884 stories from Broadway & Me
Somewhere Lorraine Hansberry must be smiling. When A Raisin in the Sun opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in 1959 on, she was the first black woman to have a play produced on Broadw…
The shrinks who psychoanalyzed Broadway's best back in the early '60s must have been doozies. How else to explain the fact that two of the most high-profile flops from that period are …
The first thing I noticed when my husband K and I walked into the Longacre Theatre to see David Henry Hwang's new play Ch'ing'lish was the unusually large number of Asian faces in the audien…
No post today. My husband K and I are having our apartment painted. The painters arrive early on Monday morning and so we've spent the last few days packing up things (it's amazi…
Repertory companies were once mainstays of the theater but,
with rare exceptions like Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company, they're become
rarities nowadays. It's just too expensive for…
Like every exclusive society, the world of theater lovers has its unspoken rules. For starters, we're all supposed to genuflect to everything by Shakespeare, mostly everything by Chekh…
photo by Joan Marcus
Everybody knows that theater is a collaborative art, with its elements"the acting, the directing, the design, lighting and the play itself"all leaning on one another.&n…
You gotta love the folks at Lincoln Center Theater. Or at least I do. Artistic director André Bishop and executive producer Bernard Gersten do what too few of their not-for-prof…
Theater doesn't exist in a vacuum. A show like The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs took on a different meaning after the Apple co-founder's death. And Wild Animals You Should…
My husband K is in love with the actress Nina Arianda. Which is OK with me because"like every other true theater lover in New York right now"I, too, am in love with Arianda, the star o…
Katori Hall became the first African-American woman to win the Olivier Award for Best New Play when The Mountaintop, her meditation on the last night in Martin Luther King Jr.'s life, played…
There's not much scenery on the stage at The Public Theater's Newman theater space where a new production of King Lear opened this week but that doesn't stop nearly everyone on stage from ch…
No matter how talented they are, ample-bodied and strong-featured actresses like Mary Testa usually play the funny best friend or the sassy sidekick instead of the leading lady. And so…
Maybe I'm the wrong demographic for Asuncion, the new play by Jesse Eisenberg that just opened in a Rattlestick Playwrights Theater production at the venerable Cherry Lane Theatre. Or …
Lots of people seem almost angry that they don't like Relatively Speaking, the trio of one-act comedies now playing at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. It averaged a
D+ on StageGrade, whic…
Cynics have long said that dying young can be a career boost in show business. But I doubt that even the most sardonic of them meant that the good fortune would redound on someone othe…
There's an audience for Milk Like Sugar, the new play by Kirstin Greenidge that's currently playing at Playwrights Horizons. But it's clearly not for everyone. About half way through this 10…
The New York Times critic Charles Isherwood has declared that Stephen Karam's new play Sons of the Prophet is "the first important new play of the fall season." That's quite a compliment sin…
It's not every young playwright who makes her New York debut at the Manhattan Theatre Club. Or who has that play directed by the hot- director-of-the-moment Sam Gold. Or designed by th…
There are at least three obvious reasons that may have prompted the Roundabout Theatre Company to revive Man and Boy, the 1963 drama by the British playwright Terence Rattigan, which opened …
People see plays for all kinds of reasons. I was excited about The Lyons because I wanted to see what made Linda Lavin turn down chances to reprise her terrific performances in two hig…
Not much seen this week"at least not that I can yet write about since I try to keep the opening night embargo that shows ask reviewers to observe. Besides, it's promising to be a beaut…
I'm going to be honest with you. I had no idea what to make of Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling, the new Adam Rapp play that the Atlantic Theater Company, its own facilities under re…
Playwrights usually write memory plays at the beginning of their careers, as Tennessee Williams did with The Glass Menagerie and Dylan Thomas with Under Milk Wood. But Lanford Wilson already…
The producers of The Submission initially attempted to stir up buzz by suggesting that one character's identity should be kept secret until people saw the play. But they didn't need to…
