Staceyann Chin worked on New Year's Eve, performing "Motherstruck," her intense, sad and very funny solo show directed by Cynthia Nixon about trying to give birth and then trying to be a mot…
There were many worthwhile moments in the shows I saw in 2015. The most memorable ones were not always exciting or transcendent or beautiful, although some were — such as the ship w…
Tonya Pinkins announced she would be leaving the Classic Stage Company’s production of Brecht’s “Mother Courage and Her Children,” directed by CSC artistic director B…
These theater books were mostly published in 2015 (or reissued in paperback)  — and are good reads for 2016. I reviewed some of them or interviewed the authors.  But a few are…
Most of the quiz questions below come from the previous monthly New York theater quizzes in 2015. Test how much you were paying attention to the theater news this year — and how much y…
Continuing a tradition I started when I began this blog " here are the best read stories of 2014,  2013, and 2012 " here are my most-read posts from 2015: (This is a bit of a …
This is the week to look back, and look forward. Â First, the immediate future: Last Minute Planning for New Year’s Eve in NYC Then a look at next year: Broadway Spring 2016 Preview …
Thornton Wilder, best-known as the author of "Our Town" and the inspiration for "Hello, Dolly" (which is based on his play "The Matchmaker"), used to be considered in the same breath as Mill…
My annual New Year’s Eve guide features the Broadway show schedule for New Year's week, and other shows, parties, concerts, intimate dinners, cruises, outdoor events and quiet alternat…
My list of ten favorite shows on New York stages in 2015 tilt towards Broadway musicals " five out of "ten"  " which is in great contrast to my top ten lists last year and the year bef…
New York theater in 2015 has been a year of hope and fear; of Spring Awakening and Misery; a year with three different new plays about British royalty on Broadway, and the year when a musica…
A new musical by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, the revival/reimagining of a groundbreaking African-American musical from 1921, the sixth Broadway revivals of dramas by both Arthur Miller a…
The villagers in a Russian shtetl toast "To Life" in "The Golden Bride," too, but they're singing it operetta style in Yiddish, with English and Russian super titles, in a musical that preda…
Colin Quinn, former Weekend Update anchor for Saturday Night Live, has brought back "The New York Story" to the Cherry Lane Theater, where it ran this summer. This strikes me as terri…
There IS time left to do holiday shopping for theater lovers. There are also plenty of shows to see this holiday week — not just holiday shows, although plenty of those. With the…
Tevye is back on Broadway, this time with Danny Burstein as the Russian Jewish milkman who tries to uphold tradition. "Fiddler on the Roof" has become a tradition in its own right. The produ…
On the same weekend that 195 nations reached an unprecedented agreement to take action on climate change, a dozen or so theatergoers were dancing the Climate Change Macarena. Guided b…
The plot is by Shakespeare cleverly transposed to Swinging London of 1964; the original, terrifically tuneful songs in the style of the early Beatles are by Green Day's Billie Joe Arm…
Women dominated New York stages this year, giving the majority of the most memorable performances. My ten favorite individual performers are listed alphabetically, but let's begin with tw…
Near the end of The Color Purple, Cynthia Erivo, as Celie, sings "I don't need you to love me….I'm beautiful, yes I'm beautiful, and I'm here" " which provokes the audience to rise up, tea…
Welcome to my third annual Worst Broadway Show poll. I chose the ten nominees. Feel free to disagree by 1. not voting for a show on the list that you liked, and 2. adding your choice for wor…
Near the beginning of "Marjorie Prime," Jordan Harrison's insightful and only slightly science fiction play, Walter is reminding his wife about the poodle they had –"Not the fussy kind…
This has been an unusual year in theater in several ways. George Takei represents a couple of those ways: Diversity Is the current diversity on Broadway a blip, an exception, or do you fores…
Jackie Hoffman is the only person she knows who's never until now performed in a production of the musical comedy "Once Upon A Mattress," the comic retelling of the fairy tale The Princess a…
There is a push to make the day after Christmas a new event called “Show Day,” in the way that the day after Thanksgiving is “Black Friday” — except instead of …