It's only been two years since Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera ended its 35-year run on Broadway but the beloved sung-through musical that once carried the tagline "Now and Foreve…
How do we make sense of a senseless act? James Graham's searing and unforgettable new drama, Punch, digs into a real-life incident in Nottingham, England in 2011 when a 19-year-old hooligan …
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, who famously played stoner time travelers in the Bill & Ted comedies 35 years ago, were not high on anyone's list to tackle the philosophizing tramps Estrag…
Ireland can never seem to outlive the long, dark legacy of The Troubles " a period that looms large in Leo McGann's often gripping new thriller, The Honey Trap, which opened Sunday at the Ir…
Tim Blake Nelson, the beloved character actor best known for his work in Coen Brothers films like O Brother, Where Art Thou? and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, continues his foray into playwr…
Much ink has been spilled about Rupert Murdoch, the Australian born media mogul who at 94 remains an influential force in politics and society who's become a hero to the right and a bogeyman…
John Leguizamo is no stranger to live theater, but he's best known for solo shows like Spic-O-Rama and the 2018 Tony winner Latin History for Morons. His new play, premiering at the Public T…
How do we face the apocalyptic horrors of climate change? If you're Stacey Gross, the Fresno, California, TV weather reporter at the center of Brian Watkins' frenetically funny new one-woman…
The teen coming-out story has become an all-too-familiar genre, but Saturday Church updates the form with surprising club beats as well as a starry creative team that hail from the worlds of…
Theater can be a powerful force, both for education and entertainment. The electric new two-man musical Mexodus, which opened at Audible's Minetta Lane Theatre following a successful run las…
It's easy to see why actors are drawn to the showy comedic roles in Yasmina Reza's zippy three-man comedy Art, which is getting a zippy, high-profile revival on Broadway nearly three decades…
Charles Ludlam was a pioneering figure in queer theater in the 1980s with campy send-ups of classic works (Satyricon in Turds in Hell, Hamlet in Stage Blood) as well as Old Hollywood (like h…
Two years after Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, in which a community rejects a truth-telling Cassandra in their midst warning about a public health scandal unfolding in their town's b…
Otis Redding's "Try a Little Tenderness" features prominently in Tarell Alvin McCraney's The Brothers Size, and for good reason. The play, which I first saw in 2009 as the middle section of …
The best part of House of McQueen, a paean to the late fashion designer Alexander McQueen, doesn't even occur on the stage of the cavernous new Off Broadway venue dubbed the Mansion at Hudso…
Huzzah! Shakespeare in the Park has returned to Central Park's newly refurbished Delacorte Theater " the perfect venue to celebrate one of the city's most remarkable and entirely free amenit…
Jeff Ross has earned the moniker "Roastmaster General" for a brand of insult comedy he's honed on stage and in multiple Comedy Central specials over the years. But he proves himself to be a …
Nobody could mistake Mamma Mia! for high art. Cardboard-cutout characters vamp through a ridiculous romantic plot, while beloved disco-era ABBA hits are shoehorned in often as clumsily as Ci…
It's easy to see why Elizabeth McGovern might have been drawn to the story of Ava Gardner, another American actress who found Hollywood fame in her 20s and 30s and then moved to London as th…
Quincy Tyler Bernstine, one of the finest actors of her generation, is the heart and soul of Bubba Weiler's transcendent new drama Well, I'll Let You Go, which opened Thursday in a magnifice…
Frank Maya was a true pioneer, arguably one of the first out gay American comics to reach a mainstream audience. In the early '90s, he appeared on MTV and landed a half-hour special on Comed…
Parody is a tricky art form. Off Broadway iterations like Ginger Twinsies, an unauthorized sendup of the 1998 Nancy Meyers family comedy The Parent Trap, seem to thrive on inside jokes but n…
Rolling Thunder, which opened Thursday at New World Stages, is a curious exercise in boomer nostalgia " a jarring blend of jukebox musical and tribute-band concert that evokes the Vietnam er…
We're in a wonderful moment when the stand-up set as a form is open to radical reinterpretation by talents as diverse as Hannah Gadsby, Tig Notaro, James Acaster, and more. The latest innova…
The opening number of Joy, a new bio-musical about the QVC-famous Miracle Mop inventor Joy Mangano, is a marvel of narrative concision. In short strokes set to composer-lyricist Annmarie Mil…