Indecent ends today on Broadway, but Paula Vogel’s play was recorded Thursday for BroadwayHD streaming in January. Hamilton opened on Broadway two years ago today July Quiz August open…
Michael Moore and Harold Prince have the month all to themselves, more or less, Â at the center of the two Broadway shows opening this month. It’s unusual to have any shows open on B…
I ran into Congressman John Lewis, one of the heroes of the Civil Rights Movement, on my way to see "Freedom Riders," the inspiring gospel and soul-flavored musical about the courageous effo…
A musical written by Maurice Sendak, with a score by Carole King?! Why isn't it better known? That question would seem to make "Really Rosie," which is on stage at New York City Center throu…
How well were you paying attention to theater news and reviews in July, a month full of controversies? Answer these 10 questions and see.
Sam Shepard, a playwright who explored the dark side of the American West in such brutal, elliptical works as "Buried Child" and "True West," died last Thursday at the age of 73. The marquee…
Director Lear deBessonet's production in Central Park of Midsummer Night’s Dream is star-studded and jazzed-up, but the first thought on passing through the gates of the Delacorte Thea…
On the day I saw Nikki James give a star turn in "Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin," the Off Center Encores two-day revival of the musical by Kirsten Childs that is in part about t…
"A Wall Apart," a production at the New York Musical Festival, has a catchy score by Graham Russell of the Australian rock group Air Supply, sung by an eminently watchable cast of steel-voic…
Six women inmates, in a Texas jail for crimes ranging from cattle rustling to murder, form a country music band in order to get on the radio, get famous, and get pardoned by the governor. Th…
A love triangle that lasts 35 years is at the heart of "To The End of the Land," but the lives of the three main characters of this Israeli play, being presented in Hebrew with Englis…
Attention this week has focused on theater from abroad. The Canadian theater company Soulpepper is wrapping up its month-long residence at Signature. The first annual Immigrant Arts  in A…
Below is the list of nominations for the 13th annual New York Innovative Theater Awards, which celebrates the best of the city's independent theater  " aka Off-Off Broadway. The winners w…
"Greek tragedy meets Harlem ball scene. Fantastic," RuPaul Tweeted succinctly after seeing "And She Would Stand Like This." The Harlem-based Movement theater company's adaptation of Euripide…
In "Spoon River," we meet a town full of drunks, hypocrites, home-grown philosophers, resentful husbands, frustrated wives, an arsonist, a killer, and dozens more " all of them dead…and al…
“Temple of the Souls,” a musical about a doomed, Romeo and Juliet romance in 16th century Puerto Rico between a Spanish conquistador's daughter and a Taino, begins with a thrill.…
The story of the Buddha informs this intriguing and well-produced musical at the New York Musical Festival about a modern-day female spiritual leader. But it's not until the last fift…
The cast of the Hamilton spoof, Spamilton, performed at the Broadway in Bryant Park concert this week a medley including "Lin-Manuel As Hamilton," "1776," "What Did You Miss,”…
Watch the video below for highlights of the concert that concluded the Immigrant Arts in America Summit. The summit was a two-day event that included panel discussions, a speech by John Legu…
"We're the kind of people that Trump wants to keep out of the U.S.," John Leguizamo says in the video below, about his family, who immigrated to New York from Colombia ("the country, not the…
Ticket Givewaway: Win two tickets to see Indecent for free. I loved this show, a fascinating backstage tale written by Paula Vogel and wondrously staged by  Rebecca Taichman (who won a…
“I am a foolish man…I am crushed, I have been crushed by fate,” cried out Reg E. Cathey as King Creon, at a climactic moment in  the free Saturday performance of “…
As "Pipeline" begins, we learn that a black teenager has gotten into a physical scuffle with his teacher and is in danger of being expelled, and arrested. But playwright Dominique Morisseau …
The actor Matthew McConaughey sells his soul to the devil, and then tries to get it back, in this musical that opened the 2017 New York Musical Festival, which describes the show in its prog…
As you might have heard, Oscar Isaac walks around in his underpants in the Public Theater production of "Hamlet." But the most startling visual occurs much later. There's a sudden, striking …