Alex Edelman was a winner at the 76th annual Emmys for "Just for Us," in Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special, which this year could be considered the 2024 Emmy Awards theater cat…
Among the dozens of categories at the 76th Emmy Awards, which will be broadcast tonight live on ABC, one is virtually a theater award. True, it's virtually, not officially. Three of the n…
Counting and Cracking" tells the story of four generations of one family from Sri Lanka "Â Â once called Ceylon, an island nation off the coast of India " whose later generations were fo…
"The Roommate" is like a female "The Odd Couple" that's more odd and less funny, and worth a Broadway production for two reasons: Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone. The show tacitly acknowledges t…
The opening of the new performing arts center at the World Trade Center site a year ago has done what the rebuilders had hoped it would, at least for me. On the twenty-third anniversary o…
A dozen cartoonists offer their take on the Presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, which is happening tonight for 90 minutes starting at …
James Earl Jones, the shy kid from Arkabutla, Mississippi who grew up to be an commanding actor of the stage and screen for some seven decades " so admired as a stage actor that he had a Bro…
Everything these days is debatable. Politics of course: Tuesday night the Presidential candidates are debating. But theater too. The Broadway Fall season begins two days after the debate, wi…
About halfway through "Life and Trust,"  a mammoth site-specific show that is set spectacularly in the heart of the Financial District,  I was rewarded with the immersive theate…
As the Fall season begins, pick your top three choices out of the 16 shows that are currently scheduled to open  on Broadway in September, October, November and December 2024. The show…
There was a time when Billy Rose " Broadway producer, impresario, lyricist, columnist, and all-around theatrical showman " was a leading figure on Broadway. Born 125 years ago on September 6…
Audra McDonald as Madame Rose; Robert Downey Jr's Broadway debut; Elton John's first new Broadway musical in a dozen years. It's hard to resist the lure of the big musicals and starry debuts…
Broadway Week, a two-for-one ticket discount to current Broadway shows, begins today, the start of a busy month and a starry season.  In September alone, three Broadway shows are op…
Labor Day means something different to Colm Summers, the new artistic director of  Working Theater, a New York company about to launch its fortieth season as (in the words of their mis…
Below is a selection of theater opening* in New York in September, Including three new plays on Broadway " featuring the Broadway debut of Robert Downey Jr., and the return of Patti LuPon…
How well were you following the theater in August? By theater this month, that includes political theater, as well as the past and future on stage, not just the present. Answer the quiz belo…
 Following up on the recent Broadway revival of his Tony and Pulitzer-winning play "Doubt" and his new Off-Broadway hit "Brooklyn Laundry," John Patrick Shanley has written another new p…
It would be silly to dismiss "Hurricane Season" just because the production has no curtain call, and the cast is made to work during the entire intermission, performing a kind of robotic con…
"It used to be a time when the movement was spearheaded by young people….putting their lives on the line. Now, they just put their lives online." It's a line in "Good Trouble" by Anthony T…
"Humanity is on the ballot, y'all. Please don't be complacent, because otherwise we're cooked," Billy Porter said to an estimated 3,000 people who attended an hour-long Zoom call organized b…
The most stageworthy news of the past week, let's face it, were the speeches at the Democratic National Convention. "…the miracles of democracy and community": AOC at the DNC, video an…
" i am calling on all you independents and all you undecideds. Â¥ou know this is true. You know I am telling you the truth. That values and character matter most of all. In leadership and …
 Before Doug Emhoff explained the embarrassing moment that led to his first date with Kamala Harris, he began his speech at the 2024 Democratic National Convention by introducing his "big…
"For years, Donald Trump did everything in his power to try to make people fear us," Michelle Obama said at Day 2 of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, talking about herself and her hu…
"Six years ago, I was taking omelette orders as a waitress in New York City. I didn't have health insurance. My family was fighting off foreclosure and we were struggling with bills after my…