"I want you to close your eyes and remember your first puff puff pass," Baba Israel raps near the beginning of "Cannabis: A Viper Vaudeville," which is a fast-paced flashy rap concert and…
Judging from Robert Icke's adaptation, Aeschylus took the easy way out. In the Greek playwright's version of The Oresteia written 2,500 years ago " telling the story of the cycle of murder a…
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to, and the one you are least likely to attend. The list below is for shows that have opening dates on Broadway in October, November and Dec…
Like the magnets I collect from each show for my refrigerator, Broadway exerts a pull, but I also felt a push upon my return this past week to see  "Into The Woods" and "The Kite Runne…
There's an early sweet and funny scene in "The Kite Runner" that feels like a subconscious warning about how misbegotten this stage adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's 2003 best-selling novel…
"Into The Woods," the musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine currently back on Broadway in a wonderfully cast concert staging directed by Lear deBessonet, has always reminded me of the…
Theater has always involved risk, and pain, and they are often still viewed as necessary and good: "If you're just doing what you know works you can be great, but you won't get to the ineffa…
Why has there been so much conflict and conversation over a cast change on Broadway, a personnel decision in a Chicago theater, and a producer's late payroll for a musical that's just closed…
After skipping two summers because of the pandemics *, Broadway in Bryant Park, the free weekly lunchtime concerts by the casts from current Broadway shows, will return to Bryant Park with a…
Twenty-five women have portrayed Fanny Brice on Broadway* " a 26th, Lea Michele, takes over the role on September 6 " but, half a century before she became a character in the Jule Style musi…
Everybody seemed to have a colorful anecdote  about Tallulah Bankhead. She was said to have inspired the characters of Margo Channing in the film "All About Eve," Blanche DuBois in Ten…
Paul McCartney's planned new musical wouldn't be the first time an actual Beatle created something original for Broadway. But it would be wonderful. Three years ago, McCartney announced he w…
Two new plays and a new musical announced for Broadway this past week, and a fourth firmed up dates and theater, bringing the number of confirmed shows in the Broadway 2022-2023 season to 17…
Theater as we know it began outdoors, in amphitheaters such as the 2,500-year-old theater at Epidaurus, Greece, which was designed by the architect Polykleitos the Younger, and is still bein…
As a new season begins, the big questions posed in the best theater co-exist with a more immediate question: Are theatergoers safe? Starting last Friday, Broadway attendance requires neither…
"You don't own me," Lesley Gore sings, in one of the videos below of anthems, pop ballads and raps sung by women that have taken on a new, urgent meaning this Fourth of July, a holiday that …
How well were you paying attention to the news and its impact on theater this past month? Answer these dozen questions on abortion and masks and the Tonys, plus a bonus question on hybrid th…
Below is a selection of theater opening in New York in July, featuring two Broadway shows, a revival of Sondheim and Lapine's "Into the Woods" and a stage adaptation of "The Kite Runner,"…
Below is a list of theater books " recently published, soon-to-be published, or newly relevant " in four categories: Scripts and Play AnthologiesBiographies and MemoirsTheater History, Criti…
Below is my annual preview guide of Broadway openings in the 2022-2023 season, which features starry revivals of some of America's most acclaimed plays and musicals, new adaptations of belov…
The Broadway League will no longer require Broadway theatergoers to wear masks starting this Friday " not the most shocking decision announced last week, but like the Supreme Court rul…
Lot bristles at the label "special needs."Â Â He is a recluse and a self-trained artist who composed a song called "Weird" and collects trash to turn into sculpture. Yes, he says, he is …
The theater award season continues with nominations announced today by Broadway Black for its second Antonyo Awards, intended to honor extraordinary achievements in the Black theater communi…
Myles Frost of "MJ The Musical" AND Jared Grimes of "Funny Girl" both won the Chita Rivera Awards for outstanding male dancer in a Broadway show, one of two ties in the annual award given to…
The words "weird" or "weirdo" appear some two dozen times in "Corsicana," a play by Will Arbery which opens on Wednesday, and which co-stars Dierdre O'Connell, who last week (coincidentally …