It came as a shock to lovers of immersive theater, and reportedly even to the people who work on  "Sleep No More," the show by the British theater company Punchdrunk that launched New …
The most enduring theater of Western Civilization was created by combat veterans. "Ancient Greek drama was a form of storytelling, communal therapy, and ritual reintegration for combat veter…
Five albums have been nominated for the best musical theater album, all of them of current or recent Broadway shows (like last year, but unlike the year before.). The 66th annual Grammy Awar…
In the video below, dozens of Broadway performers have recorded the song from "Les Miserables" with a slightly altered title on behalf of the more than two hundred people who were kidnapped …
Electric Root's version of "The Sound of Music" and BlackBox Ensemble's newly translated version of "Borrowed Landscape"  each separately gave one-night-only performances this week.…
"Watch Night" is Bill T. Jones and company's response to the mass shootings by white supremacists of nine African Americans at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S…
When we were little, I remember my brother being frightened by the Saber-toothed tiger in our book about prehistoric animals. I wasn't. I had nightmares about Pinocchio " not the Disney cart…
Over the course of her solo show about an Argentinian who moves as a child to New York City, Florencia Iriondo hands out little round chipas, an Argentine cheese bread (savory), and little s…
Raunch, regrets and puppets dominated the New York theater that opened this week, sometimes all three in the same show. Two different plays told the story of an older man's reaction to l…
Ephraim Sykes, one of Broadway's top song-and-dance men, starred as Joey Evans in  "Pal Joey," which ended its half-week run today as part of the New York City Center Encores! Concert …
When last we saw playwright Qui Nguyen's parents,  in "Vietgone," Nguyen's acclaimed 2016 play with an unconventional pop culture approach,  Quang and Tong had separately escaped…
In "Merry Me," billed as a lesbian sex comedy,  a seven-member cast is charming enough to wring laughs out of playwright Hansol Jung's raunchy effort to queer the canon, in what often …
At BAM, the waiter offered me the menu, but it only had one sentence written on it: "Say 'I would like to order the Arctic char.'" "I would like to order the Arctic char," I complied."How wo…
Theresa Rebeck's play about a hoarder is the slightest of comedies. Its plot is paltry. Its insights are pat. It promises more laughs than it delivers.  It even promises more junk than…
Mickey Sabbath, the 64-year-old self-absorbed, lecherous narrator and protagonist of Philip Roth's 1995 novel, had a career as a puppeteer until he got arthritis, and there is a moment early…
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in New York in November, featuring the return to the stage of Danny DeVito, Diane Wiest, Priscilla Lopez, James Monroe Iglehart and Christopher Abbott…
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Timed for Halloween, this latest digital theater, livestreamed from the closet in Joshua William Gelb's East Village apartment, feels as much of a landmark production as the original "Nosfer…
Twenty new shows will be opening on Broadway (so far) in the remainder of the 2023-2024 season, including two newly announced " as well as a revival next Fall of one of the country's most pe…
"Stereophonic"Â Â chronicles a year of recording studio sessions by the members of a popular 1970s rock band (never named, fictional) as they put together their latest album and have the…
The title character of "King of the Jews" " a Holocaust-set play at HERE that is inventively staged and well-acted, but both intentionally and unintentionally disturbing " is inspired by the…
In "Hummus NYC," the first of four stories in "The Holylanders," a play by Moria Zrachia about Israelis living in America, Amir is outraged by what happened to his son Nuri. But the story…
Fifteen jukebox musicals were featured in last night's odd concert at Merkin Hall, "Jukebox: The Musical," part of the Kaufman Music Center's Broadway Close Up series. The concert feat…
So many of the reviews of "Here We Are" end like eulogies for Stephen Sondheim, or feature at least a line of farewell, that these are the passages I find worth quoting, more than the critic…
"O, isn't this wonderful?!" Marianne Brink (Rachel Bay Jones) exclaims upon seeing her old friends at her door. It is the first line in Stephen Sondheim's first new musical in two decades, p…