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Below is the complete list of winners of the 15th annual New York Innovative Theatre Awards, honoring outstanding work Off-Off Broadway. Â Multiple-winning shows include "Eight Tales of Pe…
"As Much As I Can," a show that illustrates the continuing AIDS crisis among African-American men, exists on two different planes, which are not in complete alignment with one another. It is…
Phyllis Newman, 86, has died. Â She was an entertainer from the age of 4; veteran of 11 Broadway shows (Tony winner for Subways Are For Sleeping, pictured); daughter of a fortune teller an…
In his Broadway debut, Derren Brown performs some dozen mind games and magic tricks over 150 minutes that depend on audience participation, all of which are meant to provoke us to ask: "How …
Talmudic scholars and kung fu movie fans will both find something familiar in this singular hour-long hybrid by the eight-year-old theater company Meta-Phys Ed., in which four performers…
In my article for TDF Stages, I look at three new plays that focus on AIDS " "The Inheritance" by Matthew Lopez, which begins performances on Broadway September 27, opening in November; and …
Who should do a cabaret act? That was a question posed in a recent ticket giveaway contest for the cabaret 54 Below. Here are some of the responses, listed alphabetically by performer, follo…
On the surface, "American Moor," written by and starring Keith Hamilton Cobb, Â is about a veteran African-American actor auditioning to play Othello for a clueless young, white director. …
Some of the most thrilling theater in New York this Fall, and certainly much of the weirdest, promises to be Off-Broadway. There are revivals Off-Broadway of Tony Kushner's first play, one o…
The 2019-2020 Broadway season has begun, with the first Fall Broadway opening  of 15  scheduled from September through December,  and the first of the Fall previews, some coverin…
The audience creates the show in "Play!" The audience is the show in "Theatre in the Dark: Carpe Diem." Â Those are the uncomfortable ideas embedded in the two latest theater pieces, openi…
 To appreciate these first two productions of the five-play Mac Wellman festival at The Flea, entitled "Perfect Catastrophes," it helps to know that Wellman " the 74-year-old co-found…
Theatrical showman was born 120 years ago today, and, though he died in 1966, he lives on through The Billy Rose Theatre Division of The New York Public Library at Lincoln  Center, one of…
There was a huge line to see the fourth Broadway production of Harold Pinter's 1978 play about an adulterous triangle. The enthusiasm, I had assumed, was because the cast includes the mo…
Harold Pinter's 1978 play about an adulterous triangle, which is being revived on Broadway starring Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Cox and Zawe Ashton,  is one of the most accessible and most…
Win two tickets to see the show of your choice at Feinstein's/54 Below  for free " plus $50 in food credit! Feinstein's/54 Below, a cabaret that calls itself Broadway's Supper Club, opene…
At the beginning of this eye-opening musical written, Â composed, directed and largely performed by artists of Filipino descent, Felix Starro has returned from the Philippines to San Franc…
"Hercules," a stage adaptation of the 1997 Disney cartoon, is the latest free, Labor Day weekend spectacle at the Delacorte in Central Park by the Public Theater's Public Works, which for se…
Coming to Broadway this season:  Katrina Lenk and Patti Lupone will star in a "re-gendered" revival of "Company" (which was a hit in London), opening at Bernard Jacobs Theater on March…
 Where are the American plays about unions, or workers, or even just workplaces? Of some 200 new plays I've seen or read  since I first asked that question exactly a year ago, on the …
 In this eclectic opening month of the New York Fall theater season laid out below, legendary theater artists Mac Wellman (74),JoAnne Akalaitis (82), and Peter Brook (94) each get showca…
"Something didn't make sense," Celia Keenan-Bolger as Scout Finch tells us, the first words in Aaron Sorkin's stage adaptation of Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mockingbird." She's talking about th…
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news and reviews in August? Answer these 14 questions and find out!
Theater Mitu's latest devised theater piece is a 70-minute tech-heavy sensory bombardment, a collage  of disparate images, monologues, songs and sounds that are focused (if that's the rig…
Win two tickets to see "Fiddler on the Roof" Â for free I loved this production directed by Joel Grey, which is in Yiddish with both English and Russian Supertitles. I loved it when it was…
