Today's audiences are unlikely to know the name Oscar Levant, the once-famed pianist, composer, comedian and actor at the center of Doug Wright's new Broadway play "Good Night, Oscar." Despi…
Here is my favorite thing about Suzie Miller's Olivier Award-winning one-woman play "Prima Facie," opening at Broadway's Golden Theater tonight: About halfway through, it begins to rain, har…
Roasting nice white liberals is a time-honored theatrical pastime. Trim away the artifice of their smug posturing and they're predictably stuffed with a medley of ignorance, hypocrisy and na…
The only thing America loves more than watching work imported from Great Britain is when that same British work goes wildly off the rails. What is "The Great British Bake Off" without toppli…
With the new production of her comedy "The Thanksgiving Play," Larissa FastHorse has become the first known Native American female playwright on Broadway. Now she can cross it off her to-do …
After 35 years " and a string of $3 million weeks at the box office fueled by the last-minute frenzy of "phans" " the 13,981th and final Broadway performance of "The Phantom of the Opera" wa…
In Aaron Sorkin's revised script for Lincoln Center Theater's new Broadway production of "Camelot," the magic is missing " in more ways than one. The declared aim of the stage, TV and film w…
Ask Cameron Mackintosh if "The Phantom of the Opera" will be back, and he doesn't play coy. "Of course it will return," he says. "All the great musicals do." But the British mega-producer, w…
New York stages are rarely without some version of Shakespeare's mopey Danish prince, tormented by fatal family drama. But none has ever been quite like the protagonist of "Fat Ham," Juicy, …
Here are two wildlife facts you won't learn in "Life of Pi": Orangutans are quiet, and zebras stay silent when they're attacked. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" podcast below: You'd…
The cannibalist startup in "Sweeney Todd" kills two birds: For Sweeney, the ruined barber who holds a grudge as steadily as he does a blade, it means turning enemies into actual mincemeat. F…
The addition of "bad" to the title of Andrew Lloyd Webber's latest maximalist spectacle, formerly known simply as "Cinderella" when it premiered for a short-lived run on the West End in 2021…
Celebrated playwright Tom Stoppard has a Broadway success on his hands with "Leopoldstadt," his (very) loosely autobiographical play now in the sixth month of a long run currently set to clo…
It's hard to believe, but Bob Fosse's definitive signature musical "Dancin'" has never been revived on Broadway since its Tony Award-winning debut in 1978. Huge kudos, then, to director-chor…
Traveling from the relative calm of the Clinton era to more perilous, contemporary times of mobs, mendacity and political mayhem, the much-admired but short-lived musical "Parade" has now fo…
Since Nicholas Hytner, former artistic director of the National Theatre, is one of the finest, most detailed Shakespeare directors in the land, you could be forgiven for forgetting that he r…
There are no props in director Jamie Lloyd's version of Henrik Ibsen's drama "A Doll's House" " no sets, no costumes (just plain contemporary clothing in dark blue), not even a curtain. Ther…
The new play "Pictures From Home" is Tony Award winner Nathan Lane's 25th Broadway show " and he's threatening not to come back for a 26th. "This may be the last one," Lane said on Stagecraf…
Currently one of the stars of "Star Trek: Discovery," Anthony Rapp has recently spent some time looking back and reliving his past. Off Broadway, he's starring in "Without You," his autobiog…
Nice acting and sensitive direction characterize "Pictures From Home," the starry new Broadway production of Sharr White's meh family drama based on the photo-memoir by Larry Sultan. V…
National Black Theatre is in the midst of a building itself a new home in Harlem " but then, the company has been in the business of building a home for 55 years. Listen to this week's "S…
If nothing else, you've got to admire the epic scope and ambition of "Fall on Your Knees," a two-part, six-hour adaptation of one of the most beloved Canadian novels of all time " Ann-Marie …
The Broadway musical "Beetlejuice" simply refused to die. After a 2019 eviction notice from its original theater and an unceremonious 2020 shuttering by the COVID-19 lockdown, the production…
When Stephen McKinley Henderson talks about playwrights, he talks about music. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" podcast below: "August Wilson is, of course, the blues," he said on th…
"I don't want realism. I want magic!" Blanche's famously desperate cry holds the key to most approaches to "A Streetcar Named Desire." Productions of Tennessee Williams' masterpiece tend to …