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Samuel L. Jackson is back on Broadway for the first time in a decade in "The Piano Lesson," the new production of the August Wilson play directed by Jackson's wife, LaTanya Richardson Jackso…
It is a testament to the acuity of Suzan-Lori Parks' imagination and powers of perception that "Topdog/Underdog" feels as vital and electric today as it did 20 years ago. The first Broadway …
The Royal Shakespeare Company doesn't usually sell out an entire run before opening, especially with a new play. But then, it has never had the audacity to stage one of the world's most belo…
Charm, a sadly rare theatrical quality, is scarcely a fashionable theatrical virtue, but it's nonetheless valuable. And, to audiences' evident delight, it's there in spades in director Danie…
The new musical "Kimberly Akimbo" has already beguiled New York critics. Now it has to win over Broadway audiences. Based on David Lindsay-Abaire's 2001 play of the same name, "Kimber…
Every family has a skeleton or two in its closet. The starry new Broadway revival of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "The Piano Lesson" has a whole houseful of ghosts. Director L…
The Tony-winning Broadway revival of "Take Me Out" returns this fall, and Jesse Williams is back with it. In Richard Greenberg's 2002 play, the "Grey's Anatomy" actor plays a biracial baseba…
How is a Pulitzer Prize-winning play like a Marvel superhero? Ask Suzan-Lori Parks, the acclaimed writer whose 2001 outing "Topdog/Underdog" was her first show to arrive on Broadway after sh…
Take two, and not a moment too soon. Lea Michele steps into one of Broadway's most iconic roles, which in her mind " or at least the mind of Rachel Berry, the character she played in TV's "G…
In the new Broadway revival of "Death of a Salesman," Wendell Pierce's powerhouse performance firmly identifies Willy Loman as a tragic hero for these modern times. It's a searing portrait o…
The opening moments of this exuberant, thought-provoking and radical revival of "1776" makes it clear who was missing from John Trumbull's famous painting of the signers of the Declaration o…
Part of the instant appeal of "Friends" was that, from the get-go, the relationships between the members of the gang who hung out in the apartments above Central Perk felt not just likeable …
What gives life value and makes it worth our daily toil? What does it mean to need another person, and what do we owe each other? It is a testament to the brilliant craft of Martyna Majok's …
In a radical departure from his usual intellectually esoteric style, Tom Stoppard's new play is an intensely personal family drama. "Leopoldstadt," which takes its name from the Jewish quart…
There is an opera of "The Crucible." Written by Robert Ward, it won the 1962 Pulitzer Prize. But this is not the opera… or is it? Lyndsey Turner's grandiloquent National Theatre production…
Madison Wells Live, the stage entertainment division of Gigi Pritzker's Madison Wells Media ("The Eyes of Tammy Faye"), has emerged from theater's lockdown phase with a lineup of brewing the…
Broadway hasn't been the same since the pandemic. Just consider "The Phantom of the Opera." The recent closing announcement of the landmark long-runner underscored just how unpredictable the…
After a bunch of peppy up-tempo numbers, you just know there is going to be at least one ballad somewhere in "The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation," the new musical with Broadway aspirations pre…
For the actor Gregg Mozgala, his Broadway debut in "Cost of Living" isn't just a step forward for him " it's a step forward for all of Broadway. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" podc…
Jonathan Spector's 2018 comedy "Eureka Day" first attracted attention in productions in Berkeley and Brooklyn. But in its sharp U.K. premiere starring Helen Hunt, this often very funny satir…
Few theater performances are as indelible as the original Broadway production of "Into the Woods," which raised a generation of theater fans through a legendary American Playhouse recording …
Get thee to Arden " or at least to the Arden depicted in the glorious, delightful and big-hearted musical adaptation of Shakespeare's "As You Like It," created as part of the Public Theater'…
The composer ("Once Upon a Mattress"), young adult author ("Freaky Friday") and philanthropist Mary Rodgers wanted to write a memoir that was candid, cutting, dishy and vanity-free " the exa…
The new musical "American Prophet" is now in the midst of its world premiere run at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. Next stop: Broadway? Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" podcast belo…
Taking an overly respectful and frankly miscalculated approach to its source materials " the 2003 roman à clef novel and the 2006 Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway-starring film " the new mu…
