331 stories by "Nicole Serratore"
No one expects a cancer diagnosis aged 23. In 2018 Rosa Hesmondhalgh developed a sudden, painful, bloated belly. The star and writer
For decades in Canada, Indigenous women went missing and were murdered with little government response or action. Tara Beagan's play Deer Woman
In Ireland, the eight amendment referendum didn't just change the law around abortion; in Rachel Trezise's Cotton Fingers, it inspired a teen
Encores!, a concert series reviving Broadway hits, has brought back the likes of Chicago. Nicole Serratore meets Anne Kauffman, the artistic director
Adapted from Sue Monk Kidd's novel, The Secret Life of Bees is a coming-of-age story that portrays African-American faith and community with
The Off-Off-Broadway theatre has provided a testing ground for a string of plays that have hit the Great White Way. Artistic director
When Susan Sarandon finally ceases her persistent upbeat chatter in Jesse Eisenberg's new play Happy Talk, the resulting awkward silence does not
With Tony nominations out this week, there's an abundance of talent to celebrate. But this year, rather than the attention being drawn
This new screen-to-stage musical adaptation of Tim Burton's ghoulish 1988 film feels like two different musicals have been fused together. On one
Despite a rather flavourless score by David Yazbek, the screen-to-stage adaptation of Tootsie, the film that scored Dustin Hoffman an Oscar nomination
Taylor Mac, the radically subversive theatre artist, and Nathan Lane, America's stage comedy sweetheart, make an unlikely pairing. Lane is the star
Adam Driver gives a sublimely physical performance in this Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson's 1987 play. As a piece of writing Burn
In 2016, Glenda Jackson made a triumphant return to the stage in King Lear at London's Old Vic. Now, she plays the
Should the US constitution be abolished? Playwright and star Heidi Schreck debates this issue in her improbably funny and deeply felt play,
Scott Ellis' revival of the Cole Porter musical unites the effervescent Kelli O'Hara with the rakish Will Chase for a production that
Off-Broadway's National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene began a century ago by bringing international theatre to the Yiddish-speaking population. Today it brings Yiddish theatre
Nothing has dulled Phoebe Waller-Bridge's sharp-edged, caustic, comedic solo show, Fleabag, since it premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2013. What has
Leah Nanako Winkler knew she wanted to be a writer when she was about seven. The playwright had been underestimated in her
Fox's broadcast of Jonathan Larson's cult 1990s musical Rent: Live ended up being Rent: Pre-Taped due to the injury of Brennin Hunt,
Sam Shepard's play about brotherly animosity and the mythical American West returns to Broadway in a kinetic production by James Macdonald featuring
The new play by Tarell Alvin McCraney, winner of the best adapted screenplay Oscar for Moonlight, is set in the Charles R
This tends to be the place where I've kept track of my yearly theater stats. And this year felt like a lot of work so I counted out what I did.203 shows seen (not counting duplicate visits)2…
Though the familiar characters and central romance remain in Amy Heckerling's musical adaptation of her hit 1995 film, Clueless, the nostalgia factor
It's all about the work for New York's Lark theatre laboratory, which has helped develop Pulitzer Prize-winning plays and the careers of
With nostalgic tunes, kitsch design, and oodles of Bob Mackie sequins, The Cher Show is a suitably dazzling new jukebox musical based
