With the new production of Horton Foote's "The Traveling Lady," we are back on familiar Foote territory. The play, about a woman hoping to reunite with a husband recently released from priso…
Lauren Yee's "in a word" is, on one level, about a married couple whose seven-year-old son has been missing for two years, the mother's grief and guilt causing a breakdown in her relationshi…
Performances by Sarah Bernhardt, Martha Graham, and Meryl Streep; meetings about equal rights with Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass  in 1869; a lecture by Helen Keller in 1913. Â�…
Tony Epilogue Within days of the Tony Awards (List of winners. Best moments) and the triumph of Dear Evan Hansen, three plays announced they were closing in June. Two of them " Indecent and …
Harry Potter, Olaf the snowman and Spongebob Squarepants all plan to perform on Broadway this season, as will Michael Moore, Mark Rylance and Elizabeth McGovern; new plays by Ayad Akhtar and…
For the 17th year in a row, Bryant Park is the site of free lunchtime concerts by cast members of current Broadway (and some Off-Broadway) shows  on Thursdays in July and August be…
Mira Nair, the filmmaker of such celebrated movies as Salaam Bombay and Mississippi Masala, is directing a musical adaptation of her 2001 film Monsoon Wedding that is currently on stage at t…
"Roman Holiday," a musical running briefly at San Francisco's Golden Theater in a traditional pre-Broadway tryout, grafts more than a dozen songs by Cole Porter onto the 1953 movie that turn…
The depiction of Julius Caesar as a Trump-like figure in the Public Theater production of “Julius Caesar” has sparked outrage, the removal of sponsorship (funds) by Delta and Ban…
Many moments in the three hours of the 71st annual Tony Awards (complete list of winners) were worth experiencing just once, if that — Bette Midler NOT singing, yet rambling endlessly …
“Oslo” won best play.”Dear Evan Hansen” is having a very good night. Below is the complete list of the winners of the 71st annual Tony Awards, listed in red with an a…
The 71st annual Tony Awards, honoring the shows that opened in the 2016-2017 season in the 41 Broadway theaters of New York, will be presented starting at 8 p.m. tonight, June 11, 2017 at Ne…
"I just want you to pick the shows for me," an out-of-town friend, planning a visit to New York, said to me recently, exasperated that I was trying to determine his taste in theater before m…
Below are my preferences — not my predictions. See my article in DC Theatre Scene for an explanation of each choice. Best Musical Nominated: Dear Evan Hansen Natasha, Pierre and the Gr…
Here are my preferences " not predictions " for the 2017 Tony Awards, in keeping with a tradition I've been maintaining for a decade. I am a critic, not a seer or a bookie. We'll learn the c…
The 71st Annual Tony Awards will be shown on four continents, though not all will get to see it Sunday evening, June 11th. Will this put extra pressure on Tony voters, whose ballots are due …
Current and past winners of the Theatre World Awards, given to exceptional performers making their Broadway or New York stage debuts, offer their take on the season just past, sometimes in a…
Current and past winners of the Theatre World Awards, given to exceptional performers making their Broadway or New York stage debuts, offer their take on the season just past, sometimes in a…
"I would rather drink alcohol than do just about anything there is to do on the face of the planet," Matthew Perry as Jack says to a woman he's just met in "The End of Longing," Perry's debu…
"Ernest Shackleton Loves Me" may not be the only musical ever set in Antarctica or the only one that tells the story of a real-life polar explorer; it's surely not the only musical about a s…
The winners of the 62nd Annual Drama Desks below are in red with an * (Click on titles to get more information about the show.) Those nominees with a heart mark (♥) are ones I voted…
Performers from more than 20 current Broadway shows offered a free concert in Shubert Alley this week, to celebrate the Broadway season just past, and whet appetites for the Tony Awards on S…
Once again, Broadway offered its free two-hour concert in Shubert Alley today, featuring the casts from more than a dozen current musicals. Below, watch Telly Leung of Aladdin, Corey Cott of…
Below is a preview  of the shows opening on New York stages in June — including the first show of the 2017-2018 Broadway season — organized chronologically by opening date. Ea…
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