 I was struck in seeing "The Great Society," which depicts President Lyndon Johnson's turbulent full term in office, how Robert Shenkkan's play represents political theater in more ways …
"I feel strongly that I should not permit the Presidency to become involved in the partisan divisions that are developing in this political year. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will no…
The Great Society, a play by Robert Schenkkan that offers a largely sympathetic portrait of the 36th president of the United States as it chronicles the final four years of Lyndon Johnson…
October is always a busy month for theater in New York, but it's gone up a notch this time. Below is a selection, organized chronologically by opening date. On Broadway alone, eight shows ar…
How well were you paying attention to New York theater news, views and reviews in September? Answer these ten questions and find out.
Three generations of black, queer theater artists " actor André De Shields, 73; playwright Kevin R. Free, who is 50;Â and director Zhailon Levingston, 25 "Â are collaborating on a pla…
Those for whom theater is their religion are more likely to appreciate "Why?," a 70-minute theater piece about theater that, aptly, begins with a whimsically modified Biblical tale: God proc…
The same playwright who gave us The Father with a demented Frank Langella and The Mother with a depressed and possibly deranged Isabelle Huppert now offers us…dead Jonathan Pryce and…
The same playwright who gave us "The Father" with a demented Frank Langella and "The Mother" with a depressed and possibly deranged Isabelle Huppert now offers us…dead Jonathan Pryce and E…
Ethereal, stylized and visually stunning, Japanese director Satoshi Miyagi's production of "Antigone," at the Park Avenue Armory through October 6, fuses several theatrical traditions, some …
The artist known as Dyalekt (pronounced dialect) greets us looking like a young Allen Ginsberg in his Yippie Uncle Sam phase, holding up a bucket labeled "dead words," asking us for words th…
 The city has announced plans  to build a performing arts center dedicated to Immigrants. The proposed Immigrant Research and Performing Arts Center will go up in Inwood, the north…
Billy Porter won an Emmy for outstanding lead actor in a drama series for "Pose." " the first openly gay black man to win the lead actor in a drama category "The category is love, y'all. Lov…
Below is a map showing the location of the more than 50 tables at today's 33rd Annual Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction, which will be held from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Â Beneath that are t…
There are three ways of looking at Mac Wellman's "The Invention of Tragedy" that offer some satisfactions " as a political parable, as a metaphor for Western theater, Â or as entertaining …
Taping live Broadway shows for the screen is no longer seen as an experiment. It's a routine practice, and it's moved from movie theaters to home computers. Life is not all that's gone onli…
How do people care for one another in dangerous times? That's the still-relevant question underlying this beautiful, sad, enraging, uplifting, and awesomely staged theater piece that sweeps …
"A Doll's House, Part 2" by Lucas Hnath and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Simon Stephens have tied as the most produced plays scheduled for the 2019-2020 season, accor…
Exactly seven weeks after Harold Prince died at the age of 91, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has opened the exhibition "In The Company of Harold Prince: Broadway produc…
Long before our current cultural moment, when major new Hollywood films depict them as pure evil, and scientists try to explain why so many people find them creepy, my college guidance…
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…