5,297 stories from New York Theater
Ethereal, stylized and visually stunning, Japanese director Satoshi Miyagi's production of "Antigone," at the Park Avenue Armory through October 6, fuses several theatrical traditions, some …
The artist known as Dyalekt (pronounced dialect) greets us looking like a young Allen Ginsberg in his Yippie Uncle Sam phase, holding up a bucket labeled "dead words," asking us for words th…
 The city has announced plans  to build a performing arts center dedicated to Immigrants. The proposed Immigrant Research and Performing Arts Center will go up in Inwood, the north…
Billy Porter won an Emmy for outstanding lead actor in a drama series for "Pose." " the first openly gay black man to win the lead actor in a drama category "The category is love, y'all. Lov…
Below is a map showing the location of the more than 50 tables at today's 33rd Annual Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction, which will be held from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Â Beneath that are t…
There are three ways of looking at Mac Wellman's "The Invention of Tragedy" that offer some satisfactions " as a political parable, as a metaphor for Western theater, Â or as entertaining …
Taping live Broadway shows for the screen is no longer seen as an experiment. It's a routine practice, and it's moved from movie theaters to home computers.
Life is not all that's gone onli…
How do people care for one another in dangerous times? That's the still-relevant question underlying this beautiful, sad, enraging, uplifting, and awesomely staged theater piece that sweeps …
"A Doll's House, Part 2" by Lucas Hnath and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Simon Stephens have tied as the most produced plays scheduled for the 2019-2020 season, accor…
Exactly seven weeks after Harold Prince died at the age of 91, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has opened the exhibition "In The Company of Harold Prince: Broadway produc…
Long before our current cultural moment, when major new Hollywood films depict them as pure evil, and scientists try to explain why so many people find them creepy, my college guidance…
Below is the complete list of winners of the 15th annual New York Innovative Theatre Awards, honoring outstanding work Off-Off Broadway. Â Multiple-winning shows include "Eight Tales of Pe…
"As Much As I Can," a show that illustrates the continuing AIDS crisis among African-American men, exists on two different planes, which are not in complete alignment with one another. It is…
Phyllis Newman, 86, has died. Â She was an entertainer from the age of 4; veteran of 11 Broadway shows (Tony winner for Subways Are For Sleeping, pictured); daughter of a fortune teller an…
In his Broadway debut, Derren Brown performs some dozen mind games and magic tricks over 150 minutes that depend on audience participation, all of which are meant to provoke us to ask: "How …
Talmudic scholars and kung fu movie fans will both find something familiar in this singular hour-long hybrid by the eight-year-old theater company Meta-Phys Ed., in which four performers…
In my article for TDF Stages, I look at three new plays that focus on AIDS " "The Inheritance" by Matthew Lopez, which begins performances on Broadway September 27, opening in November; and …
Who should do a cabaret act? That was a question posed in a recent ticket giveaway contest for the cabaret 54 Below. Here are some of the responses, listed alphabetically by performer, follo…
On the surface, "American Moor," written by and starring Keith Hamilton Cobb, Â is about a veteran African-American actor auditioning to play Othello for a clueless young, white director. …
Some of the most thrilling theater in New York this Fall, and certainly much of the weirdest, promises to be Off-Broadway. There are revivals Off-Broadway of Tony Kushner's first play, one o…
The 2019-2020 Broadway season has begun, with the first Fall Broadway opening  of 15  scheduled from September through December,  and the first of the Fall previews, some coverin…
The audience creates the show in "Play!" The audience is the show in "Theatre in the Dark: Carpe Diem." Â Those are the uncomfortable ideas embedded in the two latest theater pieces, openi…
 To appreciate these first two productions of the five-play Mac Wellman festival at The Flea, entitled "Perfect Catastrophes," it helps to know that Wellman " the 74-year-old co-found…
Theatrical showman was born 120 years ago today, and, though he died in 1966, he lives on through The Billy Rose Theatre Division of The New York Public Library at Lincoln  Center, one of…
Harold Pinter's 1978 play about an adulterous triangle, which is being revived on Broadway starring Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Cox and Zawe Ashton,  is one of the most accessible and most…
