5,355 stories from New York Theater
Every item handmade by a Haitian has to tell a story of hardship, a businessman named Thomas tells Gigi, who is hoping he will connect his international customers to the luxury goods she …
The uncertainty of the presidential election next week, far scarier than Halloween, has colored many events this week  " certainly the  "appalling" decision by two major newsp…
The Arab Spring, a wave of demonstrations by citizens demanding democracy in some dozen countries in the Middle East and North Africa, now seems like distant history. But the uprisings were …
All eyes in "Sunset Blvd" have been focused on the fierce, full-throated and humongously-photographed performance by Nicole Scherzinger as Norma Desmond, the once-reigning silent movie queen…
  This is a Romeo and Juliet aimed unapologetically at Gen Z: Its two stars, fan-magnets Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler, are both under 25. They lead a young cast, all but two of whom ar…
"Left on Tenth," which Delia Ephron has adapted for the stage from her best-selling memoir about death, second love, and survival, stars beloved TV star Julianna Margulies; it's put together…
There are several things Benjamin Franklin says or does in Lloyd Suh's play "Franklinland" that I knew to be true; or at least that I had read about previously: He invented the lightning rod…
"Smash," a backstage musical about the making of a Marilyn Monroe musical called "Bombshell," will open at Broadway's Imperial Theater on April 10, its producers announced today, a long-teas…
Arthur Miller was in the spotlight this week, because of the announcement of a Broadway run this season for "John Proctor Was the Villain," a riff on "The Crucible," one of Miller's most pop…
"Warriors," a newly released concept album by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis  adapted from the 1965 novel by Sol Yurick and the 1979 film directed by Walter Hill, features twenty-six s…
Arthur Miller's first Broadway hit, "All My Sons," was inspired by a newspaper account of  a young woman in Ohio who had informed on her father for having defrauded the military during…
"Show Boat" gets a radical remake. Theater in Quarantine's Joshua William Gelb comes out of his (8' by 4') closet. Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Robert Schenkkan takes a brea…
What most surprised me about director Kenny Leon's production of "Out Town" were not his distinctive touches.  What most surprised me is how emotionally I reacted to this "Our Town" "…
Adam Driver as superstar Strings McCrane seems to loom over the cramped set in a black ten-gallon hat, as he screams at a personal assistant who is about half his size, smashes his guitar, s…
"Vladimir" is the second play in New York this year set in Russia decades ago at the beginning of the reign of Vladimir Putin. Opening tonight Off-Broadway, Erika Sheffer's new play is simil…
Suffs will play its final Broadway performance on January 5, 2025 following 24 previews and 301 regular performances, according to an announcement late Friday night. A national tour…
Composer Stephen Sondheim's greatness lies "beyond the clever lyrics, beyond the complex music." Sondheim can make you a better person:Â Â "The ambitions, dreams, disasters, and fixatio…
The twentieth anniversary of the La MaMa Puppet Festival starts its three-week run on all four stages of La MaMa ETC later this month, but the festival is just the largest offering in two mo…
Most of us think about climate change in the wrong way, David Finnigan tells us. It is not "this apocalyptic event that's on its way, and we need to prevent it from hitting," Rather, "it's h…
Early every morning, Paul buys a cup of coffee and jokes around with Katie, the waitress in the otherwise empty local diner in the kind of small town in Upstate New York where the townsfolk …
Adam Szymkowicz, the author of this book offering advice about how to be a playwright, has been a student of such well-known playwrights (and teachers) as Christopher Durang, Marsha Norman, …
In the swirl of the new theater season, with three shows opening on Broadway last week and another this week, and daily announcements of the season ahead (of Broadway debuts, for example, fo…
Election Day is in one month from today, November 5, 2024. Here's what you need to know in order to vote in the General Election in New York City. Registration In order to vote in New York, …
Just about a month before the election, one can hardly expect every theater blogger " or podcaster or substacker " to ignore politics: So this roundup begins with three examples, then goes i…
A look back at Black vaudeville, an anthology of dramatic criticism by women writers, and the 600-year history of Latinx performing arts in America have been named the best theater books of …
