From the get-go, the "Medea" on stage at BAM looks less like a modern update of Euripides' tragedy than a fashion shoot: Bobby Cannavale talks quietly with Rose Byrne against an empty, blind…
The Alexander in the title is Dr. Alexander Wiener, a pioneering scientist in the use of blood to identify individuals in ways similar to fingerprints, and co-discoverer of the Rh factor in …
He's known as a  playwright ("Jeffrey" and "I Hate Hamlet") screenwriter ("Addams Family Values," "In & Out") novelist (Social Disease, I'll Take It) and essayist (I Shudder, Fierce P…
Two-for-one tickets are on sale now for Off-Broadway Week, February 10 to 24, 2020. The following 33 shows are participating. Those with an asterisk are newly on offer. (Check out my Off…
All these Broadway veterans participated in the 62 Grammy Awards, where "Hadestown" won Best Musical Theater Album. The other nominated albums were "Ain't Too Proud: The Life And Times Of Th…
Casts from six shows opening this season on Broadway " including shows with music by Bob Dylan and Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Tony Kushner " performed at First Look at BroadwayCon 2020.…
In this gorgeous, enlightening and ambitious " Â if over-stuffed " hour-long theatrical collage, Theodora Skipitares uses the eerie visual splendor of puppetry to illuminate a serious subj…
A transcript and video of the closing arguments both Thursday and Friday by Representative Adam Schiff, the House impeachment manager for the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in t…
Charles Fuller's murder mystery, finally on Broadway in a fine production directed by Kenny Leon some four decades after it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, is so good that even if you've s…
Charles Fuller's murder mystery, finally on Broadway in a fine production directed by Kenny Leon some four decades after it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, is so good that even if you've s…
"I think I would like a divorce," Jane Alexander as Nancy French says to her husband of 50 years,  played by James Cromwell. "All right," Bill replies. Blackout. More production photo…
"I think I would like a divorce," Jane Alexander as Nancy French says to her husband of 50 years, played by James Cromwell. "All right," Bill replies. Blackout. That's all the dialogue in th…
Some shows you leave needing to tell people about; some shows you leave thinking about what you are going to have for dinner. A few shows ruin your dinner. If you're a drama critic, you are …
When did "theater" become an insult? With the impeachment trial scheduled to begin in earnest this week, the one thing that the right and the left, Democrats and Republicans, seem to agree o…
"Leaving the Blues" dramatizes the life of the amazing jazz, blues and Broadway singer/songwriter Alberta Hunter. I long thought her story was ideal for a musical, ever since I saw her aston…
"We must devote at least as much to our children's education and the health of the poor as we do to the care of our automobiles and the building of beautiful, impressive hotels," Martin Luth…
"You will hear an unbelievable true story," Â one of the three actors from the Republic of Slovenia on a stage designed to look like a makeshift bunker, tells us at the beginning of the pl…
"Lonely was the first flavor I had tasted in my life, and it was always there, hidden inside the crevices of my mouth, reminding me." That's what Laura Linney as Lucy Barton tells us from he…
…"My Name is Lucy Barton" is a sometimes poignant, often tedious 90-minute monologue… The hope was that Laura Linney would do for it what France McDormand did in the HBO miniseries that …
Ann Harada, who made her Broadway debut more than 30 years ago, is philosophical about the latest character she portrays. "Sometimes you get to play glamorous roles," she says, "and sometime…
They meet on a line for a movie; the man and the woman " each disfigured by childhood accidents " Â are used to be stared at, and they are used to being alone. Inspired by the late Uruguay…
Those theatergoers drawn to "Modern Maori Quartet: Two Worlds" for the authentic music and culture of the indigenous Maori people of New Zealand might feel blindsided by what seems like a La…
This 15 minutes of Virtual Reality offering the sensation of looking at, walking on and flying over the moon " created by performance artist Laurie Anderson and new media artist Hsin-Chien H…
The typical Broadway theatergoer is still a well-to-do , middle-aged woman from out-of-town, according to statistics presented in The Demographics of the Broadway Audience 2018"2019, the 22n…
Below are the nominations in 24 categories for the 92nd Academy Awards, Joker" led all films with 11 nominations, including for Best Actor Joaquin Phoenix and Best Director Todd Phillips, fo…