Below are two articles I wrote about Rent shortly after it opened on Broadway on April 29, 1996 (10,512,000 minutes ago.) The first article, published on May 12, 1996, is an interview with c…
The Broadway season has officially ended, although the hoopla over it continues, with the Tony Award nominations to be announced on May 3. Other nominations have already been made public; mo…
Jessie Tyler Ferguson, Mitchell on Modern Family, is starring on Broadway in Fully Committed, portraying Sam, a struggling actor who works as a reservations clerk at a trendy Manhattan resta…
She Loves Me, American Psycho and Bright Star lead the nominations for the 61st annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway a…
"None of us can help the things life has done to us," Jessica Lange says as Mary Tyrone. Mary is talking about one of her sons, a drunk, but she herself, a convent girl who married a matinee…
The members of the Tuck family spend two hours trying to explain why it's a curse to live forever, but it is only in the final 15 minutes of Tuck Everlasting that the musical drives home wha…
There is nothing idle about the gossip in  "The School for Scandal." That is clear from the very first scene, when the well-named Lady Sneerwell, portrayed by the estimable Frances Barber…
There are good reasons to savor Waitress, the sweet and tart new musical confection about love and pie, deliciously performed at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theater…It is being promoted…
William Shakespeare is said to have died 400 years ago today, on April 23rd, 1616, at the age of 52, Â having written about death many times and in many ways, as the chart below makes clea…
As acclaimed as it is, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton” will not sweep all the New York theater awards in 2016, most of which are awarded in May and June. “Hamilton…
“American Psycho,” a musical about a fashion-conscious serial killer, is not the most misbegotten show ever on Broadway. It only feels that way for a couple of moments " such as …
Below is the full list of the nominations for the 2016 Drama League Awards, which select winners in five competitive categories, and also give special awards. The winners will be annou…
On one level, Alice Birch's weirdly named and audacious play, which has opened at Soho Rep, presents five vignettes of familiar every-day encounters: a man and a woman graphically flirting a…
She Loves Me and American Psycho lead with eight nominations apiece in the nominations for the 2016 Outer Critics Circle Awards. The winners will be announced on Monday, May 9th. OUTSTANDING…
Lin-Manuel Miranda has won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for his musical “Hamilton.” The choice was widely expected. In my first review of Hamilton, Off Broadway, I wrote "Ham…
The producers of Hamilton have agreed to give the musical's original cast members an unspecified share of the profits, which are reportedly some half a million dollars a week and sure to gro…
The Father, a deliberately disorienting new play starring Frank Langella, is the second work that I've seen on a New York stage in the last two months that focuses on a character struggling …
Nathan the Wise, a fascinating old play that recalls an era when Jews, Muslims and Christians got along, begins at Classic Stage with an acknowledgement of the present: All the actors are ar…
"Hamilton The Revolution," published April 12, 2016, has a long subtitle on the frontispiece in the style of 18th century literature: “Being the complete libretto of the Broadway Music…
Politics has invaded New York — and New York theater — even more so than usual this week. The Stop Cats movement is a prank " as (Andrew Briedis)Â Annoying Actor Friend explain…
Joel Grey, he tells us in "Master of Ceremonies," is "one of only eight people to win both the Tony and the Academy Award for the same role" " in his case the Emcee in "Cabaret." It's the ro…
Anne Washburn's new play sounds like the premise for the movies The Big Chill and The Return of the Secaucus Seven " a group of old friends reunite in a bucolic ranch house in the Texas Hill…
August Wilson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents, Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein were among the winners in the UK’s 40th anniversary Olivier Awards, named aft…
Are theatergoers fools for April? Â We’ve survived some dopey April Fool’s Day jokes (Google’s Mic Drop; Brokelyn’s promise of a free Hamilton concert) and one hila…
What Andrew Schneider achieves on stage literally using smoke and mirrors leaves theatergoers as astonished as 19th century audiences must have felt watching Lumière’s "Arrival of the…