A younger playgoer knowing nothing about Mart Crowley's classic 1968 Off-Broadway comedydrama The Boys in the Band except, perhaps, that its original run is regarded as an important landmark…
The fact that Broadway hasn't seen fit to provide a role for Lois Smith in over twenty years can be regarded as one of the top arguments denouncing the popular assumption that Times Square i…
The setup would make a hell of a piece of theatrically-minded erotica. Call it Cat On A Hot Tin Roof and Mouse, as sexual sparks ignite when elegant playwright on the verge of stardom, Tenne…
There's an empty casket on display and a pants-less mourner screaming. 'What kinda fuckin' world is this' when the lights suddenly go up on Stephen Adly Guirgis' wild New York escapade, Our …
Depending on how snobby you are about the belief that no American play can truly be said to have premiered until it has opened in New York, Paradise Blue, the ravishing new jazz noir drama b…
Ranking up there with MEDEA and OEDIPUS REX, Eugene O'Neill's family tragedy LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT would most likely make any playgoer's list of inappropriate classics to revive on M…
Playgoers in the know will arrive at any production of the 1937 West End smash ME AND MY GIRL already humming a bit of its legendary Act I closer The Lambeth Walk, looking forward to a rousi…
'How're you gonna cap off your prepubescent years', a stony-faced teacher asks his competitive dance team members, shortly after winning a competition that saw one of their own suffer a seas…
Though the characters in bookwriterlyricist Bill Russell and composer Janet Hood's sweet, funny and very entertaining new musical UNEXPECTED JOY are all women, there's a guy in the mix who s…
Despite only three Broadway credits, Marin Ireland must be regarded as one of the absolute best actors to regularly grace New York stages during this century. Through her steady work Off-Bro…
Escaping disillusionment through the comfort of alcohol while clinging to hopeless pipe dreams is rarely depicted with such crackling energy as it is in director George C. Wolfe's puzzling p…
'Raise your hand if you've ever been underestimated,' instructs Program Director Stephanie Ybarra before every performance of Shakespeare's HENRY V, as performed by The Public Theater's Mobi…
The title character of George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan was burned at the stake nearly 500 years before the play premiered at Broadway's Garrick Theatre in December of 1923, but for many vie…
Czech-born British dramatist Tom Stoppard, whose densely intellectual plays may be the most potent augment known for America's need to step up its public education funding, was first noticed…
Now, if you want to sing along, you just go right ahead and sing, the hostess of Broadway's newest musical advises her audience at the top of the show. And if you want to dance, go 'head, fl…
If, like this theatre reviewer, you've managed to survive the last twenty years without reading a word of J.K. Rowling's wildly popular series of Harry Potter novels, nor taking in a screeni…
From SOUTH PACIFIC to THE KING AND I to FIDDLER ON THE ROOF and now MY FAIR LADY, director Bartlett Sher has been spending the better part of this young century perfecting his method of moun…
When I was young I was taught by my grandmother to listen to the night, says the title character of Lynn Nottage's nobly lyrical drama of the ivory trade, MLIMA'S TALE.
The willingness to suspend disbelief is a long-standing tradition in live theatre, and as long as playwrights and directors firmly establish their boundaries of realism, it's reasonable for …
During the first half of the 20th Century, there was no artist as important to the development of American musical theatre from strictly light entertainment to a legitimate dramatic art form…
While audiences gather at Lincoln Center to see Lerner and Lowe's musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's classic, there's a different kind of Pygmalion story being played out at Studio …
The current American president is never mentioned in bookwriterlyricist Quiara Alegria Hudes and composerlyricist Erin McKeown's lovely and touching chamber musical MISS YOU LIKE HELL. But e…
There's a theory, hopefully an accurate one, that the things that make you an outcast in high school are the things that make you awesome as an adult. And maybe that's why scenes in the buoy…
Magazine ads and television commercials may reach millions more, but perhaps the highest compliment I can pay Havana Club Rum's immersive theatre experience, AMPARO, is that it effectively g…
Broadway's legendary composerlyricist Stephen Sondheim will be making a guest appearance next season on Rachel Bloom's musical romantic comedy television series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend in an epi…