"Lines in the Dust," which New Normal Rep is streaming online through August 8th, is Nikkole Salter's three-character play about a vexing side effect of modern-day segregation. It was origin…
"Fruma-Sarah (Waiting in the Wings)," at the Cell Theater through July 25, begins as an affectionate poke at theater folk, offering nearly everything theatergoers returning to live, in-perso…
Six years ago this month, theater etiquette made headlines. Patti LuPone confiscated a cell phone from an audience member who was texting during her performance of "Show for Days," then rant…
As theater stages begin to reopen, theater artists aren't through with theater screens " as some of the theater bloggers make clear. Terry Teachout discusses "hybrid theater" aka "webcast th…
Every work of theater I saw this past week was live and in person " which would have been an impossibility a year ago, and an insane thing to say two years ago…because what else was there …
Some of the best-known plays or musicals about American history actually depict the Fourth of July; one of them, "1776," is entirely about the events leading up to it. But most of the theate…
"Enemy of the People" at the Park Avenue Armory remakes Ibsen's drama into a striking one-woman show starring Ann Dowd that forces us to realize our complicity in the lead poisoning of the F…
Below is an alphabetical list of ten shows you can catch up on over the July 4th weekend, about half of them live in person.* I've put a √ next to those I've seen and especially reco…
"The Watering Hole," an art installation that takes over nearly every nook and cranny of The Pershing Square Signature Center, is meant to be healing and calming…like water. That's the cle…
How well were you paying attention to the theatrical doings in June? Answer the dozen quiz questions below to find out. (Clockwise from top left: Scenes from "In The Heights," "Hot Wing King…
Lust was the best. Everybody seemed to agree, and it wasn't just because Cynthia Nixon was in the cast. But, in truth, none of the eight short plays by some of America's most original pla…
"It's great to see everybody unmasked sitting next to each other in one room,"Â Bruce Springsteen said on opening night Saturday of the first Broadway show in 15 months … speaking on the…
"Four Chords and a Gun" is John Ross Bowie's version of  a legendary (or at least deeply weird) moment in rock n roll history "  the making of "End of the Century," the 1980 albu…
"Happy Pride!" shouted the stage full of Tina Landau's friends, capping  the free two-hour concert that featured Bill Irwin rapping and Tony Yazbeck tapping with Jared Grimes, to lots …
Below is an attempt to answer the question: What's coming up Off-Broadway? Long-running favorites are reopening, there is exciting new work by a slew of much-heralded American playwrights " …
As Off Broadway reopens, "Off Broadway," a play by Torrey Townsend, is streaming free online through Sunday to warn people away from Off Broadway.  It's hard to conclude otherwise,�…
In "Ghosting," SÃle is a young woman from Waterford, Ireland who has exiled herself to the anonymity of London after her boyfriend Mark " "first person I kissed, I slept with, I needed" "…
Special Tony Awards will be given to the Broadway Advocacy Organization, and the Broadway shows "David Byrne's American Utopia" and "Freestyle Love Supreme," as part of the 74th annual Tony …
See a one-minute video of "June Rites!!" below.It sounded enticing, a great way to celebrate the beginning of summer,  the lifting of pandemic-era restrictions and the start of a new e…
I went island hopping this past week, without ever leaving New York City, all to see theatrical productions " Roosevelt Island, Governors Island, Little Island. These outdoor shows, along wi…
The Magis Theater Company's staging of "The Alcestiad" beneath the dramatic sky on Roosevelt Island is a spectacular resurrection in several ways. The play by Thornton Wilder features a resu…
"This hood isn't anything like how it used to be," Officer Garcia is telling me and a teenage girl named Sam, as I watch the two of them play basketball in the gym of the Police Athletic Lea…
President Joe Biden signed into a law yesterday a bill establishing Juneteenth as a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, and the online celebrat…
Outdoor theater is exploding this summer, with the continuation of New York State's NYPopsUp and New York City's Open Culture street performances, with the opening of Little Island park at P…
This George Street Playhouse production of Terrence McNally's 35-year-old bitchy, witty backstage comedy about the opening night party of a Broadway flop comes almost seven years after its s…