things: The First Shadow" went into the project with one goal top of mind: They wanted to make theater legitimately scary. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" …
Bob Odenkirk has, in recent years, been best-known for the role of Jimmy McGill, a desperate lawyer constantly attempting to find an advantage " ethics be damned " on TV's "Breaking Bad" and…
Oscar Wilde's infamous antihero Dorian Gray probably would've loved to have a barrage of cameras pointed at him, reflecting his gorgeous visage. This is exactly what Kip Williams' tech-heavy…
Ever since the theater industry's post-lockdown return, one question has loomed large: When will Broadway return to the heights of the last full season before the pandemic, when both sales a…
An astonishing, loopy and very true World War II story about Great Britain tricking Germany into believing false invasion plans has been the source material for non-fiction books and movies …
Entering "Buena Vista Social Club" is like stepping into a heady world of the senses, of heightened emotions, and of passionate music and dance. The Social Club was a real place for locals i…
One actress is a newcomer making her Broadway debut after winning raves out of town. The other is a Tony-winning favorite, back on Broadway for the first time in almost a decade. Together, t…