Jez Butterworth's ambitious, captivating and richly rewarding domestic drama "The Hills of California" straddles dual worlds of dreams and reality as it shuttles between two pivotal time per…
Producer Aaron Glick, Rachel Sussman, Jamila Ponton Bragg and more share how the fellowship aided their path to the Main Stem.
A little-known fact about Daniel Dae Kim: He's really, really into "Saturday Night Live." "I'm a super fan," says the actor just a few days before starting performances for the revival of Da…
There's something loose, rebellious, and even wild hiding within the trappings of "The Roommate," a new Broadway production of a play written by Jen Silverman. One just has to wait for it to…
"There is," as Stephen Sondheim once groaned, "nothing worse than great expectations." It may seem unfair to evoke a master when reviewing only the second show from a young British musical t…
They don't give out Tony Awards for Most Comically Elaborate Broadway-Themed Promotional Announcement of a Football Telecast Series. But if they did, "ManningCast the Musical" would be a sho…
If you're a musical theater composer, Broadway might get you a Tony Award " but it won't get you 50 voices singing onstage. For that kind of scale, Jeanine Tesori, the Tony-winning composer …
Broadway fans often talk about theater as a spiritual experience " but most of them aren't thinking of tarot cards when they say it. That could change thanks to a new tarot deck that's a sur…
Close to the climax of "Once Upon a Mattress," now revived on Broadway for the second time, Princess Winnifred (Sutton Foster) has reached the end of her rope. After the frustrations of the …
Optimistic, curious, adventurous. Also: Zero complexity. That's how Sutton Foster describes Princess Fred, the character she plays in the Broadway revival of "Once Upon a Mattress." Listen t…
"The Queen of Versailles," the much-anticipated reunion of "Wicked" collaborators Kristin Chenoweth and Stephen Schwartz, offers the diva her richest opportunity to date to flex her dramatic…
The fifth-anniversary Broadway performance of "Moulin Rouge!" didn't exactly go as planned. A technical issue with the set delayed the July 25 curtain by some 45 minutes and required certain…
It's no spoiler to say "JOB", Max Wolf Friedlich's electrifying synapse of play, features a highly stressed young woman pointing a gun at a therapist in his office. That's how the play begin…
The creators of "Cats: The Jellicle Ball" are certain their hit show will have a future life " they just don't yet know what that future life looks like. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft…
Famous for many things, not least Carol Channing playing the title role more than 5,000 times, "Hello, Dolly!" is, happily, one of Broadway's brashest, splashiest star vehicles whose relativ…
Cole Escola's "Oh, Mary!" is the best kind of stupid: a broad, wildly funny comedy that spits in the face of American history and uses it as joke fodder for some endlessly campy humor. In th…
In the admirably bold, unconventionally self-aware new stage musical version of John Berendt's 1994 blockbuster bestseller "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," transgender icon The Lad…
When too many contemporary theatre writers mistake the grinding of political axes for properly developed drama, it's a relief to realize that Australian playwright Kendall Feaver is more tha…
There were a whole lot of sure things heading into the 2024 Tony Awards ceremony " "Stereophonic," "Merrily We Roll Along," Daniel Radcliffe. But this year's full list of winners had room fo…
Live theater always reflects the moment in which it's presented, but this season, Broadway charged head-on into the politics of today with unusual force: A play that directly addressed antis…
Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner, the duo who have produced and directed the Tony Awards telecast since 2003, won't share too many specifics about the Tony ceremony coming up on Sunday. But di…
For all its jaw-dropping spectacle, and the musical excitement of the tunes by Florence Welch (of Florence and the Machine) and Thomas Bartlett (a/k/a Doveman), the American Repertory Theate…
Buzz for the new play "Invasive Species" infiltrated the downtown New York theater scene like a swarm of spotted lanternflies. Maybe you noticed one of those photos of Jennifer Lawrence wear…
Emmy-winning actress Sarah Paulson is no stranger to entertainment industry awards shows " but even so, her current Tony nomination, for her lead performance in the Broadway play "Appropriat…
Making life-altering decisions is no small matter, especially for the characters in "Choice," Winnie Holzman's provocative but imperfect play, which just completed a run at Princeton's McCar…