In honor of the opening tonight of the revival of Jesus Hopped the A Train, and the launch of the 2017-2018 Signature residency of Stephen Adly Guirgis, below is my April, 2011 review of Gui…
“It's crazy”, says Michael Urie as Arnold, that "after all these years I'm still trying to justify my life." Arnold means his life as a gay man, and though he is talking specific…
It's crazy, says Michael Urie as Arnold, that "after all these years I'm still trying to justify my life." Arnold means his life as a gay man, and though he is talking specifically to his mo…
Fifty years ago, Hair was the very first show to play in the old Astor mansion, which was transformed into Joseph Papp’s first year-round Public Theater. (even though it feels like the…
Café Play is a site-specific work of theater that's being held at four different times of day in the back dining room at the Cornelia Street Café, with different food choices depending on …
In "Burning Doors," Belarus Free Theatre's latest arresting, arousing, athletic and anarchic play about state-sponsored injustice, one of the eight cast members strips naked as he tells the …
The Siege, a play dramatizing the 2002 siege by armed Palestinians of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, is in several ways the exact opposite of Oslo, the last drama about the Palesti…
The Siege, a play dramatizing the 2002 siege by armed Palestinians of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, is in several ways the exact opposite of Oslo, the last drama about the Palesti…
It took five minutes into the revival of "Time and the Conways" starring Elizabeth McGovern to realize this was no "Downton Abbey," Â the TV series that for six seasons featured McGovern a…
Bruce Springsteen sings 15 songs, and reads from a teleprompter to tell stories that were also in his year-old memoir, "Born to Run," in a Broadway debut  that has the critics cheering; s…
Nearly everything about "Androboros" makes it sound like a must-see show. It was America's first published play, printed in 1714, yet there is no record it has ever been publicly performed u…
Playwright Annie Baker and multidimensional theater artist Taylor Mac are among the 24 winners of the 2017 Macarthur Foundation "Genius" Grants. Baker, 36, whose "The Flick" won the 2014 Pul…
There are moments in the "Measure for Measure" by experimental theater company Elevator Repair Service at the Public that offer the purest Shakespeare on any New York stage; this occurs when…
Even on Columbus Day, Christopher Columbus has largely gone out of favor " in America, and on stage. The closest recent nod to Columbus on a New York stage was a character named Before Colum…
Theaterlovers will recognize the sample from the song "Maria," from West Side Story," — “Say it soft and it's almost like praying." Puerto Ricans will recognize the names of all …
Three performers who have collectively waited 179 years to make their Broadway debuts haven spent the time getting pretty well-known outside the Great White Way. For those unacquainted with …
By Lin-Manuel Miranda Puerto Rico"my family's island, America's island"is in desperate need of supplies and resources. Like Texas and Florida, Puerto Rico was just devastated by a natural di…
Bruce Springsteen makes his Broadway debut in a show that combines memoir with rock n roll, and that relatively few of his fans will be able to see. It is one of three shows opening on Broad…
Late September is a time for…..weddings, apparently. Idina Menzel married her “Rent” co-star Aaron Lohr; Steven Pasquale married Phillipa Soo; and Andrew Keenan-Bolger annou…
Max Posner's play is called The Treasurer because a grown man is forced to take responsibility for the finances of his aged, widowed mother. But the title also suggests that he will take sto…
Max Posner's play is called The Treasurer because a grown man is forced to take responsibility for the finances of his aged, widowed mother. But the title also suggests that he will take sto…
As Amy Herzog's gentle new play begins, Mary Jane is deep into idle chatter with the building's superintendent Ruthie, who's in the apartment to fix a clogged drain, when we hear a beep. It …
Saloon Theater’s mouthful of a play – “Six Translation of Uncle Vanya at the Same Time” — was a big winner in the 13th annual New York Innovative Theater Awards…
Alex, the sadistic, Beethoven-loving juvenile delinquent at the center of Anthony Burgess' 1962 dystopian novel and Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film, has returned, this time Off-Broadway, as sexy…
Alex, the sadistic, Beethoven-loving juvenile delinquent at the center of Anthony Burgess' 1962 dystopian novel and Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film, has returned, this time Off-Broadway, as sexy…