Is this the right time for a work of theater that explores the aftereffect of gun violence and bigotry and a flawed criminal justice system? Sure.  How about one that compares Jewish h…
Like many a performer, Jan Damm has been climbing the walls during the pandemic, but he did it literally. After live performances dried up, he started creating at-home skits for the Bindlest…
In "Two Sisters and a Piano," Jimmy Smits plays a lieutenant in the Cuban army in 1991 who is supposed to keep tabs on the two women (Daphne Rubin-Vega and Florencia Lozano) who are under ho…
"Into The Woods" was "a huge smash hi," when it opened on Broadway in 1987, we're told in the ten-minute video below, the latest from the "Encores! Inside the Revival." Given that the video …
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris spoke after the jury in the trial of Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd convicted him on all three counts, including two for murd…
There are so many productions opening/being announced now that it feels as overwhelming as any April (even moreso, since BroadwayCon 2021 went virtual over the weekend, which you can still w…
It was sunny on the roof of the Empire Hotel overlooking Lincoln Center when more than a dozen dancers today from Broadway and ballet and modern dance companies took a break from a dark year…
As the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota is nearing its end, Studio Theatre of D.C. today debuts a new streaming production …
"The Wandering," which its creators bill as an immersive theatrical experience inspired by the music of the 19th century classical composer Franz Schubert " "part visual album, part qu…
Before she wrote the libretto and then the screenplay for "In The Heights," before she became the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright of "Water By The Spoonful," Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes create…
In "Shadow/Land," the opening play of Erika Dickerson-Despenza's projected ten-play-cycle  about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, Ruth has come by on August 29, 2005 to pick up her…
"It's a song that I wrote about coming out of lockdown, with some much needed optimism,"Â Mick Jagger announced today in a statement about his new pandemic anthem, Easy Sleazy. "Thanks to …
Ten days into the much ballyhooed reopening, April has been as busy a month for theater as it usually is " I've seen a play every day this week (see my reviews)" but the April overload is du…
Babette, like Garbo, just wants to be alone. The legendary French courtesan has retired to her country estate,  designed for "trading the sins of lust for a more relaxed sin of sloth,"…
When Amber Iman was asked to perform on Broadway as part of NYPopsUp, "I began to freak out." The pressure was on: "I should at least get either a Tony nomination or a husband or both if I d…
Below is the video of the Reverb Theater Arts Festival, viewable until Thursday, May 20. It is close-captioned. For separate videos that provide ASL interpretation and audio description o…
At 91, John Cullum has had a long and remarkably varied Broadway career,  spanning six decades and some 30 shows " musicals ranging from "Camelot" to "Urinetown," straight plays from "…
This thrillingly-sung new version of Jason Robert Brown's beloved (and problematic) musical about love lost (and gained) almost feels like a laboratory experiment in pandemic theater. Will t…
Erika Dickerson-Despenza and her play "cullud wattah" have won the the 43rd Annual Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and $25,000 The play is about a family of Black women struggling to survi…
So there is poet and refugee Evgeny Shtorn in front of me reciting his poem "From the Confinement," a title I find ironic, given that he's speaking on the beautiful green shore of a ca…
"You're a lame duck, you're a stream,"  a character was screaming oddly, just as my screen froze while watching  the streaming of the play "Cock."  Was this a problem with…
Broadway reopened over the weekend …for 36 minutes (as a New York Times headline put it) with a double bill: Savion Glover in a one-man musical, and Nathan Lane in "Playbills!" a monologue…
Below is the full text of Paul Rudnick's "Playbills," the first play presented on a Broadway stage in more than a year " in a one-time-only socially-distanced matinee on Saturday at the St. …
Mike Daisey performed his latest monologue to 22 masked and vaccinated theatergoers in person Friday night at the 99-seat Kraine Theater in the East Village, and simultaneously to another 50…
"…you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on," Samuel Beckett wrote in 1953; Terry Teachout quotes that line in his blog About Last Night, right before his entry on the same day that he …