Adam Szymkowicz, the author of this book offering advice about how to be a playwright, has been a student of such well-known playwrights (and teachers) as Christopher Durang, Marsha Norman, …
In the swirl of the new theater season, with three shows opening on Broadway last week and another this week, and daily announcements of the season ahead (of Broadway debuts, for example, fo…
Election Day is in one month from today, November 5, 2024. Here's what you need to know in order to vote in the General Election in New York City. Registration In order to vote in New York, …
Just about a month before the election, one can hardly expect every theater blogger " or podcaster or substacker " to ignore politics: So this roundup begins with three examples, then goes i…
A look back at Black vaudeville, an anthology of dramatic criticism by women writers, and the 600-year history of Latinx performing arts in America have been named the best theater books of …
"What do the following have in common: Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, the list goes on and on? …
David Henry Hwang wrote "Yellow Face" almost two decades ago, comically rendering three deflating or enraging real-life events in which he was involved up to three decades ago. And yet as I …
"Good Bones," by James Ljames, the Pulitzer-winning author of "Fat Ham," is essentially a debate about gentrification, with sharply different views expressed by the characters, and also, per…
Gavin Creel died yesterday at the age of 48, from a rare form of cancer, after an acclaimed career on Broadway of more than two decades, mostly in starring roles. Herewith some samples from …
"McNeal" is a great showcase for Robert Downey Jr., making his Broadway debut as the  novelist Jacob McNeal, who is unraveling just at the moment of his greatest acclaim. But Downey…
The latest new artistic director of many announced this year: Christopher Ashley has been named the new artistic director of Roundabout Theater Company. The Tony winning director of Come Fro…
"The Hills of California," about four sisters in their thirties called back to their childhood home, to attend to their dying mother, and relive their traumatic childhood brush with fame, is…
Below is a selection of theater opening* in New York in October, including five shows on Broadway, four of them revivals (or classics), with starry casts, many of whom are making their de…
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"Fatherland" is an unsettling title, a word that movie-goers associate with Germany under the Nazis, but there are several reasons why it fits this true story of the first man to be put on t…
When I reviewed Eric Adams' book "Healthy At Last," I suggested it might be useful beyond its practical advice for adopting a vegan diet, as a glimpse of the man who was about to become New …
Below is the annual list of the most produced plays and musicals this season, from American Theater Magazine, with links to those shows whose NYC productions I reviewed. This list was culled…
Her life story might have made an engaging show no matter which theater company had staged it: A globe-trotting professional basketball player and Olympian, Katsiaryna Snytsina awok…
As the season has revved up, and a new show is opening nearly every day, they tend to run together, in more ways than one. This is obvious of course in "Forbidden Broadway," which depends on…
The confrontation in "The Ask" involves no guns, nor even any shouting. It's not a confrontation at all, by any typical definition these days in either theater or politics. Greta, a long-tim…
Pedro Antonio Garcia, who is a criminal defense attorney as well as a playwright, explains in a program note that he wrote "The Witness Room" in "an attempt to explore moral issues within th…
Alvin Ailey was a New York actor " performing, yes, in Broadway musicals with Lena Horne and Pearl Bailey starting in 1954, the very year he arrived in New York at the age of 23. But he wasÃ…
The parodies in this latest edition of Forbidden Broadway range from hilarious (Cabaret) to clever but not especially funny (Back to the Future) to lame (Wicked.) In other words, it's hit an…
It's been compared to a psychedelic trip, and the latest video game, but Basil Twist's dazzling hour-long abstract journey through mind-bending optical illusions and mythical beasts  "…
In "Our Class," the classmates whom we have watched grow up together in their small village in Poland " five Jews and five Catholics " attend a wedding together right before intermission. In…