Playwright Richard Greenberg, whom I profile in Playbill this month, has three plays opening nearly simultaneously in New York: Breakfast At Tiffany’s opened March 20 at the Cort Theat…
How well were you paying attention to what was happening in New York theater in March? Find out with these ten questions The questions are all based on posts from this blog in March, 2013. T…
“Journalists aren't nearly as interesting as they think they are," David Eisenhower once said, a quote that Nora Ephron cited favorably in her final media column for Esquire in 1977. T…
As March madness turns into April avalanche, the marathon begins. In the next 25 days, 15 shows will open on Broadway, much of the Spring 2013 Broadway season. This coming week, Tom Hanks de…
The Signature and Sondheim and Shakespeare in the Park; new theaters like Lincoln Center’s Claire Tow and old ones like the Belasco on Broadway; playwriting legends like Edward Albee a…
World Theatre Day has been celebrated every March 27th since 1961. How? Playwright Dario Fo has created a World Theatre Day message, the English version of which is below. New York City will…
Ticket Giveaway: Win two tickets to see "Orphans," the play by Lyle Kessler that stars Alec Baldwin, Ben Foster and Tom Sturridge that tells the story of two orphaned brothers living a rough…
Broadway's been so weird lately that you don't even have to mention Rebecca, or a cat getting fired, or Alec Baldwin to come up with ten questions in a Weird Theater Quiz Spring 2013. The ca…
To celebrate its tenth anniversary, the Brick Theater Company in Brooklyn is mounting some 20 world premieres of plays by 13 major playwrights, including Neil LaBute, Greg Kotis, Mike Daisey…
In response to reaction to Annie Baker’s The Flick, Playwrights Horizons artistic director Tim Sanford sent the following e-mail to the theater’s subscribers: Dear Friend, The…
This has been a very weird theater season. See how weird by answering the following ten questions. (Notice there’s not even a question about a cat being fired from a show — there…
Yesterday, Buzzfeed posted The 33 Hottest Hunks of Broadway, but whether or not they are “of” Broadway, more than half of them aren’t  on Broadway anymore. They’ve…
"Hands on a Hardbody," an odd but tuneful new musical based on a 1997 documentary film about a sadistic endurance contest to win a pickup truck in Texas, might as well be called "American Id…
When Holly Golightly sits on the fire escape strumming a guitar and singing, those watching  "Breakfast at Tiffany's" at the Cort Theater may temporarily feel in familiar territory, even …
Defying the long-held superstition about the dangers of saying the name “Macbeth” inside a theater, Alan Cumming replied to my inquiry: “I am going to say Macbeth everywher…
The community of ex-cons, junkies and crackheads crowding into the Bank Street Theater are surrounded by love, laughter and wild applause. They are the characters peopling  Stephen Adly G…
“Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” has opened on Broadway, a move nearly universally applauded. See my review below. Other shows opened this week that I reviewed: Lanford Wils…
"A person isn't happy unless they're building something," says Dr. Dan Loggins, junior archaeologist, trying to explain why the people of a lost ancient Native American civilization buil…
Here are photographs from some of the shows opening on Broadway in Spring 2013: Ann, Cinderella, Kinky Boots, Pippin, Â Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. (More will be added as they bec…
Raina is a teenager kicked out of the Middle East, forced to live with her relatives in Brooklyn, for reasons that nobody will tell her cousin Tariq " so he hacks into her computer to find o…
"If everyone took antidepressants, Chekhov would have had nothing to write about," Sonia tells her brother Vanya in Christopher Durang's hilarious yet improbably moving play, now bumped up t…
Those who have seen the previous gently-paced, meticulous, near miraculous collaborations between playwright Annie Baker and director Sam Gold — "Circle Mirror Transformation," "The Al…
Theater producer Alia Jones-Harvey is the only woman of color currently a lead producer on Broadway. Her company Front Row productions began with the revival of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof�…
Two plays opened this past week that both could be considered political, in very different ways. "Ann" written by and starring Holland Taylor, offers a look at the improbable political caree…
Is it possible for “Hit The Wall,” a new play, to say something fresh about the Stonewall riots that sparked the modern gay rights movement, now that the president of the United …