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Yes, people have been telling actors to “break a leg” for hundreds of years, but not for the reason you may think, according to Rebekah Lazaridis in the video below. An actress s…
"Steve," a play produced by The New Group at the Signature Center, begins and ends with its characters singing show tunes, which is a lovely and appropriate touch by director Cynthia Nixon, …
Today is the second annual #LoveTheatreDay, originating in the United Kingdom but spread throughout the world. This afternoon, Spring Awakening will perform at the White House, and simultane…
It sounded like a good match: Batman and Lost Boy movie director Joel Schumacher, versatile master of action and suspense, in his New York stage debut directing a play by Jennifer Haley, a w…
In its 18th year, The Lion King is now the third longest-running musical on Broadway. To celebrate, Disney has filmed the breathtaking opening number “Circle of Life” in 360 degr…
A View From The Bridge, one of Arthur Miller's most popular plays, has been on Broadway four times before, most recently just five years ago, starring Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson i…
Two separate revivals of plays by Arthur Miller on the centennial of his birth illustrate two core aims of his work:Â "I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to cha…
A View From The Bridge, one of Arthur Miller's most popular plays, has been on Broadway four times before, most recently just five years ago, starring Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson i…
Incident at Vichy, presented by the Signature Theater in the first major New York production since its short Broadway run in 1964, is intelligent, well acted, and occasionally so relevant th…
Misery on Broadway is the latest adaptation of Stephen King's story about a writer who's imprisoned by a berserk fan. It's not as good as either King's novel nor the movie, but it's likely t…
Misery on Broadway is the latest adaptation of Stephen King's story about a writer who's imprisoned by a berserk fan. It's not as good as either King's novel nor the movie, but it's likely t…
My cousin Bobby, a tie-dyed Deadhead, invited me to Madison Square Garden to see the free Dead & Company concert, which I found enough of an eye opener to write a piece for Howlround on …
The publicists ask for the review to run no earlier than 7:30 Sunday Nov 15 Misery Review: Bruce Willis' Broadway Debut in Faded Copy of Stephen King Misery on Broadway is the latest adaptat…
“There is nothing more important than the arts in a time of crisis,” Judith Light says in the video below, asked at the annual Sardi’s luncheon at the American Theatre Crit…
Today is Veteran’s Day, a good time to talk about how the arts have helped veterans, and how veterans have contributed to the arts. Theater helped military veteran Adam Driver adjust t…
Reading 50 answers to “What’s the most exciting show you’ve ever seen?” is a lesson in the continuing power of theater — great to keep in mind as we sort throug…
Some 120,000 Japanese-Americans were incarcerated a few months after Pearl Harbor, by order of President Roosevelt. George Takei and his family were among them. The actor, best known…
The Connor family is like any other middle class American family, except that Father Arnold is catatonic, and wearing a clown wig, makeup and a diaper; Mother Paige is morally opposed to cle…
Some 120,000 Japanese-Americans were incarcerated a few months after Pearl Harbor, by order of President Roosevelt. George Takei and his family were among them. The actor best known as Sulu …
Kwame Kwei-Armah, the artistic director of Center Stage, has been leaving Baltimore over the past few weeks to go to prison in New York. He's also been busy in homeless shelters and recr…
From the first moments of On Your Feet, the Broadway musical celebrating the life and music of Emilio and Gloria Estefan, I thought: This show is sure to be a hit despite what any critics sa…
From the first moments of On Your Feet, the Broadway musical celebrating the life and music of Emilio and Gloria Estefan, I thought: This show is sure to be a hit despite what any critics sa…
The Public Theater’s Mobile Shakespeare Unit, which travels to prisons and homeless shelters in all five boroughs before performing back at the Public’s East Village theater, Â�…
A new month comes with two traditions " my monthly quiz testing how well you were paying attention to theater in October. and my monthly preview of the shows opening in New York in Nov…
Is there some reason why an American audience should care about the future of the British monarchy? That's the question that hangs over King Charles III, playwright Mike Bartlett's cleve…
