Today is Indigenous People's Day, which since 2021 has been officially recognized as a national holiday " not coincidentally on the same day (the second Monday in October) as Columbus …
"We're here to celebrate the body " squirts, blasts, noises and inappropriate acts," proclaimed our host, the performer known as Fantasy Grandma,  introducing "Exposure," a group show …
Many long-time leaders of New York theaters have been retiring or dying, as Jan Simpson catalogues in a post in her blog Broadway and Me. The questions she ponders: Who will replace them and…
Jocelyn Bioh's inviting workplace comedy, presenting a day in the life of a hair braiding salon in Harlem, would be a shoo-in for two separate Tony Awards, if either existed " one for hair a…
To get the full flavor of what the great exiled Russian director Dmitry Krymov does with (to?) Ernest Hemingway's two short stories, which are hard to see as love stories at all, and to Euge…
Almost two years after Stephen Sondheim death at the age of 91, October will see the opening at The Shed of what's billed as the composer's "final musical" " "Here We Are" " and the starry r…
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in New York in October, with two greatly-anticipated musicals by Stephen Sondheim, one never produced before. The other, "Merrily We Roll Along," was …
How well were you paying attention to the theater news, views and reviews in this month that launched the Fall 2023 season? Find out in the quiz below. Loading…
Melissa Etheridge was so young when she started playing the guitar that her fingers bled, but she kept at it, which seems a fitting start for her rocky road to rock star. On her 17th birthda…
It's hard to picture a better cast for this first Broadway revival of Ossie Davis's 1961 broad, biting comedy about racism in the Old South. As the title character, Leslie Odom Jr., assuming…
"The Wiz" announced its opening date in April, starring Nichelle Lewis as Dorothy, Deborah Cox as Glinda and Melody A. Betts (featured in this first photograph above) as Au…
The photographs below offer a small sample of the many Jewish characters that have been portrayed in plays and musicals on Broadway, focusing on the most familiar and the most recent. Â Th…
 In celebration of the International Day of Sign Languages, proclaimed every September 23 by the United Nations since 2018, below is the schedule of ASL-interpreted performances on Bro…
The story told in Emma Horwitz's "Mary Gets Hers," about an orphan girl who falls into prostitution, and then is rescued from it,  follows nearly scene by scene a tenth century play wr…
During the second of the five concerts that are launching the new performing arts center at the World Trade Center, the violinist Trina Basu went up to the microphone after her set and said …
The soldier is silent. This frustrates the woman who is not exactly his captor but not his keeper either; she works for the motherland, which disapproves of his silence.  If he doesn't…
Half of what happens in "Prometheus Firebringer" is extraordinary, unprecedented. But you wouldn't know that just by watching what's on stage, which is mostly a series of monologues recited …
 Broadway favorites  Kelli O'Hara, Brian d'Arcy James, and Heidi Schreck are returning, and Rachel McAdams making her Broadway debut, in two plays and two musicals that were newly a…
"Psychic Self Defense" " gorgeous, impish and enveloping " had long ended before I understood the title, although the show itself remained ineffable. To be clear, I never doubted it was a wo…
Susan and Bella, two students at UC Berkeley who are twin sisters, keep on getting pregnant " their pregnancy represented by red balloons "Â Â and they keep on popping "M&Ms" " not t…
The Perelman Performing Arts Center, or PAC NYC, held a ribbon connection (rather than ribbon cutting) ceremony today on a stage in the lobby that will offer free entertainment every day fro…
Shortly before I attended Annie Baker's new play about a group of mostly older women spending their vacations at a pain clinic in Northern California, I saw a new musical about a group of yo…
The new performing arts center at the World Trade Center smartly decided to hold its official opening day ceremony on Wednesday,  not today. But if all goes well, the marble cube of th…
Each of the following movies slated for release in cinemas and/or streaming services before the end of the year may be of interest to legitimate theater fans because it directly adapts a sta…
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to, of the ten that have an official opening on Broadway from September to December 2023. They are listed chronologically below by opening d…