There is an early number in "Suffs" that was as exciting to me in its way as any gathering-in of Superheroes from the Marvel or DC universe. I guess DC is more apt, since the song is about t…
The first-ever Books on Broadway series, featuring conversations with authors and theater artists, will be part of the twentieth anniversary of the Bryant Park Reading Room every Tu…
If all goes as planned, Gregg Mozgala will be making his Broadway debut in the Fall,  three decades after the theater first "made me feel like a full human being," as he explains in th…
The New York Drama Critics' Circle has named Samuel D. Hunter's "A Case for the Existence of God" best play of the 2021-22 season, and David Lindsay-Abaire's and Jeanine Tesori's "Kimb…
Make your pick in the survey below for 12 of the 26 categories in the 75th annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway's best. The awards ceremony will take place on June 12th at Radio Music Hall …
There seems at first a large gap between the cosmic title of this play and the mundane situation it dramatizes: AÂ factory worker named Ryan (Will Brill) is meeting with a mortgage broker …
The trickiest of theater seasons  has led to an unusual " and instructive " awards season. With both the Tony nominations and the Pulitzer Prize in Drama announced on the same day (has…
At the very beginning of Alison Leiby's joke-filled solo show, which I saw a few days after the leak of the draft of a Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe vs. Wade, she told us that "Oh God…
"Fat Ham," James IJames modern take on "Hamlet," has won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Finalists were "Selling Kabul" by Sylvia Khoury, and "Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Owner" (number 4 in …
"A Strange Loop" received 11 nominations and "MJ The Musical" ten, the most for musicals, and "The Lehman Trilogy" received eight, the most for a play, at the 2022 Tony Award nomination anno…
The overdue resurrection of Alice Childress continues with this first New York production in half a century of "Wedding Band,"Â Â her richly resonant story of an interracial couple set i…
 Below are the dozen honorees bestowed with Theatre World Awards for outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway debut performances during the 2021-2022 theatrical season The 76th annual Theatre…
Leo has long dominated and even bullied his family, but he's also looked after them. Now he needs them desperately, but he's not sure any of them will come through for him as he has for them…
Below are the nominations for the 11th annual Off Broadway Awards. Winners will be announced May 24th. Don't know the difference between the Off Broadway Alliance Awards and the Off Broadway…
Is there a better time to debut a documentary about "Spring Awakening," a musical that features a lead character who dies after a botched back-alley abortion?  "Spring Awakening: Those…
How well were you paying attention to the Broadway shows that opened in April 2022, the last month of the unusual 2021-2022 Broadway season? Take this ten-question quiz to find out. Loading�…
The Broadway 2021-2022 season ended last week with five shows opening in a row (two on the same day!), a taxing finish to a both trying and triumphant return to live, in-person theater. And …
"English" won outstanding play, "Kimberly Akimbo" won outstanding musical, as well as outstanding performer and featured performer in a musical, and "Twilight Los Angeles 1992" won best revi…
Below is a day-by-day calendar of a selection of shows opening in May, a month that gives Off-Broadway and indie theater their time in the sun after the end of the 2020-2021 Broadway season.…
Shakespeare didn't write the very beginning and the very end of this generally wan and inscrutable production of "Macbeth," starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga. The aggressively inventive d…
In "POTUS," seven female characters  save the president of the United States from himself during a series of scandals and crises on a single day in the White House " at the same time t…
In "Mr. Saturday Night," opening on Broadway tonight, Billy Crystal stars as a very funny comedian who decades ago self-sabotaged, and is now trying to make a comeback.  The show itsel…
"A Strange Loop," Michael R. Jackson's  "Big, Black and Queer-Ass American Broadway Show," as the characters in the musical itself repeatedly call it, has changed since I saw it Off-Br…
"The Lehman Trilogy," "Harmony" and "Kimberly Akimbo received the most nominations in the 71st annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, announced this morning. The winners will be announced on Â…
A startling moment occurs near the beginning of Lincoln Center's  wonderfully over-the-top production of "The Skin of Our Teeth," Thornton Wilder's weird play about a modern-day Americ…