"I think what we do is evil but I still want to do a good job at it," says Nikolai, one of the Russian trolls trying to sway the American Presidential election in Sarah Gancher's funny and f…
Watch this starry line-up in support of Biden/Harris, by Broadway for Biden. Featured some 200 artists, including: Billy Porter, Judith Light, Derrick Baskin, Laura Benanti, Victoria Clark, …
"I think what we do is evil but I still want to do a good job at it," says Nikolai, one of the Russian trolls trying to sway the American Presidential election in Sarah Gancher's funny and f…
Shortly after the Tony Awards announced its much delayed 2020 nominations in the middle of a pandemic-induced shutdown, I brought actor and writer Kevin James Doyle back to Times Square for …
 With 15 days left to Election Day,  the theater community's focus on voting " such as the Hamilton Town Hall for Biden/Harris this weekend featuring the original cast of the musical,…
Even nurses dedicated to kindness have their breaking point. Connie Britton portrays a nurse forced to care for a COVID patient who had worked at a risky job never wearing a mask, and then p…
Viewers might be astonished that Heidi Schreck's funny, poignant and pointed play feels like a direct response to the Senate hearings on Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the Supreme Court "…
We got many questions that we'll be answering tonight, "most of them about Jonathan Groff's spit," Tommy Kail, Â the director of "Hamilton," announced at the outset of a 90-minute virtual …
Below are six must-see* theater "opening" this weekend, plus five more still available, Â two Meet The Tony Nominees events, and another two pro-democracy soirees. The theater " two recent…
Angela Lansbury, born 95 years ago today the daughter of an Irish actress and a British politician, came relatively late to Broadway, appearing in her first role on the Rialto at the age of …
Spike Lee filmed David Byrne's American Utopia on the stage of Broadway's Hudson Theater earlier this year; it is arriving on HBO on Saturday, October 17, Â in a completely different era. …
  Jagged Little Pill and Moulin Rouge lead in the much-delayed 74th annual Tony Award nominations for the much-truncated 2019-2020 Broadway season, selected from 18 eligible shows, w…
Spike Lee filmed David Byrne's American Utopia on the stage of Broadway's Hudson Theater earlier this year; it is arriving on HBO on October 17, Â in a completely different era. Taking evi…
Political theater is different this year,  and not just because it's on screens rather than stages. There is a palpable sense of urgency. The weeks counting down to Election Day may h…
Books about dancer Ted Shawn and New Orleans theater before the Civil War have been named the best theater books of the year by The Theatre Library Association, which is presenting its TLA B…
With exactly three weeks to go until Election Day and, as we learned officially last Friday, at least another eight more months until Broadway reopens, it's hard not to feel anxious. But the…
"It has been said that the wheels of justice turn slowly. Injustice, on the other hand, can move at lightning speed, as we are seeing here today." " Senator Amy Klobuchar. Full video and tra…
"When is the last time you went to live theater like this"? I asked one of the seven other audience members waiting for Voyeur to begin, an hour-long play that takes place in the streets…
Larissa FastHorse, who last week was announced as one of the winners of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Awards, riffed on Christopher Columbus and Columbus Day in her satirical play "The Tha…
When "Static Apnea" began its theatrical run, live and indoors, a big selling point for me was that it would be safe: One theatergoer at a time (mask required) would watch a single perfo…
Below are seven must-see shows this weekend, two of them "reunion readings," another two star-studded new versions, of acclaimed plays; a fifth a reunion concert of the original cast of Six;…
Broadway will remain shut down at least through May 30, 2021, The Broadway League announced today., the fifth implicit target date for reopening since Governor Andrew Cuomo ordered the theat…
Watch "The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America" below, available through October 15, a 50-minute video written by Tony Kushner, and directed by Ellie Heyman, featuring Glenn Clo…
"The American people have witnessed what is the greatest failure of any Presidential administration in history, and here are the facts. 210,000 dead people in our country in just the past fe…
Patti LuPone has made Twitter and YouTube her stage to perform some blunt take-downs of Donald Trump, in response to his debate performance and his post-hospital  balcony scene, which she…