They installed metal detectors in the Al Hirschfeld Theater, the new home of "Moulin Rouge," during the same week that panicking pedestrians a block away mistook a motorcycle backfiring for …
It was uncanny how much "Noirtown" made me feel as if I was living inside a film noir classic like "The Maltese Falcon" or "The Big Sleep" " stylish, seductive, tough-talking and unfathomabl…
For the 43rd summer in a row, Theater for the New City is touring a free original outdoor musical in streets, playgrounds and parks throughout all five boroughs (See schedule below.) As …
"Moulin Rouge" was thrilling from the moment I entered the theater… until about ten minutes after it began. That's because the brightest star in this stage adaptation of Baz Luhrmann's 200…
Tom Sturridge and Jake Gyllenhaal are certainly the reason why "Sea Wall/A Life" has now moved uptown to the Hudson… In the lobby of the Hudson, for $20 you can buy a quartet of magnets wi…
"Bat Out of Hell" is a frequently enjoyable jukebox musical running at New York City Center through September 8, using the muscular rock opera anthems from singer Meat Loaf's trilogy of b…
Actors Equity went on strike for the first time on August 7, 1919 " one hundred years ago today. Stars like Ethel Barrymore, W.C. Fields and Marie Dressler joined hundreds of their fellow un…
It makes sense that George Abbott is the first theater artist profiled in "The 100 Most Important People in Musical Theatre" (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 288 pages, publication date…
I spent much of the week in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, attending the week-long 16th biennial National Black Theatre Festival, which presented 30 plays and musicals from black theaters in…
Three mass shootings in a single week " in Gilroy, California last Sunday leaving three dead; in El Paso,Texas leaving at least 20 dead Sunday: in Dayton, Ohio, leaving at least nine dead " …
Harold Prince, the consummate Broadway producer and director who died on Wednesday at the age of 91, had his first Broadway credit in April 1950, as an assistant stage manager for "Tickets, …
In "Hannah Senesh," a play running through August 18th at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, the title character is a Jewish teenager in Europe in the 1930s who starts keeping a diary at age 13.…
Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge deliver back-to-back monologues in the only show opening on Broadway in August. After a promised Broadway run was scrapped, "Bat Out of Hell" is finally ope…
Harold Prince died this morning at 91 years of age after a brief illness, in Reykjavik, Iceland. There will be no funeral, but a celebration of his life is planned.  The lights of all…
How well were you paying attention to the theater news and views in July, from the Broadway Blackout to the Dunaway Dismissal? Answer these dozen questions and find out. ÂÂ
Below is the list of nominations announced tonight for the 15th annual New York Innovative Theater Awards, which celebrates the best of the city's independent theater " aka Off-Off Broadway.…
Other New Yorkers may view midsummer, with its heat waves and general malaise, as time to get out of the city. Theatergoers know it as festival fever. These include some of the familiar annu…
 The three shows reviewed below from this year's New York Musical Festival are all, each in its own way, naïve…or one of the near synonyms for the word naïve, each of which offer…
It would be easy to make some wrong assumptions about this dinner theater production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at Café Fae, given its title, its marketing, and the fact that it is co-p…
Stephen Sondheim, now 89 years old,  first began writing a musical about the real-life eccentric and significant Mizner Brothers when he was 23 years old; paused in his efforts when he le…
Moulin Rouge, a $28 million jukebox musical that opens tonight at the Al Hirschfeld Theater, is adapted from Baz Luhrmann's 2001 movie of the same name, and expands its playlist to some 7…
The Theater Collection at the Museum of the City of New York contains over 190,000 objects that document theatrical performance in New York City from 1785 on. These include more than 30,000 …
The actress Annie Golden (mute Norma in Orange Is the New Black) stars as the actress Annie Golden, who exchanges the humiliations of auditions for the thrills of a career kick-boxing…
 Therapists were busy reassuring theatergoers after seeing Dame Judi Dench in the trailer for the movie CATS. (See below.) Meanwhile, three shows opened Off-Broadway last week about real…
"These people recruit, rape and spread disease," Mama says about homosexuals, not realizing she's talking to one, in Chris Urch's play, which takes place in Uganda in 2010. That was the …