What first comes to mind when you think of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" To Philip Gefter, it is not the game-changing play by Edward Albee, but Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton…
The biggest "award" this past week was for $83.3 million, but, for the end of January, there was a surprising amount of news about entertainment-related awards " including winners (of Obies,…
Brian d'Arcy James and Kelli O'Hara return to Broadway for the first time together since 2002 to portray a couple who fall in love with alcohol as much as with one another in this musi…
The 67th annual Obie Awards, honoring achievement Off and Off Off Broadway, were announced tonight. The 23 winners are listed below, some of them linked to my reviews BEST NEW AMERICAN PLAY …
The first disturbing story that we're told in this hour-long collage of dancing and diatribes, horror and love, concerns a man named Tantalus, who killed his son and chopped him up with the …
Sutton Foster, trying her hand at goofy physical comedy and affecting a rapid-fire comic patter reminiscent of early Barbra Streisand, is an undeniable draw in the Encores! series revival of…
Nominations for the 96th annual Academy Awards were announced yesterday, and theater lovers cheered the latest Broadway connections. The Oscars have always had Broadway connections. Test you…
The complete list of nominations for the 96th annual Academy Awards, which will be held on Sunday, March 10 at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and televised LIVE on ABC. Wa…
There are now twenty-one shows scheduled to open on Broadway during the Spring 2024 season, three of them announced just within the past week. As Time Out's Adam Feldman points out, much of …
From the wordless to the wordy, these short worldly works" all three directly or indirectly reflecting the story of race in America; all three intriguing examples of digital theater " were o…
A play called "Pride House," set in Cherry Grove on Fire Island, and produced by a gay theater company? It's reasonable to presume it the kind of formulaic gay play that has proliferated sin…
The Black couple go overboard in congratulating their daughter for coming out, donning rainbow T-shirts and hanging up a banner, but they learn to their shock that Niani is not coming out as…
There are two ways to appreciate this latest work of musical theater by Heather Christian, which is part of the eleventh annual Prototype festival of opera theater and musical theater. One i…
Rachel McAdams of Slings and Arrows and Michael Imperioli of The Sopranos making their Broadway debuts; a new quirky musical from the team behind "A Band's Visit," a new play by Paula Vogel …
At the 75th annual Primetime Emmy Awards last night, Elton John became the nineteenth person to achieve an EGOT " winner of an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony " when he won for "Elto…
"My people were brought to America in chains. Your people were driven here to escape the chains fashioned for them in Europe," Martin Luther King Jr. said in his address to the American Jewi…
 "The Color Purple" and "Mean Girls," were both Hollywood movies adapted from books (Alice Walker's novel "The Color Purple" and Rosalind Wiseman's non-fiction  "Queen Bees an…
"Mean Girls" was Tina Fey's smart, funny 2004 movie that she turned with her husband into an overlong, ill-timed Broadway musical (as I wrote in my review) in 2018, which has now been adapte…
I saw three shows that featured clowns at PhysFestNYC, billed as the first-ever festival in New York City to showcase physical theater, which is wrapping up its ten-day run on Sunday.�…
In the two years since I first saw Joshua Harmon's ambitious, busy play about antisemitism, in which five generations of a single French family in two different eras fear for their safety, t…
Tickets are now on sale for Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for performances from January 16 through February 4, 2024 of 23 Broadway shows, from "& Juli…
"For the theatre community, it was a time of tumult, turnover, 'the field is in crisis' essays, show cancellations due to illness, and budgetary shortfalls." But also a response: "If our fie…
Hollywood and Broadway intertwined in complicated ways once again when Broadway veterans Paul Giamatti and Da'Vine Joy Randolph both won Golden Globe Awards last night for their roles in …
I saw these three hour-long shows from the 19th Under the Radar Festival one after the other on the same floor of the Rose building at Lincoln Center Queens of Sheba Muki Zubis stood on stag…
Created and performed by a trio who call themselves FlawBored and describe themselves as a "disability-led theater company" " two of the three are legally blind " this export from the Edinbu…