I might go a great distance to watch Ben Whishaw strip off his suit and turn into Helen of Troy and Marilyn Monroe before our eyes. But I only had to travel to 30thStreet and 10thAvenue, in …
 In a city with 1,200 cultural institutions, how do you create a new one that stands out? That was the question " and the charge " that then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg put 14 years ago to D…
For its first production in its new second home downtown in a spruced-up Greenwich House Theater, Ars Nova is presenting the latest devised piece by the much-praised ten-year-old company The…
The Lehman Trilogy, an inventively staged, extraordinarily acted, and historically blinkered theatrical epic, begins and ends with the collapse of the Lehman Brothers, the venerable financia…
There's beauty in the suffering that comes from longing. That message comes through clearly in "Diary of One Who Disappeared." Everything else is elliptical in the production of this hundred…
Nicole Fosse learned things about her parents, the choreographer and director Bob Fosse and the dancer Gwen Verdon, by watching the making of the TV series "Fosse Verdon," which begins on FX…
People are gushing about Heidi Schreck's play as if it's another Hamilton, and in some ways it is. No, it's not a groundbreaking hip-hop musical. Indeed, "What the Constitution Means …
As King Lear, Glenda Jackson enters with a casual swagger, giving off a scent of power that's lasted a lifetime. But Lear is portrayed by an 82-year-old woman, lean and light and, at 5'6…
As King Lear, Glenda Jackson enters with a casual swagger, giving off a scent of power that's lasted a lifetime. But Lear is portrayed by an 82-year-old woman, lean and light and, at 5'6…
The nominations for 34th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards are: Outstanding Play Mlima's Tale Produced by The Public Theater Written by Lynn Nottage Pass Over Produced by Lincoln Center Theater/L…
Ashe is a play based on the true story of a pyromaniac who terrorized a Norwegian town by torching homes for a month until he was unmasked as the son of the fire chief. Itis a haunting work …
The first of the April Avalanche on Broadway begins Thursday with the opening of King Lear, starring Glenda Jackson, and ends on April 25 (the Tony eligibility cut-off date) with Beetlejuice…
The ten shows opening on Broadway in April include six plays and four musicals. Several are familiar titles presented in unfamiliar ways: Glenda Jackson as King Lear; an avant-garde, diverse…
My childhood friend Wendy has always had two particular gifts " or rather, one gift and one affliction. She understands every word of any Shakespeare play, however or wherever it is performe…
On a break from an improv class, Kim Katzberg gets a phone message from her father and calls him back to learn that he has pancreatic cancer and is dying. "I feel so sad AND excited," she te…
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news and reviews in March? Answer these dozen questions and find out. Â
Andy Warhol was a Broadway producer " the lead producer of a musical that opened at Broadway's Little Theater (now called the Hayes) in 1975. It's a mind-boggling story that, like many Andy …
You need not have read Darwin or watched any of the Planet of the Apes movies to suspect that chimpanzees come closest to humans in the animal kingdom. Scientists have discovered over the pa…
"Welcome to African-American Airlines, where if you broke & black, we got yo back" " those are the first two messages painted on the wall as we walk up the staircase in the Public Theate…
 Today is World Theatre Day. Created in 1961,it  is celebrated annually on March 27. How will you be celebrating? Below, ten facts about theater, and this year's World Theatre Day mes…
"Time is the longest distance between two places." " Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams was born on March 26, 1911, and died in 1983. Barely a season goes by where on…
Ephraim Sykes in Ain't Too Proud, Corbin Bleu in Kiss Me Kate, Daveed Diggs in White Noise: These are some of the black breakout stars in shows that opened last week on Broadway or Off Broad…
In "Fosse Verdon," an eight-part series that begins on April 9th on FX, current Broadway royalty and a cast of Broadway regulars (see below) tell the story of a king and queen of Broadway wh…
Nantucket Sleigh Ride is an old whaling term, as one of the characters explains in John Guare's crafty new play. "Sailors would harpoon a whale. The whale would drag the sailors on a frantic…
The most exciting moment in this fourth Broadway production of Cole Porter's backstage musical riffing on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew comes at the top of Act II, when the cast at f…