It's been 15 years since Simba first mounted Broadway's Pride Rock, and the cast and creative team took the occasion to celebration the anniversary on Sunday. "I must admit, I did think it'l…
There is so much to love about the movie “Elf.” Fortunately, many of those same charms grace the stage in the returning holiday musical of the same name. (Diehard fans may mourn …
Fiction writer Nathan Englander makes an auspicious stage debut with his play “The Twenty-Seventh Man” at the Public Theater. Derived from his short story of the same name and ba…
“The Piano Lesson” is a theatrical whirlwind with the power to blast away barriers between the past and the present, the living and the dead, and reveal the darkest secrets and b…
Let’s cut to the chase: How well does Kirsten Holly Smith cover “Son of a Preacher Man”? As star and co-author—with Jonathan Vankin—of “Forever Dusty,&rdq…
Dutch director Ivo van Hove throws down a gauntlet with “Roman Tragedies,” his epic, vaguely mind-blowing five-and-a-half-hour cycle of “Coriolanus,” “Julius Ca…
Dutch director Ivo van Hove throws down a gauntlet with “Roman Tragedies,” his epic, vaguely mind-blowing five-and-a-half-hour cycle of “Coriolanus,” “Julius Ca…
Dutch director Ivo van Hove throws down a gauntlet with “Roman Tragedies,” his epic, vaguely mind-blowing five-and-a-half-hour cycle of “Coriolanus,” “Julius Ca…
Playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury, director Eric Ting, and an ensemble of six actors start with a simple premise—a theater troupe gathering in a rehearsal studio to create a play about …
The American Theatre Wing might as well give Carolee Carmello her Tony Award now. Just like her alter ego for the evening, early-20th-century evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, Carmello is p…
The American Theatre Wing might as well give Carolee Carmello her Tony Award now. Just like her alter ego for the evening, early-20th-century evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, Carmello is p…
The authors of the new musical “Giant” possess the same soaring ambition that motivates their larger-than-life characters. Book writer Sybille Pearson and composer-lyricist Micha…
The authors of the new musical “Giant” possess the same soaring ambition that motivates their larger-than-life characters. Book writer Sybille Pearson and composer-lyricist Micha…
Manhattan Theatre Club is trying to get young people to the theater, and it’s going to get them, in reams. It’s not that Julia Jordan and Juliana Nash’s musical appeals onl…
Manhattan Theatre Club is trying to get young people to the theater, and it’s going to get them, in reams. It’s not that Julia Jordan and Juliana Nash’s musical appeals onl…
Inappropriate behavior runs rampant in Francine Volpe’s “The Good Mother,” the New Group’s first production for the 2012-13 season. All five characters make seriously…
“I have this strange feeling, Beatriz, that people don’t understand what we’re really doing,” admits Rolando Tarquini to Beatriz Sayad about halfway through the secon…
Broadway lyricist Fred Ebb is probably best known for his classic musicals like “Cabaret” and “Chicago,” but before the legend was canonized in the world of musical t…
Back in the 1960s, America’s sexual revolution and cultural turmoil spawned a subgenre of hopelessly square Broadway comedies that treated issues of sex and drugs with sniggering sitco…
I caught the original 1985 Public Theater production of Rupert Holmes’ musical version of Charles Dickens’ “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” in its initial run in Central …
It’s been a busy time in New York theater, with major shows opening on and off Broadway like a row of falling dominoes. Happily, the percentage of good work has been high, and it just …
“Skin Tight,” a 60-minute play by New Zealand playwright Gary Henderson, is a portrait of a marriage. Essentially a two-hander (Dan Herrmann, playing the male character as a very…
“Skin Tight,” a 60-minute play by New Zealand playwright Gary Henderson, is a portrait of a marriage. Essentially a two-hander (Dan Herrmann, playing the male character as a very…
From the outdated (a medieval drinking horn) to the outlandish (a 30-hour comedy talk show marathon), Kickstarter is an increasingly popular way to fund projects. For fans of Broadway and/or…
Christopher Durang is in an autumnal mood with “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” a lovely, generous, and very funny new comedy at Lincoln Center Theater about aging and regr…