Critic's Notebook: Sondheim Two Ways, From Judy Collins and Melissa Errico
New cabaret shows offer radically different takes on Stephen Sondheim's catalog.
New cabaret shows offer radically different takes on Stephen Sondheim's catalog.
The singer's sold-out solo show, "Springsteen on Broadway," was extended from Feb. 28 through June 30, 2018.
Many shows, like "Dear Evan Hansen," "Hello, Dolly!" and "Come From Away," set grosses records over the Thanksgiving week.
The Hypocrites, a freewheeling Chicago theater troupe, has taken its popular production of "The Pirates of Penzance" around the country. Now New Yorkers can sidle up to the tiki bar.
He-said, she-said ambiguities are certainly dramatic. But they also ignore hard truths that we need to hear right now.
Susan Miller's sweet but softhearted play finds old friends challenged when the photographer among them wants to display group images taken over 40 years.
The season will feature a project from the Civilians and a depiction of the Battle of the Sexes.
Revivals of plays by Ibsen and Wilde, and a new work about the young Karl Marx, find strong women chafing under the yoke of dominating men
Erykah Badu hosts the Soul Train Awards. And Sandra Bullock fights for survival in space in "Gravity."
Ayad Akhtar's play portrays the financial excesses of the 1980s " part of what he calls "a collapse of a collective vision" of America " in ways that evoke unsettling new thoughts.
Ms. Sevigny talks about starring in the new play, beating up stuffed animals for Pussy Riot and moving back to Manhattan.
A pair of magic shows set in unusual sites have even jaded New York audiences happily losing their minds.
Recent productions in the French capital examine the response to terrorism, deep loss and questions of national identity.
The theater wants New York's theater community to discuss and change what it calls the pervasive culture of sexual misconduct.
New musicals on London's stages include a merciless and compassionate "Follies," a revitalized "Young Frankenstein" and a timely saga of an aspiring drag queen.
Ms. Wedgeworth's characters were often flirtatious, maternal or a combination of both in plays like "Chapter Two" and films like "Steel Magnolias."
"It's a little freaky" how much the energetic actor Ethan Slater seems like the title character he plays in "SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical."
To capture the spirit of its relentlessly cheerful animated hero and his underwater world, a $20 million musical that "explodes off the stage."
Gemma Bond, the ballet dancer and choreographer, is the winner of this year's dance award. Theater winners will be announced on Jan. 8.
In collaboration with the French theater director Cyril Teste, Francis Kurkdjian helps a new "Festen" along with scents of woods, ash and memory.
Billy Crudup is having a blast as a Midwestern sad sack and his English alter ego in David Cale's one-man, double-life play at the Vineyard.
Despite the presence of "American Idol" winner Candice Glover, this limp revue of carols and pop songs isn't likely to bring much Yuletide cheer.
Seeing "Angels in America" in 1994 was the moment Mr. Porter, the Broadway star, realized he had to rethink his career path and chase a new dream.
Rehearsing "Describe the Night" in makeshift space after Hurricane Harvey reminded Rajiv Joseph that theater can help build community. And rebuild it.
Sarah DeLappe's remarkably assured first play, a group portrait of a girls' soccer team, is now at Lincoln Center Theater.