Broadway theater marquees will dim at 7:45 p.m. Wednesday in honor of Edward Albee. Albee, 1928 to 2016, was a provocateur, both in his many plays (the photographs are of recent New York …
What Did You Expect?, the second installment of Richard Nelson's trilogy at the Public subtitled The Gabriels: Election Year In The Life Of One Family, is literate (the characters tell a sto…
What Did You Expect?, the second installment of Richard Nelson's trilogy at the Public subtitled The Gabriels: Election Year In The Life Of One Family, is literate (the characters tell a sto…
“Edward Albee, one of the most innovative playwrights of his generation, whose raw, unnerving dramas " and even the few comedies " scraped at the veneer of American success and happine…
In "Missed Connections," a lively 75-minute revue that turns Craigslist ads into 25 songs, one of the six attractive and musically gifted cast members sings about a dead moose. He offers it …
Whenever the two stars of "Marie and Rosetta" sing, it's all that matters: Kecia Lewis swinging and soulful as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a gospel singer and guitarist who filled stadiums and in…
Broadway shows closing, new ones announced; much about theater on screen. But the news for individual theatergoers on a budget are the discount programs in effect now or in the near…
In “Aubergine,” an appealing, lyrical family drama by Julia Cho, life boils down to two essentials — food and death. Each of the characters deals with both, in unexpected w…
The nine teenage girls who are members of The Wolves soccer team in Sarah DeLappe's impressive first professional play do occasionally gossip about one another, or whine about their substitu…
My local supermarket just e-mailed me their weekly deals on raspberries and sushi rolls with the subject head "Always Remember, September 11th." They were not trying to be crass, of course, …
A quarter century after she gained infamy among right-wing critics as the obscene, nude "chocolate smeared woman," performance artist Karen Finley is on stage every Sunday at the Laurie Beec…
"Caught" messes with your head in the most exquisite of ways. In part a send-up of the art scene " the conceptual artist as con artist — it is itself a form of conceptual art, and a se…
"Spamilton," an often clever if uneven spoof of the musical "Hamilton," is like the 26th edition of "Forbidden Broadway," the show that “Spamilton”author Gerard Alessandrini crea…
Mike Daisey has put a script of “The Trump Card,” his latest monologue, on his blog to encourage people to perform it without seeking his permission or paying royalties. I saw Da…
The first shows of the New York theater season actually opened months ago — one has already closed — but now’s the time theatergoers pay attention. So here is my Broadway 2…
During the Fall 2016 season, three of the most celebrated playwrights in America are offering some acclaimed plays: Anna Deavere Smith, Lynn Nottage and Suzan-Lori Parks. That the three are …
For the fourth year in a row, some 200 New Yorkers from all five boroughs are performing this Labor Day Weekend on stage at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park as part of what the Public T…
Politics is in the air, Â and it inevitably lands on the New York stage, with some half-dozen shows opening in September that one could call political theater, including an American presid…
For the last #Ham4Ham, Rory O’Malley brought Renée Elise Goldsberry with Alex Lacamoire and the band to perform “Congratulations,” a song that was in Hamilton at the Pu…
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news and reviews in August? Answer these dozen questions and see.
Below are the shows at the 11th anniversary of the Fringe Encore Series, from September 9h to October 29th, 2016 at the SoHo Playhouse (15 Vandam Street), selected from both the …
Mother Emanuel, a celebration of the lives of the nine gunned down in a South Carolina church, and The Radicalization of Rolfe, which looks at the  Sound of Music from the point of view o…
Yes, the summer is winding down, but the theater season is gearing up. Witness the news below of new casts on Broadway, new shows Off-Broadway, and some tantalizing maybes. It’s not to…
"Mother Emanuel" is an earnest, lively play filled with rousing music that celebrates the lives of the nine people who were shot dead at the Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal…
Barbra is a mother with a mission in Kevin R. Free's cartoonish, cleverly convoluted and uncomfortable comedy, "Night of the Living N Word." A daughter of the Confederacy who grew up on an i…