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The early season has been a bit sleepy in production of new Broadway musicals. When "A Bronx Tale: The Musical," "Dear Evan Hansen" and "In Transit" finally open after the Thanksgiving weeke…
Donald Trump is welcome to come see 'Hamilton," said the actor whose curtain call speech Friday created a social-media uproar. But the president-elect shouldn't expect the apology he has rep…
If Bob Fosse could see her now, what would he make of Charity Hope Valentine in the revisionist, Off-Broadway revival of "Sweet Charity" in a 222-seat theater? More to the point, would he an…
The producer and creators of "Hamilton" have refused to respond to President-elect Donald Trump's request for an apology for what he described as harassment of Vice President-elect Mike Penc…
Jason Sudeikis begins his New York stage debut by whistling Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" in tune without breaking a sweat. And that's hardly the only remarkable accomplishment in the actor's por…
If you want to get away -- I mean really, really away -- from concerns of the day, here is "Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812." It's a massive, luscious, romantic escape into decad…
A dozen years before Suzan-Lori Parks earned her Pulitzer Prize for "Topdog / Underdog" and went to Broadway, she already was uncompromising, strenuous and stylistically daring. She also was…
You may not notice, but the staff at New York Theatre Workshop is wearing identification badges at the tiny East Village playhouse these days. This may seem a small concession compared with …
"No one wants to be home alone tonight," says an anxious, troubled member of the family in "Women of a Certain Age," the third and final part of Richard Nelson's "The Gabriels: Election Year…
WHAT IT'S ABOUT For reasons unknown, London did not have a revival of "Gypsy" for more than 40 years. Then came director Jonathan Kent's ecstatically received production, starring Imelda Sta…
Athol Fugard recently described "a thought in the back of my head" that, perhaps, it was time to revisit his beautiful and upsetting South African play, " 'Master Harold' . . . and the Boys.…
It has been a refreshingly long time since the subject of Broadway previews was in the news.
There's no need to ask the factory workers who come alive in "Sweat" how they feel about NAFTA, or global trade or, perhaps, even the presidential election.
Anna Deavere Smith introduces us to 17 very different people in "Notes From the Field," her latest uncanny solo journey in multi-character documentary theater. And each time I think back on …
You think you're stressed out from the craziness and meanness of the coming election? You may even be anxious from reading articles about how stressed Americans are feeling about the wild sw…
Long before there was Ray Donovan, there was Liev Schreiber, the reliably stunning stage actor.
Almost a quarter of an eventful century has roiled the country since "Falsettos" broke ground as Broadway's first -- and, in my experience, still the only -- musical tragicomedy about AIDS. …
It is hard to imagine bad things happening to David Hyde Pierce or, more specifically, to any of the men he plays. With a head that always reminds me of a bright light bulb, he projects an e…
David Hare, extraordinary British playwright of conscience, has created some of the most complex, intelligent, fascinating female characters in modern theater.
"Love, Love, Love" -- named after the Beatles' "All you need is love" optimism of 1967 -- is apparently meant to be social commentary about havoc wreaked on others as the baby boomers grew u…
The division of labor -- you know, who did what to whom and why? -- can be one of the fuzzier areas of theatergoing.
Nearly two hours pass before Nathan Lane, playing crusty Chicago newspaper editor Walter Burns, blows into the old press room of the Criminal Courts building, tucks his head into his shoulde…
She hadn't intended to be back here and doing this, at least not now.
The much-anticipated production, with Diane Lane at the top of a blazingly promising cast, is perplexing, stylistic gibberish.
Last year, Mary-Louise Parker and Denis Arndt sparked enchanting, offbeat brilliance in Manhattan Theatre Club's brief Off-Broadway run of "Heisenberg," the 80-minute maybe-love story that t…
