The most contemporary, trenchant new play on Broadway is Robert Ickes' searing new adaptation of Sophocles' Oedipus, which opened Thursday in a mesmerizing production that stands as one of t…
It takes a truly oddball sensibility to try to make a musical out of Thornton Wilder's Finnegan's Wake-inspired three-act dramedy The Skin of Our Teeth. Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Leonard B…
Rajiv Joseph's Archduke, a comedic retelling of the recruitment of the anarchist whose 1913 assassination of Austro-Hungarian ruler Franz Ferdinand triggered World War I, is like a contempor…
After nearly half a century, Stephen Schwartz's 1976 musical The Baker's Wife can finally claim a proud place in the American musical pantheon. Best known for the cabaret-standard ballad "Me…
There are good reasons why Richard II, the first play in William Shakespeare's Henriad tetralogy, is less frequently performed than its successors, the two Henry IV plays (revived this past …
Jackie Siegel, the buxom pageant queen turned billionaire's wife who was the subject of Lauren Greenfield's 2012 documentary The Queen of Versailles, was present at the performance of the Br…
Anne Washburn is one of our most gifted young playwrights, often interested in the nature of storytelling and the sense of community that can be built from shared public narratives. The Burn…
Martyna Majok's ensemble drama Queens, which debuted in 2018 in the early years of the first Trump administration, remains a timely exploration of marginalized immigrant women forced into th…
International negotiations about climate change do not seem like the most promising subject for theater and yet Kyoto defies the odds in ways that are both surprising and utterly riveting. C…
All the lonely people, where do they all come from? Samuel D. Hunter grapples with this question in his heartfelt one-act drama Little Bear Ridge Road, which opened on Broadway Thursday afte…
In the last decade, Bess Wohl has emerged as one of the most talented and eclectic voices in American theater " whose work ranges from historical pieces (Camp Siegfried) to broad domestic co…
Not every semipopular movie from the last half century needs to get the stage musical treatment. That's the takeaway from the lukewarm mess that is Romy & Michele: The Musical, which tur…
The producers of the big-hearted new country-pop musical Beau have turned the subterranean black-box space at Off Broadway's St. Luke's Theater into a Nashville tavern/concert space, complet…
Early on in her brave and bravura solo performance piece Did You Eat? ((ë°¥ 먹었니?), Zoë Kim lulls you into thinking that hers will be a typical immigrant's yarn about g…
There are throwbacks and then there's The Art of Leaving, a new one-act comedy that could pass for a middling revival of a Neil Simon knockoff from a half century ago. The characters in Anne…
Ethan Coen, whose best known for his Oscar-winning film work with his older brother, Joel, brings his distinct sensibility to Let's Love!, a collection of three short playlets that are less …
We're all familiar with the sketches that air during the final half hour of Saturday Night Live, the ones that start with a half-decent premise but outstay their welcome and only cling to ou…
There's an old adage that actors should work hard to make their performance seem effortless. Ari'el Stachel doesn't do that " but he offers a solid excuse in his labor-intensive one-man show…
When Ragtime was first staged in the mid-1990s, it embodied a certain post-Reagan excess with producer Garth Drabinksy's elaborate, budget-busting staging (fireworks! a working Model T!) and…
Jordan E. Cooper, who delivered a satirical wake-up call to the theater world with his extended sketch comedy Ain't No Mo', is back with a new play. Oh Happy Day!, which is billed as a "sauc…
The appeal of classics is how they continue to speak to us across the centuries. Molière's 1664 comedy Tartuffe is a telling example, offering both acute insights into religious hypocrisy a…
Dylan Mulvaney, the transgender performer best known for an ill-fated 2023 branding deal with Bud Light that created a media firestorm that led to boycotts of the beer, embraces all of her m…
Monet Hurst-Mendoza's Torera, which opened Sunday at the WP Theater, simulates the experience of binge-watching a telenovela-style saga set in the world of a Mexican bullfighting. The twisty…
Why settle for one stand-up routine when you can deliver The First Three Minutes of 17 Shows? That's the high-concept premise of American-born comedian Abby Wambaugh's delightfully daffy, su…
Homecomings can be a tricky thing, as Chloë Grace Moretz's Maddie learns in Preston Max Allen's new drama Caroline. After fleeing home as a teenager amid drug-fueled rebellion, stealing f…