David Henry Hwang was attacked by an unknown assailant with a knife and nearly died. That experience, along with the playwright's shock at the results of the 2016 Presidential election and h…
There are many cues to what's wrong with this overly broad third Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' dated play, starring Marisa Tomei as Serafina Delle Rose, a Sicilian immigrant seamst…
Books about Bob Fosse and Yiddish theater have been named the best theater books of the year by The Theatre Library Association,  which is presenting its TLA Book Awards tonight at the…
Oscar, a fat freshman in thick bifocals meeting his college roommate for the first time, greets him with what sounds like an insult: "Hail, dog of God!" His new roommate, the street-smart Yu…
The announcement of the latest very unscientific results from the nightly poll conducted in the lobby of Lincoln Center, is a marketing gimmick for "The Great Society" that strikes me as at …
In "The Thanksgiving Play," a satire by Larissa FastHorse that debuted at Playwrights Horizons last year and has become one of the most produced plays throughout the country, Jaxton, the wok…
On Thursday night,  CNN held an "LGBTQ Town Hall" in which nine of the Democratic candidates for President separately answered questions on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender an…
When I saw "Slave Play" Off-Broadway last December, it felt like the work of a novice playwright " promising, provocative, and well produced, but too derivative, too long, too full of ide…
Can an underemployed middle-aged jerk be a babe magnet?  That's a question theatergoers are likely to ask about Wheeler, the central character in Linda Vista, Tracy Letts' latest play…
"The Wrong Man,"Â Â a sung-through musical starring the spectacular Joshua Henry, Â may remind people of "Hamilton" in its catchy rap-inflected eclectic score and jerky hip hop choreog…
Diahann Carroll, who died Friday at the age of 84, is best known as the first black woman to star on a TV series, "Julia" in 1968, but she was a barrier breaker on Broadway too. Born in t…
Conservatives don't all think alike; some of them hate Trump; some don't see Liberals as evil (some do.) Some are deeply weird. It is a sure sign of the political divisiveness in America tha…
"Chalk," a 40-minute comedy in which silent comic Alex Curtis creates an entire world for the audience using little more than a piece of chalk, is exactly the sort of show I always hope for …
 At the 22nd annual New York International Fringe Festival, which is running through the end of October, there are 40 shows in six venues " plus more than 25 shows at The Nuyorican P…
"Immersive theater" has come to mean something separate from the dictionary definition of the word "immersive" " in much the same way that phrases Absurdist Theater and Abstract Expressionis…
"Moulin Rouge" on Broadway has several things in common with Bated Breath Theater Company's low-budget show about the same people, place and period, especially in my reaction to them both. A…
 I was struck in seeing "The Great Society," which depicts President Lyndon Johnson's turbulent full term in office, how Robert Shenkkan's play represents political theater in more ways …
The Great Society, a play by Robert Schenkkan that offers a largely sympathetic portrait of the 36th president of the United States as it chronicles the final four years of Lyndon Johnson…
October is always a busy month for theater in New York, but it's gone up a notch this time. Below is a selection, organized chronologically by opening date. On Broadway alone, eight shows ar…
How well were you paying attention to New York theater news, views and reviews in September? Answer these ten questions and find out.
Three generations of black, queer theater artists " actor André De Shields, 73; playwright Kevin R. Free, who is 50;Â and director Zhailon Levingston, 25 "Â are collaborating on a pla…
Those for whom theater is their religion are more likely to appreciate "Why?," a 70-minute theater piece about theater that, aptly, begins with a whimsically modified Biblical tale: God proc…
The same playwright who gave us "The Father" with a demented Frank Langella and "The Mother" with a depressed and possibly deranged Isabelle Huppert now offers us…dead Jonathan Pryce and E…
Ethereal, stylized and visually stunning, Japanese director Satoshi Miyagi's production of "Antigone," at the Park Avenue Armory through October 6, fuses several theatrical traditions, some …
The artist known as Dyalekt (pronounced dialect) greets us looking like a young Allen Ginsberg in his Yippie Uncle Sam phase, holding up a bucket labeled "dead words," asking us for words th…