228 stories from WQXR
A show most famous for putting Bernadette Peters in the spotlight is getting a bigger spotlight of its own. The musical "Dames at Sea" started in a tiny café Off-Off-Broadway in 1966 and he…
The holiday season is approaching ... or looming, you might say, depending on how you feel about holidays and family get-togethers. A middle-class family Thanksgiving in lower Manhattan i…
A new play on a tough topic is part of this season's Underground season at Roundabout Theatre Company. The play is "Ugly Lies the Bone," written by Lindsey Ferrentino. The topic is the strug…
Razzle Dazzle is the jazzy title of a new book about the history of Broadway by Michael Riedel, the New York Post theater columnist and co-host of the show "Theater Talk." The book, which wa…
The Tony-winning musical "Spring Awakening" has returned to Broadway. Although the original production of the musical by Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik closed only in 2009, and thus might see…
Playwrights Horizons kicks off its fall season with "The Christians," a play by Lucas Hnath about a schism in an evangelical church. In the production, directed by Les Waters, Andrew Garman …
The new Off Broadway show "The Legend of Georgia McBride"Â by Matthew Lopez is a comedy about a young Elvis impersonator named Casey who's barely making a living performing in a Florida Pa…
Labor Day, the semi-official end to the summer, is now in the rearview mirror. Which means that theater-watchers will be eagerly getting ready for the fall season. Broadway already has seen …
A new Off Broadway play by Sherie Rene Scott and Dick Scanlan tells the semi-autobiographical account of their experiences working with prison inmates.
The play's unusual title " "Whorl I…
The latest play from the prolific A.R. Gurney comes with a forthright title, "Love & Money." The Signature Theatre Company production features Maureen Anderman as the wealthy, elderly…
Annie Baker won the Pulitzer Prize in 2014 for her play "The Flick," which has been restaged this summer at the Barrow Street Theatre. But Baker also has a new play concurrently on the board…
The Public Theater's second free Shakespeare in the Park presentation this summer is the late romance "Cymbeline," a twisty tale of duplicity and betrayal directed by Daniel Sullivan. The ca…
The story behind one of the best-known hymns in the English language is the subject of the new Broadway musical "Amazing Grace." The show tells the story of the man who wrote, "I once was…
The young playwright Joshua Harmon made a splash with his comedy "Bad Jews" in 2012, which was initially presented at the Roundabout Theatre Company's black-box theater and was later produce…
Even when everybody knows what's planned, you can never be sure of what will actually happen when friends get together. In Bruce Norris's new play "The Qualms," what's supposed to be a…
The 2015 Tony Awards ceremony was Sunday night at Radio City Music Hall. The new musical Fun Home had the most fun, winning awards for Best Musical, Book, Score, Leading Actor, and Director.…
An awkward sweetness and a laconic wit are qualities the actor Jim Parsons wields with Emmy Award-winning skill in his role as Sheldon Cooper on the television series "The Big Bang Theory." …
A quiet play about a group of people working in a run-down Massachusetts movie theater is getting its second New York City production. Annie Baker's "The Flick" might be quiet onstage, bu…
A show that can take on both Shakespeare and a group of Tony nominees sounds like a wonder and "Something Rotten" appears to be just that. The new musical has racked up an impressive 10 T…
Broadway has been going to the movies for so long now that it's almost surprising that the beloved 1951 movie-musical "An American in Paris" has only now been turned into a stage show.
The m…
The 1958 movie musical "Gigi," about a young woman being groomed for a life as a courtesan, won an impressive nine Oscars, including Best Picture. But a 1973 theatrical production did not en…
Social scientists tell us that relocating and setting up a new home is one of life's big stresses. So the pressure is really on when a young, upwardly mobile black man moves back to his old …
Robert Askins's dark comedy Hand to God has already had two productions Off Broadway, at Ensemble Studio Theatre and MCC Theater. Now it's making the leap to the big time, opening on Broadwa…
The spring theater season is traditionally dominated by Broadway openings, as the deadline for Tony awards considerations arrives at the end of April. But Off Broadway doesn't go into hibern…
The late Wendy Wasserstein hit the playwright's jackpot in 1989, when The Heidi Chronicles took home the Tony Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the Drama Desk and New York Critic's Circle Awa…
