There’s a lot to admire in Daniel Sullivan’s spirited new production of William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, now playing at the Public Theater’s Delacorte Theater in Central Pa…
The ’90s were a rough time for women in politics. During Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton famously sparked a public outcry for defending her choice to pursue le…
For decades, sports culture has embraced a kind of hyper-masculinity that rejects even the appearance of softness or vulnerability. Even in 2026, a half century after the Stonewall revolutio…
Search “hiking boots” once and darned if you’re not bombarded with ads for REI, LL Bean, and Dick’s for the next month everywhere you go online. That phenomenon is at the heart of An…
One year after breaking into the mainstream with a 2022 Netflix special, the comedian/cabaret singer Catherine Cohen suffered a stroke. She was 31, days away from a European tour, and sudden…
Ivan Howe and Julius Rinzel are magnificent as two young altar servers whose faith is put to the test in Bubba Weiler's compelling follow-up to "Well, I'll Let You Go."
With ticket prices for hit Broadway shows like Oh, Mary! and Just in Time consistently topping $500 apiece, you might think that New York theater is the exclusive domain of the one percent. …
It’s rare to see a Broadway show that improves over time. Just in Time, the year-old biomusical about mid-20th-century crooner Bobby Darin, has emerged as a sprightly and delightful vehicl…
When they first meet in Mr. Harris’s year-12 philosophy class, the two characters in Benedict Lombe’s sweet but derivative two-hander Shifters feel an immediate spark. Sure, they seem to…
Revivals are a tricky thing. There are particular challenges when mounting solo pieces long associated with a single performer (who frequently is the author). In recent years, we’ve gotten…
Can we declare a moratorium on meta musicals about the act of writing a musical? I’ve admired shows like Tick, Tick… Boom!, A Strange Loop, and [title of show] but at some point one grow…
Jennifer Nettles, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter best known for her work with the alt-country duo Sugarland, is a one-woman force of nature. She not only wrote the score and book for t…
It’s a paradox of theater that the most universal emotions often arise out of situations rooted in the particulars of one culture or subculture. Jonathan Spector’s epic new dramedy Birth…
Not all movies are crying out for musical adaptation. Add to that growing list A Walk on the Moon, a middling 1999 indie drama directed by Tony Goldwyn that featured a seriously miscast Dian…
What’s remarkable about director Robert O’Hara’s new production of La Cage aux Folles is not that it features an all-Black cast, with cultural references to everyone from Beyoncé to D…
Maryann Plunkett has delivered so many extraordinary performances over the years. In her latest, Erica Murray’s intimate drama The Loved Ones, she plays a sixtysomething woman living in a …
We’ve entered a brave new world in live experiences, when technology and storytelling are being mashed up in ways that blur traditional definitions of theater. The Black Mirror Experience�…
Few theaters dare to tackle the early history plays of William Shakespeare, and for good reason. The Bard was just getting his feet wet as a playwright when he wrote the three-part Henry VI …
There is an irony baked into the well-meaning but meandering new musical Label-less, a Gen Z revue created and directed by former 98 Degrees boy-bander Drew Lachey and his choreographer wife…
Imagine if Odysseus was actually the middle-aged gay dude who lives in your building, the one who nods politely but never learns your name and always seems to be rushing off to some probably…
Nearly 80 years ago, 10 directors, screenwriters, and producers were blacklisted from the entertainment industry (and jailed) after refusing to testify before a House committee about their p…
Nearly a decade ago, Public Theater artistic director Oskar Eustis kicked up a firestorm with a politically charged production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar that presented the title chara…
The 79th annual Tony Awards really spread the love — starting with a dynamic performance from host Pink, a theater newbie whose sole Broadway credit is having written one of the Billboard …
One way to grapple with the mostly white, mostly male classics of American drama is to rethink them entirely, from a female point of view. That’s the mission of Julia May Jonas in a A Woma…
A lot has changed in the world since 1967, when 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen checked into a psychiatric hospital following a suicide attempt. Mental health issues were more stigmatized and les…