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Two-time Tony Award® nominee and multiple Olivier Award® winner Jamie Lloyd will direct a new production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot starring Keanu Reeves (as 'Estragon') and…
By Yani Perez… The Bad in Each Other at The Tank, written by Alexander Perez, is a mindful exploration of relationships and how they can bring out the best or worst in a person. The play c…
In celebration of legendary bandleader Count Basie's 120th birthday in August, jazz singer Deborah Silver performs select songs from new album "Basie Rocks!" produced by Rolli…
Drew Gehling will join the company of the hit musical as 'Shakespeare' on August 16, 2024. Gehling, who made his Broadway debut in Jersey Boys in 2009, most recently starred on Broadway in t…
Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director, Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) is proud to announce its 2024-2025 season of five world premiere plays. Atlantic's 2024…
Casting is now complete for the new musical comedy Death Becomes Her. The show, based on the 1992 film, stars starring Tony Award nominees Megan Hilty (Wicked, "Smash"), Jennifer Simard (Com…
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Are you a sucker for sentiment? Do you not care that much if a play you're seeing is contrived, clichéd, and conventional, as long as you enjoy …
The Manhattan Association of Cabarets (MAC) announces the ninth year of its MAC TO SCHOOL weekend event. The two-day interactive cabaret symposium features master classes, panel discus…
By Melissa Griegel . . . The brain-child of Anthony Rapp (RENT) and Melissa Anelli, BroadwayCon returned to the Hilton Midtown from July 26 to 28 for it's ninth annual three-day celebration …
If you woke up today feeling like a giant roach, you'll be thrilled to learn that Kafkaesque!, a new musical comedy based on Franz Kafka's body of work, will play October 18-November 15, 202…
Complete casting has been finalized for the New York premiere of Jez Butterworth's new play The Hills of California, directed by Sam Mendes. The cast features the play's acclaimed leading Lo…
Molly Osborne will make her Broadway debut next spring as 'Desdemona' in William Shakespeare's Othello opposite Tony Award® winner and two-time Academy Award® winner Denzel Washington …
The Public Theater announced initial casting for Twelfth Night, directed by The Public's Associate Artistic Director/Resident Director Saheem Ali, which will reopen the revitalized Delacorte…
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Chris Jones. Rise Up! Broadway and American Society from…
The producers of  Gerard Alessandrini's newest edition FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: Merrily We Stole A Song have announced $30 tickets for all preview performances at its new home, Theater555 on W…
For the fall 2024 season, the Irish Repertory Theatre will present the North American Premiere of The Beacon by Nancy Harris (The Dry, 2023 BAFTA Writing Award and Somewhere Out There You), …
Negro Ensemble Company presents Unentitled By Charles White, Directed by Terrence I Mosley Set in the heady days of late 2008, with the Obama campaign as a backdrop, an upper-middle class Af…
The Green Room 42 will present the Broadway star Anthony Wayne, best known for the hit Mighty Real: A Fabulous Sylvester Musical, in his concert "…Just Me. Anthony Wayne: Live." His show i…
NEW YORK CITY CENTER today announced additional casting for the Annual Gala Presentation Ragtime, directed by Tony nominated Encores! Artistic Director Lear deBessonet. Joining the …
Vineyard Theatre Artistic Directors Sarah Stern and Douglas Aibel are pleased to announce two additional productions for the company's upcoming 42nd season. Vineyard's 2024-20…
Tony Award winner Matt Doyle (Company) and Max Clayton (Chicago, The Music Man, Moulin Rouge) will headline the annual New York Pops Underground cabaret performance on Monday, October 7, 202…
After its sold-out run at Brooklyn Academy of Music in winter 2024, the off-Broadway production Our Class, by Polish playwright Tadeusz Slobodzianek, will transfer to Classic Stage Company's…
By Brian Scott Lipton… Cabaret, like life, depends on expectations. If you're hoping to hear amazing singing from Tony Award winner Laura Benanti and her mother Linda in their new show "Mo…
Previews of Maybe Happy Ending now begin on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, with an opening night set for Tuesday, November 12, 2024, at the Belasco Theatre (111 West 44th Street). The date cha…
Theater Review by Michael Dale . . . With Manhattan temperatures regularly hitting the mid-90s this July, even the most serious-minded theatergoer is apt to be searching for frothier far…