The following five shows are closing within the next ten days. Each of them I found worth seeing for one reason or another. Eclipsed – closing June 19 Oscar winner Lupita Nyo…
The all-female production of The Taming of the Shrew in Central Park, with Janet McTeer as the macho Petruchio and Cush Jumbo as the shrew he starves into obedience, seems to be working hard…
“Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark” opened on June 14, 2011. It ran for a total of 1066 performances, closing on January 04, 2014. Below is my review upon its official opening. Sc…
Hamilton won 11 awards " best musical, book, score, lead actor of a musical, featured actor, featured actress, direction, set, costumes, lighting, and choreography — at the 70th annual…
Hamilton won 11 awards and The Humans four, including best musical and best play respectively. Below are the winners of the 70th annual Tony Awards, listed in red with an asterisk* Also list…
An American-born suspect identified as Omar Mateen shot and killed 50 people early this morning at the Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. The largest mass shooting in American histo…
My most popular Hamilton post has been Quiz: Which character in Hamilton are you? Also popular, my more general Hamilton Quiz — 20 questions that span the history of the show. My most …
This is the time of year when people turn their attention to Broadway, for two reasons — it’s the summer, a good time to visit New York; and their interest is piqued thanks to th…
An Indian summer, as a character defines it in Gregory S. Moss's play, is a time in late August when " the animals, the birds, even the plants" are "a little stunned that it’s still wa…
Don and Karla meet because their mothers share a room in a cancer hospital, in Halley Feiffer's bawdy and tender new play, which has two attention-grabbing aspects to it: Its title is 22 wor…
The full 11-minute video of Late Late Show and Tony Awards host James Corden driving through traffic leading his guests Lin-Manuel Miranda, Audra McDonald, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jane Krak…
Below are the winners of the 61st Annual Drama Desk Awards as they become available, with an asterisk and in red. The Humans and The Royale received Special Drama Desk Awards for Outst…
There is some theater opening in June in New York, but for another week the focus is elsewhere: Awards! Barbra Streisand will be a presenter at the Tony Awards next Sunday, which will be the…
Muhammad Ali, who died Friday at 74, was among “one of the most famous faces on Earth” as the world heavyweight boxing champion. Fewer know he also starred on Broadway. In 196…
Broadway knows how to finish a song, judging from these songs by ten current shows, sung at the 2016 Stars in the Alley concert by cast members from Aladdin, An American in Paris, Chicago, F…
This you’ve got to see: @TheSavionGlover joins cast of @shufflealongbwy in tap dance on @MayaAndMarty showhttps://t.co/4rC4su5IPZ " New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) June 2, 2016 …
Below is a schedule of June theater organized chronologically by opening date. Each show title is linked to a relevant website. Keep in mind that some of the hottest theater this month is at…
How well were you paying attention to the theater news and reviews in May? Answer these dozen questions and find out.
In "Incognito," a pathologist steals Albert Einstein's brain; a man who has no short-term memory keeps on asking for his wife, whom he doesn't realize had died; two women meet on a blind dat…
This season's Broadway stats, according to The Broadway League: 13,317,980 visitors (up 1.6 percent from 2015) $1.373 billion gross (up .6 percent from last year) Average ticket price: $103.…
In “Paramour,” its first musical produced specifically for Broadway, Cirque du Soleil grafts a Hollywood love triangle onto its high-flying acrobatics. Jeremy Kushnier portrays Ã…
Some two-thirds of the way through "The Total Bent," Marty Roy, the musical prodigy son of the charismatic gospel-singing, faith-healing, white-hating Papa Joe Roy, struts up on a stage that…
For Ana Villafañe, the New York theater season just ended can be summed up in a line from “On Your Feet,” the show in which she stars: “This is what an American looks li…
Rajiv Joseph's “Guards at the Taj “won Best New American Play and $1,000 at the 61st annual Obie Awards. The Humans won for playwriting and best performance. Eclipsed won for …
Has Hell ever sounded so thrilling? Hadestown, a sung-through musical derived from the myth of Orpheus and expanded from a concept album by Anais Mitchell, mixes sweet and sexy folk, rocking…