 The thrilling final minutes of "Tina" are all that a rock concert should be, and the main reason to see this jukebox biomusical about one of the world's most electric performers, portra…
In the 26 years since the Russian clown Slava Polunin began touring, "Slava's Snowshow" has been performed "thousands of times to millions of people in hundreds of cities," according to the …
Keep those cell phones on; that's where "User Not Found" largely unfolds.  Yes, this terrific site-specific play takes place in a café near BAM in Fort Greene, where Terry O'Donovan …
BrandoCapote is a play with a script by Sara Farrington inspired by a fascinating interview Truman Capote conducted with Marlon Brando at the peak of his popularity in 1957, while the movie …
On Veterans Day, a reminder from Adam Driver, Broadway veteran  and military veteran, and the founder of Arts in the Armed Forces, a nonprofit that brings theater to the military: "…
"Broadbend, Arkansas" is billed as a musical about three generations of an African-American family in the South grappling with injustice. Â While technically accurate, that's a misleading …
"Whoo, that was some heavy shit," our guide says after leading us through 400 years of African-American history. It was hard to disagree. Every inch of HERE Arts Center has been transformed …
David Lawson made a personal sacrifice as a public service: He read 10 campaign books, all but one by current candidates for President of the United States. From his reading, he has fashione…
If Richard Nelson, the writer and director of "The Michaels," were hired to direct the next Marvel movie, would Iron Man, Thor and the Hulk sit around the kitchen table in Rhinebeck, New Yor…
Peter Dinklage's singing voice would not normally qualify him for a role in a musical, unless in a Disney animated movie as a singing rhinoceros. But Rex Harrison couldn't really sing either…
Bella Abzug spoke at my junior high school graduation, until Donna Florio's mother told her to shut up. "This is my daughter's graduation, not a political rally." Â Abzug paused, apologize…
The two ladies hanging out on the roof are lesbians; they just don't know it yet. The title of Liza Birkenmeier's play, which marks her Off-Broadway playwriting debut, may seem to promise so…
André Bishop, head of Lincoln Center Theater: $1 million Todd Haimes, Roundabout: $922,000. Oskar Eustis the Public Theater: $659,000 Lynne Meadows, MTC: $565,000 Carole Rothman, Second Sta…
Lizzie Vieh's black comedy about a divorced couple permanently underwater in Phoenix Arizona, is clever and merciless, but it is also oddly compassionate. Exhibit A is the bit with the hermi…
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 Below is a selection of New York theater opening in November, organized chronologically by opening date, including five on Broadway "  a much anticipated epic gay play, a blockbuster…
"The Sound Inside" is a dark drama by Adam Rapp that keeps us in the dark, literally and figuratively, which works better while watching it on stage than thinking about it afterwards. Mary-L…
William Shakespeare's only son, named Hamnet, died when he was 11 years old; a few years later, the playwright wrote "Hamlet." Â The Irish theater troupe Dead Centre conjures up the Bard's…
 "How do we fight evil without becoming evil?" asks Ethan, one of the two adult characters in "Fear," a play by Matt Williams.  "Isn't that the central question of the age, this age o…
"Freestyle Love Supreme" is not so much Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway follow-up to "Hamilton" as it is a subsidiary of Lin-Manuel Inc. Â The hip-hop improv group that Miranda co-founded 16…
Theresa Rebeck's slight but savory comedy about running a restaurant stars Raúl Esparza as Harry, a hilariously mercurial chef-owner of a hole-in-the-wall eatery that's become…
Refugees are in the news these days, and their stories have suddenly come to New York stages. "I think it is important to ask an audience to recognize lives that we have literally fenced off…
Three years after he spoofed "Hamilton" in "Spamilton" (with "I am not throwing away my shot" becoming "I am not gonna let Broadway rot,") Gerard Alessandrini paints Lin-Manuel Miranda less …
I think if I were eight years old I might have loved "The Lightning Thief" on Broadway, but that's mostly because I would then have been too young to have seen it at the Lucille Lortel Theat…
There is one spectacularly funny moment in this musical comedy version of "Macbeth," which is based on Billy Morrissette's 2001 movie, and is set in a fast-food restaurant in the "podunk tow…