What in the world would bring R&B superstar Usher to NYU's Skirball Center? Answer: Tony winner Ben Vereen, who last week received a Lifetime Achievement Award as part of the Chita River…
Last night, at the great Bond 45 restaurant in the theater district, in a roomful of notable talent from this year's great shows, the late legend Chita Rivera would have felt quite at home. …
Forget "meet-cute," the winning rom-com trope that made writer Delia Ephron's career. In "Left on Tenth," Ephron's play based on her memoir at the James Earl Jones Theater about finding love…
Last night in the Hamptons: The great character actor and director Bob Balaban assembled a group of star actors to perform a collection of post-pandemic short plays to consider "The Pursuit …
The subject was families Saturday night in Sag Harbor, where John Slattery, his wife Talia Balsam, and and their son Harry opened the Bay Street Theater's news season in "The Subject Was Ros…
Amy Herzog's tender play, "Mary Jane," about a mother raising an ill child, demands that we slow down, take in the drama of the day-to-day. Oscar nominee Rachel McAdams, a movie star " plays…
"Mazel tov." You could hear Ben Platt in the Sofitel Hotel corridor congratulate Jessica Hecht, both nominated for Tony Awards. She was
Looking mild-mannered, even Evan Hanson-ish, Ben Platt plays the real-life historic figure Leo Frank, a Jew who was lynched in the early
Julie Benko: she's not a marquee name unless you're a fan of "Funny Girl" since it opened on Broadway almost a year
Celebrating the Tony nominations this year held special excitement: it's the 75th anniversary, the first in-person comeback after Covid, a year of
Ewwww! That's not my critique of Paula Vogel's tight memory play, "How I Learned to Drive"" rather the play, now having a
Is there a new "Hamilton" brewing out there, off Broadway? Some say "Black No More," a musical adaptation of George S. Schuyler's
Mel Brooks may be 95 years young but that didn't stop him from Zooming into East Hampton's Guild Hall celebration of his
Begging the question: is it too soon to laugh about the pandemic year, 2020? A collection of short plays by masterful playwrights,
Celebrity sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer turned 93 last weekend, and after decades on television and in the public eye, it is
If I have to ease into live theater, "Blindness" is a great conduit, and an event. At the Daryl Roth Theater, temperature
"All families are the same, but like snowflakes, they are different," said actor Bob Balaban recently by phone, explaining the rich detail
The Hamptons season would not be eh, "The Season" without all-star comedy from Eugene Pack. He's the guy who created the hilarious
If you thought "Hamilton" was the only big theater experience of the summer, guess again. Julianne Moore and Alec Baldwin are starring
At the Greenwich House Theater for a memorial for Oscar nominee and Emmy winner Rip Torn, awesome clips revealed the evolution of
"Welcome to Kremlin West!" Aglitter in a sequined sheath, Sandra Bernhard took the Joe's Pub stage like a bat outta hell, that
Stephen Daldry, known for directing such films as "Billy Elliot," "The Hours," and "The Reader," and Netflix's "The Crown," seems most proud
Petite and pretty, Isabelle Huppert plays it edgy. In the 2016 "Elle" " for which she was Oscar nominated and winner of
In Northern Ireland in 1981 The Troubles pit Irish against Irish, resulting in a great deal of anguished, epic drama. Think Martin Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)
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