The Broadway season is over, but there is plenty of theater opening in May in New York, the city that never lets you sleep. Below is a list of theater opening in May, 2014, organized chronol…
How well were you paying attention to what was happening in the theater in April? Answer these dozen questions and find out.
Did the Tony nominating committee "snub" Denzel Washington, Daniel Craig, James Franco and Daniel Radcliffe? Did Tony Awards Productions snub regional theaters by giving the Regio…
Here Lies Love," which opened in April 2013 for a limited run, has returned for an open run at the Public Theater. Here again is my original review: Imelda Marcos, the former First Lady of t…
From the very beginning of the Roundabout's re-revival of "Cabaret," when a spotlight first illuminates Alan Cumming's eyes — as if he has opened the rectangular slot in the door of a …
Watch the 2014 Tony Awards Nominations Announcement on Tuesday, April 29 2014 8:30 a.m. ET with hosts Jonathan Groff and Lucy Liu from the Paramount Hotel in NYC Here are the 2014 awards so …
As Hedwig, a bewigged, be-glittered and bewildered "internationally ignored song stylist," the performer Neil Patrick Harris — who has been anything but ignored in a protean 25-year en…
What would Woody Allen have thought of "Bullets Over Broadway" if he hadn't written it? Would he have enjoyed this overbearing Broadway musical full of recycled, flat and vulgar jokes;Â d…
It is no surprise that Harvey Fierstein is the one who authored "Casa Valentina," a remarkably well-acted if overheated and under-cooked play about a 1960's Catskills resort for heterosexual…
There are more unemployed Americans now than there were when "Of Mice and Men" debuted on Broadway in 1937, making its third-ever production on Broadway something more than just an excuse to…
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder had the most nominations for the 59th Annual Drama Desk Awards, followed by The Bridges of Madison County, Aladdin and Rocky. Winners w…
“Cabaret,” the Kander and Ebb musical about a naif in pre-Nazi Germany, is opening on Broadway for the fourth time, almost half a century after its first production, starring Ala…
Below are the nominations for the 20014 Drama League Awards, which select winners in five competitive categories, and also gives special awards. Although founded way back in 1922, this is…
Neil Patrick Harris stars as an “internationally ignored” East German transgender rock singer in the first Broadway production of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” a…
“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder”, “Aladdin” and “Fun Home” had the greatest number of nominations for the 64th annual Outer Critics Circle…
With the best title of any Broadway play this season, two always-impressive actors as the cast, and a theme of loss and aging that hits close to home, "The Velocity of Autumn" is the sort of…
Before she wrote the songs for the astonishing "Fun Home" or collaborated with Tony Kushner on the extraordinary "Caroline, Or Change," Jeanine Tesori wrote the music for "Violet," her fi…
There was no applause for Daniel Radcliffe when he first enters "The Cripple of Inishmaan," the first and first-rate Broadway production of Martin McDonagh's harsh 1996 comedy. I'm su…
“Act One,” the  well-meaning stage adaptation of the beloved theatrical memoir by Moss Hart, aims to explore the intoxicating appeal of the theater, but it instead demonstrate…
Broadway barks indeed. This season, dogs are in the casts of four Broadway shows. All four were rescued from a dog pound, and now perform eight shows a week. Are their Pooper-Scoopers monogr…
"The theatre is not so much a profession as a disease, and my first look at Broadway was the beginning of a lifelong infection," playwright and director Moss Hart wrote in Act One, his long-…
Annie Baker’s The Flick has won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Here is my review of The Flick. Citation: “Awarded to “The Flick,” by Annie Baker, a thoughtful …
Eight Broadway shows are opening in the next ten days. Two opened last week, Bullets Over Broadway and Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill. It’s tax time, which may be why there …
click on any photo to see it enlarged Audra McDonald is the same age as the Billie Holiday she is depicting in the first Broadway production of "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill," a remar…
“Bullets Over Broadway,” based on Woody Allen’s 1994 movie about a novice playwright in the 1920s whose show is saved by a mobster, is opening tonight at the St. James Thea…