Cynthia Nixon, two-time Tony winning actress best-known for portraying lawyer Miranda Hobbes in the “Sex and the City” TV series and movies, has officially entered the race for g…
“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” begins previews tonight at the Lyric Theatre, which has been newly co-designed by Christine Jones and Brett J. Banakis. Click on any photograp…
In "Admissions," an aggressively provocative play by Joshua Harmon at Lincoln Center, a white admissions officer (Jessica Hecht), who is committed to increasing diversity at an elite prep sc…
Escape to Margaritaville, the new Broadway musical with songs by Jimmy Buffett, promises much the same experience as the week long tropical resort vacation that it depicts — fun, relax…
In the week since the horrendous car crash in Park Slope that killed two young children, including the four-year-old daughter of Broadway actress Ruthie Ann Miles, and put her in the hospita…
Frozen, the Broadway musical based on the animated film, is currently in previews and will open March 22 at the St. James Theater. Below are photographic portraits of the five principal cast…
Below are new photographs of the cast of Hamilton on Broadway as of March, 2018, three years after opening Off-Broadway at the Public Theater. It moved to Broadway, opening on August 6, 2015…
Modeled on an 18th century picaresque novel, Bruce Norris's "The Low Road" on stage at the Public Theater presents the improbable adventures of a scoundrel, one Jim Trewitt, to whom an adver…
At the beginning of Martin McDonagh's "Hangmen," stout, bow-tied executioner Harry Wade is about to hang an unhappy man " unhappy not just because he's innocent, but because he'll be killed …
Amy, a movie lover with Down syndrome, is able to quote the most well-worn lines from the most familiar movies " "I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody" " and own them as her own…
In “queens,” the latest resonant, heartfelt play by Martyna Majok, a Polish immigrant woman named Renia reigns over a crumby basement in the New York City borough of Queens, but …
The lesson of #Oscars90 — Viva Mexico! " New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) March 5, 2018 “The Shape of Water,” written and directed by Mexican Guillermo Del Toro, won four…
Theater lovers tend to look for members of our tribe in whatever’s happening in the world. That means in Hollywood, of course, but it also means in Parkland, Florida. The theater veter…
How much theater did you see in the first two months of 2018? How well were you paying attention to the theater news? Test your theater IQ with these 11 questions, two of them about performe…
Six shows are opening on Broadway this month, including the much anticipated  “Frozen,” and starry revivals of both “Angels in America” and “Three Tall Women…
"The Zoo Story" was Edward Albee's first play, and in a way mine too. He wrote it when he was 29, and the short one-act play launched his much-honored career as the American playwright most …
The Black Plague has just claimed another victim among the 14th century acting troupe rehearsing "Noah's Flood," when the playwright comes on stage to explain what he's trying to do with "Th…
Azeem is angry. The title character of "An Ordinary Muslim,"a British-born son of Pakistani immigrants, is angry at his wife Saima for her wanting to wear a hajib at her office, fearing that…
It's hard to know what to call "Black Light." It’s an entertainment for certain. It’s also an act of healing and an act of warning in these turbulent times. It begins: What if I …
It might sound unenlightened to call Relevance a catfight between two feminists. Jayne Houdyshell and Pascale Armand, after all, are portraying characters explicitly identified as "public in…
In "Is God Is," when twin sisters Racine and Anaia hear from their mother for the first time in 18 years, it is to urge them to find and kill their father " as revenge for the fire he set th…
David Mamet has revealed in an interview in the Chicago Tribune that he has written a play about Harvey Weinstein. "I was talking with my Broadway producer and he said, 'Why don't you write …
Jerry Springer the Opera is profane, vulgar, obvious, offensive and irresistibly entertaining " at least in the first act, when it offers a high art version of the TV talk show that has aime…
The announcement of forthcoming Broadway productions of Torch Song, a pioneering play about a gay character, and a stage adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” a drama about a ca…