A third of all Broadway shows were canceled on Sunday because members of the company or crew tested positive for Covid, the latest in "a raft of cancellations unlike any in history," evidenc…
While others were busy assessing the trends in New York theater of the decade that had just ended, on January 1, 2020, I asked: What will be the trends of the future? I had a list of seven q…
It shouldn't surprise anybody who followed the race for New York City mayor that Eric Adams, who won and will take office on January 1, 2022, has a book out called Healthy at Last: A Plant-B…
This year's holiday season in New York is meant as a return to the annual tradition of live in-person Christmas Carols and Nutcracker Suites, as well as the usual mix of family fare, offb…
It's been 40 years since sex therapist Ruth Westheimer became a celebrity. The 4'7" "Grandma Freud," aka Dr. Ruth, who gave advice on her radio and TV shows in a sing-song European accent ab…
Deirdre O'Connell gave one of my favorite performances on a New York stage in 2016, and she returns in this latest of my annual lists of favorite theatrical performances  (not all o…
This past week, the last Broadway shows of 2021 opened (Flying Over Sunset) and reopened (Dear Evan Hansen, the last of the reopening shows that were shut down by the pandemic.) For all the …
When he takes LSD, the movie star Cary Grant turns into a spectacular tap-dancer, in a duet with a boy in a dress " who turns out to be his younger self, Archie Leach. The novelist and futur…
Kimberly Levaco is a 16-year-old girl with a rare, terminal disease that accelerates the aging process, and makes her look as if she's in her 70s. Seth Weetis is her nerdy, smiling classmate…
The remake of "West Side Story," the tragic story of lovers from rival New York street gangs, which opens in movie theaters today, is director Steven Spielberg's first movie musical. Spielbe…
 "Company" is perfectly timed, sadly. Opening less than two weeks after the death of Stephen Sondheim at the age of 91, in a season delayed by more than a year and a half by the worldwide…
Alex Edelman read a Tweet from somebody he knew to be antisemitic " the man had previously attacked him online for being Jewish "Â Â inviting people to go to an address in Astoria, Queen…
"Selling Kabul," a play by Sylvia Khoury at Playwrights Horizons through December 23, tells a small, claustrophobic story about Taroon, an Afghani man who is holed up in his sister Afiya's a…
The President of the United States attended the 44th Kennedy Center Honors, in a return to tradition, and paid tribute not just to the honorees " opera singer Justino DÃaz, Motown foun…
The Vineyard Theater has launched its Fall Forward Festival with the first two of the five planned  "new works of alternative theater," according to its website, works that promise to …
After my tickets to "Lackawanna Blues" were canceled twice because Ruben Santiago-Hudson, the author, director and star of this autobiographical solo show, had injured his back, I searched f…
Do chimpanzees fall in love? Can human couples really stay madly in love after many years, and can a brain scan prove it?  Will theatergoers still love digital theater now that in-pers…
""You're a singular talent, Billy. Nobody knows what to do with you.'"And there it is again"the smoke up my ass…Singular talent without a gig don't pay the rent, and a bitch needs to eat."…
There were five Broadway openings (and reopenings) this week, in what promises to be the oddest and busiest Broadway season in memory. There are now 51 shows on the Broadway 2021-2022 season…
"Dana H." is unlike any play you've ever seen on Broadway. It's 75 minutes of an actress sitting on a chair, lip-syncing to a tape of a woman recounting the horrific story of a deranged crim…
The country has changed in the two and a half years since The Lehman Trilogy came to America, wowing audiences at the Park Avenue Armory with a theatrical epic, inventively staged and ext…
"Thoughts of a Colored Man,"  Keenan Scott II's often powerful, often entertaining debut Broadway play about a day in the life of seven Black men in Brooklyn,  is performed by a …
Rajiv Joseph's epistolary play begins with some meager clues to the mysteries at its heart " a stack of letters from a man named Suresh, and an origami sculpture of a bird " before it slowly…
"Booster" has taken on a new meaning in the age of COVID, which Broadway has embraced in its own way. Some 250 people have been hired (so far) to serve as safety team members in Broadway the…
Much is improbable about "Is This A Room," starting with the name of the real-life whistleblower who's the subject of the play (Reality Winner), and the fact that she received a stupefyingly…