5,364 stories from New York Theater
In "Spoon River," we meet a town full of drunks, hypocrites, home-grown philosophers, resentful husbands, frustrated wives, an arsonist, a killer, and dozens more " all of them dead…and al…
“Temple of the Souls,” a musical about a doomed, Romeo and Juliet romance in 16th century Puerto Rico between a Spanish conquistador's daughter and a Taino, begins with a thrill.…
The story of the Buddha informs this intriguing and well-produced musical at the New York Musical Festival about a modern-day female spiritual leader. But it's not until the last fift…
The cast of the Hamilton spoof, Spamilton, performed at the Broadway in Bryant Park concert this week a medley including "Lin-Manuel As Hamilton," "1776," "What Did You Miss,”…
Watch the video below for highlights of the concert that concluded the Immigrant Arts in America Summit. The summit was a two-day event that included panel discussions, a speech by John Legu…
"We're the kind of people that Trump wants to keep out of the U.S.," John Leguizamo says in the video below, about his family, who immigrated to New York from Colombia ("the country, not the…
Ticket Givewaway: Win two tickets to see Indecent for free. I loved this show, a fascinating backstage tale written by Paula Vogel and wondrously staged by  Rebecca Taichman (who won a…
“I am a foolish man…I am crushed, I have been crushed by fate,” cried out Reg E. Cathey as King Creon, at a climactic moment in  the free Saturday performance of “…
As "Pipeline" begins, we learn that a black teenager has gotten into a physical scuffle with his teacher and is in danger of being expelled, and arrested. But playwright Dominique Morisseau …
The actor Matthew McConaughey sells his soul to the devil, and then tries to get it back, in this musical that opened the 2017 New York Musical Festival, which describes the show in its prog…
As you might have heard, Oscar Isaac walks around in his underpants in the Public Theater production of "Hamlet." But the most startling visual occurs much later. There's a sudden, striking …
There are two kinds of questions posed by the Improbable Theater Company's production of "Opening Skinner's Box," a stage adaptation of the 2004 book by Lauren Slater that describes ten famo…
Near the end of this musical revue surveying 50 years in song of Jewish immigration to New York, one of the talented performers, Daniel Kahn, delivers an astounding rendition of "Roumania, R…
"Who will want a play by William Shakespeare?" his wife Ann asks him, unkindly, in their home in the hick town of Stratford-Upon-Avon, as he is about to depart for London in 1589 to become a…
Summer means outdoor entertainment, much of it free– like the Broadway in Bryant Park lunchtime concerts… Watch Groundhog Day at Bryant Park – three songs …and Broadw…
Actors don’t realize how hard it is to work with animals, observes animal trainer William Berloni in the video below, during the 2017 Broadway Barks animal adoption event at Shubert Al…
In "To T or Not To T," a fascinating and funny autobiographical monologue, the performer known as D'Lo impersonates his father giving a speech at D'Lo's wedding ceremony: "Even though I was …
In "Cost of Living," an eye-opening play featuring a quartet of extraordinary performances, playwright Martina Martok offers a tart retort to that sappy Barbra Streisand song about the luck …
Andy Karl, Barrett Doss and more than a dozen other cast members of the Broadway musical “Groundhog Day” performed three songs at the Broadway at Bryant Park lunchtime concert to…
Before the start of "Kim's Convenience," Soulpepper artistic director Arthur Schultz introduced it to the New York audience as "the most successful new Canadian play of the last decade." The…
As Americans celebrate our 241st Fourth of July, it's bracing to realize that the most patriotic new show on Broadway is "Come From Away," a musical about Canada. But American patriotism on …
This is an unusual month for New York theater: While there are no shows opening on Broadway, and few Off-Broadway, there is plenty to see " the annual summer theater festivals, such as the N…
A ninth century Pope, a 21st century female Buddha, Â Liberace with a notorious gangster, Errol Flynn with Fidel Castro, Matthew McConaughey with the devil, a Conquistador’s daughter…
Canada Day, almost always on July 1st, is special this year for two reasons: 2017 marks Canada’s 150th anniversary. And it’s the first day of Soulpepper on 42nd Street. Starting …
Third Rail Projects, the dazzling experimental and self-described "experiential" company that has created engaging site-specific theater in an old mental institution in Williamsburg ("Then S…
