As the New York Theater industry pulls itself out of the COVID era, every baby step feels like a milestone. But perhaps no other reopening will carry the same symbolic weight as the return o…
"The whole point is to combine two complementary or contrasting thoughts in the same moment. Two feelings in the same moment." Johann Sebastian Bach, the 18th century's uncontested genius of…
Who knew iniquity could feel so pulsating and immensely purifying? "Seven Deadly Sins," New York City theater's newest unholy outdoor experience, tests the limits of how far live theater can…
"We are paying you to stay awake and care." That sounds like an admonition to the audience at the National Theatre's new production, "Under Milk Wood." But in fact it's sensible Susan Brown'…
The enduring musical "Rent," celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, didn't just revolutionize Broadway. It had an impact all over the world " and the new documentary "Revolution Rent" r…
Remembrance of things past is not just a preoccupation of Proust. From King Lear's terrifying fear of losing his mind to Pinter's interlocked threesome in "Old Times" hotly contesting what e…
For the creators of the Tony-winning Broadway musical "In the Heights," the new, big-budget movie version wasn't just a chance to go big with splashy song-and-dance numbers. It was also, acc…
Producer Sonia Friedman returns to the post-pandemic West End not with a safe revival but with a succession of brief runs for three socially-distanced world premieres by young writers, and i…
Should we go to a Broadway show tonight, or should we stream it? That's a question that people could be asking about more than just "Hamilton" when Broadway gets back up and running. If all …
Broadway has long known that Black professionals are underrepresented backstage and in leadership positions in the commercial theater industry " but now a new initiative from a group of Broa…
As the U.K. begins reopening in the wake, fingers crossed, of the pandemic, the idea of the reopening the West End with a new solo show written and performed by a debuting playwright is some…
The composer-performer Heather Christian describes her new movie "Animal Wisdom" as a "theater-concert-hybrid-séance-performance." And maybe after months of lockdown, that's what we all nee…
For this smart, lockdown-era, streaming iteration of Samuel Beckett's show about nothing " and also everything, perhaps, and electric alienation for sure " director Scott Elliott and his tra…
Think producing digital play readings is as simple as getting a few actors together on Zoom? Think again. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" podcast below: For the starry Spotlight on …
For Cuban American playwright Nilo Cruz, every line is poetry, and every couplet speaks to the socio-politics of his roots. That could mean the lyrical "Anna in the Tropics," the play that w…
In response to the shooting in Atlanta and the rise in hate crimes it underscored, Asian American theater artists took action, organizing support and self-care programs for the Asian America…
Theater historian or gonzo journalist? Jennifer Ashley Tepper, the author of "The Untold Stories of Broadway" series of books, thinks of herself as both. "Because I put my own discoveries an…
Nobody " literally nobody " knows when or how Broadway will reopen. But now, a year into a shutdown that began March 12, 2020, the road map to recovery has begun to take shape. The pace and …
In recent weeks, New Yorkers might have stumbled upon a socially distanced pop-up performance by Jon Batiste at the Javits Center, or one by Patti Smith at the Brooklyn Museum. They were bot…
In the Williamstown Theatre Festival's new audio version of "Paradise Blue," Blair Underwood gets the chance to revisit to a role he's been wanting to get back to since he first played it in…
The $15 billion Shuttered Venue Operators Grant " the federal program formerly known as Save Our Stages " isn't exactly a new Federal Theater Project. But according to Nataki Garrett, the ar…
Jake Gyllenhaal is nominated for three Tony Awards, one as an actor in the play "Sea Wall/A Life" and two as a producer (with his company Nine Stories) of "Sea Wall/A Life" and "Slave Play."…
There are plenty of juicy backstages tales from both Hollywood and Broadway in "Mike Nichols: A Life," the new biography of director-producer-performer Mike Nichols. And the juiciest of them…
After winning an Academy Award for his screenplay of "12 Years a Slave" and creating the ABC series "American Crime," John Ridley has a lot going on " from an upcoming Blumhouse paranormal t…
Teyonah Parris waited seven years between theater gigs " but she wishes she hadn't. "That is too long!" the "WandaVision" actor declared on the latest episode of "Stagecraft," Variety's thea…