318 stories by "David Buchanan"
Eighty years after Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Skin of Our Teeth" debuted on Broadway, the sprawling work has returned to the New York stage in a lavish production at Linco…
Two musical revivals will dominate the 2022 Tony Awards nominations, according to our official odds in 17 of the 25 categories. "Company" and "The Music Man" will each earn at least seven bi…
Broadway came roaring back from its long winter of coronavirus closures with 34 musicals, plays, and revivals opening in the 2021-2022 season. If that whopping number of eligible productions…
Time has finally caught up with Billy Crystal, at least in terms of his age and the age of his character in "Mr. Saturday Night." The 1992 film found the young Crystal playing decades older …
Every so often, a musical arrives on Broadway that fundamentally changes the art form. Just as rarely, a musical will take home the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, which has only happened 10 times…
Two years after its premature pandemic closure, Martin McDonagh's play "Hangmen" has slipped the proverbial noose and returned to Broadway in a plot twist you might think McDonagh wrote hims…
For all those people who have been dying to hear the music that makes me you dance once again on a Broadway stage, "Funny Girl" has finally returned after a 58-year absence. Beanie Feldstein…
Forty-six years after the original production of Ntozake Shange's legendary choreopoem "for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf," a sterling revival has retur…
Twenty five years after the Off-Broadway debut of Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "How I Learned to Drive," the contemporary American classic has at long last made its bow on Broad…
In a Broadway season teeming with exciting plays, musicals, and revivals, a dramatization of a small city council meeting may sound dull. Perhaps in the hands of a lesser playwright than Pul…
Over two years after its slated pre-pandemic bow, the fourth production of David Mamet's "American Buffalo" has arrived on Broadway. The nearly 50-year-old play takes place in a junk shop ow…
Almost a decade after her Broadway debut, Emmy-winner Debra Messing has returned to the New York stage in new play "Birthday Candles," which taps into her gifts of comedy and sentimentality.…
The ensemble of Second Stage Theatre's revival of "Take Me Out" has waited over two years for the first pitch of this baseball drama on Broadway, but after the lengthy pandemic delay the rem…
Broadway's mad dash to the Tony Award nominations began on April 3 with the opening of original musical "Paradise Square," the first of 17 new productions set to bow this month. Set during t…
Twenty-five years after her last appearance on Broadway, Sarah Jessica Parker has returned to the stage in the first revival of Neil Simon's "Plaza Suite." For her long-awaited bow, Parker h…
"It's been a great season for Black playwrights," Sam Eckmann says as he introduces Gold Derby's first slugfest of the 2022 Tony Awards season. A whopping 20 new plays and play revivals are …
It has been eight years since Hugh Jackman notoriously hopped his way into Radio City Music Hall to host the 68th Tony Awards and even longer since he won a Tony himself. But at long last, J…
Two weeks after the closing of her play "Clyde's," Lynn Nottage has opened a new jukebox musical about a star who needs no introduction. Penned by the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, "MJ The…
Ten days after her first Broadway show ended an acclaimed run, playwright Dominique Morisseau has just opened another. The Tony-nominee penned the libretto for musical "Ain't Too Proud: The …
Cary Grant back on Broadway? For five weeks this winter, the debonaire actor treaded the boards again in spirit in the form of Tony Yazbeck, who portrayed the Golden Age movie star in the mu…
Over fifty years after its debut on Broadway in 1970, Stephen Sondheim's genre-redefining musical "Company" has returned in a reimagined production by Tony Award-winning director Marianne El…
Almost thirty years after Robin Williams played "Mrs. Doubtfire" on the big screen, a musical adaptation has bowed on Broadway. The farcical plot follows divorced father Daniel, who dress…
It has been almost five years since playwright Lynn Nottage made her Broadway debut with "Sweat" and almost 10 since Uzo Aduba last appeared on a Broadway stage. They both return, triumphant…
Many plays and musicals have had to wait a long year and a half to open on Broadway, with premieres delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic. But none are more overdue than Alice Childres…
Diana, Princess of Wales has been portrayed in no shortage of high profile works of fiction this past year, from her introduction on the fourth season of Netflix's "The Crown" to Pablo Larra…