For the 42nd summer in a row, the Theater for the New City’s touring Street Theater Company is presenting an original show for free in the streets and parks throughout New York City. (…
Alzheimer's, homophobia, transphobia, immigration, the 1960s, and emojis: These were some of the subjects in the 15th annual New York Musical Festival, or NYMF, which presented 30 musica…
Wearing t-shirts that said “Now showing: Truth,” Rosie O’Donnell and dozens of other performers who had traveled from New York for the day participated in the 22nd day of p…
Ruthie Anne Miles performed for the first time after her terrible loss, Julia Roberts visited the musical adaptation of the movie that made her a star, Rosie O’Donnell is leading a bus…
Four musicals in the 2018 New York Musical Festival tied for the most awards, five apiece: Between the Sea and the Sky, Emojiland, Interstate and Pedro Pan. Below the list of winners and …
Margaret, a widow and well-meaning mother, is dressed in pearls while making her special buttermilk biscuits for her daughter Laura, who's back home listless with severe memory loss after he…
"I am tall when I'm young but short when I'm old. What am I?" That's the first of the three riddles that Sam (short for Samantha) poses to the mysterious woman in white in order to free her …
This week’s Broadway at Bryant Park was an all-Disney concert, with cast members from three Disney musicals on Broadway — Aladdin, Frozen and The Lion King — performing 10 …
When Mike Birbiglia announced that his fourth one-man show would be playing at the Cherry Lane, he wouldn't say what it would be about; he simply called it "The New One." (“I hate it w…
Two shows are opening this month on Broadway, one a musical adaptation of a 1990 Julia Roberts movie, “Pretty Woman,” starring Andy Karl and Samantha Barks; the other, “Get…
I compared Shaina Taub's musical adaptation of "Twelfth Night" to a party and to a variety show when the Public Theater presented it in Central Park over Labor Day weekend in 2016. The unusu…
How well were you paying attention to New York theater news and reviews in July? Answer these 10 questions and find out.
In "The House That Will Not Stand," Marcus Gardley's historically fascinating, lyrical and surprisingly funny play, nobody much cares for Beartrice Albans " not her three beautiful daughters…
Soon after this… .@Lin_Manuel,Hollywood mogul? 1 Starring in @MaryPoppins 2. Directing movie Tick, Tick…Boom! 3. Executive producer on @FX TV series about Bob Fosse & Gwen Ve…
For all its high-energy hedonism featuring handsome half-clad bodies, "This Ain't No Disco," the rock opera at the Atlantic Theater set in the New York City club scene of the 1970s, doesn't …
Before the musical "'68" begins, newspaper headlines are projected on the stage a, marking some of the tumultuous events in the year 1968 — the assassinations of Martin Luther K…
There is a full-out gospel number, with swaying red choir robes, heavenly belting and devilishly deft dancing, in this last of this season's Encores Off-Center concerts. But, as directed and…
Head Over Heels is a mash-up that sounds weird and unworkable: It's a jukebox musical using 18 songs by the 1980s all-female L.A. punk band The Go-Go's. But it's also a loose adaptation of A…
“Head Over Heels” is a mash-up that sounds weird and unworkable: It's a jukebox musical using 18 songs by the 1980s all-female L.A. punk band The Go-Go's. But it's also a loose a…
Straight White Men, a thought-provoking play by Young Jean Lee with a terrifically entertaining cast of Broadway newcomers including Armie Hammer, Josh Charles and Paul Schneider as rowdy br…
There are three major historical events in the early timeline of Nazi horrors that figure as personal turning points in the story of the corruption, perversion and destruction of the wealthy…
Lin-Manuel Miranda is making his film directorial debut in a movie version of “Tick,Tick…Boom!” an early, semi-autobiographical musical by “Rent” composer Jonat…
Below is the list of nominations announced last night for the 14th annual New York Innovative Theater Awards, which celebrates the best of the city's independent theater " aka Off-Off Broadw…
"Straight White Men," a thought-provoking play by Young Jean Lee with a terrifically entertaining cast of Broadway newcomers including Armie Hammer, Josh Charles and Paul Schneider as rowdy …
Near the beginning of "Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller," the new Off-Broadway revival of the long-running Broadway musical revue, performer Jelani Remy does a double back …