"We must devote at least as much to our children's education and the health of the poor as we do to the care of our automobiles and the building of beautiful, impressive hotels," Martin Luth…
"You will hear an unbelievable true story," Â one of the three actors from the Republic of Slovenia on a stage designed to look like a makeshift bunker, tells us at the beginning of the pl…
"Lonely was the first flavor I had tasted in my life, and it was always there, hidden inside the crevices of my mouth, reminding me." That's what Laura Linney as Lucy Barton tells us from he…
…"My Name is Lucy Barton" is a sometimes poignant, often tedious 90-minute monologue… The hope was that Laura Linney would do for it what France McDormand did in the HBO miniseries that …
Ann Harada, who made her Broadway debut more than 30 years ago, is philosophical about the latest character she portrays. "Sometimes you get to play glamorous roles," she says, "and sometime…
They meet on a line for a movie; the man and the woman " each disfigured by childhood accidents " Â are used to be stared at, and they are used to being alone. Inspired by the late Uruguay…
Those theatergoers drawn to "Modern Maori Quartet: Two Worlds" for the authentic music and culture of the indigenous Maori people of New Zealand might feel blindsided by what seems like a La…
This 15 minutes of Virtual Reality offering the sensation of looking at, walking on and flying over the moon " created by performance artist Laurie Anderson and new media artist Hsin-Chien H…
The typical Broadway theatergoer is still a well-to-do , middle-aged woman from out-of-town, according to statistics presented in The Demographics of the Broadway Audience 2018"2019, the 22n…
Below are the nominations in 24 categories for the 92nd Academy Awards, Joker" led all films with 11 nominations, including for Best Actor Joaquin Phoenix and Best Director Todd Phillips, fo…
Nominations for the 92nd annual Academy Awards will be announced tomorrow January 13, so it seems a good time to test your knowledge of the history of Broadway at the Oscars. (The 92nd Oscar…
Tickets are now on sale for Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for performances from January 21 through February 9 of 21 Broadway shows, from "Ain't Too Proud"…
There was a time when people made a living by starving themselves in front of a paying audience " an art form that lasted for centuries, but one that was on the wane when Franz Kafka wrote o…
The long arty title and the vague, grand description of the show in the Under the Radar festival listing are both misleading. "The Shadow" etc. has a straightforward subject and a clear poin…
"Wild Dogs Under My Skirt," a rhythmic, exuberant and startling work of theater that is the first of three New Zealand plays at Soho Playhouse this month, resembles Ntozake Shange's choreopo…
Two Broadway veterans " Taylor Mac, Tony-nominated playwright of "Gary" and Greg Kotis, the Tony-winning co-author of "Urinetown" " are back Off-Off Broadway this season, and why would that …
Broadway and Off-Broadway were represented at the 77th annual Golden Globes; click on photographs for details. (Full list of 2020 Golden Globe winners and nominees.) Theater is an art form t…
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to. The list below is for shows that have opening dates on Broadway from January through April 2020 as of this writing, and they are listed …
Genocide, suicide, murder, deportation, terror, kidnapping, mass explosion " those are some of the bleak subjects of the Off-Broadway shows I'm most looking forward to this season, listed be…
For all the Broadway lore and persistent hope that a show on the Great White Way will make new stars and break new ground, the appeal of Broadway increasingly has become its familiarity " fa…
Below is a selection of New York theater openings in January, organized chronologically by opening date.* Three shows are opening on Broadway this month " Laura Linney in "My Name Is…
Watch the entire 90-minute concert "Celebrating Sondheim," performed by the New York Philharmonic live on New Year's Eve 2020, with host Bernadette Peters and guest vocalist Katrina Lenk sin…
In the decade just ended, there were unmistakable trends specific to the theater " teen musicals, for example, and celebrity bio jukebox musicals. Which of these trends will continue in 2020…
We celebrate the new decade by saluting  Broadway veterans who are aged 88 to 105, many of them still working. Click on any photograph to see it enlarged and read the caption.  Â
It would be hard to have put together these weekly summaries of New York theater news for the entire decade, as I have, without noticing: This has been a weird decade. Even the name of the d…