In the first public performance of the four surviving musicals commissioned by the U.S. Army during World War II to boost morale among the troops, "Blueprint Specials" could not be more deft…
“Theater Nerds Everywhere”: Among the winners of Golden Globes Sunday night were a movie based on a play; a musical; and a stage full of theater people. Viola Davis won a Golden …
About halfway through The Present, an adaptation of Chekhov's first play, Cate Blanchett, as a Russian general's widow celebrating her 40th birthday, shoots off a shotgun, dances atop a tabl…
Each year, when snow begins to fall, New Yorkers ask one question — how bad will it get? — and New York theatergoers ask three more: Will the shows be canceled? Will shows offer …
In this opening show at this year's Under the Radar festival, a Chicago-based theater company with the completely apt name of Manual Cinema allows the audience at the Public Theater to wa…
The strength of Confucius, a 90-minute dance piece featuring 60 performers from the China National Opera and Dance Drama Theater, is not found in its efforts to present Confucian philosophy …
Two Broadway shows are opening this month, and fewer than a half dozen Off-Broadway, but January is as usual one of the most robust months for theater in New York. That's because there are m…
The Spring 2017 season Off-Broadway offers new plays by Annie Baker, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, David Mamet, Sarah Ruhl; a new one-man show by John Leguizamo, “Latin History for Morons…
Broadway-style musicals commissioned during World War II by the U.S. Army and staged on an old aircraft carrier in the Hudson; Â and a do-it-yourself spy thriller at the Brooklyn Museum. A…
After Mariah Carey blamed technical glitches for her disastrous New Year's Eve performance in Times Square seen around the world, she wrote a Tweet that can serve as a succinct summary both …
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to. The list below is for shows that have opening dates on Broadway in the Spring 2017 as of this writing, and they are listed chronological…
For those understandably saddened by the premature deaths of so many beloved performers in 2016, here is a gallery of a dozen beloved theater artists who are still living — some still …
Among the worthwhile moments I saw on stage in 2016, a surprising number became more memorable because of off-stage events. It's impossible now to remember the Radio City Rockettes performin…
Below is a list of theater books published in 2016 (or reissued in paperback this year, or just books I couldn’t resist listing.) I reviewed some of these books or interviewed th…
Yes, it’s a year that many would like to forget. But, before you do, test how much you were paying attention to the theater news in 2016 by answering these 16 questions. Most of them w…
As my best-read posts from 2016 below make clear, some theater trends stay strong year after year: Anything about “Hamilton” is still popular nearly two years after the musical f…
 Instant gratification takes too long. Two of the saddest words in the English language are, ‘What party?’ I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive. Y…
My annual New Year’s Eve guide features the Broadway show schedule for New Year's week, and other shows, parties, concerts, intimate dinners, cruises, outdoor events and quiet a…
All but a handful of Broadway shows are performing today, the day after Christmas, even though they usually don't on Mondays. Twenty-one of them are performing twice today " and one Broadway…
What's most interesting about the century-old play "God of Vengeance" " and, let's face it, the reason why a new production of it is opening tonight, at La MaMa " is that it inspired …
 The character Seth Cohen created the holiday that merges Christmas and Hanukah on the TV series The OC. But this year it seems especially apt, since Christmas and Hanukkah are celebrate…
Many New York theatergoers surely see 2016 as "the worst year ever, until next year" according to the title of an essay in the New Yorker by Jia Tolentino, who cited a Twitter meme that pict…
Nobody would ever confuse 'Bright Colors and Bold Patterns," a gay comedy written and performed solo by Drew Droege, for "Long Day's Journey Into Night." Yet oddly, there were moments in …
Yes, Glenn Close, Sally Field, Jake Gyllenhaal, Kevin Kline, Patti LuPone, Bette Midler, and Cynthia Nixon are all returning to Broadway in Spring 2017, and Cate Blanchett and Danny DeVit…
There IS still time left to do holiday shopping for theater lovers. There are also plenty of shows to see this holiday week: Today is the beginning of the Christmas week schedule for Broadwa…