Reverting to his early-career wackiness, Â Steve Martin enlists four phenomenal performers, including Amy Schumer making her Broadway debut, for a joke-filled, overlong, trickster comedy s…
Reverting to his early-career wackiness, Â Steve Martin enlists four phenomenal performers, including Amy Schumer making her Broadway debut, for a joke-filled, overlong, trickster comedy s…
In its forty-seventh year, Mabou Mines is inaugurating its first permanent home, the ninety-nine-seat Mabou Mines Theater in the East Village, with a newly devised piece called Glass Guignol…
Uma Thurman and Josh Lucas neither kill a dog nor bed an FBI agent in The Parisian Woman, a tame, tidy, talky and only superficially timely play about a D.C. power couple engaged in politica…
Uma Thurman and Josh Lucas neither kill a dog nor bed an FBI agent in The Parisian Woman, a tame, tidy, talky and only superficially timely play about a D.C. power couple engaged in politica…
Playwright Rajiv Joseph aims high in this ambitious, pertinent, resonant, sometimes compelling but often confusing drama that sprawls over 90 years (and three hours), taking place in Poland,…
You are not alone. That was the message o  the Town Hall on sexual harassment in the theater that was held on Monday at the Public Theater, which included both comments from dozens of peo…
In September, 1976, at least 20 young men charged into Washington Square Park and swung bats, chains and pipes at any African-Americans and Latinos they found there, as they shouted racial e…
"Who are you?" Billy Crudup asks near the end of "Harry Clarke," as he looks in an imaginary mirror, a tight spotlight on his face, the rest of him in darkness. It's the question animating D…
The death from AIDS of theater artist Michael Friedman in September at the age of 41 was a shocking reminder that, yes, people still die from AIDS — and yes it is still affecting th…
Four shows are opening on Broadway in December, two musicals and two plays, placing Mark Rylance in 18th century Spain, Lea Salonga in the Caribbean of the 19th and 20th centuries, and a mix…
How well were you paying attention to theater news and reviews in November? Answer these 12 questions and see.
On this sixth annual #GivingTuesday (created in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y and the United Nations Foundation), consider donating to your favorite New York area theaters and theater companies.…
Cyber Monday deals are not just for gadgetry. They extend to shows, as offered by theaters and ticket services. This week in New York Theater: Broadway stars give Thanksgiving greetings, Bro…
The 91st annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade had two big balloons that are also Broadway shows  " and performances by such Broadway shows as Dear Evan Hansen (with the new Evan Hansen, …
The holiday show tradition in New York ranges way beyond Radio City Music Hall and family entertainment, to include shows that are offbeat and others that are decidedly not for children. Let…
My sixth annual Broadway gift guide below includes links and information on shopping for theater tickets, theater subscriptions, cast recordings, play scripts, librettos and new and cheri…
Ben Platt left “Dear Evan Hansen,” the Tony-winning musical that made him a star. That was yesterday. Tomorrow marks the publication of the  behind-the-scenes book and librett…
Readers who cherish Jane Austen's 1813 novel "Pride and Prejudice" can certainly enjoy Kate Hamill's stage adaptation, now at the Cherry Lane, as long as they accept that the tone has been r…
In his dressing room at "Dear Evan Hansen," Ben Platt has kept an anonymous letter from a fan: "You stopped me from letting go." That letter kept him going when "I don't want to cry, and sin…
Scroll below for the Broadway schedule for Thanksgiving week. On Thanksgiving Day this year, theater lovers will be able to see “SpongeBob SquarePants” twice — both as …
Paulina is the most popular, the most ambitious and by far the meanest girl in the Aburi Girls Boarding School at the outset of Jocelyn Bioh's often unsubtle but ultimately stimulating new p…
For some theatergoers wondering whether to see the hour-long romantic comedy bravely entitled "Hot Mess," it might be enough to know that Max calls his girlfriend "Poopy Pants." Or that his …
The ushers are wearing "Ghetto Scholar" sweatshirts in Studio 54, where for his sixth solo show John Leguizamo stands in front of a blackboard and lectures on the history, politics, cult…
The ushers are wearing "Ghetto Scholar" sweatshirts in Studio 54, where for his sixth solo show John Leguizamo stands in front of a blackboard and lectures on the history, politics, culture …