Eric Bogosian is performing in a show entitled 100 at the Labyrinth Theater through October 25, selecting about a dozen different monologues each night from the 100 he wrote and performed in…
In "Bronx Bombers," a new play about the New York Yankees, Babe Ruth stands over a plate piled high with hot dogs at a dinner party given by Yogi Berra, and declares baseball  "the best g…
Bryan Cranston, who just died as Walter White in Breaking Bad, will be making his Broadway debut this season reborn as President Lyndon Baines Johnson in the play All The Way. We know this b…
 "People want to see things beyond their imagination: Bigger than life," the carnival barker who’s a werewolf tells the cave-dwelling giant who becomes a titan of industry in “…
BIG FISH opens tonight, October 6 on Broadway at the Neil Simon Theatre. The production stars two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz as Edward Bloom, Tony Award nominee Kate Baldwin as …
Win two free tickets to see "Disaster,” a musical written by Seth Rudetsky and Jack Plotnick  that spoofs 1970′s disaster movies. A 12-member cast including Mary Testa sing…
At least 20 freshman members of the University of Mississippi football team heckled and used homophobic slurs during a performance they were required to attend of an on-campus production of …
Ryan Steele, who made his Broadway debut in West Side Story (get the part on his first audition in his first trip to New York City) and went on to perform in Billy Elliott, Newsies and now M…
How well were you paying attention to New York theater news last month? Answer these ten questions and find out. This month’s quiz is especially tough, with questions ranging from Off-…
To promote their forthcoming performances on Broadway in Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land and Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, which opens in November, famed British actors…
Chosen from some 2,000 Off-Off Broadway (aka independent) productions, the New York Innovative Theatre Awards nominated 134 individual artists, 60 different productions and 60 Off-Off-Broadw…
In a week that saw the opening of a much-praised Glass Menagerie on Broadway, a boozy and engaging if weirdly renamed Romeo and Juliet just three blocks down from the more turgid Romeo and J…
There have been so many comparisons between the Breaking Bad TV series on AMC and the plays of William Shakespeare — Walter White frequently compared to Macbeth, though occasionally to…
Krysta Rodriguez from First Date and Justin Guarini from Romeo and Juliet played host to a lunch-time concert presenting songs from eight musicals on Broadway. I’m going to post them a…
When we first see the Wingfield family together in the splendid production of “The Glass Menagerie” that has now opened on Broadway, Zachary Quinto is sitting at the dinner table…
Stages are turning into courtrooms this season, with A Time To Kill and The Winslow Boy on Broadway, and Arguendo, an actual Supreme Court case about strippers dramatized Off-Broadway. Many …
This four and a half minute musical spoof of the Showtime drama — and of musical theater — by Elliot Glazer, “writer, comedian, and responsible pet owner,” made me la…
Do erotic dancers have a Constitutional right to dance nude? That was the question before the United State Supreme Court in  Barnes v Glen Theatre Inc et al — and it is the subject …
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Breaking Bad, with just one episode left, won outstanding drama series for the first time, although many were surprised that neither of its leads, Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul, won in th…
‘Romeo and Juliet” opened on Broadway last week (my review below), the first of two shows opening on Broadway in September; this week there’s The Glass Menagerie. There wil…
Romeo rides in on a motorcycle, swaggering in ripped dungarees and a leather jacket. Â Juliet, wearing white, swings on a swing child-like and timid. Â It is unclear why director David L…
The man they sat us next to at the 13th episode of Mike Daisey's 29-part theater piece All The Faces of The Moon had been to all 12 of the previous monologues, and was apparently planning to…
Elmo looks shocked to be in the company of such aristocrats of the theater as Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen. It’s not the only odd pairing: Muhammad Ali’s friendship w…
 Ticket Giveaway: Win two tickets to see “A Time To Kill,”  playwright Rupert Holmes' stage adaptation of the first-ever of John Grisham’s bestselling novel to …