The hilarious Tori Scott is back at Joe's Pub with Plan B!, an autobiographical show in which the storyteller with the pipes of gold will use songs by Madonna, Judy Garland, Heart, and more,…
Larry Kirwan's new play, Rebel in the Soul, directed by Charlotte Moore, looks at Dr. Noël Browne's health reform mission, which ultimately brought down the First Inter-Party Government i…
For creatures boasting complexity with regards to reasoning, emotional intelligence, and empathy, we sure live by an oversimplified set of binaries and social constructs. While the notion of…
Every director and stage manager knows only too well how many things can go wrong with any given performance. Hopefully, though, no stage manager has ever experienced a production as utterly…
"What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love, and wisdo…
In her new play, The Antipodes, at Signature Theatre, Annie Baker once again uses the trappings of naturalism to tell a contemporary story that veers at times into the realm of magical reali…
It takes some guts to rewrite what is possibly the most revered play of all time: Hamlet. Even when Tom Stoppard played around with Shakespeare's masterpiece in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern …
A support group for young conspiracy theory addicts gather in a Queens church basement a week before the 2016 election in Max Baker's fascinating new play The Conspiracists, now playing at t…
Now through its new, extended close of July 2, the Manhattan Theatre Club mounts the fifth Broadway production of Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. …
In advance of the April 18 premiere of Indecent at Broadway's Cort Theater, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel spoke to the New York Times about her long-overdue debut on the Grea…
The experience of director Saheem Ali's fantastic and high energy production of Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night with the Public Theater's Mobile Unit has a lot to do with the peripatetic …
Most of us have played Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, the game where you challenge someone to connect any actor to Kevin Bacon using only four other actors. The larger theory presented in the w…
Bandstand, now playing at the Bernard Jacobs Theatre, has all the ingredients necessary to make a Broadway hit: catchy songs that stay in your head long after the cast takes their bow, extra…
Uncle Abram: A Reconstructed Uncle Vanya could just as easily have been named “Uncle Vanya Gets Woke”. Set on a plantation in south-central Missouri, this adaptation by Ryan Vict…
This year marks the 50th anniversary of The Gallery Players, Brooklyn's "Premier Off-Off Broadway" Theater. And I have to say, if all The Gallery Players' productions are as dynamic and high…
We spoke to Tony nominee Lauren Worsham about her upcoming appearance in Babes of Toyland at Carnegie Hall. What makes you the most excited about the show? I'm excited to sing at the beautif…
The most striking thing about Her Opponent is it is a show without characters, acting, or writing. It is also not a show. What it is, is a mirror. And an ingenious one at that. Her Opponent …
Significant Other might have been the most refreshing show of the Broadway season, if the season was 1989. If it had opened one year after Wendy Wasserstein’s The Heidi Chronicles, to …
The second annual Tilt Kids Festival came to a close on Easter Sunday with a performance of Cuisine & Confessions, an energetic spectacle by Montreal-based collective The 7 Fingers (best…
It's not déjà vu. After a hit run in London, Groundhog Day, based on the 1993 film of the same name, has made its way to Broadway. Its treatment of the source material is duly def…
Larry Kirwan’s play Rebel in the Soul tells the story of Dr. Noël Browne, a young doctor elected to the Irish Parliament in 1948. Born into poverty, Browne had a rough childhood: hi…
Harold Pinter's 1978 play Betrayal, currently playing at Hoboken's Mile Square Theatre, was inspired by his seven-year affair with the English journalist and "thinking man's crumpet" Joan Ba…
In our modern society, what does marriage add to a relationship? Nothing, argues the titular character of Primary Stages' new play Daniel's Husband, that can't be got by filling out the righ…
If you go to see the world premiere of Richard Maxwell’s Samara by Soho Rep. (in the Mezzanine Theatre at the A.R.T./New York Theatres), you may do a double take when the usher hands y…
It's not déjà vu. After a hit run in London, Groundhog Day, based on the 1993 film of the same name, has made its way to Broadway. Its treatment of the source material is duly deferentia…