A lot of time has passed since William Inge's Bus Stop first pulled into New York theaters in 1955 with its snapshot of salt-of-the-earth folks waylaid by a bad weather for a few hours in a …
Hugh Jackman, fresh from his song-and-dance triumph at Madison Square Garden a few months ago, returns to the New York stage in a beguiling and twisty new two-hander, Sexual Misconduct of th…
There's a surface cleverness running through playwright Caitlin Saylor Stephens' Five Models in Ruins, 1981, a new drama set during a Vogue photo shoot in the fall just after the royal weddi…
The Encores! series at New York City Center has revived so many classic musicals and underrated gems over the years. The latest production of Wonderful Town is a surprising disappointment, b…
Has the immersive theater bubble popped? Sleep No More, the elaborate theatrical experience mashing up Macbeth and film noir over five meticulously curated floors of a warehouse in New York'…
Broadway stars like Megan Hilty, George Clooney, and Sadie Sink are eschewing the usual list of credits and awards with jokey Playbill bios
Annie Baker, the minimalist playwright best known for her Pulitzer-winning drama The Flick, casts a long shadow over a new generation of playwrights. But it's not enough to write a naturalis…
This Broadway season has been unexpectedly rich in promising new musicals, and it concludes with a sensational surprise: Real Women Have Curves, based on Josefina López's 1990 play and a …
Musical theater creators have long explored some of the darkest chapters of history but few are as dark " or as unusual " as the hero of composer David Yazbek, lyricist Erik Della Penna, and…
Is there a more endearing Broadway star at the moment than Jonathan Groff? The veteran performer, who won the Tony Award last year for softening the very rough edges of the first-class jerk …
Like Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy, Key and Peele, or green eggs and ham, W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan are a comedic duo for the ages. There are a lot of brightly hued yolks and …
Ryan J. Haddad's new monologue/play Hold Me in the Water, which opened Wednesday at Off Broadway's Playwrights Horizons, has the confessional energy of an overdue catch-up session with a fri…
Netflix's sci-fi series Stranger Things, which is expected to stream its fifth and (supposedly) final season later this year, has developed a rabid following since its 2016 debut for its sav…
America has always found a place in its heart for dreamers, however flawed or misguided. Almost exactly a century ago, the story of a Kentucky cave enthusiast and natural risk-taker named Fl…
There's nothing particularly new about reframing William Shakespeare's Scottish play around the hero's notoriously ruthless and manipulative wife, Lady Macbeth. Zinnie Harris's Macbeth (An U…
Caryl Churchill may be the best living playwright in the English language. And at 86, she's still producing work of remarkable vigor and nuance in her quintessentially absurdist style. Her s…
There's something refreshing about seeing a Broadway theater packed with Gen Alpha patrons. Many of them flocked to the recent Romeo + Juliet with barely-twentysomething stars Kit Connor and…
If you've had the pleasure of attending performances at the Irish Repertory Theatre, you've grown accustomed to certain recurring themes and tropes in the grand tradition of Irish drama: dom…
Even before winning the Tony Award last year for his pointed dramedy Appropriate, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins had emerged as one of the brightest lights in the current American theater scene with…
The first episode of Smash " a backstage look at the making of a Broadway biomusical about Marilyn Monroe " was one of the most perfect TV pilots produced in the new millennium. Playwright T…
Wole Soyinka is a seminal figure in world literature and drama, but the 90-year-old Nigerian Nobel Prize winner's works are seldom performed in New York. That's particularly true of his 1958…
Even four years after his death at age 91, Stephen Sondheim remains a towering figure in American musical theater. The breadth of his talents as a composer, lyricist, and storyteller get a l…
Betty Boop, the baby-voiced Jazz Age flapper from black-and-white Max Fleischer cartoons of the 1930s, is not the most obvious piece of ancient IP to become the center of a new Broadway musi…
Sarah Snook, the Australian actress best known for her Emmy-winning turn as Siobhan "Shiv" Roy on Succession, goes more than a little Wilde in the spellbindingly high-tech adaptation of Osca…
Composer Jason Robert Brown was something of a wunderkind, winning a Tony Award before the age of 30 for his rapturous, symphonic score for the 1999 musical Parade. He followed that critical…