There are more unemployed Americans now than there were when "Of Mice and Men" debuted on Broadway in 1937, making its third-ever production on Broadway something more than just an excuse to…
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder had the most nominations for the 59th Annual Drama Desk Awards, followed by The Bridges of Madison County, Aladdin and Rocky. Winners w…
“Cabaret,” the Kander and Ebb musical about a naif in pre-Nazi Germany, is opening on Broadway for the fourth time, almost half a century after its first production, starring Ala…
Below are the nominations for the 20014 Drama League Awards, which select winners in five competitive categories, and also gives special awards. Although founded way back in 1922, this is…
Neil Patrick Harris stars as an “internationally ignored” East German transgender rock singer in the first Broadway production of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” a…
“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder”, “Aladdin” and “Fun Home” had the greatest number of nominations for the 64th annual Outer Critics Circle…
With the best title of any Broadway play this season, two always-impressive actors as the cast, and a theme of loss and aging that hits close to home, "The Velocity of Autumn" is the sort of…
Before she wrote the songs for the astonishing "Fun Home" or collaborated with Tony Kushner on the extraordinary "Caroline, Or Change," Jeanine Tesori wrote the music for "Violet," her fi…
There was no applause for Daniel Radcliffe when he first enters "The Cripple of Inishmaan," the first and first-rate Broadway production of Martin McDonagh's harsh 1996 comedy. I'm su…
“Act One,” the  well-meaning stage adaptation of the beloved theatrical memoir by Moss Hart, aims to explore the intoxicating appeal of the theater, but it instead demonstrate…
Broadway barks indeed. This season, dogs are in the casts of four Broadway shows. All four were rescued from a dog pound, and now perform eight shows a week. Are their Pooper-Scoopers monogr…
"The theatre is not so much a profession as a disease, and my first look at Broadway was the beginning of a lifelong infection," playwright and director Moss Hart wrote in Act One, his long-…
Annie Baker’s The Flick has won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Here is my review of The Flick. Citation: “Awarded to “The Flick,” by Annie Baker, a thoughtful …
Eight Broadway shows are opening in the next ten days. Two opened last week, Bullets Over Broadway and Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill. It’s tax time, which may be why there …
click on any photo to see it enlarged Audra McDonald is the same age as the Billie Holiday she is depicting in the first Broadway production of "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill," a remar…
“Bullets Over Broadway,” based on Woody Allen’s 1994 movie about a novice playwright in the 1920s whose show is saved by a mobster, is opening tonight at the St. James Thea…
If/Then with Idina Menzel, A Raisin in the Sun with Denzel Washington and The Realistic Joneses  with Michael C. Hall opened on Broadway; Adrian Lester gives a star turn portrayi…
In "The Realistic Joneses," a kind of "Endgame"Â reoriented to the American suburbs, Michael C. Hall and Marisa Tomei as a couple named Jones pay an unexpected visit to introduce themselve…
"Me and my family…we are very plain people," Denzel Washington says in "A Raisin in the Sun," at the start of a monologue that by the end " "we are very proud people" — is one of the…
In "If/Then," Idina Menzel portrays two different versions of the same character Elizabeth, and at the beginning of the musical, I was feeling like two versions of myself as well. Elizab…
Ed Iskandar talked with God. Then it was Lucifer's turn. Now he was addressing Adam and Eve. "The audience has just paid $50 to watch the Bible, so bite the fuck out of the apple and …
In April, there are more than 30 shows opening on Broadway, Â Off-Broadway or Off-Off Broadway, at least one for each day of the month, although the schedule is more chaotic than that. (Ge…
Here Lies Love; Fun Home, and Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 received the most nominations for the 2014 Lucille Lortel Awards celebrating Off-Broadway, presented by the Off-Broa…
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news in March, 2014? Answer these 10 questions and find out.
When Ira Aldridge played Othello in London, they were still debating whether it was a good thing to end slavery in the British colonies. Aldridge is the real-life African-American actor port…