The photographs of Edwin Booth as Iago in "Othello" in 1871 and Meryl Streep with John Lithgow in "Secret Service" 105 years later are among some 30,000 photographs that chronicle some 5,000…
Each of these three plays from 59E59 Theater's "East to Edinburgh Goes Virtual 2021,"Â Â a festival running through July 25, takes its inspiration from a familiar source " "Testament" br…
Being stuck is not necessarily a bad thing inside the world of "Schmigadoon!", the star-studded musical series parodying Golden Age musicals, the first two episodes of which launched on Appl…
In "Endure," a performer named Casey Howes ran through Central Park for more than an hour while we small band of theatergoers listened over earphones to an audio recording of her inner thoug…
Priyanka Shetty, the writer and performer of this one-hour solo play about the 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017, tells us early on that she decided to intervie…
The seven new plays presented this year in Red Bull's annual festival are odd hybrids that mimic the past, reflect our strange present, and suggest the future, perhaps inadvertently posing t…
Heat waves? Downpours? This week demonstrated that New York theatergoers are as tenacious as postal couriers are supposed to be, stayed by neither rain nor heat nor gloom of night " not even…
The evil, power-hungry Richard appeared on stage for the first time just a few minutes into "Seize the King," which the Classical Theater of Harlem bills as playwright Will Power's modern re…
"Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created 'Sunday in the Park with George'" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 416 pages) is an eccentric, valuable and entertaining book, which autho…
"Lines in the Dust," which New Normal Rep is streaming online through August 8th, is Nikkole Salter's three-character play about a vexing side effect of modern-day segregation. It was origin…
"Fruma-Sarah (Waiting in the Wings)," at the Cell Theater through July 25, begins as an affectionate poke at theater folk, offering nearly everything theatergoers returning to live, in-perso…
Six years ago this month, theater etiquette made headlines. Patti LuPone confiscated a cell phone from an audience member who was texting during her performance of "Show for Days," then rant…
As theater stages begin to reopen, theater artists aren't through with theater screens " as some of the theater bloggers make clear. Terry Teachout discusses "hybrid theater" aka "webcast th…
Every work of theater I saw this past week was live and in person " which would have been an impossibility a year ago, and an insane thing to say two years ago…because what else was there …
Some of the best-known plays or musicals about American history actually depict the Fourth of July; one of them, "1776," is entirely about the events leading up to it. But most of the theate…
"Enemy of the People" at the Park Avenue Armory remakes Ibsen's drama into a striking one-woman show starring Ann Dowd that forces us to realize our complicity in the lead poisoning of the F…
Below is an alphabetical list of ten shows you can catch up on over the July 4th weekend, about half of them live in person.* I've put a √ next to those I've seen and especially reco…
"The Watering Hole," an art installation that takes over nearly every nook and cranny of The Pershing Square Signature Center, is meant to be healing and calming…like water. That's the cle…
How well were you paying attention to the theatrical doings in June? Answer the dozen quiz questions below to find out. (Clockwise from top left: Scenes from "In The Heights," "Hot Wing King…
Lust was the best. Everybody seemed to agree, and it wasn't just because Cynthia Nixon was in the cast. But, in truth, none of the eight short plays by some of America's most original pla…
"It's great to see everybody unmasked sitting next to each other in one room,"Â Bruce Springsteen said on opening night Saturday of the first Broadway show in 15 months … speaking on the…
"Four Chords and a Gun" is John Ross Bowie's version of  a legendary (or at least deeply weird) moment in rock n roll history "  the making of "End of the Century," the 1980 albu…
"Happy Pride!" shouted the stage full of Tina Landau's friends, capping  the free two-hour concert that featured Bill Irwin rapping and Tony Yazbeck tapping with Jared Grimes, to lots …
Below is an attempt to answer the question: What's coming up Off-Broadway? Long-running favorites are reopening, there is exciting new work by a slew of much-heralded American playwrights " …
As Off Broadway reopens, "Off Broadway," a play by Torrey Townsend, is streaming free online through Sunday to warn people away from Off Broadway.  It's hard to conclude otherwise,�…