Like everyone on Broadway at that moment, British director Michael Longhurst remembers exactly where he was when the COVID-19 shutdown came. "We had just done our dress rehearsal of 'Carolin…
There are two reasons that, among recent Hamlets, Cush Jumbo ("The Good Fight") is right up there alongside Benedict Cumberbatch and Ian McKellen. Like those two actors, Jumbo has dazzling e…
Strutting strong, arms akimbo and ready for a royal rumble, the sextet of cheeky spouses of King Henry VIII take to the stage in triumph " not just over the much-married monarch who did them…
In "A Crossing," the new dance musical premiering at Barrington Stage in the Berkshires, a group of desperate immigrants confront hazardous terrains, punishing weather, threatening vigilante…
The playwrights Jocelyn Bioh and Martyna Majok have a bond, in life and in their work. "I feel like Martyna and I are these playwriting sisters in terms of the groups of people and the stori…
The long-delayed Tony Awards ceremony has happened at last, and much of it played out as expected " see, for instance, the string of wins for "Moulin Rouge!," which seemed the likely winner …
A Tony predictions story? In this climate? Yes, the Tony Awards are happening Sunday, although you might not know it. Publicity has been hampered by the confusing roll-out of the plan for th…
With all the uncertainty around Broadway right now, one thing's for sure: The Tony Awards this year will be unlike any other. The 2021 ceremony comes just as Broadway has begun its recove…
The claim to theatrical fame of the Long Island hamlet of Yaphank has thus far rested with PG Wodehouse, who included the town in his lyrics for Jerome Kern's satirical hymn to the simple li…
"I don't want to take live theater for granted ever again, do you?" That was Lin-Manuel Miranda, in a brief curtain speech welcoming back the first Broadway audience at "Hamilton" since the …
Broadway is back " and it's looking to make some changes to how it used to operate. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" podcast below: With producers, creators, advocates and executives…
In recent decades, numerous musical have arrived in London with outsized production values swamping the material, leading critics to wish for time machines so that they can fast-forward to t…
Is the quite splendid "Operation Mincemeat" ridiculously clever or cleverly ridiculous? Both. Making a song-n-dance show out of a real-life, stiff-upper-lip, British World War II intelligenc…
From "Aladdin" in Mexico City to "Frozen" in London to "The Lion King" in Tokyo " not to mention "Lion King" and "Aladdin" on Broadway " Disney Theatrical Productions is in the midst of open…
No one wants to talk about it, but it could happen: Someone involved in a Broadway production tests positive for COVID-19. In the run-up to reopening, there's been significant coverage of th…
In Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu's surreal and morbidly funny existential drama "Pass Over," two characters who might be fugitives from a Samuel Beckett play find themselves in a world where be…
Where do you go after you've seen "Wicked"? That worldwide smash has built a vast young audience hungry for stories propelled by power ballads of female empowerment, and it's clearly that cr…
"Life is a cabaret, old chum." Oh wait, wrong show. Or is it? Taking on Percy and Eleonore Adlon's 1987 movie "Bagdad Cafe," Emma Rice's music-filled, uber-quirky production boasts everythin…
It's the question on all of Broadway's mind right now: With the delta variant spreading just as shows are getting back up and running, how do we all " cast, crew and audiences " return to th…
For one of New York City's first major theater events in 16 months, eager audiences cannot do better than reveling in the natural splendors of Central Park's Delacorte Theater for the gleefu…
In a Manhattan studio late last month, rehearsal was in progress. Two actors ran through a playful chase sequence. A fight choreographer, seated at the head of the room with the director, th…
As Broadway gets back to business and live performances resume around the country, the Sundance Institute has released a new study that diagnoses the state of the theater industry and imagin…
Skeptics puzzling over the logic of watching 82-year-old Ian McKellen playing student prince Hamlet need only look as far as the play's second scene in which Hamlet rebukes his mother. "I ha…
When the Broadway production of Antoinette Nwandu's play "Pass Over" opens on Broadway, it'll incorporate significant changes " both on stage and behind the scenes. Listen to this week's …
Aleshea Harris' "What to Send Up When It Goes Down" isn't a traditional play, but audiences shouldn't come away with the mistaken impression that the show " a play, a ritual, a pageant and a…