Betty Buckley in The Old Friends. (Photo: Joan Marcus) Dropping in for a visit to Harrison, TX, courtesy of Horton Foote, can often be a sort of reassuring theatrical trip down south, and w…
Natalie Gold and Will Pullen in Scarcity. (Photo: Sandra Coudert) Consisting of five plays produced concurrently in five different venues throughout the West Village, Rattlestick Playwright…
I won't be posting any reviews here on AmericanTheaterWeb until September 5, but before then, I'll be sharing a few links to pieces I've written for other sites. Starting with one about 'Sh…
Eric Anderson in Soul Doctor. (Photo: Carol Rosegg) The new bio-tuner Soul Doctor, which opened at Broadway's Circle in the Square Theatre last night, is a curious hybrid. There are times…
Review of the Shakespeare in the Park production: At its very best, the new musical adaptation of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost that's running at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park …
Zachary Levi and Krysta Rodriguez in First Date. (Photo: Joan Marcus) It would be great to announce that it's love at first sight with the new musical First Date, which opened at Broadway…
Morning, Not at all sure how many people will see this. Tonight, I'll be seeing First Date on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre. It officially opens on Thursday, and I think the time has c…
Playwright Erin Courtney's The Service Road, receiving its world premiere from the Adhesive Theater Project at the Voorhees Theatre in Brooklyn, plunges you into a modern-day fairy tale. It'…
There's a dose of the autobiographical, the biographical and, most important and impressive, the lyrical waiting for you in James DeVita's In Acting Shakespeare, now running at The Pearl The…
There's a dose of the autobiographical, the biographical and, most important and impressive, the lyrical waiting for you in James DeVita's In Acting Shakespeare, now running at The Pearl The…
Heather Henderson has been named the new managing director of Abdingdon Theatre Company. She replaces Samuel J. Bellinger, who has left the theater to take a position at Second Stage Theatre…
Two men's idyllic life in Sag Harbor hits some snags in Tony nominee 's Harbor, which after its premiere at Westport Country Playhouse last year, will play New York's Primary Stages this sum…
It's tough not to walk into Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes' Water by the Spoonful at Second Stage Theatre with some pretty high expectations. After all, the show picked up the 2012 Pulitzer Prize. …
In the past 25 years, Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning Driving Miss Daisy, a portrait of Atlantan Daisy Werthan's prickly relationship with her chauffeur Hoke Coleburn, has something of …
It's a 1930s screwball comedy with a dose of opera that originally took Broadway by storm in 1989. Now Ken Ludwig's Lend Me a Tenor will get a new outing at the Paper Mill Playhouse, running…
For many people, the Oscar, Emmy, and two-time Tony Award-winning actor Christopher Plummer (Inherit the Wind) will always be Captain von Trapp from The Sound of Music. But throughout his ca…
American audiences will get a glimpse of what life was like for The Beatles in the group's early years when Iain Softley and Stephen Jeffreys' Backbeat arrives at the Ahmanson Theatre, to ru…
It's once again time to witness a couple's murderous ascent to the throne of Scotland, followed by their ultimate demise, in William Shakespeare's Macbeth, set to run at Trafalgar Studios fr…
Being a guy in a dress has never been a particularly easy thing, and yet, one German man, living (and dressing) as Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf, managed to survive both Nazi party rule and the re…
It's a season with something for everyone, from a dramedy about a contentious Republican clan to a musical that brims with holiday cheer. Walnut Street Theatre has announced its mainstage li…
Now.Here.This. (Original Cast Recording) (Ghostlight Records) The folks who established the benchmark for metatheatrics in musical theater with [title of show] followed up with this tuner t…
After its extended run at off-Broadway's Barrow Street Theatre, Nina Raine's Olivier Award-nominated play Tribes will have its West Coast premiere at the Mark Taper Forum. Two-time Obie Awar…
After its extended run at off-Broadway's Barrow Street Theatre, Nina Raine's Olivier Award-nominated play Tribes will have its West Coast premiere at the Mark Taper Forum. Two-time Obie Awar…
It's the little guy versus big guy in the musical Dear World, which will receive its British premiere at the Charing Cross Theatre, opening February 4. Tony Award nominee Gillian Lynne (The …
It could be the most inaccurately named show to come along during 2012: Flipside: The Patti Page Story, that's running at 59E59 Theaters. By invoking the out-of-use term for the secondary tu…