Barbara's pill-popping, chain-smoking, whiskey-swilling, crack-addicted and foul-mouthed family has gathered in a public park with a surprise for her " they are planning an intervention " in…
Thirty years after Sam Shepard’s “Fool for Love” closed Off-Broadway, with a young actor named Bruce Willis as the understudy, the short four-character play is making its B…
It must have seemed like a fabulous idea – Basil Twist, the puppeteer so inventive that he just won a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant, using his artistry in collaboration with seve…
In the lobby of the theater where Clive Owen is making his Broadway debut in a revival of Harold Pinter's 1971 Old Times, a t-shirt on sale is printed with the single word "pause." Â That'…
Old Times, starring Clive Owen in his Broadway debut and directed by Douglas Hodge, is opening tonight at American Airlines Theater. Given both his acting talent and his love of Pinter, dire…
The New York theater season is heating up this coming week, with nine shows opening, two on Broadway: Cloud Nine, Schooled, Old Times, Fool For Love, Sisters Follies Between Two Worlds, Fool…
October is the  busiest theater month in New York during the fall and winter, with more shows opening than there are days in the month. Six Broadway shows are opening, heavy on …
How well were you paying attention to New York theater in September? Answer these 11 quiz questions and find out.
Three New York theater artists were awarded the MacArthur "Genius" Fellowships, including Lin-Manuel Miranda, Just a few days earlier, Miranda offered a first listen and the entire lyrics fo…
Lin-Manuel Miranda is one of three theater artists to receive a 2015 MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Award. The others were puppeteer Basil Twist and set designer Mimi Lien. The fu…
During the intermission for the Elevator Repair Service's "Fondly, Collette Richland," at the same time that a noticeable number of theatergoers fervidly exited New York Theatre Workshop for…
In a program note for Daddy Long Legs, director John Caird wonders why the 1912 novel on which the musical is based isn't considered a great American classic. I wonder the opposite " why its…
In a program note for Daddy Long Legs, director John Caird wonders why the 1912 novel on which the musical is based isn't considered a great American classic. I wonder the opposite " why its…
The Deaf West production of Spring Awakening at the Brooks Atkinson tangibly enhances an acclaimed musical about rebellious and repressed adolescents. By cleverly pairing deaf actors who are…
The Deaf West production of Spring Awakening at the Brooks Atkinson tangibly enhances an acclaimed musical about rebellious and repressed adolescents. By cleverly pairing deaf actors who are…
"Sommerfugl" at the 4th Street Theater is a new Off-Off Broadway play inspired by the true story of a Danish man who had gender reassignment surgery, way back in 1930 — the same story …
John Lahr reviewed New York theater for half a century, starting with a now-defunct Manhattan neighborhood weekly and ending as the longest-lasting chief drama critic for The New Yorker maga…
Seeing "The New Morality" the day after Thomas Bradshaw's sex-plicit “Fulfillment" gave the title of Harold Chapin's century-old comedy of manners far more irony than the playwright su…
We are pleased to welcome noted theatre critic John Lahr back to Washington with this interview, conducted last week in New York. ————————R…
"Fulfillment," Thomas Bradshaw’s latest in-your-face play, which has opened at the Flea, offers much the same ironic moral lesson as the inspiration behind "Answered Prayers," the titl…
Winners of the 11th annual New York Innovative Theater Awards, honoring theaters and theater artists working Off-Off Broadway, are chosen from 145 individual artists, 57 productions and 55 t…
Broadway veterans Viola Davis, Jeffrey Tambor, Allison Janney, Uzo Aduba, Margo Martindale and Frances McDormand are among the winners of the 67th annual primetime Emmy awards. The complete …
Denzel Washington says he will direct and produce all 10 of August Wilson’s American Century Cycle plays (also known as the Pittsburgh Cycle) for HBO, one per year, over the next de…
William Shakespeare wrote 37 plays (10 tragedies, 10 histories, 17 comedies) and 154 Sonnets — 884,647 words in all. He is said to have invented 1,700 words in the English language, in…
In "Hamlet in Bed," a new play which has opened at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, an actor named Michael (Michael Laurence), who was given up for adoption as an infant by his actress mothe…