Billy Porter is busy promoting his debut as a film director, for the movie "Anything's Possible" a romcom on Amazon Prime with a twist " one of the young lovers is trans. But for all his var…
Ariana DeBose became a familiar face this year, after winning the Academy Award for her performance as Anita in Steven Spielberg's revival of "West Side Story," which was a couple of months …
"Who here loves their father? Who here hates their father?" Aya asks  the audience each time for a show of hands, and then volunteers: "I hated my father."  Aya Ogawa's "The Noseble…
 "High Noon" is aiming for Broadway, an announcement last week that felt aptly timed, considering all the showdowns. (see The Week in New York Theater News) Theater Quiz for July 2022: Di…
Below is a selection of theater opening in New York in August, with many of the most intriguing plays this month by and about first generation Americans. It's summer, so a lot of the thea…
How well were you paying attention to theater in July? Answer these ten questions " plus two bonus questions about "Into the Woods" Loading…
Is the theater worth the trouble? That's the question I've been asking myself lately, and it turns out I'm not alone.  "In the fall of 2019, in the wake of a disastrous workshop of a n…
"I want you to close your eyes and remember your first puff puff pass," Baba Israel raps near the beginning of "Cannabis: A Viper Vaudeville," which is a fast-paced flashy rap concert and…
Judging from Robert Icke's adaptation, Aeschylus took the easy way out. In the Greek playwright's version of The Oresteia written 2,500 years ago " telling the story of the cycle of murder a…
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to, and the one you are least likely to attend. The list below is for shows that have opening dates on Broadway in October, November and Dec…
Like the magnets I collect from each show for my refrigerator, Broadway exerts a pull, but I also felt a push upon my return this past week to see  "Into The Woods" and "The Kite Runne…
There's an early sweet and funny scene in "The Kite Runner" that feels like a subconscious warning about how misbegotten this stage adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's 2003 best-selling novel…
"Into The Woods," the musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine currently back on Broadway in a wonderfully cast concert staging directed by Lear deBessonet, has always reminded me of the…
Theater has always involved risk, and pain, and they are often still viewed as necessary and good: "If you're just doing what you know works you can be great, but you won't get to the ineffa…
Why has there been so much conflict and conversation over a cast change on Broadway, a personnel decision in a Chicago theater, and a producer's late payroll for a musical that's just closed…
After skipping two summers because of the pandemics *, Broadway in Bryant Park, the free weekly lunchtime concerts by the casts from current Broadway shows, will return to Bryant Park with a…
Twenty-five women have portrayed Fanny Brice on Broadway* " a 26th, Lea Michele, takes over the role on September 6 " but, half a century before she became a character in the Jule Style musi…
Everybody seemed to have a colorful anecdote  about Tallulah Bankhead. She was said to have inspired the characters of Margo Channing in the film "All About Eve," Blanche DuBois in Ten…
Paul McCartney's planned new musical wouldn't be the first time an actual Beatle created something original for Broadway. But it would be wonderful. Three years ago, McCartney announced he w…
Two new plays and a new musical announced for Broadway this past week, and a fourth firmed up dates and theater, bringing the number of confirmed shows in the Broadway 2022-2023 season to 17…
Theater as we know it began outdoors, in amphitheaters such as the 2,500-year-old theater at Epidaurus, Greece, which was designed by the architect Polykleitos the Younger, and is still bein…
As a new season begins, the big questions posed in the best theater co-exist with a more immediate question: Are theatergoers safe? Starting last Friday, Broadway attendance requires neither…
"You don't own me," Lesley Gore sings, in one of the videos below of anthems, pop ballads and raps sung by women that have taken on a new, urgent meaning this Fourth of July, a holiday that …
How well were you paying attention to the news and its impact on theater this past month? Answer these dozen questions on abortion and masks and the Tonys, plus a bonus question on hybrid th…
Below is a selection of theater opening in New York in July, featuring two Broadway shows, a revival of Sondheim and Lapine's "Into the Woods" and a stage adaptation of "The Kite Runner,"…