Summer is the slow season for Broadway, with few shows opening between the Tony Awards in June and the fall season kickoff in September. But it's high season for theater festivals. New York …
The nature of intimacy is one of the themes of Laura Eason's new play Sex With Strangers, in which two writers first get busy and then get to know each other. Olivia is played by Anna Gunn, …
Your usual beauty contest features a lot of the same elements as this Off-Broadway musical making its return " lots of makeup, form-fitting costumes, noble speeches of rehearsed sin…
Lili is young, beautiful and married to South Texas magnate Alberto, who never appears on stage in the new Off-Broadway play Mala Herbia by Tanya Saracho, who writes for the HBO series…
Classical pianist Mona Golabek is a winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions and a recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant. She is also now a stage performer, telling t…
The title of Brigadoon, the 1947 musical by Lerner and Lowe, refers to a mythical Scottish town that appears for only a single day every 100Â years. Though not quite as seldom seen as the …
Cherry Jones, who won acclaim for her portrayal of Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie on Broadway this past fall, has made a quick return to the New York stage. She's starring in a new …
Benjamin Scheuer is a New York City singer-songwriter and the star " in fact, the only performer " in a new Manhattan Theater Company production called The Lion directed by Sean Daniels. …
Broadway's latest jukebox musical " a show built around pre-existing songs " is a new twist on this now-familiar theatrical form. Holler If Ya Hear Me is inspired by music of the late rap st…
The playwright Ayad Akhtar won the Pulitzer Prize last year for his breakthrough play Disgraced, about the clash between traditional Islamic beliefs and contemporary American culture. He ret…
If the witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth need a lot of space to cook up their double helping of toil and trouble, they've got it at the Park Avenue Armory. That's where the latest New York st…
The versatile actor Jim Dale takes the stage solo in his new show, aptly and modestly entitled Just Jim Dale. Accompanied by the pianist Mark York, the show, directed by Richard Maltby Jr., …
Irish playwright Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan isn't even 20-years-old, but the play is already getting its third New York production. The latest does have a couple of special c…
The latest silver-screener to migrate to the Great White Way is Bullets Over Broadway, Woody Allen's 1994 film about a playwright who becomes entangled with mobsters. The musical-comedy, set…
Nominations for the 68th annual Tony Awards were announced Tuesday, with tough competition in several categories. For instance, Tyne Daly, Cherry Jones and Audra McDonald are among the nomin…
The Off-Broadway musical Violet has found new life on Broadway in a revival by the Roundabout Theater Company. Directed by Leigh Silverman, the production features Broadway star Sutton Fo…
One of the most celebrated voices of our era meets one of the most distinctive voices of an earlier era. Audra McDonald, the five-time Tony-winning singer and actress, becomes the latest per…
A star-packed cast "Â Toni Collette, Michael C. Hall, Tracy Letts and Marisa Tomei " is assembled for the Broadway debut of a playwright known for "experimental theater." Will Eno's previo…
Les Miz s back. (Did you know it had ever gone away?) The original Cameron Mackintosh theatrical colossus ran for more than 15 years before closing in 2003, then came back for a brief encore…
The people at Disney Theatrical Group, who produce the company's live shows, have certainly had a genie in a bottle for the past 20 years, coming up with hit stage musicals based on the film…
Yo, Adrian! I'm on Broadway! It might not be the last movie you ever expected to see turned into a Broadway musical, but it's probably not one of the first either. Nevertheless, here it is: …
Actor Bryan Cranston's roles keep getting bigger. He gained fame for his work on the TV sitcom "Malcolm in the Middle," then went on to even greater acclaim " and three Emmy awards " for his…
Sarah Ruhl's new play Stage Kiss follows the antics of two actors who renew an old romance when they appear together in an antique drama from the 1930s. Jessica Hecht and Dominic Fumusa s…
A lineup of famous Yankees from several eras past and present are on the same stage in Bronx Bombers, a new play now running at the Circle in the Square Theatre. Babe Ruth and Derek Jeter…
Theater that knocks down the wall between performers and spectators has become a fashionable trend in recent years. Sleep No More, an interactive riff on Macbeth, has been a runaway hit, pla…