Theater is evanescent; that's part of its appeal. The one exception seemed to be "The Phantom of the Opera." But this week the musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and directed by Harold …
Sometimes the set design is the best thing about a Broadway show. I thought that about "Moulin Rouge," which won Derek McLane his second Tony Award for set design. Sometimes the sets are wha…
It's a shock, but it probably shouldn't be. "The Phantom of the Opera," the longest-running show in Broadway history, will close on February 18th, shortly after commemorating its 35TH ANNIVE…
On the third day of her three-week trip to New York City, the ten-year-old Syrian refugee, and 12-foot-tall puppet, visits Father Duffy Square in Times Square, where she looks over the TKTS …
FDR knew. In 1943, Jan Karski told President Roosevelt firsthand about the Holocaust, after Karski, a Polish diplomat turned Resistance fighter had been smuggled into both the Warsaw Ghetto …
Little Amal, a ten-year-old Syrian refugee and a 12-foot-tall puppet, has traveled 6,000 miles since July 2021, arriving today in New York City, first at JFK Airport, for 55 events over seve…
Sheryl Lee Ralph gave an acceptance speech for the ages when she won the Emmy award last night for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as the veteran kindergarten …
The first four new Broadway shows of the Fall season begin performances this week, although they won't officially open until next month.  Two more shows were added to the Broadway 2022…
Machine Dazzle walks with me through some 80 of his fabulously intricate costumes on display at the opening day of his solo exhibition at the Museum of Art and Design, to one of some two doz…
Walt Disney is pissed. "Why the hell would anybody need to unionize at a place like this? We got volleyball!" "Burbank," a play by  Cameron Darwin Bossert at The Wild Project through Sept…
Queen Elizabeth II, who died yesterday at the age of 96, commanded the world stage during her 70-year reign. She was also a character on theatrical stages " in Great Britain of course, but a…
In 1999, three physicists took a train from Cambridge to London, and in their discussion on that hour-long trip came up with a new theory about the origin of the universe, an alternate vi…
"My Onliness" is billed as "a fable/cabaret/circus entertainment about a mad king's desperate attempt to impress a mysterious petitioner" " a description that doesn't completely capture the …
Adele and Paul McCartney were among the winners of the Creative Arts Emmys announced over the weekend, which means, for an EGOT (Emmy Grammy Oscar Tony), they only now need…a Tony…
Where are the American plays about labor? About unions, or workers, or workplaces? I've been asking that question every Labor Day,  a legal holiday created by Congress in 1884 to c…
A theater quiz that marks the end of summer, a relatively fallow period that gives theatergoers time to look back at the season just passed, and forward to the season ahead. Half of the ten …
Below is a selection of theater opening in New York in September, when Elmo won't just be on the streets of Times Square, but on an Off-Broadway stage, while the twelve-foot tall puppet L…
"Too much of what is happening in our country today is not normal. Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic," President Jo…
In the Korean version of Cinderella, the evil stepmother kills Cinderella and throws her into the river. But that's not the end: Cinderella magically comes back to life and, with the help of…
"All the world's a stage, and everybody's in the show, nobody's a pro," Shaina Taub, dressed in patch-quilt overalls, sings in the first moments of her spirited and enchanting musical adapta…
The news of a new Kander and Ebb musical with Lin-Manuel Miranda added to a thrilling Broadway 2022-2023 still in formation. But equally tantalizing were the full season announcements las…
" Robot Infidèle"  is a nearly-wordless, hour-long show that's being presented for just three nights (ending tonight), at Little Island, the odd new pier and public park with…
Below are videos of some of the performances in the last Broadway in Bryant Park lunchtime concert of Summer 2022. The hour-long concert began with an acrobatic and musical "pre-show" perfor…
The cast of "A Strange Loop" performed four songs from the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning musical at the final Broadway in Bryant Park lunchtime concert of Summer 2022. Below are vide…