There are statues of Christopher Columbus in Columbus Circle — although city officials have hinted they want to get rid of it — and Columbus, Ohio and Columbus, Georgia and Colum…
At the scaled-down, reimagined production of "Oklahoma!" at St. Ann's Warehouse, they didn't give us the program until after the musical was over " one of the signs that director Daniel Fish…
"Funny how hope changes everything. Funny how hope changes nothing," a singer chants on the High Line, hovering above 18th street, as a light in her black baseball cap eerily illuminates her…
"What's the password?" asked the woman with a punk blonde bouffant, stiletto heels and a penis brooch. I stammered, tried to show her my ticket. She just glared. "Um, La MaMa?" "You can do b…
Yet again, a drama critic has been attacked for making comments about actors' bodies. The new headlines were generated by a 1991 review of "Will Rogers Follies" on Broadway. Why was this old…
Win two tickets to see “Head Over Heels” for free. I liked this show, which mashes up 18 songs by the 1980s all-female L.A. punk band The Go-Go's with a loose adaptation of Ar…
For the last few years before he died in 2017 at the age of 86, playwright A.R. Gurney had been experiencing a resurgence of a career that had already produced some 40 plays over 50 years, b…
What stage show could compete with the drama of the Ford/Kavanaugh hearings? I’m a theater critic and I’ve never been so drained by a drama. " Charles McNulty (@CharlesMcNulty) S…
Using 20 songs that Bob Dylan composed over half a century, playwright Conor McPherson has fashioned a slow, sad, elliptical and occasionally exquisite theater piece set in a run-down boardi…
Using 20 songs that Bob Dylan composed over half a century, playwright Conor McPherson has fashioned a slow, sad, elliptical and occasionally exquisite theater piece set in a run-down boardi…
How well were you paying attention to the theater, and theater news, in September? Answer these 13 questions to find out. Keep abreast of what’s happening with my weekly summari…
Bob Dylan, Glenn Close, Daniel Radcliffe, and Gloria Steinem are all on a New York stage one way or another in October, always a good month for theater. This year's October is likely the …
How, one wondered, would British playwright Richard Bean, whose hilarious farce One Man, Two Guvnors made a star out of James Corden, create something as funny for Americans out of the Briti…
How, one wondered, would British playwright Richard Bean, whose hilarious farce One Man, Two Guvnors made a star out of James Corden, create something as funny for Americans out of the Briti…
At the very end of Bernhardt/Hamlet, a new play on Broadway by Theresa Rebeck, we see an actual 1899 film clip of the renowned 19th century actress Sarah Bernhardt on stage, in the role of H…
Bernhardt/Hamlet, a new play on Broadway by Theresa Rebeck about Sarah Bernhardt deciding to perform as Hamlet, is being given a first-rate production, with a winning cast led by Janet McTee…
The latest odd hybrid by the Ensemble for the Romantic Century, combining a one-woman show about the poetry and life of Emily Dickinson with a chamber music concert of 19th century composer …
Journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered on Vladimir Putin’s birthday in 2006, as if the assassins were giving him a present for getting rid of this woman deemed an “enemy̶…
Sarah Bernhardt remains the most famous stage actress of all time, the subject of the play Bernhardt/Hamlet on Broadway. But during her lifetime she had a rival, Eleanora Duse. The two didn'…
Follies at the Astoria Performing Arts Center was a big winner in the 14th annual New York Innovative Theater Awards, which celebrates the best of the city's independent theater  " aka Of…
Shakespeare knew Kavanaughs well: "Say what you can, my false o'erweighs your true" The 2018-2019 Broadway season, launching in earnest this week with two plays, is shaping up after several …
La Femme's revival of Tennessee Williams' late, little-known play about four women living and working and bickering with one another, offers something you won't find in A Glass Menagerie …
As the family gathers for a Thanksgiving right before everything starts to fall apart, Knox (Russell Harvard) gives thanks for "three things I used to think weren't gifts at all: Deafness……
“Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House, Part 2” tops the list of what will be the most produced plays nationwide among the 531 non-profit theaters that are part of the Thea…
The devotion that Dorothea "Polly" Noonan (Edie Falco,) a foul-mouthed political operative, shows to Erastus Corning 2nd (Michael McKean,) the long-time mayor of Albany, is so intense th…