Carmel Dean had worked closely with celebrated musicians and theater artists ranging from Green Day to Chita Rivera, but she panicked when she met Stephen Sondheim, not because she revered h…
Gloria Steinem herself came out in the last twenty minutes of Gloria: A Lifeto lead the "talking circle," an unscripted conversation with the audience. This was the officially designated Act…
The Rev. Charles Emmanuel Grace, a hero of the Civil Rights Movement, and his pregnant wife Olivia, who writes his stirring sermons for him, seem to find great joy in one another when he lif…
A man stands in front of the army tanks during the Tiananmen Square protests. A woman helps topple a dictator, with surprising results. A man tries to rescue a child in a plane crash. Ano…
During the 2017"2018 season, the average age of Broadway theatergoers was 40.6, the lowest since 2000, according to a newly released report by the Broadway League, the trade group for the Br…
Genghis Khan had a mother; so did Amelia Earhart and Dwight Eisenhower. Perhaps Mother of the Maid, starring Glenn Close as the woman whom Joan of Arc called Ma, will start a trend of offeri…
Theater is often awesome, even when in need of repair, and this week is no different. Scenes from @FringeNYC Hub on a Tuesday in October pic.twitter.com/5uECyWnkjj " New York Theater (@NewYo…
In this well-acted, finely directed Off-Broadway production of Alexi Kaye Campbell's 2009 play,  Stockard Channing portrays Kristin Miller, a long-time activist, American expatriate a…
"Opening Night" begins with hilariously feuding twin sister Hollywood stars, who are brilliantly named Margo Nightingale and Joan de Tuileries, each presenting what they thought was a one-wo…
Emma and Max are the toddlers in the care of a Barbadian nanny, Britney, who is fired by their parents in the awkward first scene of "Emma and Max," a jarring play about racism written and d…
Edward Einhorn's latest play is based on the jaw-dropping true story of a quack doctor who became rich and famous in the 1920s by implanting goat testicles as a cure for male impotence, and …
Lady Gaga, Madonna, Kesha, U2 and Panic! At the Disco were among the answers to the question: What recording artist or band would you most like to see providing the score for a musical on Br…
In Mark Sonnenblick cabaret-like gay musical, Arthur, a pianist and songwriter, decides in 1965 that he will write songs to his lover, singer Trevor, without changing the pronouns in the lyr…
David Lawson was sent an elaborate cartoon of Pepe the Frog, a symbol of the alt right, and told "anti fascists like you are oven ready." This was via Twitter shortly after Election Day, 201…
You can now pay for Broadway tickets under a new Ticketmaster installment plan — monthly payments over a year, at 10 percent interest. Much of the reaction to this news was not grat…
There are statues of Christopher Columbus in Columbus Circle — although city officials have hinted they want to get rid of it — and Columbus, Ohio and Columbus, Georgia and Colum…
At the scaled-down, reimagined production of "Oklahoma!" at St. Ann's Warehouse, they didn't give us the program until after the musical was over " one of the signs that director Daniel Fish…
"Funny how hope changes everything. Funny how hope changes nothing," a singer chants on the High Line, hovering above 18th street, as a light in her black baseball cap eerily illuminates her…
"What's the password?" asked the woman with a punk blonde bouffant, stiletto heels and a penis brooch. I stammered, tried to show her my ticket. She just glared. "Um, La MaMa?" "You can do b…
Yet again, a drama critic has been attacked for making comments about actors' bodies. The new headlines were generated by a 1991 review of "Will Rogers Follies" on Broadway. Why was this old…
Win two tickets to see “Head Over Heels” for free. I liked this show, which mashes up 18 songs by the 1980s all-female L.A. punk band The Go-Go's with a loose adaptation of Ar…
For the last few years before he died in 2017 at the age of 86, playwright A.R. Gurney had been experiencing a resurgence of a career that had already produced some 40 plays over 50 years, b…
What stage show could compete with the drama of the Ford/Kavanaugh hearings? I’m a theater critic and I’ve never been so drained by a drama. " Charles McNulty (@CharlesMcNulty) S…
Using 20 songs that Bob Dylan composed over half a century, playwright Conor McPherson has fashioned a slow, sad, elliptical and occasionally exquisite theater piece set in a run-down boardi…
How well were you paying attention to the theater, and theater news, in September? Answer these 13 questions to find out. Keep abreast of what’s happening with my weekly summari…