Opening night doesn't mean what it used to mean. It suddenly has come to mean even less than it did three years ago, when I first wrote that it had become nearly meaningless. The changes hav…
Jeffrey Richards has produced playwright David Mamet's plays ten times on Broadway over the past twenty years, including the revival of "Glengarry Glen Ross" that is currently running at the…
Where is our Edward R. Murrow? That is the implicit question that animates George Clooney's play, opened tonight on Broadway in an elegant, meticulous and timely production directed by David…
Drag: The Musical, Our Class, and Three Houses received the most nominations for the 40th annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. Winners will be pre…
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in April, including twelve shows on Broadway, half of which are adapted from (or inspired by) works of art or entertainment in other media " two movie…
Thirteen shows will open on Broadway in the four weeks until the Broadway 2024-2025 officially ends; by then New York theater award season will be well underway: New York Theater Awards Cale…
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Sandy was not the first dog on a New York stage. Even Bill Berloni concedes that. He trained Sandy for "Annie" back in 1977, and, this season, Tana June for "Gypsy" (along with her understud…
Is that Sarah Paulson in pajamas brushing her teeth? She is in her dressing room at the Belasco, during the run of the play "Appropriate" " one of some one hundred black-and-white photograph…
Sarah Snook portrays some 25 characters as well as the narrator in this dazzling and sometimes dizzying stage-and-video adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel, but at the curtain call, she is far…
Today is World Theatre Day, celebrated internationally every March 27th since 1962, even when the lovely enveloping darkness in a theater feels no match for the ugly encroaching darkne…
Below is a calendar of dates from April to June in 2025 when nominations and awards are announced, and ceremonies take place, for the major New York theater awards (and a few others), follow…
In honor of Women's History Month, here are the 20 women playwrights who have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an annual award given for "a distinguished play by an American author…dealin…
Good theater can heal, as proven by the daily dose of theater openings last week " four shows on Broadway, several Off Broadway and beyond " many of them restorative. Ok, some were not. But …
Denzel Washington stars in the title role of Othello, and Jake Gyllenhaal as his secret nemesis Iago, in director Kenny Leon's production of Shakespeare's tragedy, opening officially tonight…
Stephen Sondheim would have turned 95 today. In the three years and four months since his death, attention to the Broadway composer has only grown, with the opening of a new musical, a reviv…
Joshua William Gelb writhes nude and mute in a box for forty-five minutes. That's "[Untitled Miniature]" in a nutshell. It's my job to put this in context, so I'll try. I'll also explain how…
Greg Kotis, whose "Urinetown" won a Tony shortly after its debut at the New York International Fringe Festival, now offers a new post-apocalyptic musical at a new New York fringe festival. H…
"Operation Mincemeat" is terribly clever and frightfully British, with a strong next-generation Monty Python vibe. If it ultimately feels too clever by half, that may be because this new mus…
As a band and a brand, "Buena Vista Social Club" has been gold from the get-go: It was a hit Grammy-winning album that in 1996 had brought together an impromptu group of old-time Cuban music…
Playwright Joshua Harmon secretly recorded the last conversation he had with his dying grandmother, during which he told her that his next play was going to be about their family. "Do you ha…
After watching Andrew Scott portray all eight characters by himself in a new version of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya," which is playing Off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel through May 11, I s…
In "Purpose," an extraordinary play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Tony winner for last season's "Appropriate") opening tonight on Broadway in a terrifically acted, crowd-pleasing production tha…
Tickets for "Othello" are selling for $921, even as far back as Row M, which helped the Shakespeare play starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal gross a record-breaking $2.8 million l…
This is a coffee table book put together by a landlord to promote his property. It's also a history of a 112-year-old Broadway theater with a glamorous and complicated past, written by a Ton…