The Least Problematic Woman in the World
Under the weight of the show's ambition, Dylan Mulvaney is a star. Not in the manufactured influencer sense, but in the time-honored theatrical tradition of the charismatic truth-teller who …
Under the weight of the show's ambition, Dylan Mulvaney is a star. Not in the manufactured influencer sense, but in the time-honored theatrical tradition of the charismatic truth-teller who …
It has taken nearly three decades, but Naomi Wallace's feverish proletarian dreamscape "Slaughter City" has finally carved its way onto a New York stage"and in doing so, has made a queasily …
A KILLER REVIVAL Drury Lane's Dial M for Murder may be set in 1950s London, but under Adam Immerwahr's taut direction, the suspense feels freshly sharpened. Playwright Jeffrey Hatcher's adap…
Though it ends on a note of ambiguity"as any good speculative work should"'The Glitch" is resoundingly clear in its testament to the power of theater to interrogate our technological anxieti…
READY FOR A SWIFT MOVE? Veronica Electrifies the Pacific Jazz Orchestra Gala The Pacific Jazz Orchestra opens its 2025"26 season with a night that promises both elegance and swing: an intima…
A NEWFOUND(LAND) WAY OF LOOKING AT MUSICAL THEATER It's always a joy " and a rarity " to see a musical I've witnessed before reemerge as something fresher than the first time I saw it. Such …
Among her most haunting and meditative works is the slim yet searing "From Trinity to Trinity," an autobiographical pilgrimage undertaken in 1999 to the Trinity Site in New Mexico where the …
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and the team of Purpose accept the 2025 Tony Award for Best Play for Purpose at the 78th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday June 8, 2025. About the 78th Annual Tony Awards …
Nicole Scherzinger accepts the 2025 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical for Sunset Blvd. at the 78th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday June 8, 2025. Abou…
Darren Criss accepts the 2025 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical for Maybe Happy Ending at the 78th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday June 8, 2025. About …
Jonathan Spector and the team of Eureka Day accept the 2025 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play for Eureka Day at the 78th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday June 8, 2025. About the 78th Annua…
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jamie Lloyd, and the team of Sunset Blvd. accept the 2025 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical for Sunset Blvd. at the 78th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday June 8, 2025…
The team of Maybe Happy Ending accept the 2025 Tony Award for Best Musical for Maybe Happy Ending at the 78th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday June 8, 2025. About the 78th Annual Tony Awards T…
The conceit is clever: each performance takes place in a real home, the precise address dispatched only the day before, like a speakeasy or secret society. A password grants entry. There's a…
REVELLING IN RAVEL AND A RAPTUROUS CARMEN The Chicago Symphony Orchestra opened its late-September program tonight with a shimmering palette of sound while offering many chances for the play…
WEST SIDE SNORING Astoundingly unsatisfying, LA Opera's many-headed Hydra production of West Side Story, directed with no sense of urgency by Francesca Zambello, opened tonight to a crowd la…
Ragtime is the epic musical by Terrence McNally (book), with music by Stephen Flaherty and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens (based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow). It weaves together stories of a Jewish…
Jennifer Kidwell's "we come to collect: a flirtation, with capitalism" is not so much a theatrical production as it is a revelation"an offering, a conjuring, a glittering séance of self-exa…
And by the time we arrive at "Fantasmas""his 2024 HBO series that feels less like television and more like a guided tour through the psyche of a queer mystic armed with a glitter pen and a p…
Crafted with sensitivity and spectacle by playwright Darrah Cloud and brought to life with unflinching precision by director Sam Helfrich, "House of McQueen" dares to unravel the mythos of t…
Still, for a piece that purports to tackle the complexity of addiction, "Sober Songs" often fails to excavate its deepest layers. Relapses, romantic entanglements, suicidal ideation, and ear…
There's a lot going on in this new musical about Alan Turing"and perhaps too much. In attempting to encompass the breadth of Turing's extraordinary life, the production ends up overwhelmed b…
THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME A friend warned me that The Heidi Chronicles might feel dated"after all, Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer- and Tony-winning play ends in 1987.…
"well, i'll let you go," Bubba Weiler's exquisitely devastating new work, staged with unpretentious yet profound grace by director Jack Serio leading a magnificent cast at the Space at Irond…
ONE UP PLAYS TO WIN" WITH A CHEAT CODE FOR CHARM One Up: The Musical, which premiered at this year's Hollywood Fringe and returns for encore performances, is a charming, if uneven, 80s-inspi…