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…
After working for some 16 hours on the hottest day of the year singing and dancing  in take after take on the uneven concrete floor of a courtyard between two old brick apartment build…
It's been three whole years since Lin-Manuel Miranda completely dominated the week's news " and now he's back doing it again (almost) with the opening simultaneously of the "In The Heights" …
I had one question above all others when I visited the reopened Drama Book Shop over the weekend in its new location at 266 West 39th Street, a very long 28 months after a rent hike chase…
Thirteen years after Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical about the Latino community of Washington Heights opened on Broadway, "In The Heights" is now an exuberant, sentimental movie musical directe…
The Hot Wing King by Katori Hall wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Finalists: "Circle Jerk" by Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley " exclusively digital theater! " and "Stew" by Zora Howard. …
Theater bloggers have "reasons to celebrate," as Jan Simpson put it in her most recent post in Broadway & Me, which she wrote before the dozens of announcements over the past month sched…
Watch the six minute video below of Lin-Manuel Miranda celebrating the return of Broadway in September, managing quick-hit homages to some dozen Broadway musicals, from "Six" to "Hamilton," …
What I can say about "What If If Only?" In short: It's a new play by Caryl Churchill, 82, who some consider the world's greatest living playwright, and among the most elusive, whose work ove…
The opening date of four new Broadway productions were announced this week, bringing the number to 32. See details in my Broadway 2021-2021 Season Preview Guide, organized chronologically by…
The day before I was scheduled to view "chekhovOS" (OS as in operating system) " featuring  a literally game cast including Mikhail Baryshnikov as Anton Chekhov,  as well as his …
Performers from India and Iran, Colombia and Cuba, Beirut and Johannesburg told tales, played music and danced on Saturday afternoon in Prospect Park,  in a grassy sun-baked field call…
Below are recently published theater books, or those scheduled to be published this summer, in four categories:Scripts and Play AnthologiesBiographies and MemoirsTheater History, Criticism a…
I was grateful to be one of the 24 people inside the below-ground Axis Theater during the new play "Worlds Fair Inn." There were 16 members of the audience (masked and socially distanced), t…
"Oslo" tells the extraordinary true story of the Norwegian couple who instigated and pushed along the secret negotiations that resulted in the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords between Israel and the …
June IS busting out all over, but in new ways. For the finale of the 31st annual Broadway Bares, Broadway performers danced maskless atop the TKTS red steps in the theater district " which w…
Below is a selective list of theater that is opening in the month of June*Â " day-by-day for the first week then a glorious taste of what's in store for the rest of the month…a schedule …
In "Smile: The Story of a Face" (Simon and Schuster, 256 pages), Sarah Ruhl recounts how, at the same time that her first play was about to open on Broadway, and she was about to give birth …
Memorial Day, which became an official national holiday in 1971, was created to honor Americans who died in military service, some 1.1. million people since the nation's founding. But it fee…
Lots of exciting news in May about reopening, but how well were you paying attention to the details? Test yourself by answering these 11 questions about the theater news, views and reviews o…
Thirteen years after Lin-Manuel Miranda's first, breakthrough musical, "In The Heights," opened on Broadway, a movie version is coming to theaters and HBO Max on Friday, June 11th. Below are…
What do we now make of the incendiary confrontation between a liberal white middle-aged professor and her radical black student in Eleanor Burgess's ironically titled "The Niceties," now tha…
"I literally exploded," Justine recounts to her roommate Michael, the first line in "Herding Cats." And Lucinda Coxon's play does wind up feeling like an explosion " surely meant to shock an…
In "I Am The Bear," Jerrell L. Henderson, wearing a t-shirt that says "I Am Black History," tells the story of how he was walking to work when he was stopped by a police car because he "fit …
Memorial Day fell on on May 25 in 2020 and I posted: Memorial Day 2020: Remembering Those Who Died of COVID-19. But by the end of the day, a dog walker named Amy Cooper had called the police…