From the first moments of On Your Feet, the Broadway musical celebrating the life and music of Emilio and Gloria Estefan, I thought: This show is sure to be a hit despite what any critics sa…
From the first moments of On Your Feet, the Broadway musical celebrating the life and music of Emilio and Gloria Estefan, I thought: This show is sure to be a hit despite what any critics sa…
The Public Theater’s Mobile Shakespeare Unit, which travels to prisons and homeless shelters in all five boroughs before performing back at the Public’s East Village theater, Â�…
A new month comes with two traditions " my monthly quiz testing how well you were paying attention to theater in October. and my monthly preview of the shows opening in New York in Nov…
Is there some reason why an American audience should care about the future of the British monarchy? That's the question that hangs over King Charles III, playwright Mike Bartlett's cleve…
Is there some reason why an American audience should care about the future of the British monarchy? That's the question that hangs over King Charles III, playwright Mike Bartlett's cleverly …
The shows opening in November, along with the usual complement of stars (Al Pacino, Bruce Willis, George Takei) are unusually diverse, including those on Broadway, with a play about Br…
How well were you paying attention to the theater news and reviews in October? Answer these 11 questions and see.
Nobody applauds Keira Knightley when she first appears on stage for her Broadway debut in Thérèse Raquin. The audience doesn't recognize her; she's in the background under faded light, the…
Nobody applauds Keira Knightley when she first appears on stage for her Broadway debut in Thérèse Raquin. The audience doesn't recognize her; she's in the background under faded light, the…
Ticket Givewaway: Win two tickets to see Spring Awakening for free. I love this show; it’s joyful and beautiful, with an exciting and appealing cast, 17 of whom are making their Bro…
Annaleigh Ashford has starred on Broadway in Wicked, Legally Blonde, Hair and Kinky Boots; accepted a Tony for what she called "the worst dancing that ever happened on Broadway” an…
Annaleigh Ashford has starred on Broadway in Wicked, Legally Blonde, Hair and Kinky Boots; accepted a Tony for what she called "the worst dancing that ever happened on Broadway” and po…
Dress-up has never seemed more sophisticated than in "Before Your Very Eyes," the intriguing 70-minute theater piece at the Public Theater by the Gob Squad, the European experimental troupe,…
Two shows are opening on Broadway this coming week, and four Off-Broadway, to finish off this busy month of October The Week in New York Theater Reviews My review of Futurity In "Futurity," …
The title for Stephen Karam's new play “The Humans,” which takes place during a family's Thanksgiving dinner, may come from a line of dialogue by a character who talks about the …
At the curtain call it struck home what's special about the first Broadway production of Dames at Sea, the 1930's musical created in the 1960s: Only six performers take bows. Busby Berkeley …
Fun and funny, full of rousing melodies and exciting bouts of tap dancing performed by six true talents, the revival at the Helen Hayes is, according to the show's website, "reimagined for t…
Daphne Rubin-Vega, the original Mimi in the original Rent, is so good portraying the initially endearing Dolores and eight other characters in “Empanada Loca, “which has now open…
Amy Carter is 47 years old now, but she is forever 12 in history, and also in First Daughter Suite, Michael John LaChiusa's fanciful musical at the Public Theater. In the musical, howeve…
First Daughter Suite, Â Michael LaChiusa’s musical focusing as much on the First Ladies Nixon, Carter, Ford, Reagan, and Bush as on their daughters, can be considered a sequel of sor…
In "Futurity," a genre-bending show created by the indie band The Lisps, a soldier during the Civil War contacts the daughter of a famous 19th century British poet to help him build "a machi…
At least one play a day is opening in the week ahead, as it has in the past two weeks of October, the busiest month of the Fall theater season. Check out Dames at Sea, First Daughter Suite, …
"I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world,” wrote Arthur Miller, who would have turned 100 today. Still one of the most-produced playwrights in…
Audiences are finding the revival of Cloud Nine at the Atlantic Theater uncomfortable, but not in the same way audiences did in 1981, when it was Caryl Churchill's second-ever play in New Yo…