What stage show could compete with the drama of the Ford/Kavanaugh hearings? I’m a theater critic and I’ve never been so drained by a drama. " Charles McNulty (@CharlesMcNulty) S…
Using 20 songs that Bob Dylan composed over half a century, playwright Conor McPherson has fashioned a slow, sad, elliptical and occasionally exquisite theater piece set in a run-down boardi…
Using 20 songs that Bob Dylan composed over half a century, playwright Conor McPherson has fashioned a slow, sad, elliptical and occasionally exquisite theater piece set in a run-down boardi…
How well were you paying attention to the theater, and theater news, in September? Answer these 13 questions to find out. Keep abreast of what’s happening with my weekly summari…
Bob Dylan, Glenn Close, Daniel Radcliffe, and Gloria Steinem are all on a New York stage one way or another in October, always a good month for theater. This year's October is likely the …
How, one wondered, would British playwright Richard Bean, whose hilarious farce One Man, Two Guvnors made a star out of James Corden, create something as funny for Americans out of the Briti…
How, one wondered, would British playwright Richard Bean, whose hilarious farce One Man, Two Guvnors made a star out of James Corden, create something as funny for Americans out of the Briti…
At the very end of Bernhardt/Hamlet, a new play on Broadway by Theresa Rebeck, we see an actual 1899 film clip of the renowned 19th century actress Sarah Bernhardt on stage, in the role of H…
Bernhardt/Hamlet, a new play on Broadway by Theresa Rebeck about Sarah Bernhardt deciding to perform as Hamlet, is being given a first-rate production, with a winning cast led by Janet McTee…
The latest odd hybrid by the Ensemble for the Romantic Century, combining a one-woman show about the poetry and life of Emily Dickinson with a chamber music concert of 19th century composer …
Journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered on Vladimir Putin’s birthday in 2006, as if the assassins were giving him a present for getting rid of this woman deemed an “enemy̶…
Sarah Bernhardt remains the most famous stage actress of all time, the subject of the play Bernhardt/Hamlet on Broadway. But during her lifetime she had a rival, Eleanora Duse. The two didn'…
Follies at the Astoria Performing Arts Center was a big winner in the 14th annual New York Innovative Theater Awards, which celebrates the best of the city's independent theater  " aka Of…
Shakespeare knew Kavanaughs well: "Say what you can, my false o'erweighs your true" The 2018-2019 Broadway season, launching in earnest this week with two plays, is shaping up after several …
La Femme's revival of Tennessee Williams' late, little-known play about four women living and working and bickering with one another, offers something you won't find in A Glass Menagerie …
As the family gathers for a Thanksgiving right before everything starts to fall apart, Knox (Russell Harvard) gives thanks for "three things I used to think weren't gifts at all: Deafness……
“Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House, Part 2” tops the list of what will be the most produced plays nationwide among the 531 non-profit theaters that are part of the Thea…
The devotion that Dorothea "Polly" Noonan (Edie Falco,) a foul-mouthed political operative, shows to Erastus Corning 2nd (Michael McKean,) the long-time mayor of Albany, is so intense th…
As Polly Noonan, Edie Falco, late of The Sopranos and Nurse Jackie, can make almost any show more engaging than it would otherwise be, even a relatively sedate one like "The True,"… Ex…
Karma, a "dirty little hood rat" of 17, is looking for her missing former foster brother Terrell, though she didn't know him long and he didn't like her much. He was, however, all she had. T…
2018 Theatre Hall of Fame inductees: Actors Rene Auberjonois, Christine Baranski, Cicely Tyson Playwrights Maria Irene Fornes, David Henry Hwang, Adrienne Kennedy Director Joe Mantello Produ…
Although billed as "an intimate immersive production," what "Stars in the Night" actually offers, at its best, is the exact opposite — a spectacular public setting. An audience of no m…
When Jenna Gavigan made her Broadway debut at age 16 as a member of the ensemble in the 2003 revival of Gypsy, she shared the stage at the Shubert Theater not just with stars Bernadette Pete…
“I think there has been a growth in Trump fatigue,” says Tony Stinkmetal, who admits that he himself shares it — which is why it's surprising that he has created a show cal…
The full title of "Collective Rage," Jen Silverman's playful, bawdy, and episodic genderqueer/feminist/lesbian comedy about five women named Betty, is 47 words long. Only once does it includ…