Jordan E. Cooper, Tony-nominated performer and playwright of "Ain't No Mo'" whose new play "Oh Happy Day!" is opening at the Public Theater on October 15,  delivered a keynote address …
Lin-Manuel Miranda is a sponge, a ham, a charmer, a dynamo, an eager collaborator, a sensitive sobber, and an extraordinarily talented, acclaimed and busy artist who is clear-eyed about his …
Writer/director Nicholas Colia's delightful first-time feature film about an obsessive (queer) theater kid, which won several big awards at the Tribeca Festival last year, has now opened …
When a stranger asks you "so, what do you do?" they're not asking for your hobbies or habits, your daily activities or nightly dreams. They're asking what your job is. Jenn Kidwell puts …
Which of the thirteen shows scheduled to open on Broadway from September to December 2025 are you most looking forward to? What's the biggest reason for your choice? Answer these two poll qu…
Over the Labor Day weekend, "Purpose" ended its run, and so did Tshidi Manye, who is retiring as Rashiki. But the Fall season has already begun; today is the last day to see "Pericles" and t…
Below is a calendar of New York theater opening* in September, including three plays on Broadway, two of them starry revivals: Keanu Reeves making his Broadway debut in "Waiting for Godot" �…
Every Labor Day for years, I asked: Where are the American plays about workers, workplaces and unions?  What began as a rhetorical question became an annual update. Last year, in…
Instead of just beginning by acknowledging Manhattan as the homeland of the Lenape, the way most theater companies do these days, the Eagle Project made their whole show about it. A member o…
Pericles' daughter has been kidnapped by pirates and sold into a brothel, where she convinces the customers to honor her virginity. This may not normally be one of Shakespeare's most memorab…
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In the year 2051, a bilingual robot named Bob has disguised himself as a human being (a species not yet extinct) and descended twenty levels underground to the Gold Vault of the Federal Bank…
The end of summer finds some theater bloggers (Ken Davenport , Broadway & Me's Jan Simpson and the staff of Theatrely) coming up with lists, while others (Broadway Journal's Philip Borof…
What at first seems to be a novel about a 1960s experimental theater troupe turns out to be genre fiction that uses theater as a backdrop for a plot involving murder and menace. Â This is …
The last week of summer is a time to relax " or to get busy figuring out your Fall New York theater season before tickets run out, and how to avoid paying too much for them. (And the lott…
Keanu Reeves (his Broadway debut!) in a Waiting for Godot revival, Neil Patrick Harris, Bobby Cannavale, James Corden in an Art revival, Lea Michele and Aaron Tveit in a CH…
A dystopian legal drama starring Elizabeth Marvel; avant-garde takes on Dostoevsky, Dante and the Biggest Loser TV show, a puppet ballet, Palestinian folk dancing, a Russia-to-Oklahoma Jewis…
Xhloe Rice and Natasha Roland have spent the month of August as a pair of aspiring rodeo cowboys faced with a bull suffering an existential crisis; as rapidly-deranging 1950s suburban housew…
My take on this starry "Twelfth Night" beneath the stars was much like my reaction to the renovations at the Delacorte, where it is opening tonight. They both occurred in stages. I was thril…
By the end of this masterfully constructed and impeccably acted drama, we have observed an exceptional study of grief, pieced together a portrait of both a good person and a complicated comm…
Tickets are on sale now for Broadway Week, which runs from September 8 to 21. The deal: Buy two tickets for the price of one to your choice of 24 Broadway shows, using the code NYCBW400 " or…
After his mother died when he was just 14 years old, as Jeff Ross tells us from the stage of Broadway's Nederlander Theater, "I remember sitting in my room thinking, 'Is this what life is? Y…
"Gypsy" closed last night, "Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride" is opening tonight. Two more shows will close on Broadway by the end of the month, and no more will open until September 16…
"Sea Glass" is billed as a contemporary feminist retelling of Cain and Abel, so I knew how it would end. Oddly, the ending felt tacked on " one of the reasons why Olivia Dennehy-Basile's scr…
Although Eddie Redmayne was nominated for an Academy Award for "The Danish Girl," he regretted taking on the role of Lili Elbe,  as he  told an interviewer several years later, b…