Unlike other recent blockbusters that soared on laughs, spectacle or expert pastiche, Lin-Manuel Miranda's revolutionary bio-musical is both a cultural phenomenon and an instant milestone in…
Ms. Copeland, of American Ballet Theater, is briefly playing the role of Ivy, a.k.a. Miss Turnstiles, in the hit Jerome Robbins revival at the Lyric Theater.
The New York International Fringe Festival, now in full swing, features glimmers of talent and skill amid the amateurism and malfunctioning air-conditioners.
A subjective summary of the 2015 New York Musical Theater Festival (NYMF)
The Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival, which opened on July 23 and runs through Monday, offers a festive and buoyant atmosphere.
Among the offerings at the festival includes final performances of "Songs for the Fallen," "Manuel vs. the Statue of Liberty" and "Foolerie."
Among the offerings at this festival is a work in which the lead character wants to be the pope.
A roundup of five performances from the first week of the festival.
A few weeks ago, Playbill reader Molly Prep sent us a few photos showcasing her “Broadway themed” dorm room and home bedroom. Molly’s designs had us wondering i…
No one said or did anything excessively moving or embarrassing, if you don't count the person who picked the lavender shorts suit Alan Cumming wore in the show's opening.
This Tony nominee for best play stitches together comedy and horror with the help of Tyrone, the hand puppet that acts as the main character's angry id.
Avant-garde theatre's femme fatale.
The all-male company Propeller makes Shakespeare new...
'Batch' costume tastefully done
The Greeks Conquer the London Stage With War and Sacrifice, but No Heroes By BEN BRANTLEY
In London, where theater often has a fraternal closeness to the morning's headlines rarely known across the Atlantic, the ancient Greeks are hot this summer.
There is one thing that consistently saves the Rockettes from becoming a pawn in Radio City Music Hall's promotion blitz: the glory of their dancing.
Garland and Burton Live, Warts and All by ANITA GATES
Both Judy Garland and Richard Burton are subjects of two shows this summer, portrayed as celebrity-artists annoyed by what the world thinks of them.
Recasting a Star Role Is Hit (or Miss) by BEN BRANTLEY
If the chemistry of casting, particularly where Broadway shows are concerned, is an elusive and mysterious science, the alchemy of recasting is even more complicated.
Theater's Promise? Look Off Broadway by BRUCE WEBER
It may have been a financially calamitous year Off Broadway, but invention thrived.
Plus a related sidebar article (see the Reviews section below).
The character of Alma Winemiller has resurfaced with a new authoritative calm in the Hartford Stage's gentle, insightful revival of Tennessee Williams's "Summer and Smoke."
Great Minds Talk Volumes as Mortality Intervenes by BEN BRANTLEY
"The Coast of Utopia," Tom Stoppard's engrossing and exasperating trilogy of plays, takes the love of a good argument to extremes unknown in the theater since the heyday of George Bernard Shaw.
There is usually some reason for splitting a role among multiple actors, but the Broadway musical "Lennon" highlights why the approach is so rare: it hardly ever works.
The issues underlying Broadway's shutdown are rife across the U.S.
A Rhythmic Soundscape of Lives Caught in Conflict By MARGO JEFFERSON
The hip-hop artist and actor Yuri Lane takes the art of soundscape a step further in "From Tel Aviv to Ramallah."
Plus Nicky Paraiso's "House/Boy."
In 'Hairspray,' it's song and dance -- and race