419 stories by "Zachary Stewart"
"Loosen your seatbelts, it's going to be a dull night," Margo Channing might say as she swills a martini in preparation to see The Lying Lesson at Atlantic Theater Company. For the uninitiat…
So, this poster is hanging in Times Square, scaring the bejesus out of tourists and natives alike. No, it's not Tony Award winner Al Pacino (Glengarry Glen Ross) in very fishy drag and Acade…
There is something thrillingly perverse about sitting in a plush red seat in a darkened theater that was founded by a committed socialist, surrounded by people who paid $55 for 80 minutes of…
In his 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck taught us about the Okies, the Oklahoma farmers who sought refuge in California in the wake of the Dust Bowl, an ecological disaster tha…
It's great to hear Ann Richards' voice again. True, the Democratic former Texas governor (1991-1995) has been dead for six years, but in Holland Taylor's Ann, now playing at the Vivian Beaum…
High School is a model fascist state. That is abundantly clear in Rajiv Joseph's The North Pool, now making its New York premiere at The Vineyard Theatre. Yet Joseph, who was last represente…
Michael Bloomberg LOVES to issue a good proclamation. Foursquare, The Muppets, Gossip Girl…they've all been on the mayor's list of things to honor with official "days" and ambassadorships.…
Michael Bloomberg loves to issue a good proclamation. Foursquare, The Muppets, Gossip Girl…they've all been on the mayor's list of things to honor with official "days" and ambassadorships.…
For fans of Game of Thrones, March can't pass quickly enough. Now, like a sadistic gaoler in the annals of The Red Keep, HBO has released an extended trailer for season three, just to tortur…
Are you getting a little tired of all these productions of Shakespeare set in clever and unlikely time periods? Don't you just want to see two dudes in medieval doublets hack at each other w…
Who would have thought that so much ugliness could be delivered so beautifully? With The Wild Bride, Kneehigh Theatre returns to the United States to serve up a feast for the senses in the …
Can you imagine the Federal Government funding a play that uses the term "white devil" no fewer than ten times? It seems unthinkable in today's atmosphere of austerity, but that's what happe…
Holland Taylor was resplendent in a full length red fox fur coat. (I didn't ask her if it was real.) Once a struggling actress in New York in the 70s and 80s, she took practically any role t…
When you're a young aspiring rock star, you start out in your parents' garage. Why should it be any different if you're an aspiring theater artist? Chicago's Steppenwolf doesn't think it sh…
The crossroads of the world aren't 42nd Street and Broadway in Manhattan; they're Roosevelt Avenue and 74th Street in Jackson Heights, Queens. Luckily, Director Ari Laura Kreith is bringing …
"Everyone who almost-made-it-but-didn't lives in Queens." This is among the many revelations in Tim Federle's debut novel, Better Nate Than Ever (Simon
Haters make me famous. This has to be the mantra of televisions news pundits everywhere, right? Well, Nancy Giles wants you to know that it's more complicated than that, and she'll tell you …
Barney Frank will make his off-Broadway debut this Saturday, playing an arrogant conservative senator in the New York City Center Encores! revival of Fiorello!, Jerome Weidman, George Abbot…
February 22, 1983…a date which will live in theatrical infamy. This was the opening (and closing) night of Moose Murders, Arthur Bicknell's legendary Broadway flop about a bizarre bunch of…
Things are about to get ridiculous on Manhattan's Lower East Side. A new revival of Charles Ludlam's Camille will play downtown bar and art space Casa Mezcal from January 27 through
Tickets are now on sale to the general public for Lucky Guy, the final play of three-time Academy Award-nominated writer Nora Ephron (Sleepless in Seattle). Two-time Academy Award winner Tom…
Tony Award-winning Director Peter Brook returns to BAM's Harvey Theater for the first time in nearly a decade with The Suit. While this mercifully short play does have a few sparkling moment…
You'll buy a ticket for Scarlett Johansson, but stay for the unbridled drama. The latest revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Richard Rodgers Theatre is chock-full of it, without any beat…
Austerity be damned. The biggest winners at The Critics' Circle Theatre Awards, held last night at London's Prince of Wales Theatre, were actually the groups that bring home the most governm…
Is "insanity" a tangible thing, or the category for people who fall inconveniently outside the spectrum of what is socially acceptable? The Fallen Angel Theatre Company thoughtfully examines…
