82 stories from TheTheatreSource
Spending a long weekend with family can be described as many ways. Frightening, inspiring, boring, exciting and predictable are just a few choice words to characterize such a situation. Stic…
It is clear from Kim Cattrall's entrance onstage in Private Lives that the audience is in for a smart, sensual treat. Striding onto a balcony clad in nothing but a fluffy white bath towel, t…
Talk is anything but cheap in Seminar, Theresa Rebeck's new play currently in performances at the Golden Theater. Starring Alan Rickman as an acid-tongued literary professor teaching a class…
No actual blood is shed during a performance of Venus in Fur, the startling sex comedy written by David Ives and directed by Walter Bobbie, currently at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater. Starr…
A wonderful holiday gift has arrived on Broadway from Jon Robin Baitz, whose play Other Desert Cities has opened at the Booth Theater. After a critically-acclaimed run off-Broadway earlier i…
It may already be the name of a hit film but Lost in Translation would be a fitting title for David Henry Hwang's latest play, Chinglish, currently playing at the Longacre Theatre. A comedy …
Sometimes all you need is some good news. In today's world of economic troubles, Tea Party debates and Occupy Wall Street, a little bit of joy couldn't do any harm. Thankfully (thank whoever…
In a city of eight million people and endless possibilities, how can there be so many single men and women out there? Just ask Dr. Alex Schiller, sexual psychologist, musical therapist and f…
There is no awkward small talk at the Brooks Atkinson theater, where Relatively Speaking, a series of three one-act plays is currently in residence. Written by Ethan Coen, Elaine May and Woo…
The Roundabout Theater Company's production of Man and Boy, starring Frank Langella, is eerily representative of the present-day financial crisis that has wracked our country. Many different…
Actions may speak louder than words in some scenarios, but the same could not be said for The Submission, Jeffrey Talbott's timely, thought-provoking and deeply unsettling play currently in …
Watch out, Edward Cullen. There's a new vampire on the block. And this one isn't happy about it. There are no wisecracking high school students, and his skin doesn't sparkle. This vampire is…
A lovely scene has been staged at the Laura Pels Theater, courtesy of the Roundabout Theater. A picturesque villa filled with attractive people is onstage for your viewing pleasure. Unfortun…
"Never look back." This song lyric from the musical Follies is also a warning to each of the characters in the show. A love and hate letter to nostalgia, and one of Sondheim's richest…
Dan Heching was 25 and living in Paris when he was mugged. Six years later, the award-winning playwright has taken his experience and turned it into an original one act play. Sammy Gets Mugg…
The battle of the sexes is a timeless topic explored in drama. However, when presented in a fresh and inventive way, it can provide a thought-provoking night at the theater. All's Well That …
Some see life through rose-colored glasses, and others see it with crystal clear vision. The Illusion, the final production in the Signature Theater Company's season of works by Tony Kushner…
A Minister's Wife, a chamber musical in performances at the Mitzi Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center, is reminiscent of a delicately decorated candied bon-bon " sweet, lovely and absolutely …
Parenthood, the eternal subject of entertainment, is considered from both perspectives " parents without children and parents of a newborn baby " in Cradle and All, a surprisingly poignant a…
It's finally opened. And no, it's not as good or as bad as everyone says it is. The infamous musical Spider-Man " Turn Off the Dark has officially opened on Broadway after 183 previews, two …
The 65th Tony Awards were held on Sunday, June 12th at the Beacon Theater in New York. The big winners of the night were The Normal Heart, War Horse and The Book of Mormon. The Normal Heart …
It's an oldie, but it's not a goodie. Baby It's You!, the latest jukebox musical to appear on Broadway is a formulaic, synthetic and flat-out boring musical and an unfortunate vehicle for th…
"Donna Murphy is not human, she's not human," my friend sang as we walked out of Studio 54 after seeing The People in the Picture. I couldn't disagree. A new musical, with a book and lyrics …
Some pieces of drama are timeless. Classic works like Long Day's Journey into Night, tragedies like Macbeth or Hamlet and comedies like A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum remain …
