5,357 stories from New York Theater
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…
Two years after a jury convicted Leo Frank of murdering a 13-year-old girl and condemned him to death, a prison guard enters his jail cell with a message from his wife Lucille:Â Â Georgi…
This week felt like a reunion of some of the greatest figures in American musical theater " the Broadway opening of "Bob Fosse's Dancin'," the concert version of Jerry Herman's "Dear World" …
The sensuous slouch, the bowler hat placed rakishly on the tilted head, the turned-in pigeon toes, undulating abdomen, hands reaching out as if roping in their prey, or palms up in the air s…
"Dear World" was a vehicle for Angela Lansbury, though one that otherwise crashed when it ran on Broadway for a mere 132 performances in 1969, even as Jerry Herman's other musicals on Broadw…
Stephen Sondheim was not a cynic; he was a romantic. That in a nutshell is the thesis Ben Francis puts forth in Careful the Spell You Cast: How Stephen Sondheim Extended the Range of the Ame…
It's too tempting to mock this austere version of Ibsen's play as Broadway's answer to the movie that just swept the Oscars. Call it: Nothing Nowhere With No Intermission! Jessica Chastai…
"The Harder They Come" is a largely faithful stage adaptation of the 1972 movie starring Jimmy Cliff that is said to have introduced the world to reggae music; its fidelity to the original i…
In 1929, a group of avant-garde artists in Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine, put on a jazz musical revue called "Hello, This Is Radio 477!" celebrating the city's lone radio stati…
Connecting Oscars to theater news: A24, the film company that had the best night " with its seven awards for "Everything All At Once," including Best Picture and three of the four performanc…
Best PictureEverything Everywhere All At Once Best DirectorDaniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once Best ActressMichelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All at…
"Deeper Closer Warmer," a fun hour of puppet monster mayhem, is the creation of identical twin brothers Pablo and Efrain Del Hierro from Santurce, Puerto Rico who for more than a decade, as …
On the third anniversary Sunday of the pandemic having shut down in-person theater, even people who welcomed digital theater in 2020 and 2021 surely now " some eighteen months after theaters…
Ryan J. Haddad is not going to make disability funny tonight the way he usually does, he tells the audience at the Public Theater near the beginning of this groundbreaking  production.…
When A24Â bought the Cherry Lane Theater last week for $10 million, the indie film company acquired a two hundred year old building, with an illustrious hundred year theater history, and n…
Betty Smith, Oscar Isaac, Rachel Brosnahan, Jessica Hecht, Parker Posey, Eric Bogosian, Lea Michele, Caridad Svich, Michael Heitzman, Will Davis, Lea Salonga, Constantine Maroulis, Andre De …
When "Sweeney Todd" was finally released as a movie musical in 2007, twenty-eight years after its debut on Broadway, Stephen Sondheim said "everyone who has attempted to translate a stage mu…
In honor of Women's History Month, here are the women playwrights who have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an annual award given for "a distinguished play by an American author…dealing w…
What is it about the homeless that inspires such  groundbreaking theater? Last year, it was "Addressless," digital theater with gameplay. Now, "Love," something completely different, a…
A sleazy photographer convinces a naïve aspiring actress to pose naked for him. Didn't that happen to Irene Cara in "Fame" more than forty years ago?  And even then it felt trite an…
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in March 2023 in New York, including seven shows on Broadway: a new Andrew Lloyd Webber, revivals of Sondheim, Fosse and Jason Robert Brown, a classic…
One scene stands out in Thomas Bradshaw's adaptation of Chekhov for the wrong reasons. It's a play-within-the-play, in which the son of a famous actress stages a show that doesn't go over we…
There is so much love that Sarah Ruhl has put into this play, and into the book from which it's adapted, and into the letters and poems exchanged between Ruhl and Max Ritvo that make up the …
There's something of an inside joke tucked into Lorraine Hansberry's rarely-produced second Broadway play, which director Anne Kauffman has brought to life in a starry revival at BAM. The…
Before she authored the novel "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," Betty Smith wrote a play about the same character, Francie Nolan. Smith's novel, which follows Francie from young girlhood to the cu…
