54 stories by "Wqxr"
The new Off Broadway show "The Legend of Georgia McBride"Â by Matthew Lopez is a comedy about a young Elvis impersonator named Casey who's barely making a living performing in a Florida Pa…
Labor Day, the semi-official end to the summer, is now in the rearview mirror. Which means that theater-watchers will be eagerly getting ready for the fall season. Broadway already has seen …
A new Off Broadway play by Sherie Rene Scott and Dick Scanlan tells the semi-autobiographical account of their experiences working with prison inmates.
The play's unusual title " "Whorl I…
The latest play from the prolific A.R. Gurney comes with a forthright title, "Love & Money." The Signature Theatre Company production features Maureen Anderman as the wealthy, elderly…
Annie Baker won the Pulitzer Prize in 2014 for her play "The Flick," which has been restaged this summer at the Barrow Street Theatre. But Baker also has a new play concurrently on the board…
The Public Theater's second free Shakespeare in the Park presentation this summer is the late romance "Cymbeline," a twisty tale of duplicity and betrayal directed by Daniel Sullivan. The ca…
The story behind one of the best-known hymns in the English language is the subject of the new Broadway musical "Amazing Grace." The show tells the story of the man who wrote, "I once was…
The young playwright Joshua Harmon made a splash with his comedy "Bad Jews" in 2012, which was initially presented at the Roundabout Theatre Company's black-box theater and was later produce…
Even when everybody knows what's planned, you can never be sure of what will actually happen when friends get together. In Bruce Norris's new play "The Qualms," what's supposed to be a…
The 2015 Tony Awards ceremony was Sunday night at Radio City Music Hall. The new musical Fun Home had the most fun, winning awards for Best Musical, Book, Score, Leading Actor, and Director.…
An awkward sweetness and a laconic wit are qualities the actor Jim Parsons wields with Emmy Award-winning skill in his role as Sheldon Cooper on the television series "The Big Bang Theory." …
A quiet play about a group of people working in a run-down Massachusetts movie theater is getting its second New York City production. Annie Baker's "The Flick" might be quiet onstage, bu…
A show that can take on both Shakespeare and a group of Tony nominees sounds like a wonder and "Something Rotten" appears to be just that. The new musical has racked up an impressive 10 T…
Broadway has been going to the movies for so long now that it's almost surprising that the beloved 1951 movie-musical "An American in Paris" has only now been turned into a stage show.
The m…
The 1958 movie musical "Gigi," about a young woman being groomed for a life as a courtesan, won an impressive nine Oscars, including Best Picture. But a 1973 theatrical production did not en…
Social scientists tell us that relocating and setting up a new home is one of life's big stresses. So the pressure is really on when a young, upwardly mobile black man moves back to his old …
Robert Askins's dark comedy Hand to God has already had two productions Off Broadway, at Ensemble Studio Theatre and MCC Theater. Now it's making the leap to the big time, opening on Broadwa…
The spring theater season is traditionally dominated by Broadway openings, as the deadline for Tony awards considerations arrives at the end of April. But Off Broadway doesn't go into hibern…
The late Wendy Wasserstein hit the playwright's jackpot in 1989, when The Heidi Chronicles took home the Tony Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the Drama Desk and New York Critic's Circle Awa…
Larry David was one of the masterminds behind the megahit sitcom "Seinfield," but since then he's become better known for playing a version of himself in the HBO series "Curb Your Enth…
Helen Mirren won an Oscar for portraying Queen Elizabeth II in the 2006 movie "The Queen." Now she picks up the famous handbag again in the play The Audience, written by Peter Morgan, who al…
If you've been in a dive bar in New York, or anywhere else, just those simple words are enough to conjure the bleak decor, the smell of stale drink and something more. Eugene O'Neill's…
A new production from The Civilians, a journalistic theater company, is called Pretty Filthy and is an exploration of the pornography industry centered in Southern California's S…
Decades before Anton Chekhov's plays about the struggles of existence among ostensibly successful and wealthy Russians, Ivan Turgenev wrote A Month in the Country, a play that contains…
"Boy meets girl" is a fine start for so many stories, including Let the Right One In, a play adapted by Jack Thorne and based on the Swedish novel and film of the same name by John Ajvide…
