The 'A' Word: Plays About Not Having the Baby
Originally published on AmericanTheatre.org Read this story online When Lisa Loomer accepted the invitation to write a play for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's American Revolutions series …
Originally published on AmericanTheatre.org Read this story online When Lisa Loomer accepted the invitation to write a play for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's American Revolutions series …
Originally published in Dame Magazine Read this story online Seven seasons in and Pretty Little Liars has finally addressed the elephant in the room. No, they have not identified the …
Originally published on Politico.com Read this story online I had been at Trump magazine for only four months when my first paycheck bounced. We'd heard rumors of the company's financial tro…
Because Jellicles do and Jellicles can. At least, the male ones. Cats was the first Broadway musical seen by this critic. At the young age of seven, on a family trip to New York, she was fir…
Originally published on HowlRound.com Read this story online When Ayad Akhtar brought his new play Junk to Powerhouse Theater, the work was an unfinished product. Only two acts had been writ…
Originally published on PEOPLE.com View this story online Art is imitating life for Aaron Tveit " for better or worse. Starring in Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King’s new pol…
Originally published on The Nation View this story online The uneasy state of feminism in America is reflected in the well-intentioned but unsteady production of The Taming of the Shrew at C…
Originally published on HowlRound.com Read this story online Standing ovations and bouquets of roses are common for many performers at the conclusion of a show, but during a recent performan…
It's not clear who gets the last word in either The Father or A Doll's House, the two dramas being performed in repertory at Theatre for a New Audience. But with productions this gripping an…
Originally published on PEOPLE.com Read this story online A veteran singer-songwriter who has been touring the world for more than 10 years, Sara Bareilles has witnessed plenty of onstage mi…
Originally published on Bust.com Read this story online "I Think If She Were a Man, She Would Have Been President" Renée Elise Goldsberry already had a jam-packed resume when she auditioned…
Originally published on PEOPLE.com Read this story online “May the Fourth be with you!” says Lupita Nyong’o with a big smile. But the actress, who recently appeared in Star…
Originally published on Broadway Style Guide View this story online Versatility has been a defining aspect of Patina Miller's career"both onstage and on the red carpet. The Tony winner was a…
Originally published on PEOPLE.com View this story online Freestyling is nothing new for Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator of the smash Broadway hit Hamilton, a musical about the birth of Amer…
Originally published on PEOPLE.com Read this story online We’re still mourning the loss of The Good Wife, which aired its final episode May 8. After seven y…
I never thought I'd have to say, "I can't tonight. I have to see American Psycho the Musical." But I have, and I did, although I still don't know what to make of it. Playing at the Ge…
Originally published on PEOPLE.com Read this story online The title alone makes you think twice. Upon first hearing the words “the good wife,” the phrase sounds like a reference …
There's nothing quite like being surprised at the theater, and I most assuredly was when I saw Tuck Everlasting, the new musical adaptation of Natalie Babbitt's popular children's boo…
Blanche DuBois may be looking for magic, but it's unforgiving realism that floods the theater at St. Ann's Warehouse, where a gritty and gripping production of A Streetcar Named Desir…
"You need to find a sweeping tale of pain and redemption," one character tells another in Bright Star, the new musical by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell playing at the Cort Theatre. Unfortun…
The confection being served up at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre is neither sweet nor savory. In fact, it can't be summed up in a single word, despite present-day culture's obsession with conci…
Hamilton star Javier Muñoz has spoken for the first time about his battle with cancer " admitting: “I had never been more scared in my life.” Muñoz, 40, who is the alternat…
Originally published on AmericanTheatre.org View this story online When Linda Loman said, "Attention must be paid," at the end of Death of a Salesman, she was asserting that her hus…
We've all been there: either having lost a job ourselves or trying to comfort a friend or family member who has lost a job. And we've all been here: having heard or said something insensitiv…
Absence makes the heart grow fonder in Prodigal Son, John Patrick Shanley's misty-eyed memory play that is currently in performances at City Center's Stage II. Also directed by Shanle…