Near the end of "The Mother," her son strangles the title character to death. But not really. The mother (Isabelle Huppert) is imagining it, or dreaming it. There is a change of lighting, he…
By the end of "Holy Day," two hours without intermission or let-up of gothic horror set in 19th century Australia, the audience has been made witness to a missing child, an abduction, both h…
On the Ides of March, exactly 2,063 years ago, Julius Caesar was smug, at least according to Shakespeare. "The ides of March are come," he tells a soothsayer in Act III. "Ay, Caesar," the So…
Playwright Matt Williams, who is credited with creating, producing and/or writing such once-popular TV series as Home Improvement, The Cosby Show, and Roseanne (tells us in the program that …
Hugh Jackman will star as Harold Hill in "The Music Man." Directed by Jerry Zaks, with choreography by Warren Carlyle, the fourth Broadway production of Meredith Wilson's musical about a tra…
"I'm not obsessed with sex; I just can't stop thinking about it," says Phoebe Waller-Bridge in "Fleabag" " both the "Fleabag" that's a funny and sad BBC TV series, currently available on Ama…
"I'm not a girl, not yet a woman…I'm in between," Britney Spears sang some two decades ago, and it could almost be the new anthem (gender-adjusted) for Broadway. The opening of Be More Chi…
Somebody wrote "NYC Loves BMC" in chalk on the sidewalk outside Broadway's Lyceum Theater, the new home of Be More Chill, the high energy, high decibel pop-rock musical that stars Will Rolan…
In "The Cake," Debra Jo Rupp (the mother on "That 70s Show") portrays Della, a Christian baker in North Carolina who refuses to bake a cake for a lesbian wedding. If the story is inspired by…
I recently saw Hamilton again on Broadway, during a rare open captioned performance, and it was a revelation in several ways. Â When I had last seen Hamilton, about two years ago, the las…
In "The B-Side," three men sing along with an album on a record-player "Â or, as people prefer to say these days, a vinyl on the turntable. But there's a reason why the Wooster Group's en…
March is designated Women's History Month and there is no better example of a theater woman on the march this March than Dominique Morisseau, who is 1. curating "50 in 50: Letters to Our …
"Daddy," a play by Jeremy O. Harris, who made his Off-Broadway debut a few months ago with his controversial "Slave Play," could be accurately described as a porn melodrama about a love/hate…
Simon, 15 years old and an aspiring comic book creator, is disappointed. His neighbor Jim in Apartment 4-B can't walk through walls, and has no secret cave; he doesn't even drive a "super ki…
Near the beginning of "Good Friday," a play by Kristiana Rae Colon produced at The Flea with an all-female cast, crew and creative team, there's something I've never seen on stage before: Af…
The actors portraying Boesman and Lena move slowly through the audience, carrying their life's possession on their heads and shoulders, looking around in fear and fatigue, until they make th…
Four shows are opening on Broadway in March. Two of them are transfers from Off-Broadway that thrilled audiences in very different ways: "Be More Chill" and "What The Constitution Means To M…
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news and reviews in February? How about Broadway's presence at the Oscars? At the Grammys? Answer these 13 questions and find out.
In Madeleine George's often  hilarious, ultimately pointed comedy, the Greek god of agricultural and theater has decided to save the planet, after retreating for several centuries from th…
 In this latest musical inspired by Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,"  Alice (Molly Gordon) is a British teenager in 1941 who takes shelter in the Underground with o…
The launching of The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space, with the opening tonight of "Alice By Heart," Â is the latest "new, state-of-the-art complex" (as MCC is calling it) " with several…
Mary Seacole, though little known in the United States, was almost as celebrated in her time as Florence Nightingale, and for much the same reason " for nursing the sick and wounded during t…
Green Book won best picture, Rami Malek of "Bohemian Rhapsody" lead actor and Olivia Colman of "The Favourite" lead actress at the 91st annual Academy Awards. Ruth E. Carter and Hannah Beach…
It takes Henry Higgins six months to transform Eliza Doolittle from a "draggle-tailed guttersnipe" in "My Fair Lady" to a lady who can pass as a duchess at the Embassy Ball. Now, ten months …
Bill Rauch, who last February was appointed the first artistic director of the performing arts center at the World Trade Center in New York, was sitting in a theater near his home some 3,000…