The Broadway 2021-2022 season ended last week with five shows opening in a row (two on the same day!), a taxing finish to a both trying and triumphant return to live, in-person theater. And …
"English" won outstanding play, "Kimberly Akimbo" won outstanding musical, as well as outstanding performer and featured performer in a musical, and "Twilight Los Angeles 1992" won best revi…
Below is a day-by-day calendar of a selection of shows opening in May, a month that gives Off-Broadway and indie theater their time in the sun after the end of the 2020-2021 Broadway season.…
Shakespeare didn't write the very beginning and the very end of this generally wan and inscrutable production of "Macbeth," starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga. The aggressively inventive d…
In "POTUS," seven female characters  save the president of the United States from himself during a series of scandals and crises on a single day in the White House " at the same time t…
In "Mr. Saturday Night," opening on Broadway tonight, Billy Crystal stars as a very funny comedian who decades ago self-sabotaged, and is now trying to make a comeback.  The show itsel…
"A Strange Loop," Michael R. Jackson's  "Big, Black and Queer-Ass American Broadway Show," as the characters in the musical itself repeatedly call it, has changed since I saw it Off-Br…
"The Lehman Trilogy," "Harmony" and "Kimberly Akimbo received the most nominations in the 71st annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, announced this morning. The winners will be announced on Â…
A startling moment occurs near the beginning of Lincoln Center's  wonderfully over-the-top production of "The Skin of Our Teeth," Thornton Wilder's weird play about a modern-day Americ…
Below are the nominations for the 88th annual Drama League Awards, which were announced this morning by Denée Benton and André De Shields. The awards ceremony, open to the public, wi…
The Tony Award nominations will be announced May 9th (changed from May 3rd), as the eligibility cut off has been changed to May 4th (it was April 28th) to give the nominators the chance to s…
"Funny Girl," a revival of which opened tonight on Broadway, is supposed to be a musical about Fanny Brice, the singing comedienne who was a star of the Ziegfeld Follies on Broadway for some…
Earth Day is officially April 22nd, but it's being celebrated on Broadway, Saturday April 23rd, when the 30 blocks of Broadway between Union Square and Times Square will be closed to vehi…
"Hangmen," Martin McDonagh's black comedy about an ex-executioner, which opens tonight on Broadway, had a run Off-Broadway four years ago with the same director and the same design team. But…
It's taken more than 45 years for Ntozake Shange's theatrical evening of narrative and lyrical poetry, dance, and song to return to Broadway's Booth Theater….and for me finally to un…
This is a play about child abuse. Strip away the humor, the artful metaphors, the theatrical craftsmanship and the empathy, and "How I Learned to Drive" is the story of a pedophile, alcoholi…
Broadway theaters will no longer be required to check vaccination status of theatergoers after April 30th, but they will require theatergoers to continue to wear masks past at least until Ma…
"Democracy's messy," the mayor, portrayed by Tracy Letts, says to the newest member of the Big Cherry City Council, Mr. Peel (Noah Reid.) But messy is too mild a word for the goings-on in "T…
Below are the various discounts offered by the shows that have opened or are about to open (or reopen) on Broadway in Spring 2022, listed alphabetically. These are the official ways to get t…
In this third Broadway revival of David Mamet's "American Buffalo," which feels like at least one revival too many, Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell, and Darren Criss portray three low-life …
The Comedian Harmonists, the singing group whose story is told in "Harmony," Barry Manilow's long-gestating musical, were as popular as the Beatles in their time and place. But their time an…
What's most cringeworthy about "To My Girls" is not that, in an era of "they/them," the group of gay men in their late 30s who meet for a weekend in Palm Springs are all "She needs a cocktai…
"What is essential is invisible to the eye," a fox tells the little prince. "It's only visible to the heart." The line is from Antoine de Saint-Exupery's beloved 1943 novella, "The Little Pr…
Positive COVID-19 tests caused the cancellation last week of four Broadway shows, two of them still in previews, presenting a test of the enthusiasm for the April line-up (celebrated by the …
 In "Birthday Candles," opening on Broadway tonight,  Debra Messing portrays Ernestine, a woman who we see celebrating her birthdays from age 17 to age 107 by baking a cake.  …