Bad Behavior by Audiences… and by a Publisher? Are theater audiences behaving badly both on Broadway and in the UK? That's what the BBC, The Stage, The Guardian and Playbill reported.Â…
At least one President is almost always on Broadway, as the photo essay below once again makes clear. Last month there were five, although they looked a bit different than past stage portray…
"I am the director," a young man protested to Dame Edith Evans as she was giving instructions to the other cast members of a play in which she starred. "Never mind," she answered. "We'll fin…
Which of the ten movies nominated this year for the Best Picture Oscar would make the best play? The worst play? The best musical? I put this to a poll, below, now that I've seen all ten, an…
"Between Riverside and Crazy" is being "simulcast" for four more performances, starting tonight, the last chance to see this terrific production, which I loved both staged in person, a…
That Katie Holmes portrays a movie star in Anna Ziegler's play about two troubled Jewish marriages somewhat undercuts what's meant to be a significant moment near the end:Â Â Sophie (Sar…
There is a spectacular other-wordly train crash in "Avatar" that recalls the one in "The Fabelmans," which in turn explicitly mimics the one in Cecil B. DeMille's film "The Greatest Show on …
Shows currently on Broadway are full of romantic or at least sexy moments, as these scenes and shots from a dozen of them attest: click on any photograph to read the caption. From Funny Girl…
"Americans are tired of being played for suckers," President Joe Biden said at the State of the Union Address last week, asking Congress to "pass the Junk Fee Prevention Act so companies sto…
From the moment Mary hires Ashling to be the nanny for her children, "things start to feel just a little….off," according to the promotion for "Lucy." But for the entire two hours (without…
It was the sort of remark that might have shocked people at any other ribbon-cutting ceremony, but this was the reopening yesterday of La MaMa Experimental Theater Club's first home, a four-…
In 1992, photographer Larry Sultan published an unusual book about his parents Irv and Jean entitled "Pictures From Home," a combination of staged photographs of them, stills from the family…
The parents of police victim Tyre Nichols, the ambassador from Ukraine, a man who disarmed a killer, the father of a young woman who died from an overdose " these are among the nine individu…
It was as if John Guare had come to his own memorial service, he joked at the end of last night's two-hour celebration of his work at the 92nd Street Y. "But I'm so happy to be alive." On…
"In the Woods" won the Grammy for best musical theater album, producer Sean Patrick Flahaven accepting the award as a tribute to the memory of Stephen Sondheim (who during his lifetime…
Into The Woods is the winner of the Grammy for Musical Theater Album. "This album is a tribute to Stephen Sondheim. We lost him a little more than a year ago." The six nominees in the catego…
Theater created by Black New Yorkers goes back two centuries, as chronicled in the collections of the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress, some items from which are posted be…
Each of the following ten recording artists has been nominated for Album of the Year, the most coveted of the 91 categories in the 65th annual Grammy Awards, which will be held this Sunday. …
When I saw "Between Riverside and Crazy" on stage at Broadway's Hayes Theater in December, I called it a "must-see" production of Stephen Adly Guirgis's 2015 Pulitzer Prize winning pla…
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in February 2023 in New York, Â including one play on Broadway, starring Nathan Lane, Danny Burstein and Zoe Wanamaker, and much exciting Off-Broadw…
Tickets are now on sale for Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for performances from February 13 through March 5 to 23 Off-Broadway shows, including such fan f…
How well were you paying attention to New York theater in January? Answer these ten questions to find out. Loading…
A year after Eric Adams delivered  his first official speech as mayor in Manhattan's theater district urging New Yorkers to "enjoy a Broadway show," he made his second State o…
A Ukrainian play at an Irish theater festival? It was one of the two plays I attended in the final weekend of the annual 1st Irish Festival, which on the surface seemed as opposite as …
Vivien Leigh said it tipped her over into madness. It left Ann-Margret "twisted and shaking, confused, agitated, and staring ahead in a daze." For Jessica Lange, "I don't think there is a…