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The following 18 Broadway shows will close on Election Day, November 8, to encourage people to vote for President (All but one " those with asterisks — are performing on Monday, Novemb…
Why would anybody want to revive "Finian's Rainbow," a 1947 musical that features dancing black sharecroppers and a leprechaun whose pot of gold was stolen by a crafty old Irishman named Fin…
In keeping with the casting of Liev Schreiber as a frilly 18th century French libertine in the ill-timed if stylish new Broadway revival of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, may I suggest some actor…
“Heisenberg” is a play starring Mary-Louise Parker as a wacky 42-year-old American who kisses a 75-year-old stranger on the neck in a London train station, setting off an improba…
Like Grapes of Wrath, Lynn Nottage's Sweat offers a devastating look at social and economic breakdown, told not with rants or statistics, but through a riveting tale about good people in a b…
Like Grapes of Wrath, Lynn Nottage's Sweat offers a devastating look at social and economic breakdown, told not with rants or statistics, but through a riveting tale about good people in a b…
Three of the four Broadway openings  in November are for shows, with limited (holiday) runs, are rightly categorized more as entertainments than theater.  Ah, but the fourth… …
How well were you paying attention to New York theater news and reviews in October? Take these 10 questions and see.
Dangerous Liaisons indeed. In American politics, an October Surprise is an unexpected event that could well influence the outcome of the Presidential election; we've had more than one this m…
I was the host for the luminous Mandy Gonzalez, who plays Angelica Schuyler in the Broadway production of Hamilton, Â at the annual Sardi’s luncheon of the American Theatre Critics A…
Edwin Booth, the most celebrated American actor of the 19th century, had come back from self-imposed exile in Europe after his brother had assassinated Abraham Lincoln, with an idea. He had …
"This is not a story about war; it's a story about falling in love," the playwright tells us at the outset of "Vietgone," a play by Qui Nguyen that manages to be both as puckish as a comic b…
Laura Osnes and Will Swenson will star in Frank Loesser’s “lost” World War II musicals on board the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, as part of the Public Theater̵…
For the first half of Adam Bock's "A Life" — before its life-changing coup de theatre — David Hyde Pierce as Nate sits on his Eames sofa and seems to be taking stock of his life.…
It was one of those weeks when "theater" gets redefined in the post-modern media age, thanks to several events in a row: Broadway for Hillary fundraiser, livestreamed The third and final deb…
The best way to sum up the fourth Broadway revival of The Front Page, the 1928 play about Chicago newspapermen, is the way their ads do: Nathan Lane, John Slattery, John Goodman, Jefferson M…
The best way to sum up the fourth Broadway revival of The Front Page, the 1928 play about Chicago newspapermen, is the way their ads do: Nathan Lane, John Slattery, John Goodman, Jefferson M…
Of all the crazed, destructive, female characters that the stage has given us, Susan Traherne may be among the least interesting, at least as performed by Rachel Weisz in the Public Theater …
Of all the crazed, destructive, female characters that the stage has given us, Susan Traherne may be among the least interesting, at least as performed by Rachel Weisz in the Public Theater …
If you missed “Hamilton’s America” on the PBS TV series Great Performances, you can watch the documentary here on their website. If much of the 82-minute documentary about …
Forty-one years after The Rocky Horror Show ran for 45 performances on Broadway, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show became a cult movie that is still being shown in movie theaters at midnight…
When Diane Lane, returning to Broadway after nearly four decades, enters on stage in the Roundabout's ambitiously reinterpreted production of The Cherry Orchard, her Lubyov seems an impossib…
When Diane Lane, returning to Broadway after nearly four decades, enters on stage in the Roundabout's ambitiously reinterpreted production of The Cherry Orchard, her Lubyov seems an impossib…
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Renee Elise Goldsberry will sing a song from Hamilton, “The World Was Wide Enough” at tonight’s Broadway for Hillary fundraiser at Broadway…
“War Paint," a musical about real-life rival cosmetic queens,with Patti LuPone as Helen Rubenstein and Christine Ebersole as Elizabeth Arden, is set to open in Broadway’s Nede…
