When the Federal Theatre Project was shut down in 1939 after just four years, the government-funded program had presented an astonishing 830 theatrical productions on Broadway and in newly c…
Hollywood may be on strike, but movies are ever-present on New York stages. True, it wasn't until 1970 that a Broadway show based on a movie won the Tony for best musical " fittingly, the mu…
 "Back to the Future," opening tonight on Broadway, is a nearly scene-by-scene re-creation of the 1985 movie on which it's based. This is in some ways a lost opportunity to reimagine a st…
Deaf Broadway, a theater company founded on Stephen Sondheim's 90th birthday in 2020, tonight performed the musical "Company" at Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park. How? They projected the filme…
Below is a selection of theater opening in New York in August, including three on Broadway: a big musical based on a blockbuster movie, a behind-the-scenes play about a blockbuster movie,…
"Let's Call Her Patty" can most charitably be considered a character study, since there is little discernible plot, with the one tangible development occurring close to the end of the 70-min…
A Crisis in America's Theaters made the front page this week: "There is less theater in America these days. Fewer venues. Fewer productions. Fewer performances," Michael Paulson wrote at …
There is a lesson that seems aimed squarely at the Governor of Florida in this lively musical for young children, which features cheeky, wacky songs about spider-bitten butts, earth-destroyi…
I laughed at the very first of the many silly sight gags in "The Cottage," as performed by the delightful Laura Bell Bundy, and was surprised and amused by the initial twist in this twisty t…
"Here Lies Love" can be viewed in distinctly different ways.  That's literally  true " one can see the show while standing on the main floor in the midst of the action or seated …
"Lightweight" is a sly and somewhat misleading title for Amie Enriquez's solo show about her year-long stay at an addiction treatment center: Sly because the play is about her eating disorde…
First, the good news: The musical features music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim with a book by David Ives (whose best-known work of theater is probably the Tony-nominated play Venu…
If the average theatergoer were asked about "deaf plays," they might think of William Gibson's "The Miracle Worker" or Mark Medoff's "Children of a Lesser God," both Tony-winning Broadway pl…
They all look pregnant, their bellies as big as the basketball they're dribbling and shooting at the beginning ofCandrice Jones's play "Flex."  But four of these five high school se…
Lady Torrance and Valentine Xavier, two would-be innocents who feel corrupted and brutalized by circumstance, meet on his thirtieth birthday, after he's spent his youth as a drifter and a se…
SAG-AFTRA, the union representing more than 160,000 film and television actors, last Friday joined the picket lines with the 11,000 members of the Writers Guild, who have been on strik…
In "Theater Camp," Ben Platt and Mary Gordon as camp counselors Amos and Rebecca-Diane confront a 12-year-old camper who's just delivered an intense emotional performance during a rehearsal …
Below is a selection of New York theater opening* in July, presented in a day-by-day calendar, including two Broadway shows,  David Byrne and Fatboy Slim's "Here Lies Love" arguably…
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It's evident as soon as John Douglas Thompson opens his mouth as King Claudius that director Kenny Leon's production of "Hamlet," running for free at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park…
George Salazar, who sang the show-stopper "Michael in the Bathroom" in "Be More Chill" on Broadway, was one of more than two dozen performers to join the Tony-nominated composer of "Be More …
Below is a manageable list of theater books " recently published or soon to be" that look to be good summer reads. These are mostly memoirs and biographies of fascinating playwrights and per…
When I first saw Yeshiva-educated stand-up comic Alex Edelman's solo show about his attendance at a meeting of white supremacist antisemites, it didn't occur to me to compare him to Daniel i…
Three Broadway plays are closing next Sunday, July 2: Fat HamPrima FacieThe Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window  " and four more Broadway shows are closing during the summer: Life of Pi and …
Below is an alphabetical listing of the 8 Broadway plays or musicals currently running (two of them only until next week!) that feature LGBTQ+ characters " some centrally, some peripherally;…