David Lawson made a personal sacrifice as a public service: He read 10 campaign books, all but one by current candidates for President of the United States. From his reading, he has fashione…
If Richard Nelson, the writer and director of "The Michaels," were hired to direct the next Marvel movie, would Iron Man, Thor and the Hulk sit around the kitchen table in Rhinebeck, New Yor…
Peter Dinklage's singing voice would not normally qualify him for a role in a musical, unless in a Disney animated movie as a singing rhinoceros. But Rex Harrison couldn't really sing either…
Peter Dinklage's singing voice would not normally qualify him for a role in a musical, unless in a Disney animated movie as a singing rhinoceros. But Rex Harrison couldn't really sing either…
Bella Abzug spoke at my junior high school graduation, until Donna Florio's mother told her to shut up. "This is my daughter's graduation, not a political rally." Â Abzug paused, apologize…
Bella Abzug spoke at my junior high school graduation, until Donna Florio's mother told her to shut up. "This is my daughter's graduation, not a political rally." Â Abzug paused, apologize…
The two ladies hanging out on the roof are lesbians; they just don't know it yet. The title of Liza Birkenmeier's play, which marks her Off-Broadway playwriting debut, may seem to promise so…
André Bishop, head of Lincoln Center Theater: $1 million Todd Haimes, Roundabout: $922,000. Oskar Eustis the Public Theater: $659,000 Lynne Meadows, MTC: $565,000 Carole Rothman, Second Sta…
Lizzie Vieh's black comedy about a divorced couple permanently underwater in Phoenix Arizona, is clever and merciless, but it is also oddly compassionate. Exhibit A is the bit with the hermi…
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 Below is a selection of New York theater opening in November, organized chronologically by opening date, including five on Broadway "  a much anticipated epic gay play, a blockbuster…
"The Sound Inside" is a dark drama by Adam Rapp that keeps us in the dark, literally and figuratively, which works better while watching it on stage than thinking about it afterwards. Mary-L…
William Shakespeare's only son, named Hamnet, died when he was 11 years old; a few years later, the playwright wrote "Hamlet." Â The Irish theater troupe Dead Centre conjures up the Bard's…
 "How do we fight evil without becoming evil?" asks Ethan, one of the two adult characters in "Fear," a play by Matt Williams.  "Isn't that the central question of the age, this age o…
Freestyle Love Supreme is not so much Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway follow-up to Hamilton as it is a subsidiary of Lin-Manuel Inc. The hip-hop improv group that Miranda co-founded 16 years a…
"Freestyle Love Supreme" is not so much Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway follow-up to "Hamilton" as it is a subsidiary of Lin-Manuel Inc. Â The hip-hop improv group that Miranda co-founded 16…
Theresa Rebeck's slight but savory comedy about running a restaurant stars Raúl Esparza as Harry, a hilariously mercurial chef-owner of a hole-in-the-wall eatery that's become…
Refugees are in the news these days, and their stories have suddenly come to New York stages. "I think it is important to ask an audience to recognize lives that we have literally fenced off…
Three years after he spoofed "Hamilton" in "Spamilton" (with "I am not throwing away my shot" becoming "I am not gonna let Broadway rot,") Gerard Alessandrini paints Lin-Manuel Miranda less …
I think if I were eight years old I might have loved "The Lightning Thief" on Broadway, but that's mostly because I would then have been too young to have seen it at the Lucille Lortel Theat…
There is one spectacularly funny moment in this musical comedy version of "Macbeth," which is based on Billy Morrissette's 2001 movie, and is set in a fast-food restaurant in the "podunk tow…
Forty-one years after Broadway said goodbye after 742 thrilling performances to its first (and last) choreopoem, and a year after its author and original performer died at the age of 70, sev…
"Is This A Room" stages the verbatim transcript of the FBI interrogation of a 25-year-old former Air Force linguist with the improbable name of Reality Winner, who was eventually sente…
David Henry Hwang was attacked by an unknown assailant with a knife and nearly died. That experience, along with the playwright's shock at the results of the 2016 Presidential election and h…
There are many cues to what's wrong with this overly broad third Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' dated play, starring Marisa Tomei as Serafina Delle Rose, a Sicilian immigrant seamst…