After nine seasons on the hit TV series "The Blacklist," actor Amir Arison's next step is starring on Broadway in "The Kite Runner." Which is pretty surprising for a guy who'd decided he was…
Playwright Matthew Spangler's adaptation of "The Kite Runner," Khaled Hosseini's bestselling 2005 novel about the friendship of two boys living parallel lives in Afghanistan, is a heartbreak…
Most people know Jodi Picoult as the busy author of more than 25 bestselling books, including "My Sister's Keeper," "Small Great Things" and "The Pact." But more recently, she's collaborated…
Before Danai Gurira returns this fall as the Wakandan general Okoye in "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," she's scheming and murdering her way onto the English throne in director Robert O'Har…
No one saw it coming. Reworking Goldoni's 18th-century comedy "A Servant of Two Masters" didn't look like the recipe for a transatlantic comedy smash, but that was before Richard Bean turned…
The aesthetic is austere, the emotional range fiercely compressed and the intent is relentlessly pure, but that's only to be expected in Samuel Beckett's "The Seagull." Wait, what? Obviously…
A place for everything and everything in its place. Although that maxim about neatness might apply to the intentions of the characters living in the English country vicarage in "The Southbur…
The playwright James Ijames is no stranger to audacious choices. His adaptation of "Hamlet," "Fat Ham," sets the story at a backyard barbecue thrown by a Black family in the South " and reim…
Jessica Lange was once asked if there couldn't have been someone on the set of the painfully overwrought Southern gothic movie, Beth Henley's "Crimes of the Heart," who could have got everyo…
Audiences already know Joaquina Kalukango as an actor onstage ("Slave Play") and on screen ("One Night in Miami") " and on the most recent Tony Awards telecast, when she capped off a roof-ra…
There's nothing like mechanical malfunction to make you want to break into song. Though that may well be unique to "Bruce" " unless you can name another musical with a spectacularly unruly p…
Broadway celebrated its first full season after the COVID lockdown with the 75th annual Tony Awards, hosted by a newly minted Oscar winner and spotlighting stage work that included a media-d…
The pool of people who vote for the Tony Awards is a small one " and this year, it's probably even smaller. As Broadway gears up for its big night June 12, the industry's annual prognosticat…
Hugh Jackman, Sutton Foster, Phylicia Rashad, Mary-Louise Parker, LaChanze: All of these 2022 Tony Award nominees are Broadway regulars, and they've had plenty of experience with nominations…
The Tony Awards Landmarks on This Year's Nominations List In a Broadway season that was the first after the devastating 15-month shutdown caused by the pandemic, the Tony nominations list en…
In a Broadway season filled with star turns and individual standouts, maybe the biggest breakout performance came from … ensemble casts. From the queens of "Six" to the Thoughts of "A Stra…
Playwright Paula Vogel won a Pulitzer Prize for her 25-year-old play "How I Learned to Drive," which has been seen in productions around the world and is now on Broadway in a staging nominat…
After the Great Recession of '08 " not to mention anxiety about the current economy " will a Reagan-era comedy about insider trading and the glory of greed get the same laughs? Can it sing, …
When the Tony-winning musical "1776" debuted on Broadway in 1969, it celebrated America's ideals on the eve of its Bicentennial. Half a century later, a radical makeover brings critique fron…
It's June 2022, and Michael R. Jackson has a lot to be proud of. His musical "A Strange Loop" leads the Broadway awards-season race with 11 Tony nominations and stands poised to net the top …
With a cast headed by Amy Adams making her West End debut, you'd be forgiven for imagining the latest production of Tennessee Williams' play "The Glass Menagerie" might be everything you'd e…
Jesse Williams is coming to the end of his debut Broadway gig " but he's already betting it'll be the first of many stage engagements for him. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" podcas…
"What are you staring at? Have you never seen a murderer up close before?" Ever since her startlingly assured 2007 debut "Free Outgoing," shrewd playwright Anupama Chandrasekhar has calmly b…
Michael R. Jackson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical "A Strange Loop" scored 11 Tony nominations last week " and the ensemble cast of "A Strange Loop" is inviting everyone to share i…
On your mark, get set, go. The race for the Tony Awards has officially begun with the announcement of the 2022 nominations on Monday. In honoring and highlighting the work in a crowded, COVI…