Beverly Jenkins doesn't wear black to her father's funeral. "We already Black! We should be honoring my Daddy in style, COLOR! Hell, canary yellow was his favorite, and he wore it l…
 "Hit Your Mark, Die Beautiful" lured me in because it was being promoted as a "Waiting for Guffman" for Off Off Broadway, which I took to mean a comic but affectionate look at how bad Ne…
"Divorced. Beheaded. Died. Divorced. Beheaded. Survived." The first six words of "Six" sum up the fate of each of King Henry VIII's six wives. The first six minutes of "Six" (the length of t…
If you think that reopening has solved the problems of New York's theaters and theater artists, listen up: "We're talking about life and death: The life and death of our neighborhoods; the l…
In what may be the busiest October for theater in generations, there are fifteen shows scheduled to open on Broadway, more than half of which are new, as well as much Off and Off Off Broadwa…
In "Chasing Jack," nothing is as it seems. That's true of Dr. Jack Chase, the heart surgeon who is being sued for malpractice after his patient died on the operating table. And it's true of …
"The Nosebleed," Aya Ogawa's sly, strange and ultimately rewarding autobiographical play that's at the Japan Society through October 10, focuses on Ogawa's long-dead father and their failed …
Below is a day-by-day selection of the theater that is scheduled to open in October, organized by opening date*, including fifteen shows on Broadway, more than half of which are new, as w…
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Aunt Sonia, who is gathering the whole clan for one last meal before she ends her life, looks different from when I last saw her. She once was just a huge head, with a mouth that seemed p…
Bedlam's return to live in-person theater with its new adaptation of Jane Austen's romantic final novel " about a woman who meets once again the man whose proposal of marriage she rejected e…
In this slight musical comedy with an on-the-nose title, Broadway veteran Bryonha Marie Parham portrays a fading diva named Regina Comet who hires two aspiring jingle writers (Alex Wyse and …
Four hours full of spectacular musical numbers, ending with three famous musical duets from the past  " Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel performing "For Good" from Wicked, Anthony…
Below are the winners of the much-delayed 74th annual Tony Awards, honoring the much-truncated 2019-2020 Broadway season, selected from 18 eligible shows, which opened between April of 20…
The day of the Tony Awards might seem a strange time to write about an Off-Off Broadway solo play, playing in a theater off Avenue B, with the downbeat title "I Squeezed Really Hard" (a refe…
Watch musical numbers performed by cast members from the new Broadway musicals "Six," "Diana," and "Mrs. Doubtfire," as well as the new revivals of "Company" and "Caroline or Change," at the…
"Sanctuary City" is full of surprises, rarely happy ones for the boy and girl who have grown up together " or for the audience. Martyna Majok's challenging, intelligent play focuses on two i…
Why are these five women in the same play? A prostitute in Amsterdam; a mother from Guatemala; a sister from the Midwest;Â Â a food vendor in the Central African Republic; an internation…
"I loathe that word 'nice,'" Hallie says, and so apparently do both her parents; all three could not be more unlikeable in the first 100 minutes of the 110-minute play "The Medievalists," wr…
Over the past week, there has been so much hoopla bout Broadway " reopening nights, festival concerts, TV spots, heartfelt speeches about Broadway being back (Kristin Chenoweth: "There's no …
"Repulsing the Monkey," which is set in an old bar in Pittsburgh about to be sold to (and destroyed by) gentrifiers, takes place in an old bar in New York, the White Horse Tavern. This is th…
 "There's no place like home," Kristin Chenoweth said on the reopening night of "Wicked," on September 14, 2021, eighteen years after it opened on Broadway (on October 30, 2003) and 18 mo…
Alan Cumming and Billy Porter have written memoirs that are being published this fall, which will also see biographies of Oscar Wilde and Emily Mann, plus a book "by" Noel Coward. Click on t…
Thicket & Thistle is the kind of company that anybody serious about theater in America would want to encourage. This is what drew me to "Waterman,"Â Â which turns out to be a Fringe-…
Below are new production photographs of the 2021 cast of "Hamilton," which is reopening on Broadway tonight, along with "Chicago," "The Lion King" and "Wicked," after eighteen months, the lo…