Pippin pops, Hugh Jackman bleeds, ageism is rampant, playwright Doug Wright doesn’t trust critics, and Cafe Edison is closing. But it wasn’t all bad news in the week in New Yo…
Ozzie and Harriet's son David comes home from the Vietnam War blind and traumatized in David Rabe's "Sticks and Bones," a play written during the Vietnam War that is getting a starry revival…
What would you do if a Buddhist monk appeared at your door, claiming your three-year-old son was the reincarnation of a revered Tibetan Lama, and wanting to take him from you and raise him i…
For 58 years, Simon Wiesenthal hunted Nazis. By the time he retired in 2003, he had brought 1,100 of them to justice. "I'm not a lawyer, a detective or a government agency," he says in th…
The Library of America has just published “American Musicals: The Complete Books and Lyrics of 16 Broadway Classics, 1927"1969″ in a boxed set of two volumes. Here is what it inc…
The newly announced Broadway transfer of “Hand of God” came accompanied with a sly advertising campaign to turn their “weaknesses” into strengths. But some of the bes…
They look as if they could be refugees from The Addams Family, dressed in black and standing under ghoulish white light in the middle of the stage at BAM's Harvey Theater, these six characte…
Three Broadway shows — The River, Side Show and A Delicate Balance – are opening in November, as are some two dozen Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway# plays and musicals.  …
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Both Ewan McGregor and Maggie Gyllenhaal are making their Broadway debuts in 'The Real Thing," Tom Stoppard's trickster meditation on what is reality versus artifice in art, politics and abo…
When Amir was a child, he spit in the face of a Jewish classmate, a girl he had a crush on, he says in "Disgraced," Ayad Akhtar's bluntly provocative play that has now opened at Broadway's L…
Lift, a play about a man and a woman stuck in an elevator after a terrorist attack, is written by Walter Mosley, who has had three decades of success as a novelist, especially with the Easy …
The first time I saw "Angels in America," the awe-inspiring 1993 play about intermingled lives during the AIDS crisis, I was thrilled by the confrontation between Louis, the Jewish word proc…
Both Tatiana Maslany and Keira Knightley announced they would be making their Broadway debuts, the rock star Sting made his debut this week as a Broadway composer, and an Off-Broadway play o…
Sting's songs are haunting and lyrical, the creative team is made up of Broadway royalty, the acting helps lend a sense of authenticity to this heartfelt tale based on the struggles of the s…
The first photograph of Kristin Chenoweth and Peter Gallagher in Roundabout Theatre Company's On the Twentieth Century, which opens March 12, 2015 at the American Airlines Theatre. This will…
The Phantom of the Opera Art Gallery and Pop-Up Shop is open for business — as of noon, Friday October 24th — showcasing the 26 winners of the nation-wide contest “PHANTOM:…
Click on any photograph to see it enlarged "The Fortress of Solitude" begins with a sensory overload of song…the sounds of a Brooklyn block, circa 1975. That sets the tone for this ener…
"No killing, no dead body, no sex, no nothing. Just talk." That line is uttered near the end of "Billy & Ray," a play about the collaboration of director Billy Wilder and writer Raymond …
Eugene O’Neill, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Miller and Angela Lansbury and Linda Lavin all had birthdays last week, “On The Town” was reborn on Broadway to the biggest raves since …
Whatever else the great American writers Emily Dickinson and Dorothy Parker have in common, they are each by coincidence the subject of solo stage plays that are opening tonight, "The Belle …
Theater producer Ken Davenport looked at the shows that won the Best Musical Tony over the past 20 years, sliced and diced facts about them, and produced the infographic below. Most interest…
The “freaks” (cast) of Side Show, which opens at Broadway’s St. James Theater November 17th.
The audience at "On The Town," the thrilling Broadway revival of the 1944 musical that brought us “New York, New York, it’s a helluva town,” doesn’t wait until the…
Win a speaker from Lin-Manuel Miranda (In The Heights, Hamilton), Christopher Jackson (The Lion King, In The Heights, Holla If Ya Hear Me) and the rest of the cast of Freestyle Love Su…