Is there any theater company hotter right now than the Public Theater? It started the year off with the literally revolutionary production of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton that moved to Broa…
Cloud Nine made the great British playwright Caryl Churchill's name when it was first produced in London back in 1979. And when it moved to New York a couple of years later, it won…
October is always a crazy month for me. Not only do work demands kick into high gear, so does the theater season. And, on top of that, five of the people I most love have birthdays"and requi…
History, they say, is written by the victors. But sometimes there's a game change and new tales get told. Which may explain why long suppressed parts of the American story are finally m…
As they age, some actors retreat from the stage, citing memory loss, diminished stamina or some other disabling factor. Luckily, neither Cicely Tyson, who will be 91 in December, nor James E…
"I dare you to knock a show starring deaf people and a girl in a wheelchair," my husband K said when I got home from the Deaf West Theatre's revival of Spring Awakening that is playing a lim…
Barbecue, the sly satire that opened this week at the Public Theater, is filled with so many surprises that the ushers won't even hand out programs until the intermission. Which makes it a b…
Relations between the worlds of theater and religion have been bad ever since the Puritans shut down London's theaters in 1642. And although the theaters reopened 18 years later with the res…
Alas, other demands on my time have gotten in the way of my ability to do a post today but I'll be back with a new one on Wednesday. In the meantime, I hope you'll check out some of th…
The American Theatre Wing's annual gala is always a great party. Each year, the Wing, the creator of the Tony Awards, selects a beloved person from the theater world to honor and lots of sho…
Sometimes even a serious theatergoer just wants to have fun. At least that's what I was hoping to do when I headed off to see the MCC Theater production of The Legend of Georgia McBride. And…
Many critics seem to be regarding Hamlet in Bed, the overwrought new play that opened last week at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, as a kind of audition for some other production they'd rat…
Resurrection seems to be the latest theater trend. News has recently come that shows featuring holograms of Billie Holiday and Whitney Houston will tour across the country. And now, on both …
Richard Maxwell clearly has a following. The night my theatergoing buddy Bill and I saw Isolde, the experimental work written and directed by Maxwell that's playing at Theatre For A New Audi…
The fall preview lists started streaming out soon after this summer's blue moon appeared at the end of July. The New York Times' comprehensive list of this season's new shows went online Thu…
No one is a bigger fan of Signature Theatre than I am. For 25 years now, the company has centered its seasons around the work of one playwright, providing theater lovers the rare chance to t…
It's been a glorious summer. The weather, for the most part, has lingered in a sweet spot where it's warm enough to sit outside late into the night (in my case, on my terrace) and yet not so…
Are we humans the creation of a Supreme Being or just the product of genetic mutation? Should a benefit for the larger good supersede the rights of a small group? Is race just a construct or…
Quentin Maré and Lilli Stein in SchooledThe New York International Fringe Festival prides itself on being eclectic. Which means you never know what you're going to get when you attend one o…
OShakespeare scholars say that Cymbeline is one of the Bard's problem plays. That's in part because it's perversely named after a secondary character and is classified as a tragedy…
Strong, successful women don't fare well in most contemporary plays. As I've complained before, something always seems to come along to cut them down to size. And so at the risk of violating…
There'll be no regular post until Saturday since I'm on my summer schedule but I'm writing now to let you know that I've set up a special Flipboard magazine in honor of Hamilton's official a…
The dog days of summer are really here. Big show openings are slowing down and I am too. Which suggests it's time for a break. So while I'll still see a few things here and there, I'll only …
The title of the new play Three Days to See comes from a 1933 magazine article in which Helen Keller, blind and deaf since she was a toddler, wrote about what she'd do if given just 72 hours…
Whatever happens to Amazing Grace, the first musical to open in this new Broadway season, Christopher Smith, the main creative force behind the show, should consider himself a winner. For ag…