Unlike past years, none of the ten best picture Oscar nominees in 2024  were adapted from a play or musical. But could any of them be adapted into one?  Answering this question,…
The first meeting between Kenyatta and Nina is tense, as it surely would be for any father and daughter who have not seen each other for many years. But their encounter in this revival of Do…
February is always a month for love, presidents, and Oscar anticipation: What Broadway says about love on Valentine's Day 2024(See also a video below of Jordan Fisher and Lola Tung as the ne…
It did seem like a clever idea, for at least five seconds:Â Â Use the Broadway musical "Six" " the Broadway rock musical in which the six wives of Henry VIII compete to determine whom he…
Which of the ten movies nominated this year for the Best Picture Oscar would make the best play? The worst play? The best musical? Take the poll below. With so many movies, even blockbusters…
Now that women's bodies have become a political and legal battleground, it seems a good time to revisit Nathaniel Hawthorne's Puritan tale of the shunned and shamed Hester Prynne. Reworked f…
Santino Fontana, Sarah Miles, and Julie Halston are each familiar to both theater lovers and filmgoers, so it feels fitting that they would be performing together in one of the thirty-four e…
The first play in New York written by Tina Howe, which was entitled The Nest, "must be on any reasonable short list of the worst plays I have ever seen," New York Times critic Clive Barnes w…
Shows currently on Broadway are full of love and kisses " some sweet, sexy, some with a decidedly dark edge " as these scenes and shots attest: From & Juliet: Francois: I just proposed t…
It's not exactly inaccurate to describe "Between Two Knees" as a play about American Indian history told through the experience of one indigenous family over several generations, from the ma…
Off Broadway Week begins today All five shows that I reviewed this past week (see below) could be described as avant-garde theater.  But what does avant-garde even mean in 2024? It's a…
A commercial for the forthcoming movie musical "Wicked" during the Super Bowl came closest to Broadway fare, but it isn't a complete stretch to offer a few other moments that were of interes…
Tickets are on sale for Off-Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for 31 different Off-Broadway productions, for performances from February 12 to March 3. Click h…
After Russia invades her native Ukraine, Olga Ivanovna, 82 years old,  calls Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to strategize; admonishes both Chancellor Olaf Scholz of German…
In this experiment in storytelling, Mona Pirnot spends just over an hour with her back to the audience, intermittently picking up an acoustic guitar and singing a song (she does this f…
Much has changed " and nowhere near enough has changed " since I first saw "Russian Troll Farm: A Workplace Comedy," a play by Sarah Gancher based on a frightening true story: How the employ…
"Bark of Millions" is a concert of fifty-five original songs, each inspired by a queer figure in history, put together by the same team that produced the once-in-a-generation "A 24-Decade Hi…
When they started making theater together fifty years ago " at the same time that they started making love together, and making a life together " they'd already been eating cheap food, drink…
"Some Like It Hot" won best musical theater album at the 66th Grammy Awards, among the 85 trophies handed out online in the afternoon, before the nine major Grammy categories were spotlig…
 Some Like It Hot is the winner of the Grammy for Musical Theater Album. "Thank you Broadway first of all. Come to New York City, come to regional theater. Support live theater," the albu…
Ossie Davis, the author and star of "Purlie Victorious" in 1961; Leslie Odom Jr, the star of the play's revival in 2024. Rose McClendon, who made her Broadway debut in 1926; Audra McDonald, …
There seemed more awards than usual this past month, not all of them theater awards, but all with a theater connection or two. Answer these ten questions to see how well you were paying atte…
Jonah is sweet, awkward, inquisitive, respectful and clearly smitten " the sort of boy you might want for a first love if you were Ana, a scholarship student at a boarding school. After he w…
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in February, including a single Broadway show " a revival of a Tony and Pulitzer winner by John Patrick Shanley opening on Leap Year Day. But a new pl…
Chita Rivera died today at the age of 91. Born Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero, she originated roles in "West Side Story," "Bye Bye Birdie," "Chicago" and "Kiss of the Spider Wom…