5,360 stories from New York Theater
Two-for-one tickets are on sale now for Off-Broadway Week, February 10 to 24, 2020. The following 33 shows are participating. Those with an asterisk are newly on offer. (Check out my Off…
All these Broadway veterans participated in the 62 Grammy Awards, where "Hadestown" won Best Musical Theater Album. The other nominated albums were "Ain't Too Proud: The Life And Times Of Th…
Casts from six shows opening this season on Broadway " including shows with music by Bob Dylan and Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Tony Kushner " performed at First Look at BroadwayCon 2020.…
In this gorgeous, enlightening and ambitious " Â if over-stuffed " hour-long theatrical collage, Theodora Skipitares uses the eerie visual splendor of puppetry to illuminate a serious subj…
A transcript and video of the closing arguments both Thursday and Friday by Representative Adam Schiff, the House impeachment manager for the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in t…
Charles Fuller's murder mystery, finally on Broadway in a fine production directed by Kenny Leon some four decades after it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, is so good that even if you've s…
"I think I would like a divorce," Jane Alexander as Nancy French says to her husband of 50 years, played by James Cromwell. "All right," Bill replies. Blackout. That's all the dialogue in th…
Some shows you leave needing to tell people about; some shows you leave thinking about what you are going to have for dinner. A few shows ruin your dinner. If you're a drama critic, you are …
When did "theater" become an insult? With the impeachment trial scheduled to begin in earnest this week, the one thing that the right and the left, Democrats and Republicans, seem to agree o…
"Leaving the Blues" dramatizes the life of the amazing jazz, blues and Broadway singer/songwriter Alberta Hunter. I long thought her story was ideal for a musical, ever since I saw her aston…
"We must devote at least as much to our children's education and the health of the poor as we do to the care of our automobiles and the building of beautiful, impressive hotels," Martin Luth…
"You will hear an unbelievable true story," Â one of the three actors from the Republic of Slovenia on a stage designed to look like a makeshift bunker, tells us at the beginning of the pl…
…"My Name is Lucy Barton" is a sometimes poignant, often tedious 90-minute monologue… The hope was that Laura Linney would do for it what France McDormand did in the HBO miniseries that …
Ann Harada, who made her Broadway debut more than 30 years ago, is philosophical about the latest character she portrays. "Sometimes you get to play glamorous roles," she says, "and sometime…
They meet on a line for a movie; the man and the woman " each disfigured by childhood accidents " Â are used to be stared at, and they are used to being alone. Inspired by the late Uruguay…
Those theatergoers drawn to "Modern Maori Quartet: Two Worlds" for the authentic music and culture of the indigenous Maori people of New Zealand might feel blindsided by what seems like a La…
This 15 minutes of Virtual Reality offering the sensation of looking at, walking on and flying over the moon " created by performance artist Laurie Anderson and new media artist Hsin-Chien H…
The typical Broadway theatergoer is still a well-to-do , middle-aged woman from out-of-town, according to statistics presented in The Demographics of the Broadway Audience 2018"2019, the 22n…
Below are the nominations in 24 categories for the 92nd Academy Awards, Joker" led all films with 11 nominations, including for Best Actor Joaquin Phoenix and Best Director Todd Phillips, fo…
Nominations for the 92nd annual Academy Awards will be announced tomorrow January 13, so it seems a good time to test your knowledge of the history of Broadway at the Oscars. (The 92nd Oscar…
Tickets are now on sale for Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for performances from January 21 through February 9 of 21 Broadway shows, from "Ain't Too Proud"…
There was a time when people made a living by starving themselves in front of a paying audience " an art form that lasted for centuries, but one that was on the wane when Franz Kafka wrote o…
The long arty title and the vague, grand description of the show in the Under the Radar festival listing are both misleading. "The Shadow" etc. has a straightforward subject and a clear poin…
"Wild Dogs Under My Skirt," a rhythmic, exuberant and startling work of theater that is the first of three New Zealand plays at Soho Playhouse this month, resembles Ntozake Shange's choreopo…
Two Broadway veterans " Taylor Mac, Tony-nominated playwright of "Gary" and Greg Kotis, the Tony-winning co-author of "Urinetown" " are back Off-Off Broadway this season, and why would that …
