Sam Shepard, a playwright who explored the dark side of the American West in such brutal, elliptical works as "Buried Child" and "True West," died last Thursday at the age of 73. The marquee…
Director Lear deBessonet's production in Central Park of Midsummer Night’s Dream is star-studded and jazzed-up, but the first thought on passing through the gates of the Delacorte Thea…
On the day I saw Nikki James give a star turn in "Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin," the Off Center Encores two-day revival of the musical by Kirsten Childs that is in part about t…
"A Wall Apart," a production at the New York Musical Festival, has a catchy score by Graham Russell of the Australian rock group Air Supply, sung by an eminently watchable cast of steel-voic…
Six women inmates, in a Texas jail for crimes ranging from cattle rustling to murder, form a country music band in order to get on the radio, get famous, and get pardoned by the governor. Th…
A love triangle that lasts 35 years is at the heart of "To The End of the Land," but the lives of the three main characters of this Israeli play, being presented in Hebrew with Englis…
Attention this week has focused on theater from abroad. The Canadian theater company Soulpepper is wrapping up its month-long residence at Signature. The first annual Immigrant Arts  in A…
Below is the list of nominations for the 13th annual New York Innovative Theater Awards, which celebrates the best of the city's independent theater  " aka Off-Off Broadway. The winners w…
"Greek tragedy meets Harlem ball scene. Fantastic," RuPaul Tweeted succinctly after seeing "And She Would Stand Like This." The Harlem-based Movement theater company's adaptation of Euripide…
In "Spoon River," we meet a town full of drunks, hypocrites, home-grown philosophers, resentful husbands, frustrated wives, an arsonist, a killer, and dozens more " all of them dead…and al…
“Temple of the Souls,” a musical about a doomed, Romeo and Juliet romance in 16th century Puerto Rico between a Spanish conquistador's daughter and a Taino, begins with a thrill.…
The story of the Buddha informs this intriguing and well-produced musical at the New York Musical Festival about a modern-day female spiritual leader. But it's not until the last fift…
The cast of the Hamilton spoof, Spamilton, performed at the Broadway in Bryant Park concert this week a medley including "Lin-Manuel As Hamilton," "1776," "What Did You Miss,”…
Watch the video below for highlights of the concert that concluded the Immigrant Arts in America Summit. The summit was a two-day event that included panel discussions, a speech by John Legu…
"We're the kind of people that Trump wants to keep out of the U.S.," John Leguizamo says in the video below, about his family, who immigrated to New York from Colombia ("the country, not the…
Ticket Givewaway: Win two tickets to see Indecent for free. I loved this show, a fascinating backstage tale written by Paula Vogel and wondrously staged by  Rebecca Taichman (who won a…
“I am a foolish man…I am crushed, I have been crushed by fate,” cried out Reg E. Cathey as King Creon, at a climactic moment in  the free Saturday performance of “…
As "Pipeline" begins, we learn that a black teenager has gotten into a physical scuffle with his teacher and is in danger of being expelled, and arrested. But playwright Dominique Morisseau …
The actor Matthew McConaughey sells his soul to the devil, and then tries to get it back, in this musical that opened the 2017 New York Musical Festival, which describes the show in its prog…
As you might have heard, Oscar Isaac walks around in his underpants in the Public Theater production of "Hamlet." But the most startling visual occurs much later. There's a sudden, striking …
There are two kinds of questions posed by the Improbable Theater Company's production of "Opening Skinner's Box," a stage adaptation of the 2004 book by Lauren Slater that describes ten famo…
Near the end of this musical revue surveying 50 years in song of Jewish immigration to New York, one of the talented performers, Daniel Kahn, delivers an astounding rendition of "Roumania, R…
"Who will want a play by William Shakespeare?" his wife Ann asks him, unkindly, in their home in the hick town of Stratford-Upon-Avon, as he is about to depart for London in 1589 to become a…
Summer means outdoor entertainment, much of it free– like the Broadway in Bryant Park lunchtime concerts… Watch Groundhog Day at Bryant Park – three songs …and Broadw…
Actors don’t realize how hard it is to work with animals, observes animal trainer William Berloni in the video below, during the 2017 Broadway Barks animal adoption event at Shubert Al…