Not every semipopular movie from the last half century needs to get the stage musical treatment. That's the takeaway from the lukewarm mess that is Romy & Michele: The Musical, which tur…
The producers of the big-hearted new country-pop musical Beau have turned the subterranean black-box space at Off Broadway's St. Luke's Theater into a Nashville tavern/concert space, complet…
Early on in her brave and bravura solo performance piece Did You Eat? ((ë°¥ 먹었니?), Zoë Kim lulls you into thinking that hers will be a typical immigrant's yarn about g…
There are throwbacks and then there's The Art of Leaving, a new one-act comedy that could pass for a middling revival of a Neil Simon knockoff from a half century ago. The characters in Anne…
Ethan Coen, whose best known for his Oscar-winning film work with his older brother, Joel, brings his distinct sensibility to Let's Love!, a collection of three short playlets that are less …
We're all familiar with the sketches that air during the final half hour of Saturday Night Live, the ones that start with a half-decent premise but outstay their welcome and only cling to ou…
There's an old adage that actors should work hard to make their performance seem effortless. Ari'el Stachel doesn't do that " but he offers a solid excuse in his labor-intensive one-man show…
When Ragtime was first staged in the mid-1990s, it embodied a certain post-Reagan excess with producer Garth Drabinksy's elaborate, budget-busting staging (fireworks! a working Model T!) and…
Jordan E. Cooper, who delivered a satirical wake-up call to the theater world with his extended sketch comedy Ain't No Mo', is back with a new play. Oh Happy Day!, which is billed as a "sauc…
The appeal of classics is how they continue to speak to us across the centuries. Molière's 1664 comedy Tartuffe is a telling example, offering both acute insights into religious hypocrisy a…
Dylan Mulvaney, the transgender performer best known for an ill-fated 2023 branding deal with Bud Light that created a media firestorm that led to boycotts of the beer, embraces all of her m…
Monet Hurst-Mendoza's Torera, which opened Sunday at the WP Theater, simulates the experience of binge-watching a telenovela-style saga set in the world of a Mexican bullfighting. The twisty…
Why settle for one stand-up routine when you can deliver The First Three Minutes of 17 Shows? That's the high-concept premise of American-born comedian Abby Wambaugh's delightfully daffy, su…
Homecomings can be a tricky thing, as Chloë Grace Moretz's Maddie learns in Preston Max Allen's new drama Caroline. After fleeing home as a teenager amid drug-fueled rebellion, stealing f…
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…