Ashe is a play based on the true story of a pyromaniac who terrorized a Norwegian town by torching homes for a month until he was unmasked as the son of the fire chief. Itis a haunting work …
The first of the April Avalanche on Broadway begins Thursday with the opening of King Lear, starring Glenda Jackson, and ends on April 25 (the Tony eligibility cut-off date) with Beetlejuice…
The ten shows opening on Broadway in April include six plays and four musicals. Several are familiar titles presented in unfamiliar ways: Glenda Jackson as King Lear; an avant-garde, diverse…
My childhood friend Wendy has always had two particular gifts " or rather, one gift and one affliction. She understands every word of any Shakespeare play, however or wherever it is performe…
On a break from an improv class, Kim Katzberg gets a phone message from her father and calls him back to learn that he has pancreatic cancer and is dying. "I feel so sad AND excited," she te…
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news and reviews in March? Answer these dozen questions and find out. Â
Andy Warhol was a Broadway producer " the lead producer of a musical that opened at Broadway's Little Theater (now called the Hayes) in 1975. It's a mind-boggling story that, like many Andy …
You need not have read Darwin or watched any of the Planet of the Apes movies to suspect that chimpanzees come closest to humans in the animal kingdom. Scientists have discovered over the pa…
"Welcome to African-American Airlines, where if you broke & black, we got yo back" " those are the first two messages painted on the wall as we walk up the staircase in the Public Theate…
 Today is World Theatre Day. Created in 1961,it  is celebrated annually on March 27. How will you be celebrating? Below, ten facts about theater, and this year's World Theatre Day mes…
"Time is the longest distance between two places." " Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams was born on March 26, 1911, and died in 1983. Barely a season goes by where on…
Ephraim Sykes in Ain't Too Proud, Corbin Bleu in Kiss Me Kate, Daveed Diggs in White Noise: These are some of the black breakout stars in shows that opened last week on Broadway or Off Broad…
In "Fosse Verdon," an eight-part series that begins on April 9th on FX, current Broadway royalty and a cast of Broadway regulars (see below) tell the story of a king and queen of Broadway wh…
Nantucket Sleigh Ride is an old whaling term, as one of the characters explains in John Guare's crafty new play. "Sailors would harpoon a whale. The whale would drag the sailors on a frantic…
The most exciting moment in this fourth Broadway production of Cole Porter's backstage musical riffing on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew comes at the top of Act II, when the cast at f…
 The most exciting moment in this fourth Broadway production of Cole Porter's backstage musical riffing on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew comes at the top of Act II, when the cast…
Today Stephen Sondheim turns 89 and Andrew Lloyd Webber turns 71. Â Sondheim made his Broadway debut at the age of 26 in 1956 , Lloyd Webber at 23 in 1971, and, along with John Kander (who…
In the six decades since The Temptations began, as we're told near the end of the latest Broadway jukebox musical "Ain't Too Proud," Â 24 men have performed at one time or another as membe…
Leo (Daveed Diggs) makes an outrageous request of his best friend Ralph (Thomas Sadoski) in Suzan-Lori Parks' bizarre, disturbing and in some ways brilliant new play, White Noise, at the Pub…
Leo (Daveed Diggs) makes an outrageous request of his best friend Ralph (Thomas Sadoski) in Suzan-Lori Parks' bizarre, disturbing and in some ways brilliant new play, "White Noise," at the P…
Raja Feather Kelly is one of the busiest choreographers Off-Broadway, with a half dozen shows currently or soon to be on stage. All but one of them are straight plays. As I detail in my prof…
A dozen shows will be opening on Broadway over the next six weeks, ending the 2018-2019 season. Two-thirds of them have already announced their policies for official discounted tickets " rus…
Near the end of "The Mother," her son strangles the title character to death. But not really. The mother (Isabelle Huppert) is imagining it, or dreaming it. There is a change of lighting, he…
By the end of "Holy Day," two hours without intermission or let-up of gothic horror set in 19th century Australia, the audience has been made witness to a missing child, an abduction, both h…
On the Ides of March, exactly 2,063 years ago, Julius Caesar was smug, at least according to Shakespeare. "The ides of March are come," he tells a soothsayer in Act III. "Ay, Caesar," the So…