"Springsteen on Broadway" begins with The Boss explaining what it takes to play before "80,000 screaming rock n roll fans," but the two-hour show is mostly a lesson in intimacy. This was tru…
“The Ferryman” was the most popular play or musical among critics whose top 10 lists for 2018 are featured below, followed by “Angels in America” and “Harry Pot…
Choose your favorite 2018 Broadway cast recording from among the 15 in the list, ordered alphabetically. Note: A couple of the albums won’t be officially released until January,…
In Erin Mallon's sweet, modest play, an unlikely rooftop friendship develops between a 75-year-old man and a nine-year-old girl. Richard Masur is terrific (as always) in portraying Bernard, …
Welcome to my seventh annual Worst Broadway Show poll. Pick the show you thought was the worst to open on Broadway in 2018. I chose these ten nominees; this is my Bottom 10 list this year (a…
"Nassim," a play by Iranian playwright and performer Nassim Soleimanpour, is deliberately disorienting, both for the audience, who's told virtually nothing about the show beforehand, and for…
Get free tickets to live theater, and other live events " dance, comedy, opera " through Goldstar's 24-hour Comp Train promotion — today and tomorrow, December 12th and December 13. Yo…
What did movie reviewers think of Lin-Manuel Miranda in "Mary Poppins Returns?" Below are relevant excerpts, in order more or less from most to least positive, and links to the full reviews.…
At the very end of their Christmas show, running through December 30th at the Imperial Theater on Broadway, Ruben Studdard and Clay Aiken together sing the 19th century Christmas carol "O Ho…
Nominees for the Grammy for best musical theater album of the year: The Band’s Visit (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel My Fair Lady (…
“Slave Play,” which marks the Off-Broadway debut of playwright Jeremy O. Harris, Â begins, as one would expect from the title, in a plantation in the Antebellum South. It invol…
"When does a place become a home?" Â It's a question asked by Ammir Haj Ahmad as Safi, a refugee from Syria who is one of the residents of The Jungle. That was the name given to the extrao…
Nobody can do a nervous breakdown like Bryan Cranston. As Howard Beale, long-time network news anchor gone mad, he sits in front of the camera, unable to speak, his face a dramatic repertoir…
“The Cher Show,” the new Broadway jukebox musical that offers a whirlwind tour of the music, life and six-decade career of the entertainer and self-proclaimed  "goddamn Goddes…
With "The Cher Show" now opened on Broadway, it seems a good time to test your Cher I.Q. by answering these dozen questions about her life and career.
Many events have been marking the hundredth anniversary of the end of World War I, including several on New York stages " among them, the solo play "Private Peaceful," the "docudrama"/concer…
Novels are routinely turned into Broadway musicals, several currently running " Phantom of the Opera, Wicked, Once on This Island " but turning a Broadway musical into a novel is…novel. De…
The current president of the United States did not attend the 2018 Kennedy Center Honors last night (which will be broadcast on CBS on December 26). But the first U.S. president…
She says she's been working on it for ten years, but you could argue that Heidi Schreck's extraordinary show about the United States Constitution " funny and infuriated, analytical and confe…
The discount deals below are in effect from now through December 8, 2018. HAMILTON & HOLIDAY SHOW TICKETS SALE! Get $30 off orders $300+ using code HAMILTON30 WINTER SALE! Get $20 off or…
Today is World AIDS Day. Since last World AIDS Day, there have been some 38,000 new HIV infections in the United States alone. More than 1.1 million people in the US are living with HIV, acc…
Three shows opening this month on Broadway bring to the stage  adaptations of three landmarks of American culture: “To Kill A Mockingbird,” “Network,” and “T…
The hard problem in Tom Stoppard's latest erudite play, his first full-length work in nearly a decade, is the challenge facing those who study the brain: How do scientists account for the mi…
Below is the music video of “Loser Geek Whatever,” the previously unrecorded song from the musical “Be More Chill.” In an informal introduction (originally presented …
How well were you paying attention to the theater, and theater news, in November? Answer these dozen questions to find out. Buy tickets to The Band’s Visit via TodayTix Buy tickets to …