It would be silly to dismiss "Hurricane Season" just because the production has no curtain call, and the cast is made to work during the entire intermission, performing a kind of robotic con…
"It used to be a time when the movement was spearheaded by young people….putting their lives on the line. Now, they just put their lives online." It's a line in "Good Trouble" by Anthony T…
"Humanity is on the ballot, y'all. Please don't be complacent, because otherwise we're cooked," Billy Porter said to an estimated 3,000 people who attended an hour-long Zoom call organized b…
The most stageworthy news of the past week, let's face it, were the speeches at the Democratic National Convention. "…the miracles of democracy and community": AOC at the DNC, video an…
" i am calling on all you independents and all you undecideds. Â¥ou know this is true. You know I am telling you the truth. That values and character matter most of all. In leadership and …
 Before Doug Emhoff explained the embarrassing moment that led to his first date with Kamala Harris, he began his speech at the 2024 Democratic National Convention by introducing his "big…
"For years, Donald Trump did everything in his power to try to make people fear us," Michelle Obama said at Day 2 of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, talking about herself and her hu…
"Six years ago, I was taking omelette orders as a waitress in New York City. I didn't have health insurance. My family was fighting off foreclosure and we were struggling with bills after my…
How close has legitimate theater come to capturing the political theater of Presidential campaigns and party conventions, especially the real-life implausible whiplash political dramas of th…
What we know about Lot's wife from the Bible is that she looked back at the city of Sodom, although forbidden to do so, and became a pillar of salt. Lots more happens in Genesis 19 " a mob o…
More than 7,000 languages currently exist in the world, of which an astonishing 700 are spoken in New York City " more than anyplace else on earth. "Language and music are portable homelands…
Here are some of the stars scheduled to appear on a New York stage in the 2024-2025 season, several for the first time in many years, or ever: Christian Borle, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Burr,…
"Once Upon A Mattress" opened tonight for its third turn on Broadway, with Sutton Foster's performance as Princess Winnifred the Woebegone the same goofy and intense workout that proved a dr…
"Mike was going on again about the perfidious people who keep theatrical diaries," Eric Idle writes about Mike Nichols in his own theatrical diary, meticulously dated October 20, 2004 at 10:…
Seven shows currently on Broadway were preceded by a movie with the same name: They are either direct adaptation of the movies (Aladdin, Back to the Future), or inspired by them (Harry Potte…
"Some of us are old enough to remember when it was Republicans who were talking about freedom. It turns out now, what they meant is the government should be free to invade your doctor's offi…
What happened to the dog days of summer? Sure this weekend saw the 26th annual Broadway Barks starry pet adoption event with hosts Bernadette Peters and Sutton Foster. But that's just one…
In June 2016, at the height of the Presidential election, a Russian lawyer named Natalia Veselnitskaya met at Trump Tower with Donald Trump Jr. and six other people, reportedly telling th…
There's been lots of political drama off-stage over the past month. Oddly, much of it can be connected to what's been happening in New York theater. Â Answer these nine questions, plus a b…
"Six" Queen Didi Romero served as the host for the final Broadway in Bryant Park lunchtime concert of the year, which featured a lot of hugs " see first video below
Below is a selection of theater opening* in New York in August, including one show on Broadway: "Once Upon A Mattress," starring Sutton Foster, which originated as an Encores! concert …
"Loss is loss," Thom says to the five other members of the weekly grief support group. "Twenty years ago, our dog died. It took me fifteen years to even entertain the thought of getting anot…
"Job" is the second 80-minute play this month that has powered onto Broadway after sold-out runs downtown. (The other is"Oh, Mary!" .) That this two-character play about a therapy session wr…
Luigi Pirandello, the Nobel Prize-winning Italian playwright who wrote "Six Characters in Search of an Author," was for a time a member of the National Fascist Party and a follower of Benito…
"I look at the world for what I hope it's going to be, a wonderful world " especially with what's happened this week," That was James Monroe Iglehart at this weekend's BroadwayCon First Look…