On July 11, 1804, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr engaged in their deadly duel " recreated nightly on Broadway for the foreseeable future. Four members of the original cast of Hamilton hav…
The original cast of “Hamilton” is breaking up. Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr. and Phillipa Soo play their final performances in “Hamilton” today. (Jonathan Grof…
Below is the overture and opening number of the Roundabout’s Broadway production of “She Loves Me,” as live streamed by BroadwayHD on June 30, 2016. The musical starring La…
Now, 38 years after that its Broadway run " and six months after Swados' death at the age of 64 " Runaways has been revived as part of Encores Off Center, the summer version of the long-runn…
Broadway musicals that take American history as their subject have been called a "vastly underexplored genre"…until recently. Which is your favorite?
Four New York museums are taking advantage of a certain Broadway musical's success to offer summer-long exhibitions and programming focused on Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton is not the only sh…
"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel," Samuel Johnson famously said in 1775, one year before America's first Fourth of July, the day that Congress officially adopted the De…
The list below includes two Broadway shows but only a handful Off-Broadway. If July looks sparser than most months, that's because the list below doesn't the summer theater festivals, the FR…
Barbara Cook, who is now 88 years old " the exact number of keys on a piano " has three distinct stories to tell in her new memoir, "Then and Now" (HarperCollins.) The first is about a poor,…
How well were you paying attention to the theater news in June? Answer these 11 questions to find out.
For the 16th year in a row, Bryant Park will be the site of free lunchtime concerts of current Broadway shows — and forthcoming Broadway musicals (this year, Holiday Inn; Natasha, Pier…
Bette Midler made her New York stage debut in Tom Eyen's "Miss Nefertiti Regrets" at La MaMa in 1965. Photographs of her performance, and of a young Sam Shepard, and Harvey Fierstein and …
Grey's Anatomy actor Jesse Williams, in accepting BET's Humanitarian Award on Sunday, gave a speech about racist oppression and appropriation, police violence and even the Magical Negro. The…
The 46th annual Gay Pride Parade, aka LGBTQ March, comes exactly two weeks after a man shot dead 49 people in a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, and the marchers carried pictures of the de…
Shuffle Along, Fun Home and An American in Paris all announced their closing dates this week — all, in my view, prematurely, Shuffle Along shockingly so. Three more Broadway shows are …
In the video below, President Barack Obama announces he is designating the area around the Stonewall Inn in New York City as the country’s first national monument to lesbian, gay, bise…
New York Spectacular, a new summer show at Radio City Music Hall that features the Radio City Rockettes and some terrific sets, aims to tap into a similar demographic as Broadway, where more…
New York Spectacular, a new summer show at Radio City Music Hall that features the Rockettes and some terrific sets, aims to tap into a similar demographic as Broadway, where more than two-t…
We peek at the new Broadway season, which promises Cate Blanchett’s Broadway debut; Â the last remaining play from August Wilson’s celebrated American Century Cycle to make it …
Below is 2016 Kilroy list of 32 plays by women and trans writers that are not produced but should be, according to a survey of 230 theater professionals. This is the third annual list by the…
In Israel Horovitz's new play, four women who were sexually involved with the same man at some point over the past 65 years gather at his Parisian loft  for his funeral, after he has died…
In response to the June 12 Orlando shooting at a gay nightclub called Pulse, the worst mass shooting in American history, some 70 Broadway stars gathered on June 15 to sing “What The W…
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Phillipa Soo announced this week that they will leave "Hamilton" on July 9; Miranda's long-time alternate Javier Munoz will take over the title role on July 11. "I'm l…
The following five shows are closing within the next ten days. Each of them I found worth seeing for one reason or another. Eclipsed – closing June 19 Oscar winner Lupita Nyo…
The all-female production of The Taming of the Shrew in Central Park, with Janet McTeer as the macho Petruchio and Cush Jumbo as the shrew he starves into obedience, seems to be working hard…