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By Samuel L. Leiter
April 5, 2025. The Picture of Dorian Gray, adapted by Kip Williams from the 1890 Gothic horror novel by Oscar Wilde (his only one), about a man who neither ages nor lo…
Reviewed by David Sheward
April 2, 2025. The family drama is making a dynamic comeback this theater season. Cult of Love, The Blood Quilt, We Had a World, and now Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Pu…
By Paulanne Simmons
April, 2, 2025. It's a well-known fact that playwrights have miserable childhoods. Their father was a drunken actor (Eugene O'Neill). Their father abandoned them, and th…
Jamie DeRoy & Friends to present 35th Anniversary Cabaret at Birdland to support The Entertainment Community Fund on Monday, March 31.
March 28, 2025: Producer Jamie deRoy will presen…
By David Sheward
March 28, 2025. In a dazzling feat of technology and acting pyrotechnics, Sarah Snook of Succession fame plays 26 characters and brings Oscar Wilde's 1891 classic of go…
By Samuel L. Leiter
In 2023, two new musicals, Broadway's How to Dance in Ohio and Off Broadway's Buena Vista Social Club (at the Atlantic Theatre), were directly based on popular documenta…
By Paulanne Simmons March 23, 2025. Sarah Snook's one-woman The Picture of Dorian Gray is a combination of melodrama and farce, enhanced by technology and enabled by sheer stamina. With the …
BroadwayHD BroadwayHD Marked 10 years of Excellence with a PIPPIN/ 50th Anniversary Celebration featuring Stephen Schwartz, Alex Newell, & Ben Vereen.
March 26, 2025: Bonnie Comley and…
By David Sheward
March 25, 2025. Two disparate musicals originating away from Broadway, one in London and the other Off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theatre Club, recently opened with a day of …
By Samuel L. Leiter
March 25, 2025. Despite its somewhat comedic title, Operation Mincemeat, the spectacularly clever British musical spoof ("spoofsical"?) at the John Golden Theatre, is in…
By David Sheward
March 23, 2025. After 31 Broadway shows, three Tony and two Drama Desk Awards, orchestrator Doug Besterman is achieving a rare feat: three shows running simultaneously in o…
By Paulanne Simmons
March 23, 2025. Satires on war are perhaps as old as war itself. Consider Lysistrata, M*A*S*H, Catch-22 and now, Operation Mincemeat, the very energetic and occasionally…
By Samuel L. Leiter
March 22, 2025. Family dramas are theatrical staples, especially the kind where relatives gather from far and wide for some unifying function, like a holiday, death, or …
By David Sheward
March 22, 2025. "There is no straight line to tell this story," says Joshua, the character standing in for the playwright Joshua Harmon in his touching autobiographical wor…
By David Sheward
March 20, 2025. Sex plays a vital role in three classics works, now in revival Off-Broadway: Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts and, surpri…
By Samuel L. Leiter
March 19, 2025. We Had a World, the new, three-character, autobiographical dramedy by Joshua Harmon, Off Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club's City Center Stage II, is …
By Iris Wiener
March 19, 2025. Tony-Award winner Idina Menzel (Wicked) sure knows how to make a much-anticipated return to Broadway. She currently stars in Redwood, a musical that she co-…
By Paulanne Simmons
March 17, 2025. If you're a fan of country music, and especially the music of songwriter JT Harding, you'll definitely like Bedlam's Music City. The show is directed …
Sara Blue and Dan O'Shea from Maureen's Haven Homeless Outreach with The White Room Gallery Co-Owners Andrea McCaffery and Kat O'Neill at the opening reception this week for TRUE COLORS, in …
By Samuel L. Leiter
March 15, 2025. Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts, now in an uninspired production at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre, has not received anywhere ne…
March 14, 2025. The White Room Gallery, 2 Railroad Avenue in East Hampton, will present, TRUE COLORS, featuring Patrick Schmidt, Diego Velez, Seek One, Fringe, Stephan Gubert, Punk Me Ten…
By: David Sheward
March 10, 2025. At first Lisa Sanaye Dring's Sumo, at the Public Theater in a co-production with Ma-Yi Theater Company and La Jolla Playhouse, seems to be plotted like …
By: Samuel L. Leiter
March 10, 2025. It's good to see the always daring Soho Rep back in business, with Nia Akilah Robinson's The Great Privation (How to flip ten cents into a dollar), aft…
By David Sheward
March 7, 2025. Just as August Wilson centered most of his dramas of the African-American experience in his home city of Pittsburgh, Samuel D. Hunter has returned again and…
By Samuel L. Leiter
March 4, 2025. Raviv Joseph, whose plays, like Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Gates (a 2010 Pulitzer finalist), Guards at the Taj, and King James, have made him one of the …
