Like most talented playwrights these days, Annie Baker has no doubt been asked to spend some time in a writers' room for one of the prestige TV shows. But on the basis of her new play The An…
There's no question that the Tonys are the Oscars, or most desired awards, of the theater world but there are other coveted prizes too. Yesterday, the Outer Critics Circle, of which I'm a pr…
The Tonys may be the top dog in awards season but it's not the only one in the game. Lots of other groups also celebrate the best of the theater season. The nominations for the Lucille …
Playwrights Horizons hasn't made a big deal of it but over the past year, the company seems to have gone out of its way to tell stories about people whose lives rarely get shown onstage and …
--> Now this is more like it. Unlike last week when I got crickets in response to my giveaway quiz, a whole bunch of you wrote in for the chance to win the new book "…
You B&Me readers are a clever bunch: everyone who wrote in for the chance to win a free digital download of the cast recording for the new musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory got t…
Has the art of romance been totally lost? I ask because three versions of what is arguably the most romantic play of all time, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (you know, the one where t…
--> New Yorkers (and the tourists who come here) have been almost as enchanted with Matilda, the musical based on the classic Roald Dahl story about a very smart girl and her ver…
Female actors didn't appear on the professional stage until about 50 years after Shakespeare's death. Which explains, at least in part, why actresses are always lamenting the paucity of grea…
--> Word of mouth has not been kind to The Film Society, the Keen Company's revival of Jon Robin Baitz's first play, now running at The Clurman Theater on Theater Row through Oct. 2…
--> Philip Goes Forth seemed tailor-made for me. It's a play about a young man who dreams of a life in the theater. It was written by George Kelly, a Pulitzer Prize-winning…
--> This is the first time that The Old Friends, the Horton Foote melodrama now playing at Signature Theatre's Irene Diamond Stage through Oct. 20, has been fully staged. And th…
--> Seeing a bioplay always makes me nervous that what I'm going to get is caricatures instead of characters. Seeing one with my husband K, who hates watching people pretend to b…
Maybe if I'd known more about Brendan Behan, I would have had a better time at Brendan at the Chelsea, the gloomy drama about the Irish poet and playwright Brendan Behan that's playing at Th…
--> You don't have to love a show to admire it. At least that's how I'm feeling about two of the shows that have kicked off this new fall season. The first I saw was A U…
--> Between you and me, I'm a little reluctant to list the shows I'm most looking forward to this fall. That's because my picks for past seasons have turned out to be some …
--> Lots of people seem charmed by First Date, the first musical to open in this new Broadway season. And I wish I could have been too. Because I admire the fact …
--> Labor Day has snuck up on me this year because it's been a busier summer than usual. Some publications have asked me to write about theater-related subjects and instead of ki…
--> We need more poor playwrights. I don't mean bad writers or even those who are living hand-to mouth for the sake of their art but people who have grown up in families that had …
There's a certain magic about seeing a show in Central Park, no matter what the show is. I've seen two there over the last couple of weeks and although not crazy about either, I'm sure…
We theater lovers used to beg for things to see in the summer. And so we got festivals. Lots and lots of festivals. Maybe too many festivals. There's the New York Musical…
Theater slows down in August. Or at least I do. So while I'll continue seeing a few shows, I'll only be writing about them here once a week, instead of the usual twice, until sometime …
Just like the TV reality shows it lampoons, the new musical Nobody Loves You, now playing at Second Stage Theatre through Aug. 11, is silly and yet enjoyable at the same time. The playwri…
We're all obsessed with celebrity these days and almost everyone (me included) has a story to tell about an encounter with one. Writer Elizabeth Fuller's was with the movie star Bette Davis …
Comeuppance for the financial scoundrels who bilked people out of their savings and helped wreck the broader economy is once again a hot topic. In "Blue Jasmine," the new Woody Allen m…