At the curtain call, Audra McDonald and the rest of the cast pointed to a huge photograph on stage of Adrienne Kennedy, the playwright of "Ohio State Murders," who is making her Broadway deb…
I am Georgia. I am an example and an iteration of its history. Of its pain, and its promise, and the brutality and the possibility. But because this is America, because we always have a path…
After 29 years and 11,472 Performances, "Stomp" will play its final performance on January 8, 2023. The show, ensconced at the Orpheum Theater in the East Village since Feb. 27, 1994, create…
This holiday season in New York means more than a dozen Nutcracker Suites, at least a half A Christmas Carols, including one on Broadway, and other annual traditions in the city that range f…
Happy days are not quite here again, but news this week softened some recent blows: "The Phantom of the Opera" is still closing, but recent weeks have been the highest-grossing in the show's…
"A Beautiful Noise" is certainly an efficient delivery system for twenty-nine of Neil Diamond's most popular songs " some of them just snippets in medleys, but "Sweet Caroline" twice "…
"Ain't No Mo'," an over-the-top satire that aims to tickle, shock and draw blood, imagines an America in which all Black people are being flown to Africa. But it's not a direct flight. There…
The first Broadway musical made out of a movie was probably the 1942 film "My Sister Eileen" with Rosalind Russell, which became the 1953 Broadway musical 'Wonderful Town." Other vintage exa…
There were arguably more challenges than cheers in New York theater over the previous month, as the following ten-question quiz attests. Loading…
Erik Jensen is making his Broadway debut the same year he suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm that almost killed him. The two are not unrelated, as he explains in the interview below. I…
Below is a day-by-day calendar of theater opening* in December, a month that features six new Broadway shows, including two by Black playwrights making their Broadway debuts " one at age 27,…
On this eleventh annual #GivingTuesday (created in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y and the United Nations Foundation), consider donating to your favorite New York area theaters and theater c…
Here are some theater-related promotional discounts, many of them for today only: Today Tix: Cybersale "Up to 60 percent off" of Broadway tickets From Goldstar, Cybersale "up to 60 perce…
"We sing together, we dance together, we look sexy together," says Timmy X. This may be a succinct description of the Korean popular music phenomenon known as K-pop in general, but in any ca…
Stephen Sondheim died a year ago today at the age of 91. If the musical theater composer and lyricist was revered during his lifetime, attention to his work has only accelerated in the year …
My annual list of my favorite New York stage shows, which I'd posted for a decade, morphed in the last two years into an appreciation of the innovative and impassioned attempts to redefine t…
Below are videos of the musical numbers performed by the casts of Broadway shows at the 96th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, starting with Lea Michele et al from Funny Girl; then "The…
My eleventh annual theater gift guide below features links and information on shopping for theater tickets,theater subscriptions/memberships,cast recordings,play scripts and books about the …
In a play entitled "Pool, Vol. 1″ " one of the fourteen odd and inventive works by "experience designers" showcased during a day-long event called The New Frame " Megan Livingston, …
Jefferson Mays' version of "A Christmas Carol," in which he portrays some fifty characters,  struck me as a singular adaptation of Charles Dickens' story in four distinct and memorable…
Thirty-three Broadway shows are on offer this Thanksgiving Week (see schedule), and there'll be eight more Broadway openings before the new year, but the theater industry enters the normally…
"The Patient Gloria" is inspired (if that's the right word) by a film that some see as a breakthrough; others as a betrayal. In 1964, a recently divorced woman named Gloria Szymanski cons…
Below is the Broadway schedule for Thanksgiving Week 2022, which differs from the usual week's schedule: Only two shows of the 33 currently playing have performances on Thanksgiving Day (Thu…
Below are the seven longest-running shows currently on Broadway, with descriptions and links. This feels the right time for an update given that the longest one has announced a closing date,…
In Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 film "North by Northwest," Cary Grant is mistaken for the spy George Kaplan by villain James Mason and his thugs (possibly Russian.)Â Â As we eventually discov…