All three shows are oddly connected, and not just because I saw them on the same day at Summerhall, the former veterinary college that is the venue with the most character at the Edinburgh F…
I'll start with the two shows about gay royals, both featuring unmentionable titles and intimate kisses. One,  by Jordan Tannahill, ended its run at Playwrights Horizons over …
What was Mrs. Lovett's life like before she met Sweeney Todd?  I thought immediately of the moment she decided to start baking her pies using an unprecedented ingredient, thus turning …
At the end of this, their latest camp adventure,  Linus Karp and Joseph Martin announced that they would be getting married August 16th on stage at one of the Edinburgh Fringe Festi…
Abigail and Shaun Bengson got married three weeks after they met, but rather than just feeling joy in finding the love of her life, Abigail felt great anxiety, because she had had a dream wh…
Amid the trans comic,  mute comic, pigeon comic, queer ballet, youth theater performing from "A Chorus Line," political theater and a Broadway choreographer's new musical about famous …
Celebrating its fortieth season at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Gilded Balloon, one of the Big Four venue operators, presented previews of a dozen acts " mostly comedians (including the MC, …
How do you follow Elizabeth Taylor? That was the challenge for Kayla Boye, whose solo show at the 2021 Edinburgh Fringe, "Call Me Elizabeth,"Â Â nailed Taylor's appealing if complicated …
Australian performer Marcel Cole brings a grace and ingenuity to a story that's been told often, although not with great success: The 2012 Broadway musical "Chaplin" starring Rob McClure (fe…
Below is a calendar of New York theater opening* in August, including two shows on Broadway, one of them a revival of the long-running "Mamma Mia." But they are overshadowed by a 400-year-ol…
Gertrude Stein is famous as an early champion of writers like Ernest Hemingway and artists like Picasso (whose  "Portrait of Gertrude Stein" is a prized possession of The Metropolitan …
Soliana the contortionist performed from one of the nine shows out of 160 that will be presented this year at Underbelly, one of the Big Four venue operators at the Edinburgh Festival Fri…
Yes, I can tell you how to Fringe, even though I've just arrived in Edinburgh, Scotland for my first-ever visit; it's the beginning of "Week 0" of the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe an…
Summer is a time for Fall season announcements " Under the Radar, Atlantic, Bushwick Starr, below " and for travel:  I went to Malta, and wrote Toward A New Understanding of Immersi…
Lis Coin's approach to her first-ever Edinburgh Fringe Festival will be "half spontaneous and half supportive." She means as a theatergoer. But that's also not a bad description of "Lizzy Su…
It was past the start time and nothing was happening on stage, when a man in a tracksuit sitting in the front row started applauding rapidly as a show of impatience and protest, leading the …
It was only after I started this novel about an acerbic and soon-to-be reviled theater critic  " which its publisher had discouraged me from reading " when I learned that the book is s…
Four won a Tony for Best Musical. A fifth is returning to Broadway a decade after one of the longest runs in Broadway history. The sixth, with an all-female cast, began life at the Edinburgh…
Amid all the to-do surrounding the tenth anniversary of the Broadway musical "Hamilton" " it opened at the Richard Rodgers on August 6, 2015 " five current cast members performed two of its …
Which of the twelve shows scheduled so far to open on Broadway between now and the end of 2025 are you most looking forward to? Which do you want to know more about? Take the poll and let us…
As Andrew Lloyd Webber prepares to launch the immersive version of "The Phantom of the Opera" on the last day of this month, for a run that has been extended (for now) through October 19, a …
Amid the distressing midsummer news of the defunding of public broadcasting, the suspiciously-timed axing of Stephen Colbert, and the uncertainty behind the arts desk shakeup at the…
In one of the several moments throughout "Joy" that felt like being trapped inside an old infomercial, albeit an entertaining one, Joy Mangano (Betsy Wolfe) has just sold her first five thou…
An art photographer, who is as famous as the celebrities he shoots, starts having sex with a girl who is in ninth grade, and takes pictures of her naked while she's sleeping in his bed, with…
Broadway's new Elphaba and Glinda performed at Week 2 of this summer's series of Broadway in Bryant Park lunchtime concerts, now celebrating its 25th anniversary season " which is older even…