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This week’s Broadway at Bryant Park was an all-Disney concert, with cast members from three Disney musicals on Broadway — Aladdin, Frozen and The Lion King — performing 10 …
When Mike Birbiglia announced that his fourth one-man show would be playing at the Cherry Lane, he wouldn't say what it would be about; he simply called it "The New One." (“I hate it w…
Two shows are opening this month on Broadway, one a musical adaptation of a 1990 Julia Roberts movie, “Pretty Woman,” starring Andy Karl and Samantha Barks; the other, “Get…
I compared Shaina Taub's musical adaptation of "Twelfth Night" to a party and to a variety show when the Public Theater presented it in Central Park over Labor Day weekend in 2016. The unusu…
How well were you paying attention to New York theater news and reviews in July? Answer these 10 questions and find out.
In "The House That Will Not Stand," Marcus Gardley's historically fascinating, lyrical and surprisingly funny play, nobody much cares for Beartrice Albans " not her three beautiful daughters…
Soon after this… .@Lin_Manuel,Hollywood mogul? 1 Starring in @MaryPoppins 2. Directing movie Tick, Tick…Boom! 3. Executive producer on @FX TV series about Bob Fosse & Gwen Ve…
For all its high-energy hedonism featuring handsome half-clad bodies, "This Ain't No Disco," the rock opera at the Atlantic Theater set in the New York City club scene of the 1970s, doesn't …
Before the musical "'68" begins, newspaper headlines are projected on the stage a, marking some of the tumultuous events in the year 1968 — the assassinations of Martin Luther K…
There is a full-out gospel number, with swaying red choir robes, heavenly belting and devilishly deft dancing, in this last of this season's Encores Off-Center concerts. But, as directed and…
Head Over Heels is a mash-up that sounds weird and unworkable: It's a jukebox musical using 18 songs by the 1980s all-female L.A. punk band The Go-Go's. But it's also a loose adaptation of A…
“Head Over Heels” is a mash-up that sounds weird and unworkable: It's a jukebox musical using 18 songs by the 1980s all-female L.A. punk band The Go-Go's. But it's also a loose a…
Straight White Men, a thought-provoking play by Young Jean Lee with a terrifically entertaining cast of Broadway newcomers including Armie Hammer, Josh Charles and Paul Schneider as rowdy br…
There are three major historical events in the early timeline of Nazi horrors that figure as personal turning points in the story of the corruption, perversion and destruction of the wealthy…
Lin-Manuel Miranda is making his film directorial debut in a movie version of “Tick,Tick…Boom!” an early, semi-autobiographical musical by “Rent” composer Jonat…
Below is the list of nominations announced last night for the 14th annual New York Innovative Theater Awards, which celebrates the best of the city's independent theater " aka Off-Off Broadw…
"Straight White Men," a thought-provoking play by Young Jean Lee with a terrifically entertaining cast of Broadway newcomers including Armie Hammer, Josh Charles and Paul Schneider as rowdy …
Near the beginning of "Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller," the new Off-Broadway revival of the long-running Broadway musical revue, performer Jelani Remy does a double back …
"Emojiland," an entry in the 2018 New York Musical Festival, is set inside a smart phone, with the resident emojis facing a "textistential" crisis —Â the phone is due for a software…
Billie is a published poet and a professor, who has been married to her husband Marvin for 25 years. She can't sleep. She has trouble finding her things, and blames Marvin for rearranging th…
Son: What is a traitor? Lady Macduff: Why, one that swears and lies. Son: And be all traitors that do so? Lady Macduff: Everyone that does so is a traitor, and must be hanged. Son: Who must …
During the 1911 fire that burned Coney Island's Dreamland amusement park to the ground, one of the animal attractions, a black lion, with his hind quarters ablaze, scrambled up the stair…
Starting today, your public library card gives you free admission to some three dozen cultural institutions  through “Culture Pass.” It’s mostly museums now, but the lis…
Those who doubted that a Yiddish-language production of "A Fiddler on the Roof," directed by Joel Grey, would turn out to be a great joy ("a shtik naches") might react to Jackie Hoffman'…
"Interstate," an entry at the New York Musical Festival, is about two New Yorkers who form a band called Queer Malady and tour the country: Dash is a Chinese-born trans man and spoken word p…
