The theater community in New York and across the country countered a depressing week coming out of Washington D.C. (#potentialgrizzlies, #alternativefacts) with events signaling resistance b…
Eleven years after his death, playwright August Wilson answers Donald Trump's bleak depiction of "inner cities," with "Jitney," the first play Wilson wrote in his ten-play American Century C…
People across the country, including New York artists, have gathered in myriad ways this month to declare their support for threatened American values. Click on the photographs below to see …
My 101-second video of the Ghostlight Project, in which people gathered in theaters in all 50 states to create light for dark times ahead. I focus on the small, moving ceremony outside the C…
Wakka Wakka, the theater company behind Made in China, says the show is "inspired by true events." I suspect the true part doesn't include Mary and her neighbor getting sucked down her toile…
The story of Inauguration Day, which arrives this Friday, has become almost as much about culture as politics. The list of performers who declined an invitation to perform at official…
"Time of Women," a play in the Under the Radar festival based on the true story of three women journalists and activists imprisoned by the Belarusian dictatorship for protesting the fraudule…
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." " Martin Luther King Jr. Below is a list of Anti-Inauguration activities R…
Below are some of the photographs by Martha Swope, who died Thursday at age 88. Â In a professional career that officially spanned from 1957 to 1994, she focused on ballet and Broadway. H…
"Latin Standards," which is Marga Gomez's 12th solo show — and, she tells us, her "final farewell concert" — is a hilarious memoir, part of this year's Under The Radar festival. …
I once asked Luciano Pavarotti what "opera" means, a question that made him momentarily look lost. Opera in Italian literally means "work," he replied, but you don't need to define it. Farme…
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…