Early in "Allegiance," there is a procession of refugees carrying their few belongings -- an all-too-familiar global image of confusion, helplessness and dislocation. What makes this moment …
As jukebox musical biographies go, "On Your Feet! The Story of Emilio & Gloria Estefan" doesn't have the depth and charm of "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical" or the passion and fun of "Je…
Keep your eye on the asterisk.
One of the mourners at Queen Elizabeth's funeral says "I never thought I would see her pass away," to which an aging Prince Charles, finally preparing to ascend to the throne, answers "I fel…
The "Lazarus," "These Paper Bullets!" and "Witness Uganda" musicals are Broadway potential.
It betrays no lack of faith to say that new musicals are on the skimpy side of Broadway this fall. Given the deserved box-office and critical hysteria around "Hamilton," which opened in earl…
Being engrossed in "Thérèse Raquin" at Studio 54 feels a lot like curling up with a juicy, 19th century romantic novel or losing oneself in a passionate period drama on BBC. In…
Broadway's new golden girl has deep, limpid eyes and a smile likely to melt multitudes, and she tosses her long blond hair with the sashay of a runway model. Oh, and depending on who's in th…
Tickets for "Hamilton," the hottest show in town, are about to be sold to 20,000 lucky New York school kids for $10. The Rockefeller Foundation announced Tuesday that a $1.46 million grant w…
It starts as just another family play on Thanksgiving. The aging dad worries about money, one of the two grown daughters moans about her student debt, the mother wheedles both of them on the…
As usual, the selling of theater has been in full tilt again this autumn. We have seen the eye-catching print and TV ads, the familiar mailings about discount subscription series and the bil…
"Dames at Sea" has arrived on Broadway 47 years after its Off-Broadway premiere introduced a dynamite kewpie doll named Bernadette Peters to a grateful world. The show, a vest-pocket spoof o…
THE SHOW "Billy Elliot the Musical Live" on "Great Performances"
Twenty-two years ago, the young Michael John LaChiusa burst onto the musical scene as a gifted triple-threat-composer, lyricist and author with a beguiling, poignant and odd chamber musical …
Twenty-two years ago, the young Michael John LaChiusa burst onto the musical scene as a gifted triple-threat composer, lyricist and author with a beguiling, poignant and odd chamber musical …
Pulitzer-winning playwright ("The Rabbit Hole") David Lindsay-Abaire and actor-turned-director David Hyde Pierce bring their professionalism and comic timing -- but little credible justifica…
Lupita Nyong'o is coming to Broadway. The Oscar winning actress from "12 Years a Slave" and the new "Star Wars" movie, will appear early next year in "Eclipsed," which begins previews Feb. 2…
DRINKING IN AMERICA: Our Secret History, by Susan Cheever. Twelve, 258 pp., $28.
Somehow, in the tiny crack between her Oscar-winning breakthrough in "12 Years a Slave" and her upcoming elevation into pop iconography in the new "Star Wars" movie, Lupita Nyong'o has squee…
"The Gin Game," which won D.L. Coburn a 1978 Pulitzer for what turned out to be his major work, comes from a decade when aging and other incurable inflictions filled American stages with a b…
We're in a used-up motel room on the outskirts of the Mohave, where people talk about the hot desert wind, swig tequila from the bottle and, when a dog barks in the distance, you want to spe…
Arthur Miller, who would have been 100 on Oct. 17, is having a mini-festival in New York. An Olivier-winning revival of "A View From the Bridge" opens on Broadway next month and "The Crucibl…
Here is a Harold Pinter mystery he didn't create himself. Is it possible to be dazzled by the cast, especially by Clive Owen in his Broadway debut, stunned anew by the elusive meanings of Pi…
Oct. 17 would have been Arthur Miller's 100th birthday.
The temporary reconfiguration of the proscenium stage into theater-in-the-round is pleasantly disorienting at the Atlantic Theater. But that literal shift in perspective is nothing compared …