Nobody applauds Keira Knightley when she first appears on stage for her Broadway debut in Thérèse Raquin. The audience doesn't recognize her; she's in the background under faded light, the…
Ticket Givewaway: Win two tickets to see Spring Awakening for free. I love this show; it’s joyful and beautiful, with an exciting and appealing cast, 17 of whom are making their Bro…
Annaleigh Ashford has starred on Broadway in Wicked, Legally Blonde, Hair and Kinky Boots; accepted a Tony for what she called "the worst dancing that ever happened on Broadway” and po…
Dress-up has never seemed more sophisticated than in "Before Your Very Eyes," the intriguing 70-minute theater piece at the Public Theater by the Gob Squad, the European experimental troupe,…
Two shows are opening on Broadway this coming week, and four Off-Broadway, to finish off this busy month of October The Week in New York Theater Reviews My review of Futurity In "Futurity," …
The title for Stephen Karam's new play “The Humans,” which takes place during a family's Thanksgiving dinner, may come from a line of dialogue by a character who talks about the …
Fun and funny, full of rousing melodies and exciting bouts of tap dancing performed by six true talents, the revival at the Helen Hayes is, according to the show's website, "reimagined for t…
Daphne Rubin-Vega, the original Mimi in the original Rent, is so good portraying the initially endearing Dolores and eight other characters in “Empanada Loca, “which has now open…
First Daughter Suite, Â Michael LaChiusa’s musical focusing as much on the First Ladies Nixon, Carter, Ford, Reagan, and Bush as on their daughters, can be considered a sequel of sor…
In "Futurity," a genre-bending show created by the indie band The Lisps, a soldier during the Civil War contacts the daughter of a famous 19th century British poet to help him build "a machi…
At least one play a day is opening in the week ahead, as it has in the past two weeks of October, the busiest month of the Fall theater season. Check out Dames at Sea, First Daughter Suite, …
"I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world,” wrote Arthur Miller, who would have turned 100 today. Still one of the most-produced playwrights in…
Audiences are finding the revival of Cloud Nine at the Atlantic Theater uncomfortable, but not in the same way audiences did in 1981, when it was Caryl Churchill's second-ever play in New Yo…
"Perfect Arrangement," a socially conscious comedy that marks playwright Topher Payne's debut in New York, is his take on what's come to be called the Lavendar Scare of the 1950's, an off-sh…
Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years A Slave) is making her New York stage debut in ‘Eclipsed,’ a play by Danai Gurira (The Walking Dead) set in 2003 during the Liberian civil war, about fou…
The two characters in The Gin Game do little more than play card games and, once, (spoiler alert) dance. But they're portrayed by James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson " with some 130 years of a…
Andrew Lloyd Webber commissioned this 360° music video for "You're in the Band," a number from his Broadway show, School of Rock " The Musical. If you use a Chrome browser, you can place …
Ugly Lies The Bone, a new play with Mamie Gummer as a severely injured veteran, recalls the original spirit of the Roundabout Theater, which began 50 years ago in the basement below a superm…
The October avalanche continues, with ten theater openings this coming week, including one on Broadway, The Gin Game. Check out October theater openings The Week in New York Theater Reviews …
Now that Would You Still Love Me If… has opened at New World Stages, the decision by Kathleen Turner, a Tony- and Oscar- nominated actress, to invest her time and talents in this unskilled…
Barbara's pill-popping, chain-smoking, whiskey-swilling, crack-addicted and foul-mouthed family has gathered in a public park with a surprise for her " they are planning an intervention " in…
Thirty years after Sam Shepard’s “Fool for Love” closed Off-Broadway, with a young actor named Bruce Willis as the understudy, the short four-character play is making its B…
It must have seemed like a fabulous idea – Basil Twist, the puppeteer so inventive that he just won a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant, using his artistry in collaboration with seve…
Old Times, starring Clive Owen in his Broadway debut and directed by Douglas Hodge, is opening tonight at American Airlines Theater. Given both his acting talent and his love of Pinter, dire…
The New York theater season is heating up this coming week, with nine shows opening, two on Broadway: Cloud Nine, Schooled, Old Times, Fool For Love, Sisters Follies Between Two Worlds, Fool…