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Before Hershey Felder says or sings or plays the piano as Irving Berlin, there are signs that, in this one-man show about arguably the greatest of American songwriters, we're in for an eveni…
The Village Voice shut down on Friday after 63 years. The Obie Awards, honoring Off & Off-Off Broadway, which the Voice launched in 1955 and still co-sponsored, will continue, acc…
It was while attending the current revival of Lillian Hellman's 1936 play "Days to Come," which is set during a strike at a brush factory in Ohio, Â that I suddenly wondered: Where are the…
Off-Broadway in the Fall promises a new musical with book by Conor McPherson and music by Bob Dylan (“Girl from the North Country”); Glenn Close  as Joan of Arc's mother (&…
Sarah Bernhardt returns to Broadway, in the person of Janet McTeer, in a new play by Teresa Rebeck about the actress's pursuit in 1899 of the role of Hamlet. ‘Bernhardt/Hamlet” i…
How well were you paying attention to New York theater news and reviews in August? Answer these 11 questions and find out.
Police in the United States shot and killed 36 unarmed black men in 2015; 18 in 2016; 19 in 2017, and 12 so far in 2018, according to the Washington Post. In "Scraps," Geraldine Inoa, mak…
Below is a list of movies opening from September to December, organized chronologically by release date. Among the movies featuring theater veterans: Oscar Isaac  in “Operation Fina…
"Remnant," according to Theater Mitu's director Ruben Polendo, is a meditation on war, death and loss. It is Mitu's first piece in the first building that the 20-year-old company can call it…
Buzz Aldrin was the second man to walk on the moon (nine minutes after the first, Neil Armstrong), 50 years ago next summer. "No one will think of them as 'the first men on the moon.'Neil wi…
Playwright Neil Simon, who dominated Broadway with his many comedies for more than two decades, died on Sunday at the age of 91. His is the latest death of a theater artist in a week full of…
Lillian Hellman herself described "Days to Come," her 1936 play about labor strife and family conflict, as "an absolute horror of a failure." She wrote it two years after her first Broadway …
Leonard Bernstein, who was born on August 25, 1918, was “the greatest pianist among the conductors, the greatest conductor among composers, the greatest composer among pianists,”…
Charlie Copeland is a Broadway fixer, who's worked on everything from "The Phantom of the Opera" to "Frozen," tangibly changing the experience for a generation of theatergoers. Copeland is n…
Philip Santos Schaffer pulls back the curtain and introduces himself as “your server and savior” to me and the only other member of the audience. After chatting idly for a while,…
The National Asian American Theatre Company's production of Shakespeare's Henry VI trilogy is unlike any you've seen in New York before. This is true largely because you are unlikely ever to…
For 20 years, August was the month when New Yorkers who hated the beach and couldn't afford to travel could have a "staycation" sampling some 200 shows at the New York International Fringe F…
From its first moments, Gettin' The Band Back Together feels like the tackiest show on Broadway, an impression advanced by its lazy plot, uninspired garage rock score, dopey jokes, and clich…
From its first moments, Gettin' The Band Back Together feels like the tackiest show  on Broadway, an impression advanced by its lazy plot,  uninspired garage rock score, dopey jokes, a…
Vivian (Samantha Banks) is a hooker, Edward (Andy Karl) is a killer corporate raider who meets her on Hollywood Boulevard, and if the ensuing romance is no less a fable than it was in the hi…
Vivian (Samantha Banks) is a hooker, Edward (Andy Karl) is a killer corporate raider who meets her on Hollywood Boulevard, and if the ensuing romance is no less a fable than it was in the hi…
With two Broadway shows opening this week — “Gettin The Band Back Together” and “Pretty Woman” — it’s hard to say we’re in the Dog Days of Aug…
"Shakespeare in the Theater" is the not-quite-clever title of a festival at the Brick Theater that presents itself as an alternative to New York summer staples, Shakespeare in the Park and S…
To outsiders, Be More Chill is a hyper-energetic pop-rock musical opening tonight Off-Broadway, starring Will Roland (Dear Evan Hansen) as a high school student named Jeremy Heere who sees h…
To outsiders, “Be More Chill” is a hyper-energetic pop-rock musical opening tonight Off-Broadway, starring Will Roland (“Dear Evan Hansen”) as a high school student n…
