The ushers are wearing "Ghetto Scholar" sweatshirts in Studio 54, where for his sixth solo show John Leguizamo stands in front of a blackboard and lectures on the history, politics, culture …
Millions of African-Americans moved from the rural South to industrial cities in the North in the decades after World War I, one of the largest migrations in the history of humanity, ignored…
Today is the 20th anniversary of the opening of “The Lion King.” Now the third-longest running show in the history of Broadway, the musical is worth celebrating. Based on …
Lin-Manuel Miranda's efforts to aid Puerto Rico in recovering from Hurricane Maria took the logical next step during his visit there this past week, when he announced his return to his starr…
Today is Veterans Day, a day that’s always been special to me because my father was not only a U.S. military veteran; he was born on Veterans Day, Â which was originally called Armis…
Jeopardy had the following answers in a “Broadway 2017” category during the Double Jeopardy Round of the Tournament of Champions earlier this week. Guess the questions: $400 R…
What happens when a lovely, low-key musical based on an offbeat Israeli film moves from Off-Broadway to a Broadway theater five times its size? You get the same widely acclaimed show " with …
What happens when a lovely, low-key musical based on an offbeat Israeli film moves from Off-Broadway to a Broadway theater five times its size? You get the same widely acclaimed show " with …
Dennis, the sullen and unsettling student at the center of Julia Cho's play "Office Hour" is strongly reminiscent of the real-life student Cho Seung-Hui, an English major at Virginia Polytec…
Len Cariou, one of the five performers who recently reminisced about having originated roles in musicals by Stephen Sondheim, recalls getting the script for "Sweeney Todd" and thinking "You'…
"When did money become the thing – the only thing?" a character asks at the beginning of "Junk," a play by Ayad Akhtar, who seems to answer: In the 1980s. Akhtar, the playwright of "Di…
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news in September and October, some of which was pleasing, much of which was disheartening or worse? Answer these 11 questions and …
The bad news hits relentlessly, from the horrific — on Halloween, New York endures the worst terrorist attack since 9/11 Â — to the ugly — accusations of sexual harassmen…
That Oedipus will kill his father and marry his mother is fated and " 2,500 years after Sophocles wrote Oedipus Rex " familiar. But Luis Alfaro's modern adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy, set…
“M Butterfly” has returned to Broadway after 30 years, not so much revived as revised. It was risky for playwright David Henry Hwang to tweak his career-making, Tony-winning play…
In the five Broadway shows opening in November, Amy Schumer and Uma Thurman are making their Broadway debuts; playwrights Ayad Akhtar and Steve Martin are delivering new plays; and two shows…
At one moment in "Stuffed," a scattershot play about our disordered relationship with food, Lisa Lampanelli talks with disdain about a skinny friend of hers who turned down dessert, saying '…
Before Hamilton, A Chorus Line, Hair, before Joseph Papp built the Public Theater into an institution, he was faced with a fight for survival of his newfound free Shakespeare in Central Park…
Before Hamilton, A Chorus Line, Hair; before Joseph Papp built the Public Theater into an institution, he was faced with a fight for survival of his newfound free Shakespeare in Central Park…
Jason Alexander plays a Mama's boy who recently married a "Puerto Rican firecracker" half his age; Sherie Rene Scott, a twice-widowed Greek bombshell, is shacking up with a dumb, moon-struck…
This is a tennis match? There's no net, no ball, no racquet, and no final score, although the set at Roundabout's Off-Broadway theater does include a scoreboard. There is only the whoosh or …
Diller Island is back! Plans for Pier 55, Barry Diller's arts complex on the pier off 14th Street — with theatrical productions organized by such experienced hands as playwright George…
"Drugs and alcohol have never let me down. They have always loved me," Emma (Denise Gough) tells the doctor at the rehab clinic, not quite halfway through Duncan Macmillan's play. Her commen…
Two killers in adjoining prison cages face off about God in this killer revival of one of the earliest plays by Stephen Adly Guirgis, the streetwise New York playwright of such acclaimed rec…
Two killers in adjoining prison cages face off about God in this killer revival of one of the earliest plays by Stephen Adly Guirgis, the streetwise New York playwright of such acclaimed rec…