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Don't be fooled by the placid backyard setting, neighborly small talk and father-son joviality at the start of the Roundabout Theatre Company's blistering revival of Arthur Miller's "All My …
Nathan Lane and Kristine Nielsen, two of the funniest people on the face of the earth, play street cleaners tasked with carting away the dead after the civil wars that brought down the Roman…
If anyone could play Hillary Clinton, it's Laurie Metcalf " and here she is, in Lucas Hnath's "Hillary and Clinton," giving a performance that feels painfully honest and true. And if anyone …
"Hadestown" triggered a lot of buzz when this wholly American show (which came to the stage by way of a concept album) premiered at Off Broadway's New York Theatre Workshop in 2016. Arriving…
The ache for an absent artist permeates Lanford Wilson's "Burn This," now receiving a finely-tuned Broadway revival that features incendiary performances by Adam Driver and Keri Russell, pla…
Suzan-Lori Parks' new play "White Noise" tackles a host of urgent, hot-button topics, including racism and slavery " but, according to the playwright, there's also a "dumb joke" buried in it…
How helpful are warnings from history? Two years ago, in February 2017, Amazon briefly sold out its entire stock of Hannah Arendt's 500-page treatise, "The Origins of Totalitarianism." In it…
As "Beetlejuice" gears up for its Broadway opening, the new musical's creators have spent a lot of time adjusting the dial on the show's raucous, supernatural comedy, pinpointing just the ri…
In Broadway's new "Oklahoma!," the audience is just a pounding heartbeat away from Daniel Fish's revisionist treatment of this iconic American musical. There's still "a bright golden haze on…
Shakespeare nailed it: "Though she be little, she is fierce." Glenda Jackson may look frail, but the 82-year-old legend performs the noble task of rescuing director Sam Gold's rickety Broadw…
Kids are central to the storyline of "To Kill a Mockingbird" " and for a while, child actors were going to be central to Aaron Sorkin's new Broadway adaptation of Harper Lee's classic novel.…
Call it stealth theater. In the disarming introduction to her play "What the Constitution Means to Me," Heidi Schreck holds forth in an American Legion hall in her hometown of Wenatchee, Was…
Both onstage and onscreen, the title character in "Fleabag" says things that are pretty outrageous " even to Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the woman who created her. Listen to this week's podcast be…
We know next to nothing of the "Dark Lady of the Sonnets" " nothing beyond what Shakespeare tells us in 26 stanzas of overblown verse. Her eyes were nothing like the sun, of course " "raven …
In the wake of the long-running "Jersey Boys" and the short-lived "Summer," director Des McAnuff is back on Broadway with another show built around the song catalog of a music act " and alth…
Any new play by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks ("Topdog / Underdog") demands " and deserves " attention. And in its premiere production at the Public Theater, her lat…
If you find yourself directing a Broadway play with a cast so big it includes a goose, two rabbits, more kids than you can count and an actual infant, what do you do? If you're Sam Mendes, y…
Anyone who doesn't have a cottage on the Cape or the Islands, as they say in Massachusetts, might be puzzled by the title of John Guare's new play. "Nantucket Sleigh Ride" is no Revere B…
No, Kate doesn't get spanked. And for those wondering how the dicey ending of "Kiss Me, Kate" " that musical mashup of "The Taming of the Shrew" and backstage battling exes " would come acro…
It takes three to tango, and Jamie Lloyd's "Betrayal" completely grasps that. Having made it his mission to modernize the way we stage Harold Pinter's plays, his chic, stripped-down staging …
Sound design might be the most thankless job on Broadway " because when you get it right, nobody notices. Besides, a lot of theatergoers " and more than a few Tony voters " don't quite know …
Like "The Father," which won the 2016 Tony Award for Frank Langella in the titanic lead role, "The Mother," which features a searing performance by Isabelle Huppert, advances French playwrig…
"Be More Chill" is already a Broadway Cinderella story. A tale of nerdy teen angst and technology by songwriter Joe Iconis and bookwriter Joe Tracz, this geek-love, sci-fi, high school music…
Watching Phoebe Waller-Bridge, as the lead character of "Fleabag," trying to resist saying something bitingly perceptive, inappropriately funny and completely unexpected is a study of comic …
Possible spoiler:Â The kid ain't worth it! Some breathtaking design work has gone into the sleek production of Jeremy O. Harris' "Daddy," directed by Danya Taymor ("Pass Over"), who's don…
