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Both Tambo and Bones are dressed in the clownish rags of minstrel show performers, while Tambo is explaining to Bones how to get white people to give up their quarters: "You gotta deliver a …
It's been a busy week for New York theater. See the seven reviews below, from "MJ" on Broadway and "The Tap Dance Kid" to "Shhhh" and "The Hang" downtown; and not one but two shows adapted i…
When the publicists for the Broadway revival of "The Music Man" starring Hugh Jackman announced that theater critics had to see the show on opening night, the pushback might have baffled peo…
There are two heartbreaking moments in "Intimate Apparel,"Â Â one exquisite, the other devastating, that eventually won me over to this production at Lincoln Center. But much earlier I s…
In "The Tap Dance Kid," a young  Black girl named Emma wants to be a lawyer " prescient for a Broadway musical that debuted in 1983; that would make the character just about the right …
"The Hang" is terrific entertainment. It is a jazz opera, performed by a wondrous nine-member ensemble and versatile eight-piece band,  with an intensely sensual score by Matt Ra…
"With respect, I wanna keep this about my music,"Â Michael Jackson (Myles Frost) says near the start of "MJ The Musical." And that's what this show, opening tonight on Broadway, certainly …
The best thing to be said about these two new theatrical works is also the worst thing " that their exploration of antisemitism is well-timed and necessary. If they have little else in commo…
Only once does anyone call anything "disgusting" in "Shhhh,"Â Â a play written, directed and starring Clare Barron that seems designed to make theatergoers uncomfortable*. Kyle (Greg Kel…
"The Gilded Age," the HBO series that began last week, employs an army of Broadway veterans to make a 19th century New York City version of "Downton Abbey" (both series were created by Julia…
Below is a day-by-day selection of theater openings scheduled for February organized by opening date*, featuring two big Broadway musicals " MJ the Musical and The Music Man " and a bu…
Answer the ten questions to find out how well you paid attention to the goings-on in New York theater in the month of January, some of it unprecedented. Loading…
As Faye, Phylicia Rashad has lost her health, her house, her family, and is in danger of losing the job she's held for 29 years. "I'm runnin' on soul now Reggie," she tells her foreman. "…
Below are the videos of five entries in the sixth annual Exponential festival, which has gone completely digital this year and largely loopy.  I've written brief reviews, but I try to …
The current rise of antisemitism is suddenly getting stage time. Last week: "Witness,"Â Â which explored the doomed 1939 voyage of the German Jewish refugees aboard the St. Louis and exp…
In "Addressless,"Â Â the audience helps three characters navigate the tricky path to getting an affordable apartment in New York City. This is a daunting challenge for anyone. But it's a…
In "Reopening: The Broadway Revival," an hour-long documentary on PBS that's a bit painful and embarrassing to watch, actor Andrew Rannells compares the start of the shutdown of Broadw…
Broadway Week launches today, but this has not been Broadway's week.  Two more Broadway shows joined "Mrs. Doubtfire" in announcing a hiatus. "To Kill A Mockingbird" ended its run S…
Below is a recording and the text of a sermon that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered on February 4 1968 at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia exactly two months before h…
The night I saw "Witness," a rabbi and several members of his congregation were being held hostage in a synagogue near Fort Worth, Texas. The live scene of the police gathered on the street …
Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand do Shakespeare….online. Uzo Aduba is villainous simultaneously on Broadway…and online. A celebration of Sondheim; horrid, strange and theatrical m…
Kevin R. Free, who is one of the busiest theater artists I know" actor, playwright, director, producer, mentor, teacher, audiobook narrator " has taken on two new jobs…. both of them artis…
Trudy, a crazy bag lady who is one of the 11 characters that Cecily Strong portrays in this one-woman play originally performed by Lily Tomlin, tells us she brought her "space chums" " alien…
Given all the cancellations and delays caused by the Omicron variant surge (see news below),  digital theater is suddenly looking good again (see reviews below.) If the theater news th…