Below are the six most popular videos I shot of the performances during the six weekly concerts this 17th summer of Broadway in Bryant Park. Tagged: Andy Karl, Barrett Doss, Betsy Wolfe, Bro…
This has been the week from Hell both in the larger world and in the world of New York theater, but for theater fans also a little bit of Heaven, with the announcements of new shows, …
The vain, reckless son of a rich man is suddenly thrust into power by a venal group of citizens marked by their "ugliness, stupidity, greed, cowardice, corruption and sheer unpleas…
Win two tickets to see Bandstand for free. Â I liked this show, about a 1940’s swing band made up of World War II veterans, for its thrilling choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler, who…
"The only hope until we kick him out of office is to discombobulate him," Michael Moore says near the beginning of his playful, pointed and partisan one-man show, as he stands in front of an…
In format, Michael Moore's live show has little in common with his funny but focused documentaries about specific issues,…It’s more like a scattershot variety show…But the …
 “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812” will close September 3, 2017 on Broadway, having played 32 previews and 336 regular performances — a journey that began a…
Barbara Cook, the self-proclaimed poor, naive Southern Belle who became the reigning soprano in the Golden Age of Broadway and then a cabaret and concert hall star of the first magnitude, ha…
Errol and Fidel, Generation Me, and Georama were among the big winners of the 2017 New York Musical Festival Awards for Excellence. Freedom Riders won for both outstanding music and ̶…
Indecent ends today on Broadway, but Paula Vogel’s play was recorded Thursday for BroadwayHD streaming in January. Hamilton opened on Broadway two years ago today July Quiz August open…
Michael Moore and Harold Prince have the month all to themselves, more or less, Â at the center of the two Broadway shows opening this month. It’s unusual to have any shows open on B…
I ran into Congressman John Lewis, one of the heroes of the Civil Rights Movement, on my way to see "Freedom Riders," the inspiring gospel and soul-flavored musical about the courageous effo…
A musical written by Maurice Sendak, with a score by Carole King?! Why isn't it better known? That question would seem to make "Really Rosie," which is on stage at New York City Center throu…
How well were you paying attention to theater news and reviews in July, a month full of controversies? Answer these 10 questions and see.
Sam Shepard, a playwright who explored the dark side of the American West in such brutal, elliptical works as "Buried Child" and "True West," died last Thursday at the age of 73. The marquee…
Director Lear deBessonet's production in Central Park of Midsummer Night’s Dream is star-studded and jazzed-up, but the first thought on passing through the gates of the Delacorte Thea…
On the day I saw Nikki James give a star turn in "Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin," the Off Center Encores two-day revival of the musical by Kirsten Childs that is in part about t…
"A Wall Apart," a production at the New York Musical Festival, has a catchy score by Graham Russell of the Australian rock group Air Supply, sung by an eminently watchable cast of steel-voic…
Six women inmates, in a Texas jail for crimes ranging from cattle rustling to murder, form a country music band in order to get on the radio, get famous, and get pardoned by the governor. Th…
A love triangle that lasts 35 years is at the heart of "To The End of the Land," but the lives of the three main characters of this Israeli play, being presented in Hebrew with Englis…
Attention this week has focused on theater from abroad. The Canadian theater company Soulpepper is wrapping up its month-long residence at Signature. The first annual Immigrant Arts  in A…
Below is the list of nominations for the 13th annual New York Innovative Theater Awards, which celebrates the best of the city's independent theater  " aka Off-Off Broadway. The winners w…
"Greek tragedy meets Harlem ball scene. Fantastic," RuPaul Tweeted succinctly after seeing "And She Would Stand Like This." The Harlem-based Movement theater company's adaptation of Euripide…
In "Spoon River," we meet a town full of drunks, hypocrites, home-grown philosophers, resentful husbands, frustrated wives, an arsonist, a killer, and dozens more " all of them dead…and al…
“Temple of the Souls,” a musical about a doomed, Romeo and Juliet romance in 16th century Puerto Rico between a Spanish conquistador's daughter and a Taino, begins with a thrill.…