892 stories from Broadway & Me
You can usually tell within the first 10 minutes or so of seeing a show whether you're in good hands. And I knew right away that I was in very good hands when I saw Dead Outlaw, the first Au…
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We're now used to getting musicals based on movies but it's rarer for a straight play to be adapted from a film. However that's the case with The Hunt, which opened this week at S…
If I had access to a time machine one stop I'd make would be sometime around 1960 at Caffe Cino in Greenwich Village where young playwrights like John Guare, Sam Shepard and Lanford Wilson s…
Valentine's Day was celebrated this past week and the new show I Love You So Much I Could Die, which opened at New York Theatre Workshop on Feb. 14, struck me as an ultimate gesture of love.…
Journalists love stories about journalism. We even love the stories that cast us in a bad light. And I'll admit that's part of the reason that The Connector, which was inspired by the storie…
Sometimes you just don't get a show. Maybe its subject triggers you or fails to grab you at all. Maybe the playwright was trying to do too much or the director didn't do enough. Or maybe you…
Today is International Holocaust Memorial Day, which was created to commemorate the six million Jews and others who were systematically slaughtered by the Nazis. But New York theater makers …
Previews are all about the promise of what's to come so I suppose it's no surprise that the last time I posted a preview list of the shows I was excited about seeing in an upcoming season wa…
It's that time of year when people like me draw up Top 10 lists ranking the cultural experiences they've had over the past 12 months but, as some of you know, 2023 hasn't been a great year f…
To truly appreciate Melissa Etheridge: My Window, you may need to be a hardcore fan of the singer-songwriter or a member of Generation X, who was born between 1965 and 1980, grew up with Eth…
The news came this week that two titans of New York theater will be stepping down from the powerful perches on which they've long roosted. André Bishop who has lead Lincoln Center Theater s…
Somehow the weeks in July and August always seem to fly by more quickly than those during the rest of the year. And so here we are again at the end of the summer and, as I do every Labor Day…
Listening to the waves of laughter that greeted the new comedy The Shark is Broken made me wonder if we might be entering the era of jukebox plays that pander to the folks who love particula…
Why is Frank Wood, not just a stalwart of New York theater but a Tony winner, lying on the floor and playing a dying dog? That's the question I kept asking myself as I sat watching Toros, th…
It's 1998 and the five starting players for the Lady Train, the all-black girls basketball team in a small Arkansas town, aren't dirt poor or bougie rich. The problems they're dealing with a…
Like most theater obsessives, I take pride in my collection of experiences that give me bragging rights"I saw Hamilton at the Public before it was a hit! I saw Glory Days, which opened and c…
Happy Fourth of July Weekend! Time has been so slippery over these past three pandemic years and global warming is now playing such havoc with the weather that on some days just breathin…
Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and I go back a long way. I saw his first New York show down at P.S. 122 right after its director quit during previews and one of the actors published a pie…
Diversity is sometimes thought of as the vegetable of theatrical offerings: something that we theater lovers should include in the diet of things we consume because it's "good" for us. But m…
No review posting today but I'm thrilled to be able to share the news that Patrick Hoffman, the director and curator of The Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at New York's Library for the Per…
Regular readers will know that I usually post my reviews on Saturdays but I'm changing things up this week because the show I want to talk about has a short run and the performance I recentl…
And so it's begun. The last show of Broadway's 2022-23 season"a revival of The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window,Lorraine Hansberry's 1964 meditation on white allyship"opened on April 27. …
O.K., so here's the dilemma: when you revive a classic show that has problematic elements (and which of them doesn't?) should you keep it the way it was written or update it for modern sensi…
It somehow feels appropriate during this Easter-Passover weekend to note that a lot of shows both on and off Broadway have been wrestling with faith this season (click here to read more abou…
People always ask people like me"people who've been blessed with the opportunity to see lots and lots of shows"what our favorites are. I tend to hem and haw when it comes to plays (sometimes…
