The Phantom of the Opera took a final Majestic bow last night after a record-breaking thirty-five years on Broadway. Its 13,981th performance played out before a red-carpeted crowd in white …
There are bright shining moments aplenty in the latest Broadway revival of "Camelot," the 1960 Lerner and Loewe musical about the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.Â�…
"Don't worry; I hear it's easy to understand," a Bengali-American in my row at Soho Rep reassured me, before "Public Obscenities" began.  For him, I thought. As it turns out, he was…
Sure, his uncle killed his father and is about to marry his mother, but Juicy, the big Black queer Southerner at the center of "Fat Ham,"  would prefer to forget about the revenge h…
If "White Girl in Danger" were an actual soap opera, it would unfold over several years, which would give us time to savor Michael R. Jackson's febrile intelligence and his subversive sense …
April is the kindest month; at least that's what Playbill president Philip S. Birsh is requesting in a full-page letter in the April edition of Playbill, in which he gently reminds audience …
Philip Glass fell asleep in the middle of the pitch that actor and director Phelim McDermott was making for a theater piece the two could create together. "I've bored Philip Glass McDermo…
Below is an explanation of the major annual New York theater awards, plus a 2023 calendar of nomination announcements and award ceremonies Why was Sarah Bernhardt " one of the world's greate…
Theatergoers wearing "I â¤ï¸Â My Josh" t-shirts filled a row of the Lunt-Fontanne the night I attended the fourth Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's dark…
Below are the nominations for the 38th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. Winners will be presented at the annual ceremony on Sunday, May …
Oscar Isaac is making his Broadway debut in a last-minute addition to the Broadway season: Lorraine Hansberry's "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window," also starring Rachel Brosnahan (who ma…
"Shucked" is corny. Corn is what the corn-growing townsfolk of Cob County sing about from the opening number of this new country-flavored Broadway musical; it's the subject of the "farm to f…
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Below is a calendar of theater opening* in April 2023 in New York, including nine shows on Broadway featuring (sometimes radically) reworked versions of a Golden Age musical, a 1970s romanti…
Whether or not his fantastical tale of sharing a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger for 227 days on the open seas will "make you believe in God," as the 17-year-old shipwreck survivor named Pi …
"Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio"Â Â won an Oscar for Best Animated Feature this month, not the first movie with puppets to win an Oscar " "The Sound of Music" and "The Godfather" both fe…
"This book is dedicated to anyone who has ever been told they were too fat,too short, too gay, too disabled, and otherwise too much or not enough to be in a musical," Ryan Donovan writes in …
In honor of World Theater Day, celebrated internationally every March 27th since 1962, here are some beautiful theaters from around the world: Theater isn't just the buildings in which it ta…
What's so bad about "Bad Cinderella"? Sure, it takes great liberties with the fairy tale, sexing it up, setting it to loud pop music, replacing the familiar story with a berserk comic plot a…
Two years after a jury convicted Leo Frank of murdering a 13-year-old girl and condemned him to death, a prison guard enters his jail cell with a message from his wife Lucille:Â Â Georgi…
This week felt like a reunion of some of the greatest figures in American musical theater " the Broadway opening of "Bob Fosse's Dancin'," the concert version of Jerry Herman's "Dear World" …
The sensuous slouch, the bowler hat placed rakishly on the tilted head, the turned-in pigeon toes, undulating abdomen, hands reaching out as if roping in their prey, or palms up in the air s…
"Dear World" was a vehicle for Angela Lansbury, though one that otherwise crashed when it ran on Broadway for a mere 132 performances in 1969, even as Jerry Herman's other musicals on Broadw…
Stephen Sondheim was not a cynic; he was a romantic. That in a nutshell is the thesis Ben Francis puts forth in Careful the Spell You Cast: How Stephen Sondheim Extended the Range of the Ame…
It's too tempting to mock this austere version of Ibsen's play as Broadway's answer to the movie that just swept the Oscars. Call it: Nothing Nowhere With No Intermission! Jessica Chastai…