On Bob Dylan's 80th birthday today, the producers of the Dylan musical "Girl From The North Country" announced its reopening on October 13, more than 19 months after it was the last Broadway…
Below is a day-by-day selection of theater* that is opening between May 23 and May 31, 2021 " from Broadway Barks to the National Memorial Concert, and much inbetween, such as Ben Platt a…
Below are the five winners of the 87th annual Drama League Awards, the first (and so far only) major theater award to step up to the moment and honor the forms of theater that have flourishe…
For months I had watched the construction of this strange 2.4 acre public park placed atop new concrete piles like so many oversized golf pegs where the old rotting wood Pier 54 had been " w…
Five years ago, when Florian Zeller's "The Father" debuted on Broadway, Frank Langella portrayed the fifth character I'd seen that year on a New York stage who was struggling with dementia.�…
 The Drama Book Shop will reopen to the public on June 10, 2021 in its new location, under the proprietorship of Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda and director Thomas Kail. The centu…
Ben Platt reprises his Tony-winning role as an anxious, isolated high school student in the film of the 2017 Tony winning best Broadway musical "Dear Evan Hansen," scheduled for release on S…
This half-hour piece, billed as "a video docudrama," manages to work in several of the infamous apologies from the #MeToo era. "The Sprezzaturameron," available for free on the Baryshnikov A…
In a series of video interviews with the leading candidates for mayor of New York City, the New York Times asked each for their favorite Broadway show. (Shaun Donovan said that his high scho…
Watch the video of Miscast below, available through May 20th. For the 21st year in a row (and the second year on YouTube), MCC Theater's fundraiser showcased Broadway stars performing songs …
Play-PerView has done a mitzvah for those of us who missed this savage comedy about bickering college-age cousins when it was first produced Off-Broadway; "Bad Jews" was the first New York p…
Below is a day-by-day selection of theater* that is opening between May 15 and May 21, 2021, including three free (mostly outdoor) theater festivals, Miscast21, two virtual tours of Broad…
This is the third time I've seen Nia Vardalos' moving, funny stage adaptation of Cheryl Strayed's best-selling collection of "Dear Sugar" advice columns. If I can't embrace all the choices t…
Below are photographs from the exhibition "A Dozen Dreams,", at Brookfield Place's Winter Garden through May 30. "I used to have vivid dreams," the playwright Rehana Lew Mirza says into my h…
The Republicans in the House of Representatives by voice vote ousted Rep. Liz Cheney from her leadership position today because she insists on telling the truth about Donald Trump. "Today, w…
Below is my annual preview guide of Broadway openings chronological by opening date " a list with a twist this year: It's also Broadway reopenings…of shows that have been on the Great Brig…
Hamilton, The Lion King and Wicked have announced reopening dates of September 14, the earliest possible date, with Aladdin on September 28 and Tina the Musical on October 8. Tickets are ava…
Broadway musicals are making the reopening feel real, with tickets back on sale and specific opening dates announced: Chicago, Sept 14. Six, Sept 17. Come From Away, Sept 21. Aint Too …
The latest free reading from Roundabout's new Refocus Project, "I Gotta Home," is a 1940 play about a financially challenged preacher, his large rambunctious family, and his long-lost sister…
Below is a day-by-day selection of theater* that is opening between May 8 and May 14, 2021, including TWO tributes to Kander and Ebb (at the exact same time!), TWO new works about the eff…
It must have seemed the exact right time to produce "Waiting for Godot," the bleak, sardonic, enigmatic play about a pair of scruffy pals trying to stay connected and hopeful during a time o…
Near the end of "The Woman's Party," Clubbed Thumb's clever, stylishly designed three-part dramatization of an odd, little-known moment in the history of the fight for women's rights, Alice …
It would be too glib to call Jeremy Jordan pop hot and Marilyn Maye jazz cool. Both these terrifically talented and engaging singers can either belt or croon at will. But there is an astonis…
Starting today, Broadway can start selling tickets for shows that can open or reopen at full capacity beginning September 14. That was what New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced yesterday…
A young widow is framed for a murder she didn't commit, and her ghost causes a three-year drought as revenge, forcing the community to acknowledge her innocence: That's the story told in "Th…