Interview: Why Alice Ripley Wants to Do More Plays
Tony Award winner Alice Ripley stars in Small Town Confessions a new play by Phil Geoffrey Bond, part of the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival (July 30 – August 20). In the play, compris…
Tony Award winner Alice Ripley stars in Small Town Confessions a new play by Phil Geoffrey Bond, part of the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival (July 30 – August 20). In the play, compris…
The Summer Shorts 2017 festival of new American short plays brings to 59E59 Theaters the work of some of the best American writers around today. Award-winning writers of film, TV, and st…
The first thing I thought about when I heard that Barbara Cook had died was her appearance at the 34th Kennedy Center Honors. To be fair, I think about (and listen to) that Barbara Cook trib…
Broadway's famed comedienne Nancy Opel has a long history of playing brassy broads, and her latest, Bobby Goldman, is as brash and bawdy as they come. As the titular character in the newly o…
For four young women in Cameroon, independence and self-worth is found in soccer — well, football — in Melisa Tien's Yellow Card Red Card, directed by Tamilla Woodward. These wom…
Shakespeare’s comedy The Two Gentlemen of Verona lends itself well to piracy, and director Ariel Leigh picks up on the hint in her swashbuckling production at The Brick. For my tastes,…
In a FringeNYC-less summer, other theater festivals promoting the work of up-and-coming artists are taking the lead, including the Ice Factory Festival at New Ohio, Broadway Bound Theatre Fe…
At the 59E59 Theater's world premiere of A Real Boy, the setting is a kindergarten classroom, but it's clear that in Stephen Kaplan's play, lessons of acceptance cannot be learned as easy as…
It’s a happy chance that for their second Shakespeare in the Parking Lot production this year, The Drilling Company chose not to stage Julius Caesar – though they considered it &…
In a FringeNYC-less summer, other theater festivals promoting the work of up-and-coming artists are taking the lead, including the Ice Factory Festival at New Ohio, the Corkscrew Theater Fes…
The new Off-Broadway musical Curvy Widow (at Westside Theatre/Upstairs) shares plot points with one of Broadway's biggest current musical hits, Hello, Dolly! Both shows present a middle-aged…
In a FringeNYC-less summer, other theater festivals promoting the work of up-and-coming artists are taking the lead, including the Ice Factory Festival at New Ohio, the Corkscrew Theater Fes…
Joseph Kesselring's legendary comedy Arsenic and Old Lace is part of the summer season at Berkshire Theatre Group. The sumptuous revival is directed by Gregg Edelman and stars  Mia Dillon…
In a FringeNYC-less summer, other theater festivals promoting the work of up-and-coming artists are taking the lead, including the Ice Factory Festival at New Ohio, the Corkscrew Theater Fes…
We spoke to Tovah Feldshuh about Aging is Optional her new show at Feinstein's/54 Below. I love the title of your show, it's straight out of your work in Pippin, can you talk about it? This …
Dixon Place is hosting a really great, totally passionate, very well crafted and well developed performance in Chesney Snow's The Unwritten Law, directed by Rebecca Arends. It is the story o…
Lesbian love at a repressed Jesus camp? No one could have seen that one coming! Director Mia Walker stages a concert version of the 2009 electro-musical Camp Wanatachi for the 2017 New York …
Every month we highlight the best programming available on BroadwayHD, a streaming service for theater around the world. Long Day’s Journey into Night Widely considere…
In a FringeNYC-less summer, other theater festivals promoting the work of up-and-coming artists are taking the lead, including the Ice Factory Festival at New Ohio, the Corkscrew Theater Fes…
After its controversial, deeply serious production of Julius Caesar, The Public Theater’s second Shakespeare in the Park production aims for light-hearted fun and fantasy. A Midsumm…
In a FringeNYC-less summer, other theater festivals promoting the work of up-and-coming artists are taking the lead, including the Ice Factory Festival at New Ohio, the Corkscrew Theater Fes…
The Obie-winning Ice Factory festival presents seven new works from June 28 to August 12 at the New Ohio Theatre. We spoke with playwright Melisa Tien about her play Yellow Card Red Card.…
What's something you've always wanted to do but never have? Would you be willing to share that secret desire in public? During Secrets and Seawalls, a site-specific dance-theatre performance…
Bryant Park Presents’ Twelfth Night, performed and produced by The Drilling Company Shakespeare, is a whimsical midsummer night dream in midtown Manhattan. Set in the open air…
The impulse to make art about one’s life story has fueled many great artists, but getting it right is a challenge. Dear Jane, a very nice and hardworking play written by Joan Beber …