Audra McDonald knows her new Broadway show is surprising theatergoers. "Some people come to see 'Ohio State Murders' and they're taken aback by how I'm speaking or the words that I'm using,"…
Caesar meets Cleopatra, Stalin meets Roosevelt, Marilyn Monroe meets the Kennedy brothers: Consequential connections all. So, too, is the meeting and eventual partnership arranged by savvy N…
How well can you ever really know a person? Do you judge by their actions, their hopes or some combination? Like many city creatures, the New Yorkers of "Between Riverside and Crazy," now pl…
Tectonic Theater Project, the 30-year-old company behind international stage successes "Gross Indecency" and "The Laramie Project," has unveiled an upcoming slate of projects including a New…
Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the 87-year-old regional-theater stalwart that has become a leading player in the theater industry's push to increase diversity, equity and inclusion, has partne…
Delivering songs demanding freedom not only for the characters but the whole country under apartheid, the impassioned cast of the new musical "Mandela" (now premiering at the Young Vic in Lo…
After spending the last 30-plus years as an Off Broadway favorite, actor Deirdre O'Connell ("Becky Nurse of Salem," "Corsicana") walked away from the 2022 Tony Awards with a trophy for her w…
Taking a classic film comedy " especially one that plays fast and loose with gender and sexuality " and turning it into a big Broadway musical is far from a sure thing in these contemporary …
It may be easy to take for granted that Audra McDonald, with six Tony Awards to her name, is capable of performances that creep delicately into your psyche and rattle around there as if clea…
You don't get more American than descending from one of the witches burned at the stake in Salem, Mass. Unless, that is, you're also an opioid addict in that same town during the Trump years…
When Nickelodeon revived its popular kids series "Blue's Clues" in 2019, the show found its new host on Broadway. Josh Dela Cruz was doing eight shows a week in "Aladdin" when he won the par…
The entirely beguiling lightness of touch is remarkable. Staging the startlingly prescient, gender-swapping, time-traveling 1928 novel "Orlando," a lesser creative team would have gone to…
If you are looking to draw an audience into what seems like a typical biographical jukebox musical, starting and ending your drama in psychoanalysis is a great device. Then again, "A Beautif…
The question at the heart of "Ain't No Mo'," the incendiary and incisive new comedy that opened on Broadway on Dec. 1, is riotously and fruitfully absurd. Consider it a gleeful reframing of …
As defined by boy bands like BTS and girl groups like Blackpink, K-pop " gayo " is a Korean musical genre ('brand' is better) where Instiz all-kills (chart domination) is essenti…
The new Museum of Broadway, which opened recently in Manhattan's theater district, has a list of producer credits just like it's a Broadway show. At the top of the list are co-founders Julie…
"Marley was dead, to begin with." That opening line always gives me the chills, and never more so than in this one-man (plus spooky specter) show featuring that consummate artist of many voi…
Shakespeare's Juliet singing Britney Spears' "Oops…I Did It Again" is certainly a surprising and unexpected juxtaposition. While there is every reason to be skeptical of a Shakespearea…
The use of the word "fuck" as a statement occurs approximately 62 times in Will Arbery's new play, "Evanston Salt Costs Climbing," and "Haha" or "Hahahaha" appears approximately 34 times, so…
Mike Birbiglia's solo play "The Old Man and the Pool" opened at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on Broadway on Nov. 13, 2022. The following is Peter Debruge's review of the same production when …
The prospect of dying by age 16 hardly seems like obvious fodder for musical comedy. But "Kimberly Akimbo," transferring to Broadway after an acclaimed run at the Atlantic Theater Company, i…
In the 25 years since "The Lion King" opened on Broadway, the show has traveled all over the world and played to more than 110 million people. But there's one thing that often doesn't transl…
Writer-director Cameron Crowe's Oscar-winning screenplay about a teen rock journalist's coming-of-age in the '70s, "Almost Famous," lands pretty much intact in Broadway's latest pedestrian f…
Who better to tell your story than … you? Gabriel Byrne won kudos for his intimate memoir "Walking with Ghosts," which he subsequently adapted into this heartfelt solo show now playing…
You can take anything and write a song about it. Whether it needs singing about is another question entirely. On the evidence of multitudes of recent musicals, it's one too few creative team…