Airline Highway, Lisa D'Amour's loving look at the makeshift family of misfits that hang out at a seedy motel along the old Airline Highway in New Orleans, is not a musical, but it is full o…
Airline Highway, Lisa D'Amour's loving look at the makeshift family of misfits that hang out at a seedy motel along the old Airline Highway in New Orleans, is not a musical, but it is full o…
When the wealthiest woman in the world returns to her bankrupt hometown in The Visit, reactions range from "Her dress, her jewels…like a great film star!" to "half-Jewish, half-gypsy, 100%…
When the wealthiest woman in the world returns to her bankrupt hometown in The Visit, reactions range from "Her dress, her jewels…like a great film star!" to "half-Jewish, half-gypsy, 100%…
Hamilton and An American in Paris received the most nominations for the 60th annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway and …
There is a musical number early in Something Rotten that thoroughly delivers what the show's title, cast, creative team, and poster art have promised — Monty Python subversive sillines…
By the end of the show, despite the cleverness of its concept, Something Rotten as executed simply hasn't added up to a completely satisfying musical. Its choreography seems too repetitive, …
I had hoped that a major benefit of winning the Cold War would be no longer having to sit through a show like Doctor Zhivago, a musical adaptation of Pasternak's novel that presents the Russ…
I had hoped that a major benefit of winning the Cold War would be no longer having to sit through a show like Doctor Zhivago, a musical adaptation of Pasternak's novel that presents the Russ…
Seventy women including Rita Wilson, Mamie Gummer and Kathleen Chalfant promote gender equality in the arts and entertainment through this three-minute #MakeItFair Video. (They sing at the e…
Below is the full list of the nominations for the 2015 Drama League Awards, which select winners in five competitive categories, and also give special awards. The winners will be annou…
From the very first moments of Lincoln Center's ravishing The King and I, it feels like a privilege just to be sitting in the audience. First the 29 musicians play Rodgers and Hammerstein's …
Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirguis has won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, In another one of Stephen Adly Guirguis's quintessential plays about New Yorkers on the margi…
Nominations for the 65th annual Outer Critics Circle awards will be announced today starting at 11 a.m. in the following categories: OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY MU…
"My Dad and I both grew up in the same small Pennsylvania town. And he was gay and I was gay,” Alison explains in the remarkable musical Fun Home. Â "And he killed himself, and I ……
The King and I, starring Ken Watanabe and Kelli O’Hara, is the fifth Broadway production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical about British schoolteacher Anna Leonowens, who becomes …
Is it pointless to pan Peter? Are we helpless in the face of the massive Peter Pander/Pandemic/Pandemonium (pick your Peter Pan pun.) Shortly after Peter and the Starcatcher and Peter Pan Li…
Is it pointless to pan Peter? Are we helpless in the face of the massive Peter Pander/Pandemic/Pandemonium (pick your Peter Pan pun.) Shortly after “Peter and the Starcatcher” an…
The singular accomplishment of "It Shoulda Been You," a musical comedy about a wedding that tries hard to be a farce, is that it abruptly swerves in a completely unexpected direction, and ye…
Actor John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at the Ford Theatre in Washington,D.C. on April 14, 1865. Wilkes had access to the theater because of his profession. He was a …
Both Gigi and An American In Paris are adapted from Oscar-winning 1950's movie musicals directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Leslie Caron. Both take place in Paris. Both have revised b…
Both Gigi and An American In Paris are adapted from Oscar-winning 1950's movie musicals directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Leslie Caron. Both take place in Paris. Both have revised b…
Opening this week on Broadway: An American in Paris It Shoulda Been You Finding Neverland The King and I Check out April openings for details. The Week in New York Theater Reviews Hand to Go…
For an evil sock puppet who eventually bites a teenager's ear off, Tyrone is quite the philosopher. In the prologue in Hand to God, Robert Askin's funny, filthy, violent and sensitive pl…
“Tremble:your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now”~Judith Malina Judith Malina died this morning at age 88. Malina and Julian Beck began the Living Theatre in…