Sam Gold, the innovative director who won a Tony for Fun Home, has cast Sally Field in a new Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie that doesn't include a glass menag…
The 50 best plays and 10 greatest musicals of the last century are all available as books to read, but what are the best books about the theater? That's the question I asked in giveaway cont…
Below are scenes from the original productions of the 11 Broadway plays and musicals that are being revived, for the second, fifth, or 16th time, this season on Broadway. Click on any photog…
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, a reposting of my 2010 review; Eleven U.S. presidents have been descendants of the Irish, including Barack Obama. An Irishman was the first to make a pia…
Danny DeVito, making his Broadway debut, gets the best deal out of The Price. Arthur Miller is not a playwright known for comically colorful characters, yet here's DeVito as Gregory Solomon,…
Danny DeVito, making his Broadway debut, gets the best deal out of The Price. Arthur Miller is not a playwright known for comically colorful characters, yet here's DeVito as Gregory Solomon,…
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau thanked New York for making Canadians at home by supplying “snow banks,” during an address to the audience at Come From Away, after he and …
.@JustinTrudeau has picked the perfect time for a Canadian head of state (& ex ski instructor) to visit Bway.@wecomefromaway pic.twitter.com/n2wkMPfWgI " New York Theater (@NewYorkTheate…
The first production photograph of Bette Midler as the 15th Dolly Gallagher Levi on Broadway, Â in the fifth Broadway production of “Hello, Dolly,” which is scheduled to begin …
As of 2:30 pm, all Broadway shows are going on tonight as scheduled, but several Off-Broadway theaters are canceling their performances because of the blizzard theatrically named Stella. For…
Come From Away tells the story of the 9,000 residents of Gander, Newfoundland who took care of some 7,000 passengers and crew of 38 airplanes which were forced to land at the local airpo…
“Come From Away” tells the story of the 9,000 residents of Gander, Newfoundland who took care of some 7,000 passengers and crew of 38 airplanes that were forced to land at the lo…
Win a free copy of the book "The Great Comet: The Journey of a New Musical to Broadway"(Sterling Publishing, 2016), which traces the improbable evolution of the musical, “Natasha, Pier…
Sam Gold, the innovative director who won a Tony for Fun Home, has cast Sally Field in a new Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie that doesn't include a glass menag…
Sam Gold, the innovative director who won a Tony for Fun Home, has cast Sally Field in a new Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie that doesn't include a glass menag…
At first glance, singing storyteller Ethan Lipton and his three-member band " the creators and entire cast of "The Outer Space" " look like middle-aged men who never outgrew their childhood …
Fifteen women have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. On this International Women’s Day, we celebrate them and their work. (Each play title is linked to an Amazon page where you can lea…
As Lin-Manuel Miranda did with "Hamilton," so Dave Malloy came up with the idea for his innovative hit Broadway musical, "Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812," while reading a book u…
March is a busy month for theater, as usual, but that’s not the only way madness seems to have taken hold. Luckily, there is help for stressed out theater people. Opening today:Â The…
Jenny and Emily are both 14 years old, new friends in a small-town suburb in South Carolina in the 1980s; they both love horror movies; they both want to lose their virginity. In "All the Fi…
In "If I Forget," a well-acted, often funny and always engaging Jewish family drama by Steven Levenson (the book-writer for Dear Evan Hansen) we travel back to an era that no longer exists e…
"Over a hundred thousand people died today," the character played by Michael Emerson (Lost, Person of Interest) tells us in "Wakey, Wakey," the latest ethereal, esoteric play by Will Eno, wh…
In "Significant Other," Jordan is a gay man who has three best friends he met in college, all women, each of whom in the course of Joshua Harmon's play finds a mate and holds a fancy wedding…
The Tooting Arts Club's exceptionally entertaining production of Sweeney Todd, Â Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's glorious murderous musical, began in 2014 in Harrington's, one of Londo…
Tooting Arts Club's exceptionally entertaining production of Sweeney Todd, Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's glorious murderous musical, began in 2014 in Harrington's, one of London's olde…