An opera with an unwieldy title based on Tolstoy's War and Peace seemed an unlikely crowd-pleaser, but I was thrilled when I saw it Off-Broadway, first at Ars Nova in 2012, and again in a ci…
An opera with an unwieldy title based on Tolstoy's War and Peace seemed an unlikely crowd-pleaser, but I was thrilled when I saw it Off-Broadway, first at Ars Nova in 2012, and again in a ci…
Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton performs the song “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen, who died at age 82 on the day before Election Day. The terribly apt lyrics include…
After seeing the current revival of "Falsettos," New York Times critic Charles Isherwood deemed it perfect, while the New Yorker's Hilton Als considered it perfectly awful. "There's hardly a…
On this Veteran’s Day, watch Adam Driver — Star Wars villain, Girls beefcake, Broadway veteran and military veteran — talk about his journey from Marine to actor. Dr…
Had I seen Signature Theatre's fine revival of Athol Fugard's most popular play just a few days earlier, I might have appreciated it primarily as a well-wrought work of theater, relegating i…
Had I seen the Signature's fine revival of Athol Fugard's most popular play just a few days earlier, I might have appreciated it primarily as a well-wrought work of theater, relegating its d…
Hillary Clinton’s concession speech (emphasis in boldface added) “Thank you so very much for being here. I love you all, too. Last night I congratulated Donald Trump and offered …
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, a trilogy of plays by Richard Nelson presented in real time at the Public Theater, ends the way it began eight months ago " with the Ga…
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, a trilogy of plays by Richard Nelson presented in real time at the Public Theater, ends the way it began eight months ago " with the Ga…
One of the first things we learn in “Notes from the Field” — in a projection on the curtain — is that nearly six million voting-age people can't vote in the 2016 pres…
The following 18 Broadway shows will close on Election Day, November 8, to encourage people to vote for President (All but one " those with asterisks — are performing on Monday, Novemb…
Why would anybody want to revive "Finian's Rainbow," a 1947 musical that features dancing black sharecroppers and a leprechaun whose pot of gold was stolen by a crafty old Irishman named Fin…
In keeping with the casting of Liev Schreiber as a frilly 18th century French libertine in the ill-timed if stylish new Broadway revival of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, may I suggest some actor…
“Heisenberg” is a play starring Mary-Louise Parker as a wacky 42-year-old American who kisses a 75-year-old stranger on the neck in a London train station, setting off an improba…
Like Grapes of Wrath, Lynn Nottage's Sweat offers a devastating look at social and economic breakdown, told not with rants or statistics, but through a riveting tale about good people in a b…
Like Grapes of Wrath, Lynn Nottage's Sweat offers a devastating look at social and economic breakdown, told not with rants or statistics, but through a riveting tale about good people in a b…
Three of the four Broadway openings  in November are for shows, with limited (holiday) runs, are rightly categorized more as entertainments than theater.  Ah, but the fourth… …
How well were you paying attention to New York theater news and reviews in October? Take these 10 questions and see.
Dangerous Liaisons indeed. In American politics, an October Surprise is an unexpected event that could well influence the outcome of the Presidential election; we've had more than one this m…
I was the host for the luminous Mandy Gonzalez, who plays Angelica Schuyler in the Broadway production of Hamilton, Â at the annual Sardi’s luncheon of the American Theatre Critics A…
Edwin Booth, the most celebrated American actor of the 19th century, had come back from self-imposed exile in Europe after his brother had assassinated Abraham Lincoln, with an idea. He had …
"This is not a story about war; it's a story about falling in love," the playwright tells us at the outset of "Vietgone," a play by Qui Nguyen that manages to be both as puckish as a comic b…
Laura Osnes and Will Swenson will star in Frank Loesser’s “lost” World War II musicals on board the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, as part of the Public Theater̵…
For the first half of Adam Bock's "A Life" — before its life-changing coup de theatre — David Hyde Pierce as Nate sits on his Eames sofa and seems to be taking stock of his life.…