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…
The Chicago salesmen cursing and scheming in David Mamet's 1983 drama Glengarry Glen Ross are just as small (and petty) as ever, but to invert the words of Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard,…
Nearly two decades have passed since George Clooney directed and co-wrote Good Night, and Good Luck, a black-and-white drama depicting beloved CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow's challenge to Sen…
Star power can be a curious thing, especially when it's the driving force behind the revival of a problematic play like Othello. Shakespeare's drama famously centers on a Black antihero who …
It's been a decade since Hamilton exploded the possibilities of what musical theater could do with historical subject matter, jam-packing a lot of narrative and footnote-worthy tangents into…
You don't have to be a fan of Cuban music, or even understand Spanish, to get caught up in the infectious, rhythmic joy that is Buena Vista Social Club, the new musical based on Wim Wenders'…
Like many a gay man, playwright Joshua Harmon has been shaped at least in part by the dynamic of, dare-I-say-it, domineering women in his life. As he demonstrates in his remarkable but spare…
The British director Rebecca Frecknall has unearthed new depths in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, turning a classic that can be played as maudlin melodrama into a kinetic pri…
In the three decades since the premiere of Rent and the sudden death of its 35-year-old creator, Jonathan Larson has become an almost mythic figure in the musical theater world. The admirati…
Lily Rabe, the gifted actress last seen on the New York stage in the 2015 Shakespeare in the Park production of Cymbeline, is a natural choice to play Helena Alving, the wealthy, long-suffer…
Nia Akilah Robinson, a recent Juilliard grad now at the Yale School of Drama, stakes a claim as a major playwright to watch with her genre-bending drama The Great Privation, which premiered …
There are not many plays that truly capture the liminal period when young adults are in the thick of that awkward, exhilarating process of becoming. Natalie Margolin's one-act dramedy All Ni…
Date: March 6, 2025 Author: Thom Geier 1 Comment For nearly three decades, the theater company Clubbed Thumb has nurtured some of the finest new plays to hit the New York stage, from the …
There is much to admire in Lisa Sanaye Dring's Sumo, a deep dive into Japan's national sport by way of a conventional Karate Kid-style framework. We follow an orphaned teenage apprentice nam…
From 'Maybe Happy Ending' to 'Oh, Mary!' here are critic's picks of the best shows currently on the New York stage
Adapted from my Broadway Bulletin column in the March issue of U.K.-based Musicals magazine. New York theatre doesn't just happen on Broadway. These days, there are plenty of commercial Off …
Is there a dark secret in the past of Rajiv Joseph, the playwright best known for his 2009 Iraq war parable Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo and the recent sports-themed dramedy King James (o…
D.A. Mindell's On the Evolutionary Function of Shame is a timely, trenchant, and often funny new play that explores the issue of trans visibility. Mindell initially sets the scene in the bib…
It was only six years ago that Maggie Siff led a solid but workmanlike revival of Sam Shepard's 1978 drama Curse of the Starving Class. Now Calista Flockhart and Christian Slater are returni…
Samuel D. Hunter follows his extraordinary 2022 two-hander A Case for the Existence of God with a another astonishing new drama for two actors. This time, two men must calibrate the spaces b…
Bess Wohl takes a big-hearted approach to her subject matter, and to her characters, in this powerful and life-affirming drama
Kate Gilmore conveys the conflict in her character with a riveting command of the show's vocal and physical demands, but 'Safe House' remains too scattershot an exercise in style to move us …