Refugees are in the news these days, and their stories have suddenly come to New York stages. "I think it is important to ask an audience to recognize lives that we have literally fenced off…
Three years after he spoofed "Hamilton" in "Spamilton" (with "I am not throwing away my shot" becoming "I am not gonna let Broadway rot,") Gerard Alessandrini paints Lin-Manuel Miranda less …
I think if I were eight years old I might have loved "The Lightning Thief" on Broadway, but that's mostly because I would then have been too young to have seen it at the Lucille Lortel Theat…
There is one spectacularly funny moment in this musical comedy version of "Macbeth," which is based on Billy Morrissette's 2001 movie, and is set in a fast-food restaurant in the "podunk tow…
Forty-one years after Broadway said goodbye after 742 thrilling performances to its first (and last) choreopoem, and a year after its author and original performer died at the age of 70, sev…
"Is This A Room" stages the verbatim transcript of the FBI interrogation of a 25-year-old former Air Force linguist with the improbable name of Reality Winner, who was eventually sente…
David Henry Hwang was attacked by an unknown assailant with a knife and nearly died. That experience, along with the playwright's shock at the results of the 2016 Presidential election and h…
There are many cues to what's wrong with this overly broad third Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' dated play, starring Marisa Tomei as Serafina Delle Rose, a Sicilian immigrant seamst…
There are many cues to what's wrong with this overly broad third Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' dated play, starring Marisa Tomei as Serafina Delle Rose, a Sicilian immigrant seamst…
Books about Bob Fosse and Yiddish theater have been named the best theater books of the year by The Theatre Library Association,  which is presenting its TLA Book Awards tonight at the…
Oscar, a fat freshman in thick bifocals meeting his college roommate for the first time, greets him with what sounds like an insult: "Hail, dog of God!" His new roommate, the street-smart Yu…
The announcement of the latest very unscientific results from the nightly poll conducted in the lobby of Lincoln Center, is a marketing gimmick for "The Great Society" that strikes me as at …
In "The Thanksgiving Play," a satire by Larissa FastHorse that debuted at Playwrights Horizons last year and has become one of the most produced plays throughout the country, Jaxton, the wok…
On Thursday night,  CNN held an "LGBTQ Town Hall" in which nine of the Democratic candidates for President separately answered questions on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender an…
I first saw Slave Play Off-Broadway, long before Rihanna made headlines for texting during the show (playwright Jeremy O. Harris publicly defended her; he was the one she was texting); and s…
When I saw "Slave Play" Off-Broadway last December, it felt like the work of a novice playwright " promising, provocative, and well produced, but too derivative, too long, too full of ide…
Can an underemployed middle-aged jerk be a babe magnet?  That's a question theatergoers are likely to ask about Wheeler, the central character in Linda Vista, Tracy Letts' latest play…
Can an underemployed middle-aged jerk be a babe magnet?  That's a question theatergoers are likely to ask about Wheeler, the central character in Linda Vista, Tracy Letts' latest play…
"The Wrong Man,"Â Â a sung-through musical starring the spectacular Joshua Henry, Â may remind people of "Hamilton" in its catchy rap-inflected eclectic score and jerky hip hop choreog…
Diahann Carroll, who died Friday at the age of 84, is best known as the first black woman to star on a TV series, "Julia" in 1968, but she was a barrier breaker on Broadway too. Born in t…
Conservatives don't all think alike; some of them hate Trump; some don't see Liberals as evil (some do.) Some are deeply weird. It is a sure sign of the political divisiveness in America tha…
"Chalk," a 40-minute comedy in which silent comic Alex Curtis creates an entire world for the audience using little more than a piece of chalk, is exactly the sort of show I always hope for …
 At the 22nd annual New York International Fringe Festival, which is running through the end of October, there are 40 shows in six venues " plus more than 25 shows at The Nuyorican P…
"Immersive theater" has come to mean something separate from the dictionary definition of the word "immersive" " in much the same way that phrases Absurdist Theater and Abstract Expressionis…
"Moulin Rouge" on Broadway has several things in common with Bated Breath Theater Company's low-budget show about the same people, place and period, especially in my reaction to them both. A…