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Robert Patrick's Judas comes to us from 1973, the same year in which his most famous drama, Kennedy's Children, was first produced. Judas is a sort of modern-dress passion play"it traces Bib…
Juan Francisco Villa and Daniel K. Isaac, the stars of The Gentleman Caller, talked to us about playing legendary playwrights Tennessee Williams and William Inge, in Philip Dawkins’ se…
Suzan-Lori Parks, one of the most original and creative voices in American theatre, likes to think big. Her latest work, Father Comes Home from the Wars, Parts I, II, and III, the first part…
The prolific English playwright and director Alan Ayckbourn is back at 59E59 Theaters. His funny and poignant new comedy A Brief History of Women is part of Brits Off Broadway 2018, with a c…
Starting off her sprightly one woman show A Good Girl Doesn't by pulling a drugstore paternity test out of a plastic bag, writer and performer Abby Stokes sets up the journey she'll take her…
Exhibit A: William Shakespeare. Arguably the greatest playwright who ever lived, he gave us masterpieces of English literature like Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Julius Caesar…or did h…
Caryl Churchill’s Light Shining in Buckinghamshire is an incredibly dense play. And the production at New York Theatre Workshop, directed by the usually brilliant Rachel Chavkin, feels…
What? Another jukebox musical? On the surface, singer-songwriter Donna Summer is an ideal subject for a jukebox musical. She sold more than 140 million records worldwide during her career, w…
I'm aware of being Puerto Rican, being Latinx, being a woman, and how long it’s taking to incorporate stories of color into mainstage seasons, which is why I’m grateful for Mi…
It's time to face your fears and have a good laugh at them because Randy, a purple Australian puppet, is at the Clurman Theatre on Theatre Row to share his own fears in his one-man show, Ran…
It's one classic Lerner and Loewe song after another: “I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face," "On The Street Where You Live," "I Could Have Danced All Night." I'd forgotten how many wonde…
Be sure to bring a dictionary and a copy of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest with you when you attend the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of Tom Stoppard's Travesties, dire…
The moral and ethical questions surrounding war are just as controversial today as they were in ancient times, as Nina Kethevan aims to show in Dress of Fire. The drama directed by Ioan Arde…
If you missed The Lion, acclaimed singer, songwriter and guitarist Benjamin Scheuer's beautiful solo show, when it was here in New York a few years ago at Manhattan Theater Club and then at …
In terms of its political and cultural resonance, Miss You Like Hell might be the most important musical running in New York City at the moment, and yet you wouldn't know it, judging from th…
What strikes about the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of King Lear now running at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, isn't necessarily the power of Antony Sher's performance as the mad r…
In 1986, Jodi Benson starred in a Broadway musical called Smile, a show about beauty pageants in which her character, Doria Hudson, performed "Disneyland," a song about wanting to be part of…
Based on the true story of German business man/archaeological pioneer Heinrich Schliemann, The Man Who Found Troy, now playing at The American Theatre of Actors, relates the captivating adve…
The infectious punk-pop sounds of The Go-Go's and the Renaissance poetry of Sir Philip Sidney come together in the new musical Head Over Heels, running at San Francisco's Curran Theatre thro…
Edith Piaf may have risen to stardom in the late 1930s, but she started out as a Parisian street singer, and that’s where Piaf! The Show (at FIAF’s Florence Gould Hall) begins…
A great play is like a great voyage: terrifying in its vastness, simultaneously bewildering and thrilling. Such is the journey of Lindsey Ferrentino's This Flat Earth at Playwrights Horizons…
On April 18, 1994, Beauty and the Beast opened on Broadway, forever changing the landscape of what a movie adaptation could be like onstage. The show expanded on the story of the beloved ani…
What is it about: A solo show (that's not quite a solo show) that tells the story of gay rights pioneer Joe Carstairs, this production is part cabaret, part farce, and all tons of fun. Phoeb…
What's an ethical person to do in the era of instant celebrity and a tweeting president? How can a good Irish Catholic girl from New Jersey, daughter of the titular South Bronx garbagema…
Directed by Tony White, Nailed, the latest work by Chuck Orsland, takes audiences back to the New York of the 1990s, exploring how things went down in the club world in the days before the I…
