  Beetlejuicethe Broadway musical differs in crucial ways from Tim Burton's 1988 comic horror movie, as the character Beetlejuice himself (portrayed by Alex Brightman) makes clear fro…
Oklahoma and Tootsie lead in number of nominations for the 64th annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broad…
In Tootsie the movie, Michael Dorsey, an actor desperate to be cast in anything, auditions disguised as a woman he names Dorothy Michaels, and lands a role as a female hospital administrator…
Hadestown, Tootsie, and Oklahoma received the most nominations in the 69th annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, announced this morning. The winners will be announced on Monday, May 13th, with…
Earth Day is officially April 22nd, but it's being celebrated on Broadway, Saturday April 27th, when the 30 blocks of Broadway between Union Square and Times Square will be closed to vehi…
"Gary" is a mess, deliberately so. Written by the downtown provocateur Taylor Mac making his Broadway debut, it stars three of the best comic stage actors in America as three minor character…
On April 20, 1999 " 20 years ago today " two students killed 12 classmates and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Â Seven years later, New York Theatre Workshop pre…
The fifth Broadway production of My Fair Lady opened a year ago today, as good a time as any to wax nostalgic over not just Lerner and Loewe's 1956 musical, but over Pygmalion, the 1913 play…
"Hillary and Clinton" is exactly the play we do not need right now, a well-acted but irrelevant middlebrow entertainment starring Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow as the presidential cand…
On Broadway, as Off, Hadestown is a hell of a musical. But it's changed. When it opened Off-Broadway three years ago, Anais Mitchell's concept album had been turned into an inventively st…
Socrates was so annoying to his fellow Athenians that even some of those jurors who had voted to acquit him joined the majority to have him condemned to death during the penalty phase of his…
Below is the full list of the nominations for the 85th annual Drama League Awards, which select winners in five competitive categories, and also give special awards. The nominees were announ…
Can a Star Wars villain and a Soviet spy find love, sex and happiness together on Broadway? That's the question we're primed to ask in the first Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson's 1987 pla…
What is a play " and what is its purpose? These questions come to mind after reading the 15 plays commissioned by T the New York Times Style Magazine in America 2024, a multimedia anthology …
 Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury wins the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play, which was produced at Soho Rep and deals with issues of race and family " and one particular famil…
With the TV series "Fosse Verdon" gaining them renewed attention, here are photographs from the illustrious Broadway careers of Gwen Verdon and Bob Fosse (arranged more or less chronological…
Below: an explanation of major New York theater awards. And before that, a calendar of this year's nominations and award announcements/ceremonies. Why was Sarah Bernhardt, one of the world's…
I'm grateful for having first seen Daniel Fish's dark, hip and homey production of "Oklahoma!" at St. Ann's Warehouse last year, because I can see how much improved it is now that it has tra…
I might go a great distance to watch Ben Whishaw strip off his suit and turn into Helen of Troy and Marilyn Monroe before our eyes. But I only had to travel to 30thStreet and 10thAvenue, in …
 In a city with 1,200 cultural institutions, how do you create a new one that stands out? That was the question " and the charge " that then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg put 14 years ago to D…
For its first production in its new second home downtown in a spruced-up Greenwich House Theater, Ars Nova is presenting the latest devised piece by the much-praised ten-year-old company The…
The Lehman Trilogy, an inventively staged, extraordinarily acted, and historically blinkered theatrical epic, begins and ends with the collapse of the Lehman Brothers, the venerable financia…
There's beauty in the suffering that comes from longing. That message comes through clearly in "Diary of One Who Disappeared." Everything else is elliptical in the production of this hundred…
Nicole Fosse learned things about her parents, the choreographer and director Bob Fosse and the dancer Gwen Verdon, by watching the making of the TV series "Fosse Verdon," which begins on FX…
People are gushing about Heidi Schreck's play as if it's another Hamilton, and in some ways it is. No, it's not a groundbreaking hip-hop musical. Indeed, "What the Constitution Means …