572 stories by "Howard Miller"
The Children, Lucy Kirkwood's all too believable play about the aftermath of a nuclear accident, is much more than a cautionary dystopian tale.
If nautical nonsense be something you wish, you can either (a) drop on the deck and flop like a fish, or (b) head on out to the Palace Theatre where mayhem reigns supreme with the opening of…
Michael Arden showed us all what it looks like to breathe new life into a revived musical when he brought Spring Awakening back to Broadway in 2015 just six years after its original and high…
If you are going to push the envelope in theater, you really ought to make sure there is enough inside that envelope that makes it worth pushing.
"In the land of sinners, the whore is Queen," observes an experienced political hand in Beau Willimon's The Parisian Woman, an old-fashioned melodrama about the interplay of sex, power, and …
Somewhere around the middle of the supremely silly and not-entirely comprehensible comedy Meteor Shower, opening tonight at the Booth Theatre, one of the show's four characters whips out a p…
Should someone ask where you were when you first heard the shocking news "on the day of," what pops immediately into your head?
Home for the Holidays, "the Broadway concert celebration" that opened tonight at the August Wilson Theatre, would best be enjoyed by fans of TV's "American Idol," "The Voice," and "America's…
Writing recently about another play, I made the point that the day-to-day lives of teenagers can be terribly dramatic, at least to them. While that particular work failed to make a convincin…
There are assuredly many engrossing musicals about adolescent angst, from West Side Story to Spring Awakening to Dear Evan Hansen. Even the day-to-day lives of teenagers can be terribly dram…
Just to be absolutely clear on this, the "morons" John Leguizamo is referring to in his frenzied, funny, and surprisingly tender-hearted one-man show Latin History for Morons at Studio 54, i…
Watching Toys, the "dark fairy tale" by Saviana Stanescu that opened tonight at 59E59 Theaters, is like attending an exhibit of abstract expressionism and trying to make heads or tails out o…
It seems that Halloween has not quite ended, what with all the scary stuff that takes place in Ayad Akhtar's new play Junk, which opened tonight at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Cen…
Though playwright David Harrower hails from Scotland, his compelling if occasionally opaque 1995 play Knives in Hens, opening today at 59E59 Theaters in a production by The Shop, has the fee…
Bringing one of the classic Greek myths to life for a modern audience is a tricky venture.
Badda bing, badda boom! That, in a nutshell, is what you get with playwright John Patrick Shanley's latest work, The Portuguese Kid, a joke-filled but decidedly saggy sex comedy that opened …
Zingy jokes, bits of shtick, and sight gags fly fast and furious during Torch Song, a trimmed-down revival of Harvey Fierstein's 1983 Tony Award-winning Torch Song Trilogy, which opened toni…
Too Heavy For Your Pocket, opening tonight at the Roundabout's Black Box Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center, provides a truly auspicious introduction of playwright Jiréh Breo…
Playwright William Donnelly's No Wake, opening tonight at 59E59 Theaters, begins just after a memorial service for a young woman who has committed suicide, the long-estranged daughter of a d…
It's not exactly a case of fake news, but there is an unshakable artificiality to the presumably true stories that are being aired in Tiny Beautiful Things, which opened tonight in a return …
Scott Carter's The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord, a play that attempts to merge religious argument and personal confessionals with outl…
Some very good acting, a couple of emotionally touching speeches, and an evocative set are not enough to cover up the numerous plot holes and overall sudsy narrative of The Violin, a slow-pa…
Forget Nathaniel Hawthorne, whose novel "The Scarlet Letter" is credited with being the inspiration for the pair of works by Suzan-Lori Parks being presented at the Pershing Square Signature…
You've heard, of course, of the comic teams of Abbott and Costello, and Laurel and Hardy.
Suzan-Lori Parks' dystopian play Fucking A, a work from 2000 opening tonight at the Pershing Square Signature Center, takes its inspiration from Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter but …
