Paul McCartney has announced that, at the age of 77, he is writing his first musical " a stage adaptation of Frank Capra's 1946 movie "It's a Wonderful Life," a holiday evergreen in which Ji…
What would Euripides say about the liberties being taken with his tragedies in New York? Medea,one of his last and most-produced plays, has been turned into the harrowing tale of an undocume…
Halley Feiffer's loud, broad, hyperactive, foul-mouthed, unconventionally cast, aggressively playful and generally off-beat adaptation of Chekhov's "Three Sisters" was upstaged earlier this …
Most everybody knows that Medea kills her children to take revenge on their two-timing father Jason. But "Mojada," playwright Luis Alfaro's modern-day adaptation at the Public Theater, zeroe…
Every night from now until the end of the summer, you can watch a free movie somewhere outdoors in New York City  -- and whole movie series every weeknight except Tuesdays. The movi…
The Week in New York Theater: Incredibly, the 2019 blackout that shut down the West Side Saturday night and shuttered 26 of 30 Broadway shows -- all but the four that begin with B (Be More C…
When MarÃÂa Irene Fornés died last October at the age of 88, the many theatergoers who knew nothing about her suddenly learned how pioneering , prolific and influential a theater artist s…
A power outage in midtown shuttered more than two dozen Broadway shows. The casts of some of them took to the streets " See below Hadestown, Hamilton, Come From Away, Waitress… and Carnegi…
Is a show that's in bad taste necessarily a bad show? Is a tasteful show always better? The three full productions from the first week of the 16th annual New York Musical Festival suggest…
The first of six weekly Broadway at Bryant Park concerts this summer featured surprise performances by the cast of "Bat Out of Hell," a musical using Meat Loaf's hits that will be performing…
The first commercial outdoor theater in the United States began in New York City, and while it no longer exists, there are several outdoor theaters this summer, not all of which are offering…
 Jerry Herman turns 88 today, which is the number of keys on a piano, an instrument he started playing more than eight decades ago, and led to his first musical 65 years ago, "I Feel Won…
Here are 14 new or forthcoming books about theater, listed under three general categories -- Scripts and Play Anthologies; Biographies and Memoirs; Theater History, Criticism and Reference -…
It's Summertime, and one of these mornings you're going to rise up singing " or at least hear some singing at the 16th annual New York Musical Festival, or at the free lunchtime  Broadway…
In the 16th annual New York Musical Festival, or NYMF,  new musicals are inspired both by tall tales and true stories: A Native American sharpshooter who became a silent film actress; …
After she was hired to "translate" Macbeth into an English that is "clear to the modern ear," the playwright Migdalia Cruz took a trip to Scotland with her husband and daughter to visit M…
Watch videos of ten great American protest songs, some of which have become so popular that many people forget their origins in patriotic protest -- just as some seem to have forgotten the m…
Six recommended shows from the Hot Festival, which is billed as the oldest queer theater festival in the world I saw 15 of the 45 shows in the Hot Festival on opening night and I can say al…
This week in New York theater: the July 4th week Broadway schedule. List of Broadway shows closing this summer. The 2019-2020 season on Broadway and at The Flea, Ars Nova, HERE Arts Center, …
"Moulin Rouge The Musical" is opening on Broadway this month, and both comedian Dave Chappelle and singer Barry Manilow will have "Broadway residencies," which is a pretentious way of des…
In front of the Stonewall Inn, on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, which gave birth to the modern gay rights movement:
How well were you paying attention to theater in June? How much do you know about LGBT theater history? Find both answers in this 10-question quiz
Theater lovers should expect "a spirit of adventure and invention" from the shows at The Shed, according to Alex Poots, the artistic director of this new $500 million arts center on West 30t…
Near the beginning of David Cale's shocking autobiographical one-man show, he gets a laugh when he explains that Luton, the industrial town where he grew up 30 miles north of London "had…
For the 19th year in a row, Bryant Park is the site of free lunchtime concerts by cast members of current Broadway (and some Off-Broadway) shows  on Thursdays in July and August between 1…