As the late, great Gypsy Rose Lee once said, "If you beg for more, I'll give it to you!" Well, we begged… and they obliged: Broadway's Masked Singer is back to entertain us for another nig…
What a quandary! There was a new show to review, but it was opening night for my favorite baseball team. Which one should I choose? The theater won this time. A timely revival of Richard Gee…
When we see married actor couples working together on stage, we feel a special connection. It's as if we are in on the joke. We expect chemistry and smile when they kiss and caress because w…
Much has been written (and, especially lately, staged) about marginalized people's troubled relationships with the non-marginalized. But what about the relationships of different marginalize…
Take Shape, Broken Box Mime Theater's newest devised show, explores ten stories about emergence and transformation. It's the company's first Mainstage show in three years, and to celebrat…
Women have really been getting screwed over from the beginning. That was one of my takeaways from #SoSadSoSexy, presented by Tapestry Collective at The Tank. Written and created by Emily …
Looks like the whale was good on his word! Just as the melodious mammal indicated in his crown-clinching showstopper, the smash-hit Broadway guessing game that constantly kept us on our toes…
If you're a Shakespeare aficionado who wants to laugh out loud for two hours straight and doesn't mind a touch of bawdy humor, then Jane Anger is for you. The Jennifer Campos Production, …
In my experience, any production that includes Steve Earle on its creative team is sure to have at least a few good things going for it. In the case of Coal Country, Audible Theater's new li…
When was the last time you smiled for two hours? Were you wearing a mask? Under their masks, audiences at the Winter Garden Theater are grinning broadly eight times a week. Despite any criti…
In 1965, James Baldwin and William F. Buckley Jr. faced off at the University of Cambridge, on live tv and in front of an overly packed house, on a question that, 57 years later, is no less …
For many audiences, Phylicia Rashad will always be the elegant unflappable TV wife/mother/lawyer in The Cosby Show. She came into their homes every Thursday like a welcome friend. After the …
Lynn Nottage must be the hardest-working playwright in New York, having written three shows for the Fall 2022 season. First was Clyde, a terrific show about ex-convicts and second chances. D…
A viewer should be prepared for intense theater when attending a Eugene O'Neill play. If the show is "Long Day's Journey into Night," she should be ready for a lengthy assault on her emotion…
In 1927, my great-great grandfather wrote a letter home from Germany. With admirable wit and evident pleasure, Nathan Low writes about visiting his father's cousins in Ludwigshafen. Though, …
One of New York's biggest (and best) theatre festivals is back. The 16th Annual FRIGID Festival brings together artists from across the Indie Theatre Community, with plenty of fun, exciting,…
It's been almost 25 years since the 1997 release of the first Harry Potter book. Its young readers have grown up, gotten jobs and now have families of their own. Do the Harry Potter characte…
Only Stephen Sondheim could have taken a motley group of would-be murderers and made them sympathetic and funny. At one time, a musical about killing presidents would have been controversial…
It felt strange to be attending a show last Saturday night instead of sitting in front of the television waiting for SNL to begin. Fortunately, the play was "The Search for Signs of Intellig…
Erin Cronican seems to be unstoppable. The actor, producer, and director is currently starring in a new production of Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning WIT at The Seeing Place Theat…
By now, everyone associated with musical theater has written a tribute to legend Stephen Sondheim who died Nov. 26, 2021 at age 91. Productive until the end, Sondheim died while working on a…
First let's get rid of the elephant in the room- Rob McClure, hardworking star of Broadway's "Mrs. Doubtfire" is NOT Robin Williams who created the 1993 movie role. However, he doesn't have …
Sometimes less is more, and in One Christmas Carol at The Chain Theatre, less is much more. Adapted from Charles Dickens' classic by Douglas H. Baker, and performed by him in multiple states…
Playwright, director, and actor Sara Fellini's work has been described by the New York Times as "darkly humorous, deliciously ghoulish." spit&vigor, of which Fellini is the artistic dire…
For Harry Hadden-Paton, the chance to do a new musical (and one written by James Lapine, no less) was a dream come true. The British actor who made his Broadway debut in Lincoln Center's …