The day of the Tony Awards might seem a strange time to write about an Off-Off Broadway solo play, playing in a theater off Avenue B, with the downbeat title "I Squeezed Really Hard" (a refe…
Watch musical numbers performed by cast members from the new Broadway musicals "Six," "Diana," and "Mrs. Doubtfire," as well as the new revivals of "Company" and "Caroline or Change," at the…
"Sanctuary City" is full of surprises, rarely happy ones for the boy and girl who have grown up together " or for the audience. Martyna Majok's challenging, intelligent play focuses on two i…
Why are these five women in the same play? A prostitute in Amsterdam; a mother from Guatemala; a sister from the Midwest;Â Â a food vendor in the Central African Republic; an internation…
"I loathe that word 'nice,'" Hallie says, and so apparently do both her parents; all three could not be more unlikeable in the first 100 minutes of the 110-minute play "The Medievalists," wr…
Over the past week, there has been so much hoopla bout Broadway " reopening nights, festival concerts, TV spots, heartfelt speeches about Broadway being back (Kristin Chenoweth: "There's no …
"Repulsing the Monkey," which is set in an old bar in Pittsburgh about to be sold to (and destroyed by) gentrifiers, takes place in an old bar in New York, the White Horse Tavern. This is th…
 "There's no place like home," Kristin Chenoweth said on the reopening night of "Wicked," on September 14, 2021, eighteen years after it opened on Broadway (on October 30, 2003) and 18 mo…
Alan Cumming and Billy Porter have written memoirs that are being published this fall, which will also see biographies of Oscar Wilde and Emily Mann, plus a book "by" Noel Coward. Click on t…
Thicket & Thistle is the kind of company that anybody serious about theater in America would want to encourage. This is what drew me to "Waterman,"Â Â which turns out to be a Fringe-…
Below are new production photographs of the 2021 cast of "Hamilton," which is reopening on Broadway tonight, along with "Chicago," "The Lion King" and "Wicked," after eighteen months, the lo…
This week could not be busier. Today,  300,000 employees go back to work for New York City's government, and a million students go back to the city's public schools. Tomorrow, "Chicago…
"It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while," Frankie the narrator says at the beginning of  "Angela's Ashes the Musical," just as he did …
By the time that Bill Rauch became the artistic director of the performing arts center on the site of the World Trade Center, it had been nearly two decades in the making. On this, the twent…
In "What Happened? The Michaels Abroad,"Â Â the dancer Rose Michael, already riddled with cancer, has died of COVID, and her family and friends have gathered around the kitchen table in …
If Third Rail Projects' "Return The Moon" " an eerie, airy 75 minutes that is as much secular ritual as work of theater " had been produced by almost any other theater company, I might have …
The Fall season means the reopening of some 20 big Broadway musicals, two of which began again last week to much hoopla, but it's the large slate of new work, much of it unusual for Broadway…
Where are the American plays about unions, or workers, or even just workplaces? I started asking that question several years ago on Labor Day, a legal holiday created by Congress in…
Here are shows you can still see either on stage, or online, or both, during Labor Day weekend, with links to my reviews. Of course, there are now four shows running on Broadway " Springstee…
"Hadestown" is back from the dead, reopening with most of its original principal Broadway cast intact*. "Has Hell ever sounded so thrilling," I exclaimed in my review of the 2016 Off Broadwa…
"Waitress," a musical I savored when it opened in 2016, is back on Broadway. Its reopening tonight is unlike many of the other shows returning this season. Its run had ended in January 2020,…
Below is a selection of the abundant New York theater openings in September, organized chronologically by opening date*, which for the first time in eighteen months includes a full schedule …
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Today, the Broadway League launches its "This is Broadway" campaign, featuring a new flashy website, a dazzling montage video narrated by Oprah Winfrey (see below), the lighting of the Empir…
Bete comes off as such an outrageous Latina diva that she could be a drag queen's campy creation, especially since she's portrayed by a man, Arturo Luis Soria. She compares herself to Madonn…