572 stories by "Howard Miller"
Is it better to be loved or feared?
Director Ruben Santiago-Hudson brings some of our current understandings regarding race and gender to the Public Theater's production of Shakespeare's Othello at the Delacorte Theater in Cen…
As the American public-at-large begins (hopefully) at long last to understand the embedded and pervasive racism that is a part of the warp and woof of the fabric of our history, past and pre…
Trust the kids. It's their story. Get out of the way and let them tell it.
France's iconic chanteuse, the famous "little sparrow" Édith Piaf, was renowned for facing a life beset with endless blows and challenges with a determined proclamation of defiance: "Non…
The big question hovering over the 50th anniversary production of Mart Crowley's groundbreaking play The Boys in the Band, opening tonight at the Booth Theatre, is whether it will seem terri…
If you are familiar with Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, you will already know that in nineteenth century Russia they wrote letters.
It is both significant and problematic that Lily Thorne was a documentary film producer for many years before penning Peace for Mary Frances, her debut play having its premiere in a producti…
Tremor, an hour-long two-character play by Brad Birch, opening tonight as part of the Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters, starts off promisingly with an air of mystery and tension…
"Bang, Bang, Turn, Brush." These are the sounds of the close-knit coordination and cooperation that are absolutely necessary when you are part of a team tasked at shaping hellishly hot metal…
Dominique Morisseau's Paradise Blue, which opened tonight at the Pershing Square Signature Center, is a dazzling fireworks display of a play about an African American neighborhood in a corne…
Playwright Alan Ayckbourn is the sort of guy you might well expect to whip through a Rubik's Cube in under a minute, hand it back to you, smile and say "here you go," and then run off to per…
W, the intense yet moving character played by Nicola Wren in her one-woman show Replay, opening today at 59E59 Theaters, is an ambitious policewoman vying to be the youngest sergeant in her …
Think of the Public Mobile Unit production of William Shakespeare's Henry V, opening tonight at the Public's intimate Shiva Theater, as a mini-excursion to the summertime Shakespeare in the …
The sun won't come out tomorrow, not for the denizens of Harry Hope's Saloon in The Iceman Cometh,
George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, first staged in 1923 just three years after the Maid of Orléans was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church, remains an endlessly fascinating study of faith…
Tom Stoppard's 1974 play Travesties, opening tonight in a bouncy, bubbly, vertiginous revival at the Roundabout's American Airlines Theatre, is a reminder of a time when the playwright's lov…
LaChanze, the Tony-winning star of the original Broadway production of The Color Purple, truly works hard for the money. So hard for it, honey, that it's a shame she is stuck in Summer: The …
Any hapless muggles who wander unprepared into Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, opening tonight at the beautifully redesigned Lyric Theatre, are likely to find themselves perplexed by much…
Familiarity may not always breed contempt, but it generally does lead to an expectation of predictability.
There is one perfect segment during the revival of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's sublime and challenging musical Carousel, opening tonight at the Imperial Theatre.
Beyond the exquisite portrayals of the two complicated characters at its center, there is a great deal more to commend about the smartly reconceptualized revival of Mark Medoff's Children of…
Could there be a better time for a new work about the plight of undocumented immigrants, along the lines of the musical Miss You Like Hell opening tonight at the Public Theater?
Director/choreographer Casey Nicholaw, a brilliant design team, and a most exuberant cast have pulled out all the stops to shape Mean Girls, the new musical opening tonight at the August Wil…
Everyone likes heartwarming stories about a prodigal son or daughter who leaves home after a falling-out, then later repents and returns to find forgiveness and welcoming arms at every turn.…
