It's once again time for poor cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle to learn some proper English, as George Bernard Shaw's classic Pygmalion reaches the 100th anniversary of its premiere. In …
A home that belongs to a family of Puerto Rican dancers is set to be razed to make way for the filming of West Side Story in Matthew Lopez's Somewhere, which will run from January 16 " Febru…
Tony Award winner John Glover (Love! Valour! Compassion!), Tony-nominated actresses Kathleen Chalfant (Angels in America), Mary Beth Hurt (Crimes of the Heart), Francesca Faridany (The 39 St…
The Lyric Stage has announced casting for Moisés Kaufman's Tony Award-nominated play 33 Variations. Spiro Veloudos will direct the production, which is slated to run January 4-February 2. …
Tony Award winner Martin Short (Martin Short Fame Becomes Me) has been added to the roster of performers who will be appearing at State Theatre in New Brunswick in 2013. He will offer a si…
The Tony Award-winning La Jolla Playhouse has added two shows to its 2013-14 season. Tony Award nominee Christopher Ashley (Memphis) will direct His Girl Friday, an adaptation by Tony Award…
Seattle Shakespeare Company's upcoming production of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House will become a literal family affair as Russ Banham directs his wife Jennifer Sue Johnson in the role of Nor…
If you're looking to put some invigorating spark into your holiday playlist this year, consider the 14th edition of Broadway's Carols for a Cure. The two-disc set features cast members from…
What could be more contemporary than greed? It's certainly at the heart of Ben Jonson's delicious 1606 comedy, Volpone,, or the Fox, but theatergoers these days aren't given many chances to…
St. Patrick's Day may be a ways off, but Irish eyes will certainly be smiling at singer-songwriter Phil Coulter's one-man show The Songs I Love So Well at Irish Repertory Theatre. The theatr…
The Big Easy is about to become an even bigger draw for theater lovers.Five award-winning leading ladies " Patti LuPone (Evita), Sutton Foster (Anything Goes), Megan Mullally (Young Frankens…
Tony Award winner Michael McGrath (Nice Work If You Can Get It) will star as Ralph Kramden " the small-time bus driver with big-time dreams so famously played on television by Jackie Gleason…
Dueling divas, unrequited love, and a conflicted and ailing composer are the stuff of great operas " and possibly, an invigorating night in the theater. But in Terrence McNally's Golden Age…
With the holiday season upon us, New York's stages are beginning to fill with Yuletide entertainments vying for our affection (and hard-earned cash). The newest offering, A Christmas Story…
News junkies, social media addicts, and Shakespeare lovers can now score their ultimate fix: Ivo van Hove's epic Roman Tragedies at BAM Howard Gilman Opera House through Sunday, November 18…
Long before the nighttime drama of the Ewings on Dallas came the sprawling tale of the Texan Benedict clan in Edna Ferber's 1952 novel, Giant. The book, of course, went on to become a class…
Early on in Scandalous at the Neil Simon Theatre, a bit of spiritual wisdom is imparted to a young Aimee Kennedy (Carolee Carmello), who later becomes Aimee Semple McPherson. She's told that…
When theatergoers arrive at New York City Center - Stage II for Julia Jordan and Juliana Nash's rock-inspired musical Murder Ballad, they may be surprised to realize they have ventured above…
Bitchy is hardly the word you might associate with a play about the tumult created when a forward-thinking business man in 1918 China brings Western gadgetry and Christianity into the home h…
Two gifted stage performers " Anthony LaPaglia and Kathryn Erbe " are at the top of their game in Douglas McGrath's Checkers at The Vineyard Theatre. Their turns as Richard and Pat Nixon el…
For its opening production at its new home on West 42nd Street, the Pearl Theatre Company has turned to Charles Morey's Figaro, an modern-sounding, winking adaptation of Beaumachais' The Mar…
Brian Stokes Mitchell - Simply Broadway (CDBaby) This Tony Award winner surveys about half a century of musical theater on this solo disc that makes for an often stirring recording, as his …
Theatergoers who have had to deal with their family's home being up for sale after their parents' deaths will find some of their worst fears, most cherished memories, and long-simmering rese…
In the wake of reports of a man being arrested for allegedly plotting to blow up a van outside of the Federal Reserve in New York, a play like Jon Kern's Modern Terrorism, Or They Who Want T…
Playwright Paul David Young aspires to something pretty impressive in In the Summer Pavilion, now at 59E59 Theaters, but instead of providing a bracing new kind of drama, he only offers a ra…