Silly meets heart-warming affection in Gutenberg! The Musical!, opening tonight at the James Earl Jones Theatre. It stars Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells, real-life pals ever since they worked …
There's no telling how many fans of the raspy-voiced, label-defying, pop/rock/folk-rock/country-rock/indie-rock singer Melissa Etheridge are flocking to the Circle in the Square Theatre, whe…
Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch, Ossie Davis's 1961 satirical play about Jim Crow racism, opens tonight at the Music Box Theatre in a long-overdue first-ev…
Playwright Annie Baker is the ultimate eavesdropper, a seeming fly on the wall, able to capture with meticulousness the voices of ordinary people, examine them under a microscope, and distil…
There are few theatergoing pleasures that can compare with the joy of attending a performance at the Public Theater's open-air Delacorte Theater in New York's Central Park. It's especially t…
"We want Bruce! We want Bruce! We want Bruce!" So shouted the audience-in-my-head at frequent intervals during the 95-minute talking version of a tribute band that is The Shark Is Broken, op…
No question but that the musical adaptation of Back to the Future, opening tonight at the Winter Garden Theatre and directed to a turn by John Rando, is a genuine star-studded extravaganza t…
Zarina Shea's Let's Call Her Patty, opening tonight at the Claire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center, is a thin wisp of a play, a miscellany of memories about a woman, the narrator's aunt, who es…
Sandy Rustin's The Cottage, opening tonight at the Hayes Theater, is a farcical take on a Noöl Coward drawing-room comedy, but one that seemingly has been paired with party games like Truth…
Will blood turn out to be thicker than the waters that lap along a valuable Long Island beachfront property? That's the question raised in Charles White's Unentitled, a Negro Ensemble Compan…
It's been a decade since the disco/pop musical Here Lies Love, based on the rise and fall of former Philippines politico Imelda Marcos, made its highly successful New York debut at the Publi…
There's a lot of talk about basketball in Candrice Jones' Flex, opening tonight at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center. If you are not well versed in the specifics of the sport, …
59E59 Theaters is having a bit of a Jane Austen season this summer. A few weeks ago, it played host to the solo show Being Mr. Wickham about a ne'er-do-well character from "Pride and Prejudi…
"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes." OK. Wrong play, but right playwright, and very applicable to the Kenny Leon-helmed Public Theater production of Shakespeare's…
If you read the "Author's Note" in the Playbill for comic Alex Edelman's solo show Just for Us, opening tonight at the Hudson Theatre, you will see in writing some of what you will see on st…
Behold a recipe for Broadway Surprise Cake. Start with a distillation of Into the Woods. Incorporate two heaping tablespoons of Six. Add a generous dash of & Juliet and another of Wicked. Bl…
Composer/lyricist Adam Guettel is not exactly known for writing hum-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mable melodies, but that doesn't mean he doesn't write beautiful, emotionally gripping musical numbers t…
A dream of "sammen i himmelen" (together in heaven) turns into "sammen i helvete" (together in hell) for two alcoholics who bring out the best and the worst in each other in Days of Wine and…
There are lots of appropriate adjectives to describe Levi Holloway's ghostly play Grey House, opening tonight at the Lyceum Theatre. Among these are "eerie," "mysterious," and sometimes even…
As a playwright, Charles Cissel is an experimentalist, more concerned with digging deeply into what lies underneath the surface than with using conventional storytelling techniques. He is li…
An offhand wisecrack reference to filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's movie Rashomon in Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window might serve well to explain the many different possib…
Playwright David Auburn's narrative two-hander Summer, 1976, opening tonight at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, boasts a pair of supremely gifted actresses who are quite adroit at getting us…
The 2023 Brits Off Broadway Festival kicks off at 59E59 Theaters with the Theatre Royal Plymouth production of Breathless, playwright Laura Horton's tale of compulsion and anxiety that shine…
Who owns history? Or more precisely, who gets to decide which aspects of history are moved to the front of the line and plastered with the title of "TRUTH"? A serious question that is taken …
What tickles your funny bone? Is it an evening of witty repartee and bon mots being tossed about with debonair aplomb? A bit of Noël Coward, perhaps, or the carefully structured comedy st…