Now that omicron is in decline, Broadway optimism is on the rise. After a bumpy holiday season rife with performance disruptions, show closures and hiatuses due to the highly contagious COVI…
Just how vocally demanding are roles in Broadway musicals like "Hamilton" and "Dear Evan Hansen" " and how much singing is too much? If two professors at New York University had their way, B…
At the start of the second half of Anthony McCarten's art-world bio-drama "The Collaboration," the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat's agent finds himself alone on the scrappy sofa of Basquiat's N…
Brittney Johnson is currently making history as the first Black actor to play Glinda in "Wicked," but she's also had a lot of Broadway experience in jobs that are in many ways even more chal…
The gap between what you see and what you get has long proved fertile territory for playwrights. At his considerable best, not least his Oscar-winning adapted screenplay of his play "The Fat…
Hugh Jackman dazzles as Professor Harold Hill, the charismatic con man who fires up an entire Midwestern town, in this abso-tootin'-lutely smashing revival of Meredith Willson's adorably cor…
Lynn Nottage has had a hat-trick of shows on New York stages this season: the new opera "Intimate Apparel," the Michael Jackson musical "MJ" and the play "Clyde's." How does she top that? Li…
In answer to the question of whether it's possible to separate the art from the artist, "MJ" performs a slick, crotch-grabbing sidestep. Packed with nearly 40 hits from Michael Jackson's irr…
Passions were never in short supply in Lynn Nottage's 2003 play "Intimate Apparel," where loneliness, longing and hope hover in every scene. In the latest, long-in-the-making collaboration b…
The playwright Dominique Morisseau knows what she is doing. That's clear not only because she says it so convincingly in her Playbill note for Manhattan Theatre Club's production of "Skeleto…
Playwright Dominique Morisseau has a lot going on right now " but then, she's just following the advice that the late Chadwick Boseman once gave her. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft"…
"It just turned into triage." That's how Anne Quart describes the past few weeks on Broadway. As senior VP of production and co-producer at Disney Theatrical, Quart saw first-hand the chaoti…
Robin de Jesús is a three-time Tony Award nominee who's currently co-starring in "Tick, Tick… Boom!," one of this year's film awards season contenders. But de Jesús will be the first…
No one stages something set across mountainous ski slopes in a 251-seat, three-sided theater without a sense of humor. Which is why director Michael Longhurst has attached the bold and perky…
Peter Dinklage was never very interested in playing the lead role in "Cyrano de Bergerac" " until a new musical adaptation of the story got rid of the fake nose that has come to define the c…
In the midst of the deadly dull 1950s, Hollywood celebs Cary Grant, Claire Booth Luce and Aldous Huxley escape their ennui by dropping acid. No serious sex is involved and no one rushes out …
Ever since Bob Fosse cast a never-better Liza Minnelli in his Oscar-winning re-imagining of the musical "Cabaret," revivals of the original musical have leaned toward being "All About Sally.…
Like all historical plays, James Graham's latest, now playing at the Young Vic in London, is as much about the time in which it's written as the time depicted. His version of the 2015 docume…
Half a century has passed since Stephen Sondheim and George Furth first dazzled Broadway with "Company," their tartly astute 1970 musical about a single Manhattanite dogged by coupled friend…
At a moment of the highest possible tension, a character shoots a puppet. What makes that not just exciting, but truly extraordinary, is that you feel the entire audience shudder. "We're not…
The cast of the new Broadway revival of "Company" was in the middle of a two-show Friday on Thanksgiving weekend when they heard the news that the musical's legendary composer, Stephen Sondh…
A face smothered in banana cream has already sprung out from behind a refrigerator door. A silicone breast plate has been scorched over a stovetop. A man dressed like Margaret Thatcher on he…
Bestseller though it is " 10 million copies and counting " it's fair to say that "Life of Pi," the extraordinary story of a shipwrecked 17-year-old who did (or maybe didn't) spend 227 days a…
For audience members checking in at the final dress rehearsal of NBC's "Annie Live!" on Dec. 1, there was an additional stop along the usual security gauntlet. Between the airport-style meta…
A sandwich has always been a kind of vehicle, ingredients riding between sliced bread. Lynn Nottage improbably turns the lunchtime staple into the storytelling engine of "Clyde's," her decep…