God I blew that answer I blew that answer He hates my single-payer plan So sing the candidates in the Iowa Stage Theatre Company's production of "Adore Us! Line," a musical that uses A Choru…
Although Kirk Douglas, who died yesterday at the age of 103, was known primarily as a movie star, he was also a veteran of Broadway. (Obituaries in CNN, Hollywood Reporter, New York Times) B…
As he's done for close to 40 years, Charles Busch sprinkles his latest campy melodrama with Oscar Wilde wit, Barbara Stanwyck grit, Marlene Dietrich glamour and Mae West shtick: "I don't usu…
Fifty-two Senators, all of them Republicans, voted to acquit Donald Trump of abuse of power. The lone Republican who voted to convict, Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, explained his reasons why …
"So you're doing a whole show on borders, huh?" says Border Patrol Special Agent Lopez, the first of 11 people whom Dan Hoyle impersonates over 75 minutes in "Border People," re-creating wit…
A film of "Hamilton," with its original Broadway cast, is coming to cinema screens across the U.S. and Canada on October 15, 2021, released by The Walt Disney Studios, (which reportedly paid…
How well were you paying attention to New York theater news, views and reviews in January 2020? Answer these dozen questions and find out.
Below is a selection of New York theater openings in February, organized chronologically by opening date. There's just one show opening on Broadway this month, but it's a doozy: The fifth re…
Our safety word was "stunt reporter," as Nellie Bly, one of the 19th century's most celebrated journalists, took along the 18 of us undercover to the mental institution at Blackwell Island f…
From the get-go, the "Medea" on stage at BAM looks less like a modern update of Euripides' tragedy than a fashion shoot: Bobby Cannavale talks quietly with Rose Byrne against an empty, blind…
The Alexander in the title is Dr. Alexander Wiener, a pioneering scientist in the use of blood to identify individuals in ways similar to fingerprints, and co-discoverer of the Rh factor in …
He's known as a  playwright ("Jeffrey" and "I Hate Hamlet") screenwriter ("Addams Family Values," "In & Out") novelist (Social Disease, I'll Take It) and essayist (I Shudder, Fierce P…
Two-for-one tickets are on sale now for Off-Broadway Week, February 10 to 24, 2020. The following 33 shows are participating. Those with an asterisk are newly on offer. (Check out my Off…
All these Broadway veterans participated in the 62 Grammy Awards, where "Hadestown" won Best Musical Theater Album. The other nominated albums were "Ain't Too Proud: The Life And Times Of Th…
Casts from six shows opening this season on Broadway " including shows with music by Bob Dylan and Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Tony Kushner " performed at First Look at BroadwayCon 2020.…
In this gorgeous, enlightening and ambitious " Â if over-stuffed " hour-long theatrical collage, Theodora Skipitares uses the eerie visual splendor of puppetry to illuminate a serious subj…
A transcript and video of the closing arguments both Thursday and Friday by Representative Adam Schiff, the House impeachment manager for the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in t…
Charles Fuller's murder mystery, finally on Broadway in a fine production directed by Kenny Leon some four decades after it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, is so good that even if you've s…
"I think I would like a divorce," Jane Alexander as Nancy French says to her husband of 50 years, played by James Cromwell. "All right," Bill replies. Blackout. That's all the dialogue in th…
Some shows you leave needing to tell people about; some shows you leave thinking about what you are going to have for dinner. A few shows ruin your dinner. If you're a drama critic, you are …
When did "theater" become an insult? With the impeachment trial scheduled to begin in earnest this week, the one thing that the right and the left, Democrats and Republicans, seem to agree o…
"Leaving the Blues" dramatizes the life of the amazing jazz, blues and Broadway singer/songwriter Alberta Hunter. I long thought her story was ideal for a musical, ever since I saw her aston…
"We must devote at least as much to our children's education and the health of the poor as we do to the care of our automobiles and the building of beautiful, impressive hotels," Martin Luth…
"You will hear an unbelievable true story," Â one of the three actors from the Republic of Slovenia on a stage designed to look like a makeshift bunker, tells us at the beginning of the pl…
…"My Name is Lucy Barton" is a sometimes poignant, often tedious 90-minute monologue… The hope was that Laura Linney would do for it what France McDormand did in the HBO miniseries that …