Andrew Lloyd Webber is not the only one who will be delivering his keynote address Sunday at the fifth annual Theatermakers Summit. Brandon Kazen-Maddox will be sharing the screen with him, …
Why did I have a far more muted reaction to "The Visitor," a well-acted, well-meaning new musical at the Public Theater about the friendship between a widowed economics professor and an immi…
I like "Morning Sun," which stars these three amazing actresses Edie Falco, Blair Brown and Marin Ireland, and I also hate it. Maybe that is a metaphorically apt reaction to this latest play…
It's Election Night, 1929, and Fiorello H. LaGuardia ("The Little Flower") is thundering against his opponent, the incumbent mayor, Jimmy ("Beau James") Walker, at their final mayoral debate…
There are at least three startling moments in Signature Theater's revised production of this 29-year-old play that each in a different way bolsters my conviction that Anna Deavere Smith is o…
Another injury has caused another delayed opening. Judith Ivey has had to drop out of the Off-Broadway revival of Paul Osborn's Morning's at Seven because of a torn tendon, and will…
Below is a day-by-day selection of New York theater that is scheduled to open in November, organized by opening date.* That includes six more Broadway shows, two of them reopening hits " …
Costumes, masks, makeup, macabre wit: Is there a difference between Halloween and the theater? Answer the ten questions to find out how well you paid attention to the theater on stage and of…
In "Brecht on Brecht," TBTBÂ Â presents a fascinating collage " more like a barrage " of the poems, stories, songs, plays, parables and sayings by the prolific and consequential German t…
If you had just graduated from college and learned for the first time that your mother got her start as a prostitute and made her fortune as the owner of a string of brothels, how would you …
As the title character of "Caroline, or Change," Sharon D. Clarke sings a breathtaking 11 o'clock number called "Lot's Wife" that sparks thunderous applause; the audience at Studio 54 is cle…
Six weeks after the hoopla greeting reopening night of four hit Broadway musicals, the longest-running show in Broadway history returned this week, heralded with a block party, DJ-ed by comp…
The recipe for Fairycakes: Start with a cast of beloved New York stage actors known for their comic flair (Julie Halston, Anne Harada, Jackie Hoffman, et al), stick rhyming couplets in their…
In "Best Life," two strangers start talking to one another (or at least at each other) while sitting at different tables in a café. Lourdes, a Black woman (Cherrye J. Davis), says: "An …
The Vineyard Theater has launched its Fall Forward Festival with the first two of the five planned  "new works of alternative theater," according to its website, works that promise to …
After my tickets to "Lackawanna Blues" were canceled twice because Ruben Santiago-Hudson, the author, director and star of this autobiographical solo show, had injured his back, I searched f…
Do chimpanzees fall in love? Can human couples really stay madly in love after many years, and can a brain scan prove it?  Will theatergoers still love digital theater now that in-pers…
""You're a singular talent, Billy. Nobody knows what to do with you.'"And there it is again"the smoke up my ass…Singular talent without a gig don't pay the rent, and a bitch needs to eat."…
There were five Broadway openings (and reopenings) this week, in what promises to be the oddest and busiest Broadway season in memory. There are now 51 shows on the Broadway 2021-2022 season…
"Dana H." is unlike any play you've ever seen on Broadway. It's 75 minutes of an actress sitting on a chair, lip-syncing to a tape of a woman recounting the horrific story of a deranged crim…
The country has changed in the two and a half years since The Lehman Trilogy came to America, wowing audiences at the Park Avenue Armory with a theatrical epic, inventively staged and ext…
"Thoughts of a Colored Man,"  Keenan Scott II's often powerful, often entertaining debut Broadway play about a day in the life of seven Black men in Brooklyn,  is performed by a …
Rajiv Joseph's epistolary play begins with some meager clues to the mysteries at its heart " a stack of letters from a man named Suresh, and an origami sculpture of a bird " before it slowly…
"Booster" has taken on a new meaning in the age of COVID, which Broadway has embraced in its own way. Some 250 people have been hired (so far) to serve as safety team members in Broadway the…
Much is improbable about "Is This A Room," starting with the name of the real-life whistleblower who's the subject of the play (Reality Winner), and the fact that she received a stupefyingly…