Three shows opened on Broadway within the last four days, four more will officially open within the next four days, and then the Broadway 2022-2023 season will officially end, and the theate…
Almost immediately after she is raped, Tessa Ensler starts imagining the questions a defense attorney would ask her, and the witnesses he would call, to get the rapist off. "Legal instinct t…
In celebration of the 53rd annual Earth Day today, thirty blocks of Broadway between Union Square and Times Square will be closed to vehicular traffic, and alive with pop-up performances …
Sure I laughed. I laughed when Tinker Bell is electrocuted, and when Neil Patrick Harris's Masterpiece Theater-like chair somehow attacks him. But, after two hours watching an implausible pi…
Larissa FastHorse, whose often hilarious play is reportedly the first on Broadway by a Native American woman, sends up well-meaning white liberals, mocks the vanities and pretensions of thes…
It's a "banquet of the unbearable," one character calls the show he's in " a chronological account of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, as captured in the short plays and songs that S…
The Phantom of the Opera took a final Majestic bow last night after a record-breaking thirty-five years on Broadway. Its 13,981th performance played out before a red-carpeted crowd in white …
There are bright shining moments aplenty in the latest Broadway revival of "Camelot," the 1960 Lerner and Loewe musical about the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.Â�…
"Don't worry; I hear it's easy to understand," a Bengali-American in my row at Soho Rep reassured me, before "Public Obscenities" began.  For him, I thought. As it turns out, he was…
Sure, his uncle killed his father and is about to marry his mother, but Juicy, the big Black queer Southerner at the center of "Fat Ham,"  would prefer to forget about the revenge h…
If "White Girl in Danger" were an actual soap opera, it would unfold over several years, which would give us time to savor Michael R. Jackson's febrile intelligence and his subversive sense …
April is the kindest month; at least that's what Playbill president Philip S. Birsh is requesting in a full-page letter in the April edition of Playbill, in which he gently reminds audience …
Philip Glass fell asleep in the middle of the pitch that actor and director Phelim McDermott was making for a theater piece the two could create together. "I've bored Philip Glass McDermo…
Below is an explanation of the major annual New York theater awards, plus a 2023 calendar of nomination announcements and award ceremonies Why was Sarah Bernhardt " one of the world's greate…
Theatergoers wearing "I â¤ï¸Â My Josh" t-shirts filled a row of the Lunt-Fontanne the night I attended the fourth Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's dark…
Below are the nominations for the 38th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. Winners will be presented at the annual ceremony on Sunday, May …
Oscar Isaac is making his Broadway debut in a last-minute addition to the Broadway season: Lorraine Hansberry's "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window," also starring Rachel Brosnahan (who ma…
"Shucked" is corny. Corn is what the corn-growing townsfolk of Cob County sing about from the opening number of this new country-flavored Broadway musical; it's the subject of the "farm to f…
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Below is a calendar of theater opening* in April 2023 in New York, including nine shows on Broadway featuring (sometimes radically) reworked versions of a Golden Age musical, a 1970s romanti…
Whether or not his fantastical tale of sharing a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger for 227 days on the open seas will "make you believe in God," as the 17-year-old shipwreck survivor named Pi …
"Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio"Â Â won an Oscar for Best Animated Feature this month, not the first movie with puppets to win an Oscar " "The Sound of Music" and "The Godfather" both fe…
"This book is dedicated to anyone who has ever been told they were too fat,too short, too gay, too disabled, and otherwise too much or not enough to be in a musical," Ryan Donovan writes in …
In honor of World Theater Day, celebrated internationally every March 27th since 1962, here are some beautiful theaters from around the world: Theater isn't just the buildings in which it ta…
What's so bad about "Bad Cinderella"? Sure, it takes great liberties with the fairy tale, sexing it up, setting it to loud pop music, replacing the familiar story with a berserk comic plot a…