October is the  busiest theater month in New York during the fall and winter, with more shows opening than there are days in the month. Six Broadway shows are opening, heavy on …
How well were you paying attention to New York theater in September? Answer these 11 quiz questions and find out.
Three New York theater artists were awarded the MacArthur "Genius" Fellowships, including Lin-Manuel Miranda, Just a few days earlier, Miranda offered a first listen and the entire lyrics fo…
Lin-Manuel Miranda is one of three theater artists to receive a 2015 MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Award. The others were puppeteer Basil Twist and set designer Mimi Lien. The fu…
During the intermission for the Elevator Repair Service's "Fondly, Collette Richland," at the same time that a noticeable number of theatergoers fervidly exited New York Theatre Workshop for…
In a program note for Daddy Long Legs, director John Caird wonders why the 1912 novel on which the musical is based isn't considered a great American classic. I wonder the opposite " why its…
The Deaf West production of Spring Awakening at the Brooks Atkinson tangibly enhances an acclaimed musical about rebellious and repressed adolescents. By cleverly pairing deaf actors who are…
"Sommerfugl" at the 4th Street Theater is a new Off-Off Broadway play inspired by the true story of a Danish man who had gender reassignment surgery, way back in 1930 — the same story …
John Lahr reviewed New York theater for half a century, starting with a now-defunct Manhattan neighborhood weekly and ending as the longest-lasting chief drama critic for The New Yorker maga…
Seeing "The New Morality" the day after Thomas Bradshaw's sex-plicit “Fulfillment" gave the title of Harold Chapin's century-old comedy of manners far more irony than the playwright su…
"Fulfillment," Thomas Bradshaw’s latest in-your-face play, which has opened at the Flea, offers much the same ironic moral lesson as the inspiration behind "Answered Prayers," the titl…
Winners of the 11th annual New York Innovative Theater Awards, honoring theaters and theater artists working Off-Off Broadway, are chosen from 145 individual artists, 57 productions and 55 t…
Broadway veterans Viola Davis, Jeffrey Tambor, Allison Janney, Uzo Aduba, Margo Martindale and Frances McDormand are among the winners of the 67th annual primetime Emmy awards. The complete …
Denzel Washington says he will direct and produce all 10 of August Wilson’s American Century Cycle plays (also known as the Pittsburgh Cycle) for HBO, one per year, over the next de…
William Shakespeare wrote 37 plays (10 tragedies, 10 histories, 17 comedies) and 154 Sonnets — 884,647 words in all. He is said to have invented 1,700 words in the English language, in…
In "Hamlet in Bed," a new play which has opened at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, an actor named Michael (Michael Laurence), who was given up for adoption as an infant by his actress mothe…
Do theology and theater mix? Is there an unspoken separation between church and stage? A day after the announcement that Amazing Grace will close on Broadway after little more than three mon…
At times during "Empire Travel Agency," a theatrical adventure that takes place in some dozen different downtown locales, it feels as if you're in a Bourne thriller, sharing escapades with M…
This week starts 20at20. Next week starts Off Broadway Week Both are ways to get tickets to Off-Broadway shows that are even cheaper than usual. And, there's plenty new to see. The Week i…
Twenty-five years from now, according to Max Posner's new play "Judy," there will be no more plays; cancer will be cured; cars will not need drivers; and couples will be able to arrange to d…
I will keep an open mind, I write three times in my notebook before the first scene in the first room of "Eve," which its creators describe as "a dance theatre immersion experience." It's ru…
"I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire," Tennessee Williams told Gore Vidal, who recalls this in the introduction to t…
Its title, its playful poster, its sleek chic showroom of a set, and its marketing suggest that "Laugh It Up, Stare It Down" is a shallow romantic comedy, telling the story of Joe and Cleo o…
It would be incorrect to say there's nothing surprising about "The Legend of Georgia McBride," an entertaining but slight and predictable comedy about drag performers, which has now opened a…
An unusually busy summer has now ended, and an exciting Fall slowly chugs into view. Take the New York Theater August 2015 Quiz to reminisce. If you missed the 19th annual New York Int…