On this International Holocaust Remembrance Day " designated by the United Nations every January 27th, because that was the date in 1945 when Soviet soldiers liberated the 6,000 remain…
Ever since newly-elected New York Congressman George Santos was revealed as a liar, and worse, not a day has gone by without something new. It's embarrassing, of course; much of it is infuri…
"525,600 minutes 525,000 moments so dear 525,600 minutesHow do you measure… half a lifetime?  That's how long it's been" This is how Anthony Rapp begins  "Without You," h…
Nine of the 20 Oscar nominees for performance announced this morning are veterans of Broadway. (Full list of nominations) They are: Actor in a Leading RoleAustin Butler (Elvis) made his Broa…
The full list of nominations for the 95th annual Academy Awards, which will be held on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and will be televised live on ABC…
"Throughout history weather was the only important subject; everything else was small talk," Colin Quinn explains; now weather's the go-to subject for small talk, except for members of polit…
Maya Lin was still a college student when her design was selected out of more than 1,400 entries for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C., which resulted in criticism, conflict, …
Nominations for the 95th annual Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday January 24th, so it seems a good time to test your knowledge of the interplay between Broadway and Hollywood, with…
Many of the dozen or so theater bloggers below offered end of year assessments for 2022, a less evidently emotional year than the previous two " but that's just on the surface. "This year di…
Jared Mezzocchi is a pioneer in digital theater, and probably its most quoted evangelist, an Obie winning theater artist who works as a multimedia designer, director, playwright, perfo…
An 88-year-old white supremacist who claimed "The Diary of Anne Frank" was a hoax shot and killed a 39-year-old African American security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washi…
Broadway Week 2-for-1 tickets launches today through February 12, a traditional fallow period in New York theater, but one full of hope this year, judging from the announcements this past we…
Today, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day " which has been an official federal holiday since 1986 " many people read or listen once again to his most famous speech, delivered August 28, 1963, …
Brian Stokes Mitchell, Wynton Marsalis, Senators Chuck Schumer and Amy Klobuchar, and Broadway League President  Charlotte St. Martin were among those who took to the stage on the firs…
In 1905, Mark Twain wrote a caustic satire, "King Leopold's Soliloquy," in which the Belgian king tries to justify the unspeakable atrocities he committed for his personal enrichment duri…
What was most jaw-dropping about "Mothermotherland," which is being presented for free through January 15 at A.R.T./New York Theatres,  was not that Audrey Rose Dégez breastfed …
A middle aged man hires a teenager for sex in a cheap Dublin hotel, but both the older man (Marc Kudisch) and the younger man (Kyle Bielfield) actually want something else.  A womanÂ�…
Tickets are now on sale for Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for performances from January 17 through February 12 of 22 Broadway shows, from "& Juliet" t…
The longest battle for Speaker of the House since 1859 was filled with drama last week, but also with theater, enough to inspire observations by at least two theater critics " about Hakeem J…
"That's the sound of a hit,"Â Jonathan Groff as Franklin Shepard sings about halfway through the current Off-Broadway production of the Stephen Sondheim/George Furth musical "Merrily We Ro…
I had a whale of a time for much of "The Indigo Room," which is part of this year's Under the Radar theater festival, and can certainly count as theater. But it is more than that " maybe too…
Near the end of his inspiring 15-minute address to the 118th Congress before the formal handing-over of the gavel to the newly elected Speaker of the House early Saturday morning, Minority L…
The title is a palindrome: it reads the same backwards and forwards. The show too goes backward and forward " or actually, forward and then backward. The first entry in the annual Unde…
In this first play of the new year, the four statuesque performers are dressed in what at first look like classic robes, but on closer inspection are made up of regular street clothes. This …
Below is a calendar of selected theater opening* this month in New York, including Off-Broadway shows written and performed by Anthony Rapp and Colin Quinn, a new play about the architect Ma…