 The ever present tension between art and commerce moves centerstage in three recently opened off-Broadway productions"Irishtown at the Irish Repertory Theatre, I'm Assuming You Kn…
Bob Martin burst onto the Broadway scene back in 2006 with The Drowsy Chaperone, a loving send-up of Broadway musicals that ran for 674 performances, was nominated for 13 Tony awards and won…
As everyone knows, big name movie and TV stars have been invading Broadway this spring (click here for a rundown of who is doing what) and theatergoers are paying big bucks for the bragging …
Even though these are crazy times, I don't know how I let last week's anniversary of Broadway & Me slip by. I started writing here on Feb. 14, 2007, which means it's now been 18 years (a…
A thank you to the National Endowment for the Arts is prominently displayed on the cover of the program for My Man Kono, the new show that Pan Asian Repertory Theatre opened this week at A.R…
History, they say, is written by the winners and the winners in Jordan Harrison's thought-provoking new play The Antiquities are the artificial intelligence entities that the play imagines w…
When the Palestinian playwright Khawla Ibraheem began working on her one-woman show A Knock on the Roof a decade ago, it was a 10-minute monologue. Now the show, which is currently playin…
Some theater-goers lust after seeing big-name stars and there will be plenty of them for those folks to see in the upcoming spring season, from theater-grown ones like Idina Menzel in Redwoo…
It's that time of year when people like me who are lucky enough to see lots of shows are supposed to look back and draw up a list of the ones we consider to have been the best. But that's al…
Wishing you a theatrically merry little Christmas…
Leslye Headland has developed a following for her acclaimed Netflix series "Russian Doll" and for "The Acolyte," the Disney Channel's latest installment of the "Star Wars" saga. And if Cult …
There are lots of marquee-names in Shit. Meet. Fan., the naughtily-titled comedy that is currently running at MCC Theater. But the show's true star may be its set, a duplex apartment that sc…
As everyone knows, musicals are the mainstays of Broadway and four big ones opened over the last two weeks. But I've been so busy running out to see them"and seeing other shows too (if you h…
People have been trying to put Louis Armstrong's life onstage ever since that master jazzman died in 1971. My BFF Phil took me to a backers' audition for one attempt to build a musical aroun…
Hurricanes have wiped out entire communities along the west coast of Florida. Wildfires are burning up over 400,000 acres in northern California. Drought has pushed water levels in the Missi…
You're unlikely to find anyone who doesn't have a strong opinion about Sunset Blvd., the latest revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black and Christopher Hampton's musical adaptation of Bill…
"RuPaul's Drag Race" is now in its 16th season and its Emmy-winning celebration of gay and trans culture has spawned a half dozen spin-offs and scores of international versions. And now its …
This October has turned out to be a crazy time for those of us trying to keep up with all the fall show openings. I'm currently scheduled to see more than a dozen of them over just the next …
It kind of makes sense that so many people are drawing comparisons betweenThe Hills of California, the new Jez Butterworth play that opened this week at the Broadhurst Theatre; and Gypsy, th…
It somehow slipped my mind that Tuesday night was the opening night for CSC's presentation of Our Class, the searing saga of a group of Poles and Jews who grew up together in a rural Polish …
It's been a lazy summer. Only a few shows have opened. I took no trips. No out-of-town guests came to visit. My husband K and I just spent most of our time lolling around on our terrace …
Nearly a month has gone by since I've posted here. Summer has a lot to do with that. There are fewer shows opening. And to be honest, the warmer weather makes me lazy. But that doesn't m…
 Wishing you a thoroughly festive holiday
Those of us who love musicals root hard for each new one that comes along. And we root extra hard when we know that a new creative team is getting its first big break or that the show is bas…
Summer has come roaring in this year. Temperatures seem to be setting records everywhere, making many of us (O.K., me) want to kick back and chill out with a cold drink and a cool book. The …