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Eboni Booth's portrait of one man's loneliness and the danger of coping mechanisms will restore your faith in theater's elemental storytelling powers. And make you cry.
Oscar Winner Ariana DeBose is still slated to host, but with the changes, we don't yet know in what capacity.
Director Mira Nair turns her own layered 2001 film into a sitcom that transitions awkwardly into musical numbers.
Staged in a private location in SoHo, the play offers up a haunting look at the chef-writer's inner world.
This show"questionably claiming to be inspired by Martin Scorsese's 1977 movie"piles up a tidal wave of old John Kander and Fred Ebb songs worthy of applause. But the rest of the evening is …
Sean Hayes is entertaining without pause in his sensational portrayal of Oscar Levant in one of the few Broadway shows that unimpeachably deserves its tumultuous standing ovation.
Comer's astoundingly fluid, musical and passionate performance leaves nothing on the field.Â
Alternatingly twee and berserk, Larissa FastHorse's work reaches a nadir when characters, in face paint and incongruous warrior costumes, start kicking around decapitated heads.
This play-within-a-play is full of topsy-turvy chaos that makes you think of Basil Fawlty stumbling into a community theater. Comparisons to British comedy icons"from Monty Python to Mighty …
Doug Wright calls Sean Hayes "a national treasure." But at first he had trouble picturing him as the drug-driven, witheringly witty, piano-playing genius Oscar Levant.
This revival " with a new book by Aaron Sorkin " is spare, drab and somehow takes the Lerner and Loewe classic both too literally and not seriously enough.
As a one-night-only-benefit evening of their music approaches, the team behind shows like 'Ragtime' and movies like 'Anastasia' talks about their past, present, and future.
In this " wait for it " corny new musical, the score makes a case for country as a natural Broadway genre and the cast turns in strong performances. Shame about the plot, though.
The playwright explains how the new musical 'Shucked' started as a spoof of 'Hee-Haw' and blossomed into a corn-fed 'Brigadoon.'
Josh Groban is excellent as the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, but the production is ugly and chaotic.
A book by Emerald Fennell (who wrote and directed 'Promising Young Woman') and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber must have screamed cross-generational synergy on paper. But it's TikTok meets gran…
Emerging from the pandemic, Christine Pedi discovered her vision had dimmed. But it hasn't stopped her from taking the stage Off Broadway in 'The Rewards of Being Frank.'
Suzan-Lori Parks reshapes the 1972 Jimmy Cliff movie into a jukebox musical, but its outlaw charge has gone missing.
A chilly, restrained minimalism marks this Broadway adaptation of Ibsen, starring Jessica Chastain.
Existential upheaval is fun in this magic-realist mini-epic from Agnes Borinsky that moves the beyond theatrical binaries of comedy and tragedy.
Director and choreographer Wayne Cilento " who was part of the original company of 'A Chorus Line' " on his life onstage and bringing 'Bob Fosse's Dancin'' back to Broadway.
Chekhov's 1895 comedy gets a cheerfully vulgar refurbishing (and a perfect Parker Posey), but part of the shock is how by-the-book Thomas Bradshaw's rework is.
A pop star becomes a demon barber, a TV assassin turns attorney, and Hamlet gets a Black, queer makeover " those are just a few of the miraculous transformations the theater has in store the…
Director Anne Kauffman says 'The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window' touches on everything from history, philosophy and politics to interpersonal relationships and identity. "It's the kitchen-…
A single heartbreaking truth in both 'The Whale' and the newly revived 'A Bright New Boise' provided a pivot for the playwright turned screenwriter.
