The lure of an all-woman Japanese import of "Chicago" is hard to resist. What would such a faraway culture and ritualized gender switches make of Bob Fosse's hyper-American, deliriously unse…
Live sightings of Jonathan Pryce -- part of today's zeitgeist buzz as the High Sparrow in "Game of Thrones" -- are rare in New York, where the two-time Tony winner has not appeared on Broadw…
It may seem like the summer doldrums, but not when you scratch under the surface. Here is a grab-bag of things percolating in what theater people may like to call the subtext.
Since the hit revival of "Chicago" opened 20 years ago, it has seemed that enough stars, semi-stars and demi-stars have passed through the revolving-door casts to populate a small city. When…
Most everyone remembers the iconic photo of Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat shaking hands in the White House Rose Garden in 1993, with Bill Clinton holding the historic enemies in a solicito…
Elizabeth Swados is getting more press attention right now than she has since her "Runaways," written when she was 26, went to Broadway and got five 1979 Tony nominations. This is criminal, …
There has always seemed something private, even unknowable about Barbara Cook. In the '50s, this spectacular artist defined smart ingénue and vocal dazzler in "Candide," "She Loves Me…
The lots have been cast for the two top musicals of the Broadway season. The operative word here is "cast."
The city used to have a promotional slogan around this time of year. It bragged "New York Is a Summer Festival." This was considered absurd on at least two levels. First was the timing. It c…
Of all Shakespeare's major works, few seem as horrid today as "The Taming of the Shrew." How are theater artists supposed to make a screwball romantic comedy about a new husband who breaks t…
Mother is comatose in a hospital bed after a stroke. Her two grown children and assorted family members gather around her. But since the play is called "War" and the playwright is the unstop…
Two mothers are lying, apparently asleep, in hospital beds in a shared room in "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center o…
The star of Sunday's 70th annual Tony Awards will inevitably be "Hamilton," the hip-hop juggernaut that has worn out all snappy descriptions of mega-success. To merely call Lin-Manuel Mirand…
Our critic's predictions:
Lin-Manuel Miranda is hanging up his britches this summer.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator, composer and star of the mega-smash musical, is hanging up his britches this summer, according to multiple reports.
There's no word yet on which award she will present.
In case a free excerpt from "Hamilton" isn't enough audience bait for the 70th annual Tony Awards, Barbra Streisand, no less, will be a presenter on the July 12 show on CBS.
"Passing Strange," which won a 2008 Tony for its wildly unconventional book and was translated with extraordinary fidelity into a movie by Spike Lee, is on my short list of live theater I'd …
Two big stories are crashing around the tiny Westside Theatre in Hell's Kitchen. One story, the major one, belongs to Dick Gregory, the groundbreaking comedian and civil-rights activist whos…
"Paramour," Cirque du Soleil's attempt to merge its gravity-defying spectacle with a traditional song-and-story musical, definitely has the best trampoline-powered rooftop chase scene ever t…
A record attendance surpassed 13 million.
AN ACT OF GOD (in previews, opens June 6) This is not a reprint, though you're right if it sounds familiar. Last year at almost precisely this time, Jim Parsons was in previews to star as, w…