Charlie Copeland is a Broadway fixer, who's worked on everything from "The Phantom of the Opera" to "Frozen," tangibly changing the experience for a generation of theatergoers. Copeland is n…
Philip Santos Schaffer pulls back the curtain and introduces himself as “your server and savior” to me and the only other member of the audience. After chatting idly for a while,…
The National Asian American Theatre Company's production of Shakespeare's Henry VI trilogy is unlike any you've seen in New York before. This is true largely because you are unlikely ever to…
For 20 years, August was the month when New Yorkers who hated the beach and couldn't afford to travel could have a "staycation" sampling some 200 shows at the New York International Fringe F…
From its first moments, Gettin' The Band Back Together feels like the tackiest show  on Broadway, an impression advanced by its lazy plot,  uninspired garage rock score, dopey jokes, a…
Vivian (Samantha Banks) is a hooker, Edward (Andy Karl) is a killer corporate raider who meets her on Hollywood Boulevard, and if the ensuing romance is no less a fable than it was in the hi…
With two Broadway shows opening this week — “Gettin The Band Back Together” and “Pretty Woman” — it’s hard to say we’re in the Dog Days of Aug…
"Shakespeare in the Theater" is the not-quite-clever title of a festival at the Brick Theater that presents itself as an alternative to New York summer staples, Shakespeare in the Park and S…
To outsiders, “Be More Chill” is a hyper-energetic pop-rock musical opening tonight Off-Broadway, starring Will Roland (“Dear Evan Hansen”) as a high school student n…
For the 42nd summer in a row, the Theater for the New City’s touring Street Theater Company is presenting an original show for free in the streets and parks throughout New York City. (…
Wearing t-shirts that said “Now showing: Truth,” Rosie O’Donnell and dozens of other performers who had traveled from New York for the day participated in the 22nd day of p…
Ruthie Anne Miles performed for the first time after her terrible loss, Julia Roberts visited the musical adaptation of the movie that made her a star, Rosie O’Donnell is leading a bus…
Four musicals in the 2018 New York Musical Festival tied for the most awards, five apiece: Between the Sea and the Sky, Emojiland, Interstate and Pedro Pan. Below the list of winners and …
Margaret, a widow and well-meaning mother, is dressed in pearls while making her special buttermilk biscuits for her daughter Laura, who's back home listless with severe memory loss after he…
"I am tall when I'm young but short when I'm old. What am I?" That's the first of the three riddles that Sam (short for Samantha) poses to the mysterious woman in white in order to free her …
This week’s Broadway at Bryant Park was an all-Disney concert, with cast members from three Disney musicals on Broadway — Aladdin, Frozen and The Lion King — performing 10 …
When Mike Birbiglia announced that his fourth one-man show would be playing at the Cherry Lane, he wouldn't say what it would be about; he simply called it "The New One." (“I hate it w…
Two shows are opening this month on Broadway, one a musical adaptation of a 1990 Julia Roberts movie, “Pretty Woman,” starring Andy Karl and Samantha Barks; the other, “Get…
I compared Shaina Taub's musical adaptation of "Twelfth Night" to a party and to a variety show when the Public Theater presented it in Central Park over Labor Day weekend in 2016. The unusu…
How well were you paying attention to New York theater news and reviews in July? Answer these 10 questions and find out.
In "The House That Will Not Stand," Marcus Gardley's historically fascinating, lyrical and surprisingly funny play, nobody much cares for Beartrice Albans " not her three beautiful daughters…
Soon after this… .@Lin_Manuel,Hollywood mogul? 1 Starring in @MaryPoppins 2. Directing movie Tick, Tick…Boom! 3. Executive producer on @FX TV series about Bob Fosse & Gwen Ve…
For all its high-energy hedonism featuring handsome half-clad bodies, "This Ain't No Disco," the rock opera at the Atlantic Theater set in the New York City club scene of the 1970s, doesn't …
Before the musical "'68" begins, newspaper headlines are projected on the stage a, marking some of the tumultuous events in the year 1968 — the assassinations of Martin Luther K…
There is a full-out gospel number, with swaying red choir robes, heavenly belting and devilishly deft dancing, in this last of this season's Encores Off-Center concerts. But, as directed and…