Can an underemployed middle-aged jerk be a babe magnet?  That's a question theatergoers are likely to ask about Wheeler, the central character in Linda Vista, Tracy Letts' latest play…
Can an underemployed middle-aged jerk be a babe magnet?  That's a question theatergoers are likely to ask about Wheeler, the central character in Linda Vista, Tracy Letts' latest play…
"The Wrong Man,"Â Â a sung-through musical starring the spectacular Joshua Henry, Â may remind people of "Hamilton" in its catchy rap-inflected eclectic score and jerky hip hop choreog…
Diahann Carroll, who died Friday at the age of 84, is best known as the first black woman to star on a TV series, "Julia" in 1968, but she was a barrier breaker on Broadway too. Born in t…
Conservatives don't all think alike; some of them hate Trump; some don't see Liberals as evil (some do.) Some are deeply weird. It is a sure sign of the political divisiveness in America tha…
"Chalk," a 40-minute comedy in which silent comic Alex Curtis creates an entire world for the audience using little more than a piece of chalk, is exactly the sort of show I always hope for …
 At the 22nd annual New York International Fringe Festival, which is running through the end of October, there are 40 shows in six venues " plus more than 25 shows at The Nuyorican P…
"Immersive theater" has come to mean something separate from the dictionary definition of the word "immersive" " in much the same way that phrases Absurdist Theater and Abstract Expressionis…
"Moulin Rouge" on Broadway has several things in common with Bated Breath Theater Company's low-budget show about the same people, place and period, especially in my reaction to them both. A…
 I was struck in seeing "The Great Society," which depicts President Lyndon Johnson's turbulent full term in office, how Robert Shenkkan's play represents political theater in more ways …
"I feel strongly that I should not permit the Presidency to become involved in the partisan divisions that are developing in this political year. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will no…
The Great Society, a play by Robert Schenkkan that offers a largely sympathetic portrait of the 36th president of the United States as it chronicles the final four years of Lyndon Johnson…
October is always a busy month for theater in New York, but it's gone up a notch this time. Below is a selection, organized chronologically by opening date. On Broadway alone, eight shows ar…
How well were you paying attention to New York theater news, views and reviews in September? Answer these ten questions and find out.
Three generations of black, queer theater artists " actor André De Shields, 73; playwright Kevin R. Free, who is 50;Â and director Zhailon Levingston, 25 "Â are collaborating on a pla…
Those for whom theater is their religion are more likely to appreciate "Why?," a 70-minute theater piece about theater that, aptly, begins with a whimsically modified Biblical tale: God proc…
The same playwright who gave us The Father with a demented Frank Langella and The Mother with a depressed and possibly deranged Isabelle Huppert now offers us…dead Jonathan Pryce and…
The same playwright who gave us "The Father" with a demented Frank Langella and "The Mother" with a depressed and possibly deranged Isabelle Huppert now offers us…dead Jonathan Pryce and E…
Ethereal, stylized and visually stunning, Japanese director Satoshi Miyagi's production of "Antigone," at the Park Avenue Armory through October 6, fuses several theatrical traditions, some …
The artist known as Dyalekt (pronounced dialect) greets us looking like a young Allen Ginsberg in his Yippie Uncle Sam phase, holding up a bucket labeled "dead words," asking us for words th…
 The city has announced plans  to build a performing arts center dedicated to Immigrants. The proposed Immigrant Research and Performing Arts Center will go up in Inwood, the north…
Billy Porter won an Emmy for outstanding lead actor in a drama series for "Pose." " the first openly gay black man to win the lead actor in a drama category "The category is love, y'all. Lov…
Below is a map showing the location of the more than 50 tables at today's 33rd Annual Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction, which will be held from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Â Beneath that are t…
There are three ways of looking at Mac Wellman's "The Invention of Tragedy" that offer some satisfactions " as a political parable, as a metaphor for Western theater, Â or as entertaining …
Taping live Broadway shows for the screen is no longer seen as an experiment. It's a routine practice, and it's moved from movie theaters to home computers. Life is not all that's gone onli…