5,293 stories from New York Theater
They all look pregnant, their bellies as big as the basketball they're dribbling and shooting at the beginning ofCandrice Jones's play "Flex."  But four of these five high school se…
Lady Torrance and Valentine Xavier, two would-be innocents who feel corrupted and brutalized by circumstance, meet on his thirtieth birthday, after he's spent his youth as a drifter and a se…
SAG-AFTRA, the union representing more than 160,000 film and television actors, last Friday joined the picket lines with the 11,000 members of the Writers Guild, who have been on strik…
In "Theater Camp," Ben Platt and Mary Gordon as camp counselors Amos and Rebecca-Diane confront a 12-year-old camper who's just delivered an intense emotional performance during a rehearsal …
Below is a selection of New York theater opening* in July, presented in a day-by-day calendar, including two Broadway shows,  David Byrne and Fatboy Slim's "Here Lies Love" arguably…
How well were you paying attention to theater news this past month? Answer these ten questions to find out. Plus: An impossibly challenging bonus question. Loading…
It's evident as soon as John Douglas Thompson opens his mouth as King Claudius that director Kenny Leon's production of "Hamlet," running for free at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park…
George Salazar, who sang the show-stopper "Michael in the Bathroom" in "Be More Chill" on Broadway, was one of more than two dozen performers to join the Tony-nominated composer of "Be More …
Below is a manageable list of theater books " recently published or soon to be" that look to be good summer reads. These are mostly memoirs and biographies of fascinating playwrights and per…
When I first saw Yeshiva-educated stand-up comic Alex Edelman's solo show about his attendance at a meeting of white supremacist antisemites, it didn't occur to me to compare him to Daniel i…
Three Broadway plays are closing next Sunday, July 2: Fat HamPrima FacieThe Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window  " and four more Broadway shows are closing during the summer: Life of Pi and …
Below is an alphabetical listing of the 8 Broadway plays or musicals currently running (two of them only until next week!) that feature LGBTQ+ characters " some centrally, some peripherally;…
Sheldon Harnick, who died this morning at the age of 99, was a lyricist best-known for "Fiddler on the Roof," but it was just one of the musicals he wrote with Jerry Bock. In the first video…
One more time indeed!  Like "& Juliet," this jukebox musical features songs made popular by Britney Spears; like "Bad Cinderella,"  its central character is a rebellious vers…
Broadway in Bryant Park, the free weekly lunchtime concerts performed by the casts from current Broadway shows, has announced its schedule for Thursdays in July. Below the schedule are vi…
John Rubinstein, a Tony-winning theater veteran who made his Broadway debut 51 years ago originating the role of Pippin, a cheerful curly-haired young prince looking forward to a life of adv…
Fifteen years after Mike Daisey created a show called "How Theater Failed America" he provides a blunt update in the essay below: Nothing has changed and, after COVID, former theatergoers "h…
"Raisin in the Sun" was the first play that Kenny Leon directed on Broadway and it offered plenty of parallels with his own childhood in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he was met with hostil…
There have been no shortage of fathers on Broadway.  "Life with Father," Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse's adaptation of the stories by Clarence Day Jr., which ran from 1939 to 194…
The dramatic incident that propels "The Doctor" is clear: A Jewish physician refuses to allow a Catholic priest to administer last rites to a 14-year-old girl who is dying from sepsis after …
Watch the short video below of the world celebrating Bloomsday once again today, June 16th " the (very long) day in 1904 that James Joyce's novel Ulysses chronicles in the life of the …
The breathtaking performances by Brian d'Arcy James and Kelli O'Hara in "The Days of Wine and Roses" are enough justification for this stage adaptation of the sad, dark story about a couple …
More than two decades in the making, PAC NYC, the performing arts center at the World Trade Center site, which will have an official ribbon-cutting September 13, today announced its inaugura…
You saw the musical numbers on the Tonys Sunday and thought: That looks great, maybe I should get a ticket. But what of the straight plays that (as usual) didn't get showcased? That's why I …
The 76th annual Tony Awards, which crowned Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt as best play and Kimberly Akimbo by David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori as best musical (complete list of winner…
