This is a week for Black women " Ariana DeBose's Oscar win, and the opening of two plays Off-Broadway: "Confederates" by Dominique Morisseau and "Help" by Claudia Rankine, my review of a new…
In "Confederates," playwright Dominique Morisseau presents in alternating scenes the stories of two Black women in eras 160 years apart "  a 19th century slave who becomes a s…
Today is World Theatre Day, created in 1961 as an annual celebration on March 27. This year I dedicate it to the theaters, performers, and theater lovers of Ukraine. To the more than 400 leg…
Watch below as more than 60 performers are appearing in an 11-hour telethon (from noon to 10 p.m. today) to raise money and awareness for those affected by the ongoing war in Ukraine. Don…
"Help,"Â performed at The Shed by April Mathis and 11 white actors in business suits, is in effect an adaptation by the poet, playwright and Yale professor Claudia Rankine, a Black woman, …
Near the end of Charles J. Shields' biography of Lorraine Hansberry, the third such book I've read in as many years, the author mentions the five-story townhouse near Washington Square Park …
Cesar Chavez was a giant in the American labor and civil rights movements, but right now he's eight inches tall. "I have to do something for mi gente," the little cardboard Cesar says Â�…
Eighteen women have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, from "Miss Lulu Bett," which Zona Gale adapted from her own novel in 1921, to "The Hot Wing King" by Katori Hall in 2021 "a century of w…
"Sometimes, Sasha, war is necessary, it's unavoidable," the Russian soldier Victor is saying to the Ukrainian woman who has tied him up and is pointing a gun at him. "You can't bake a …
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to, and the one you are least likely to attend. The list below is for shows that have opening dates on Broadway in March and (mostly) April …
Below are a list with links to the 16 shows opening on Broadway in March and April " starry casts, iconic musicals, theater classics and adventurous new works… the closest to a normal Spri…
The Tony Awards' new dates! Daniel Radcliffe in a Stephen Sondheim musical! Will Swenson in a new Neil Diamond musical! Pamela Anderson in her Broadway debut! The many exciting Broadway anno…
A protesting art student who is on a hunger strike faces a soldier who is pointing a gun at him.  The student offers the soldier some food.  They are in Beijing's Tiananmen Squar…
Below are the winners of the American Connected Theater Awards* for theatrical storytelling created and presented online during the year between March 2021 and March 2022. Much has happened …
Like a classic folk ballad, full of understated outrage and exquisite down-home music,  "Coal Country,"  in an encore presentation at the Cherry Lane, tells the devastating true …
"I can't watch MSNBC and do nothing anymore," says Jamie in  "This Space Between Us."  Many of us surely have been feeling that way lately, especially in the past two weeks. Jami…
In "The Chinese Lady," Â playwright Lloyd Suh has created a gently amusing, lyrical, yet sharply pointed play based on the true story of the first known Chinese woman in the United States,…
Starting today, New York City Mayor Eric Adams will no longer require indoor venues, including "entertainment spaces" to check for proof of vaccination. But Broadway theaters will still requ…
Among his many other talents, Harvey Fierstein is an experienced talk show guest. In his entertaining memoir, "I Was Better Last Night" (Knopf, 400 pages), he devotes one of his 59 short cha…
The 110-year-old Cort Theater on Broadway will be renamed after the 91-year-old actor James Earl Jones, the Shubert organization announced today."That James deserves to have his name immorta…
Below is a day-by-day selection of theater openings scheduled for March organized by opening date*, featuring a single Broadway show ("Plaza Suite") at the end of the month " a  sparse…
In the first and best in this uneven evening of five long monologues, all of them written by Asian-American playwrights and all of them featuring characters who are over the age of 60, a wom…
Below are six books that shed light on the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a shocking event, which may seem inexplicable, but only to those of us who don't know the context. The titles …
Many are speaking out against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, an independent nation of 44 million people with its own language, history and culture, including more than 400 theaters. Over t…
"Sandblasted" begins with a woman buried in the sand, and you immediately think: Beckett's "Happy Days." She doesn't remain buried, though,  and another woman pops up out of the sand n…