5,360 stories from New York Theater
As 2019 is coming to an end, leaving many of us worn down , it might be more rewarding to express gratitude for favorite New York shows that opened not just this year but for the decade as a…
Tony Kushner has taken the first play he wrote, which traced the rise of Nazism in Germany as a cri de coeur and a call to arms against what was happening to America during the Reagan era, a…
"Small theaters" play a large role in making New York City the world's cultural capital, according to  "All New York's a Stage," a report issued this week by the Mayor's Office of Media a…
Fefu picks up a double-barrel shotgun and shoots at her husband near the beginning of "Fefu and Her Friends," billed as a modern classic and written by the beloved avant-garde playwright Mar…
Broadway is always big on Thanksgiving. If Olaf the snowman isn't on stage in "Frozen" at the St. James on Thanksgiving Day, he IS in the air as a balloon in the Thanksgiving Day parade, AND…
Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize twice, but she was also a woman; so the Nobel committee asked her not to show up at the ceremony. We learn the specific reason why early on in this well-inten…
"The Inheritance," a long, ambitious play about three generations of gay men in New York, pays homage to two masterpieces, without being one itself. Yet the play by Matthew Lopez, making his…
Who knew that "A Christmas Carol" could be so dangerous! The assaults begin even before the first line of dialogue in the new, charming if overlong, and extraordinarily well-designed Broadwa…
It's surely pointless, four decades and two billion dollars after its debut, to rant about Evita, and silly to blame Andrew Lloyd Webber's theatrical canonization of the amoral historical fi…
The same gay character who is bullied in one play is nearly murdered in another play in a theater some two miles away. In an unusual collaboration, two Brooklyn theaters are simultaneously p…
     So many people (and journalists!) complained that the public impeachment hearings made for dull theater that others angrily denounced the "theater critic school o…
Elaine Stritch kicked Rick Borutta in the stomach every day. That, anyway, is how he says it felt at the beginning. "Other than that, she was rather likable," says Borutta, who worked as her…
It would be hard to overstate the city-wide trauma that occurred in Crown Heights, Brooklyn in August, 1991, nor the power of "Fires in the Mirror," the groundbreaking documentary play about…
 The thrilling final minutes of "Tina" are all that a rock concert should be, and the main reason to see this jukebox biomusical about one of the world's most electric performers, portra…
In the 26 years since the Russian clown Slava Polunin began touring, "Slava's Snowshow" has been performed "thousands of times to millions of people in hundreds of cities," according to the …
Keep those cell phones on; that's where "User Not Found" largely unfolds.  Yes, this terrific site-specific play takes place in a café near BAM in Fort Greene, where Terry O'Donovan …
BrandoCapote is a play with a script by Sara Farrington inspired by a fascinating interview Truman Capote conducted with Marlon Brando at the peak of his popularity in 1957, while the movie …
On Veterans Day, a reminder from Adam Driver, Broadway veteran  and military veteran, and the founder of Arts in the Armed Forces, a nonprofit that brings theater to the military: "…
"Broadbend, Arkansas" is billed as a musical about three generations of an African-American family in the South grappling with injustice. Â While technically accurate, that's a misleading …
"Whoo, that was some heavy shit," our guide says after leading us through 400 years of African-American history. It was hard to disagree. Every inch of HERE Arts Center has been transformed …
David Lawson made a personal sacrifice as a public service: He read 10 campaign books, all but one by current candidates for President of the United States. From his reading, he has fashione…
If Richard Nelson, the writer and director of "The Michaels," were hired to direct the next Marvel movie, would Iron Man, Thor and the Hulk sit around the kitchen table in Rhinebeck, New Yor…
Peter Dinklage's singing voice would not normally qualify him for a role in a musical, unless in a Disney animated movie as a singing rhinoceros. But Rex Harrison couldn't really sing either…
Bella Abzug spoke at my junior high school graduation, until Donna Florio's mother told her to shut up. "This is my daughter's graduation, not a political rally." Â Abzug paused, apologize…
The two ladies hanging out on the roof are lesbians; they just don't know it yet. The title of Liza Birkenmeier's play, which marks her Off-Broadway playwriting debut, may seem to promise so…
