Less than a year after making his Broadway debut in "Cabaret," Adam Lambert is stepping into another musical next month, starring as Judas opposite Cynthia Erivo as Jesus in the Hollywood Bo…
The immersive theater company Punchdrunk has returned to New York City with "Viola's Room" " and it couldn't be more different than their signature international hit, "Sleep No More." Listen…
The crowd roars and the vast, unsmiling curtain-call cast line the stage with the leading man bare-chested and covered in blood. No, this isn't director Jamie Lloyd's "Sunset Boulevard" " it…
How do you do a flying horse on stage? Answer: You don't. They cut the horse. But while Hercules' friend Pegasus may be gone, in almost every other respect, Disney's latest stage adaptation,…
The Muny, a venerable outdoor theater in St. Louis that's now in its 107th season, had a lot to celebrate after it picked up a Tony for regional theater earlier this month " a barbecue, chee…
Sometimes the only refuge from the brutalities of a life pre-destined for loneliness, poverty and violence is a poetic voice. In playwright Jamie Wax's one-hander "Call Me Izzy," Jean Smart …
The 2025 Tony Awards had it all " Cynthia Erivo, Oprah, a "Hamilton" reunion, and a fair share of snubs and surprises to keep awards-season prognosticators on their toes. After making our wi…
With the 2024-25 theater season now complete, a new rule has been added to the old Broadway playbook. That rule? Throw out the playbook. In a banner year that's seen Broadway sales finally s…
The Emmy-winning writer-actor Lena Waithe ("The Chi," "Master of None") recently sat down with the playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins to discuss his Pulitzer Prize-winning new play, "Purpose,…
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' family drama "Purpose" is already one of the big winners of the Broadway awards season: The play won the Pulitzer Prize for drama and the New York Drama Critics Circl…
Michelle Williams may not be a Tony nominee this year, but in her estimation, she still has plenty to celebrate. The former member of Destiny's Child is back on Broadway for the first time i…
Bob Odenkirk ("Better Call Saul") earned a Tony nomination for his Broadway debut in the hit revival of "Glengarry Glen Ross." But almost 30 years ago, if he'd gotten his way, he would have …
The biggest, most trenchant laugh on the London stage is nightly cracking up the audience at the West End staging of "Giant" " and it's a moment indicative of the blissful timing in the writ…
It's been a busy season on Broadway, crowded with big stars, boffo hits " and strong contenders for awards attention. This year's Tony Awards nominations seemed particularly hard to predict,…
Grammy-winning musician Joy Huerta and musical theater songwriter Benjamin Velez didn't know each other before they started working together on the score for "Real Women Have Curves." But th…
The Latina seamstresses at a dressmaking workshop in East L.A. express their credo at the top of the new musical "Real Women Have Curves." With the pulsating song "Make It Work" these women …
Unlike the mobile British corpse in "Operation Mincemeat," the traveling American cadaver in the Broadway musical "Dead Outlaw" has a far less noble posthumous purpose than winning World War…
It might be time to call it quits on biographical jukebox musicals. "Jersey Boys" ignited a trend, but its many spawn have been mostly ill-conceived. Recently we've had "Summer: The Donna Su…
What ever happened to Gilbert and Sullivan? Once theatrical icons, Gilbert and Sullivan " co-creators of famed comic operettas including "H.M.S. Pinafore" and "The Mikado" " have taken a not…
With the Broadway arrival of "Stranger Things: The First Shadow," a stage prequel to the popular Netflix series, comes the question: Will this stand-alone tale appeal " and then satisfy " au…
Spelunking is not exactly a go-to subject for a musical. Yet Adam Guettel and Tina Landau saw something in the true story of Floyd Collins, a cave explorer who famously got trapped undergrou…
Idina Menzel is back on Broadway in a new musical " and for the Tony-winning actor, now starring in "Redwood," it's exactly the kind of work she loves most. Listen to this week's "Stagecr…
The first word spoken in "John Proctor Is the Villain" is "sex," a portent of things to come. Mr. Smith (Gabriel Ebert), a high school English teacher, has been tasked with handling sex-ed f…
On the surface, "Smash" is a new backstage musical about the making of the fictional Broadway musical "Bombshell: The Marilyn Monroe Story," but for diehard fans of the cult-classic TV show …
After three Broadway revues of Stephen Sondheim's music you would think a fourth wouldn't offer anything fresh, have any surprises, or be anything special. Think again. "Old Friends" began l…