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By Paulanne Simmons
May 28, 2025: Lights Out: Nat 'King' Cole, the new jukebox musical by Colman Domingo and Patricia McGregor, is very different from other shows in its genre. In the firs…
By Isa Goldberg
May 27, 2025: A playful revival of William Inge's 1955 play, Bus Stop, at Classic Stage Company makes for a cheerful confection.
Watching the classic film starring Marilyn…
By David Sheward
May 26, 2025: There are several thrilling elements in Goddess, the new musical at the Public Theater, and in Lights Out: Nat "King" Cole, the new play with music at the Ne…
By Alix Cohen
May 25, 2025: Ogresse is a musical fable billed as "both a biomythography (weaving myth, history, and biography in epic narrative) and an homage to Erzulie", the Haitian Afri…
By Paulanne Simmons
May 14, 2025. There's something deliciously anarchistic about Fat Cat Killers, Adam Szymkowicz's new play now at the Gene Frankel Theatre, under the direction of Andrew …
By David Sheward
May 14, 2025. The impact of our celebrity-obsessed digital culture is explored in the intimate and funny new musical The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse from The New Group at …
By Paulanne Simmons
May 6, 2025. If you thought all Irish plays are dark and depressing, think again. Irishtown, by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth may be one of the funniest plays of the season. It'…
By Samuel L. Leiter
May 2, 2025. In a season low on original musicals that spotlight underrepresented voices (The Buena Vista Social Club excepted), Real Women Have Curves: The Musical arri…
By Paulanne Simmons
May 2, 2025. Abby Stein was born Srully Abraham Stein to a Hassidic family living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She grew up speaking Yiddish and Hebrew. She attended an all…
By Samuel L. Leiter
May 1, 2025. As its new title suggests, the Roundabout Theatre Company's sparkling, New Orleans jazz-inspired revival of Gilbert and Sullivan's 1879 comic opera, The Pir…
By David Sheward
April 28, 2025. If you've been waiting for the must-see production of the Broadway season to justify plunking down your hard-earned bucks, wait no more. Stranger Things: Th…
By Samuel L. Leiter
April 27, 2025. Before seeing Broadway's Stranger Things: The First Shadow, originally produced on London's West End in 2023, and now at the Marquis Theatre, I thought I…
By Paulanne Simmons
April 25, 2025. In recent years, Broadway audiences have seen several reinterpretations of classic musicals. But no one has reinvented a classic with the perfect mix of …
By David Sheward
April 24, 2025. The beloved, whimsical operettas of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, composed between 1871 and 1896, have had their share of updating and transpositions. T…
The White Room Gallery presents "STRIPPED: Music that Changed the World" on view April 23 - May 11, 2025.
April 22, 2025. Award-winning photographer and mixed-media artist Steve Joester will…
By David Sheward
April 22, 2025. Two dramas on teen torment recently opened on and Off-Broadway, approaching their subjects through different lenses and both achieving dynamic theatrical re…
By Samuel L. Leiter
April 22, 2025. Two current plays, one on Broadway and one Off, seem designed to attract younger audiences with their granular depiction of teenage angst, lingo, and beh…
Veteran Actress Victoria Rowell Pens Sizzling Tell-All and Is Onstage This Weekend in Jason's Lyric, based on the Cult Film, at Brooklyn's Historic Kings Theatre
By Elis Nassour
April 22, 2…
By Samuel L. Leiter
April 20, 2025. As we exited the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre after seeing Sondheim's Old Friends, producer-devisor Cameron Macintosh's revue of around 40 songs by Stephen…
By Iris Wiener
April 19, 2025. There's nothing better than a musical that explores unchartered territory. Operation Mincemeat's originality is startlingly refreshing, if scarily relevant. T…
By David Sheward
April 19, 2025. You never know what you're going to get with a Caryl Churchill play, but it's sure to be something unique, thought-provoking, and convention-breaking. After…
By Samuel L. Leiter
April 18, 2025. Twelve years ago, there was a TV series called"Smash," whose showrunner was playwright Theresa Rebeck. It was largely a backstage look at the creation of…
By Samuel L. Leiter
April 15, 2025: Cartoon characters, like L'il Abner and Superman, have inspired several Broadway musicals, so it's not unusual that Boop!: the Musical takes its cue fro…
By Paulanne Simmons
April 15, 2025. From the moment the dancers, dressed in sparkling tuxes, prance onto the stage at the Broadhurst Theatre and perform a number that includes an incredib…
By David Sheward
April 13, 2025. The Broadway premiere of The Last Five Years at the Hudson,Jason Robert Brown's two-character tuner chronicling the romance, marriage and break-up of noveli…
