"Night is a Room" is the last of Naomi Wallace's plays in the Signature season devoted to her work, and it is the most gratifying" but only for the first half. In place of her other plays' g…
Below is the schedule for Broadway shows during Thanksgiving week. The titles are linked to my reviews or other information, and a collection of photographs, about each show. (Those shows wi…
“I’ve always been SHY/ I confess that I’m SHY,” Jackie Hoffman sings as Princess Winnifred the Woebegone in the Transport Group’s revival of “Once U…
To mark the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will present “No Longer Sile…
In "Mourning Sun," a beautifully acted new play by Antu Yacob, two young teenagers in Ethiopia both love to sing and dance to Michael Jackson. The "sun" part of the title is clear from the g…
Yes, people have been telling actors to “break a leg” for hundreds of years, but not for the reason you may think, according to Rebekah Lazaridis in the video below. An actress s…
"Steve," a play produced by The New Group at the Signature Center, begins and ends with its characters singing show tunes, which is a lovely and appropriate touch by director Cynthia Nixon, …
Today is the second annual #LoveTheatreDay, originating in the United Kingdom but spread throughout the world. This afternoon, Spring Awakening will perform at the White House, and simultane…
It sounded like a good match: Batman and Lost Boy movie director Joel Schumacher, versatile master of action and suspense, in his New York stage debut directing a play by Jennifer Haley, a w…
In its 18th year, The Lion King is now the third longest-running musical on Broadway. To celebrate, Disney has filmed the breathtaking opening number “Circle of Life” in 360 degr…
A View From The Bridge, one of Arthur Miller's most popular plays, has been on Broadway four times before, most recently just five years ago, starring Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson i…
Two separate revivals of plays by Arthur Miller on the centennial of his birth illustrate two core aims of his work:Â "I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to cha…
A View From The Bridge, one of Arthur Miller's most popular plays, has been on Broadway four times before, most recently just five years ago, starring Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson i…
Incident at Vichy, presented by the Signature Theater in the first major New York production since its short Broadway run in 1964, is intelligent, well acted, and occasionally so relevant th…
Misery on Broadway is the latest adaptation of Stephen King's story about a writer who's imprisoned by a berserk fan. It's not as good as either King's novel nor the movie, but it's likely t…
Misery on Broadway is the latest adaptation of Stephen King's story about a writer who's imprisoned by a berserk fan. It's not as good as either King's novel nor the movie, but it's likely t…
My cousin Bobby, a tie-dyed Deadhead, invited me to Madison Square Garden to see the free Dead & Company concert, which I found enough of an eye opener to write a piece for Howlround on …
The publicists ask for the review to run no earlier than 7:30 Sunday Nov 15 Misery Review: Bruce Willis' Broadway Debut in Faded Copy of Stephen King Misery on Broadway is the latest adaptat…
“There is nothing more important than the arts in a time of crisis,” Judith Light says in the video below, asked at the annual Sardi’s luncheon at the American Theatre Crit…
Today is Veteran’s Day, a good time to talk about how the arts have helped veterans, and how veterans have contributed to the arts. Theater helped military veteran Adam Driver adjust t…
Reading 50 answers to “What’s the most exciting show you’ve ever seen?” is a lesson in the continuing power of theater — great to keep in mind as we sort throug…
Some 120,000 Japanese-Americans were incarcerated a few months after Pearl Harbor, by order of President Roosevelt. George Takei and his family were among them. The actor, best known…
The Connor family is like any other middle class American family, except that Father Arnold is catatonic, and wearing a clown wig, makeup and a diaper; Mother Paige is morally opposed to cle…
Some 120,000 Japanese-Americans were incarcerated a few months after Pearl Harbor, by order of President Roosevelt. George Takei and his family were among them. The actor best known as Sulu …
Kwame Kwei-Armah, the artistic director of Center Stage, has been leaving Baltimore over the past few weeks to go to prison in New York. He's also been busy in homeless shelters and recr…