The Montgomery bus boycott,  the Hollywood blacklist, and the lynching of Emmett Till were all current events when "Trouble in Mind" debuted Off-Broadway in 1955, and Alice Childress i…
Two plays are opening Off-Broadway tonight, one featuring a cast of five Black women, the other a cast of five Black men. Both are about Black people struggling to survive in the face of del…
The surprise of "Diana the Musical," which is opening tonight at the Longacre Theater, is that it's more enjoyable " better! " on Broadway than it is on Netflix, where a recording of this st…
The ads for Broadway have started to appear this week on digital screens and posters in the subway, as promised, recreating a 1977 campaign that intended to boost sales, and morale, at a sim…
One of the pleasures in this latest revival of "Morning's At Seven," a quietly funny and surprisingly astute evergreen comedy about four aging sisters and their families who live cheek by jo…
 "Assassins," the 30-year-old musical by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman about nine of the 13 people who have tried to kill an American president, is certainly clever; when is Sondheim …
 "The Ding Dongs" and "Is Edward Snowden Single?" are two of the three plays being presented in repertory at the New Ohio Theater through November 20th by The Pool, which is described as …
On Veterans Day, it's time to call up Adam Driver, three-year military veteran and three-time  Broadway veteran, who  understands the connection between soldiers and artists goes ba…
Like the title character in "Dear Evan Hansen," Andrew Norlen began with the idea of writing himself a letter " and then it just grew. In "When the Lights Are Bright Again: Letters and image…
Did the British invent musical theater? That's what the reader is told in "Pick a Pocket Or Two: A… History of British Musical Theatre" (Oxford University Press, 352 pages) by Ethan Mordde…
"The Theatrical Renaissance is here right now in this city, around the country and around the world" Ken Davenport proclaimed with breathless optimism in his welcome to the hundreds of virtu…
Watch Andrew Lloyd Webber below talking about his career, how he works, how he cures writer's block, why some shows work and others don't (clues: The Zeitgeist; timing), at the Theatermakers…
"Generation Rise" is being presented live on stage at New Victory Theater through November 14, billed as a show in which six New York teens voice their own experiences growing up in a global…
Andrew Lloyd Webber is not the only one who will be delivering his keynote address Sunday at the fifth annual Theatermakers Summit. Brandon Kazen-Maddox will be sharing the screen with him, …
Why did I have a far more muted reaction to "The Visitor," a well-acted, well-meaning new musical at the Public Theater about the friendship between a widowed economics professor and an immi…
I like "Morning Sun," which stars these three amazing actresses Edie Falco, Blair Brown and Marin Ireland, and I also hate it. Maybe that is a metaphorically apt reaction to this latest play…
It's Election Night, 1929, and Fiorello H. LaGuardia ("The Little Flower") is thundering against his opponent, the incumbent mayor, Jimmy ("Beau James") Walker, at their final mayoral debate…
There are at least three startling moments in Signature Theater's revised production of this 29-year-old play that each in a different way bolsters my conviction that Anna Deavere Smith is o…
Another injury has caused another delayed opening. Judith Ivey has had to drop out of the Off-Broadway revival of Paul Osborn's Morning's at Seven because of a torn tendon, and will…
Below is a day-by-day selection of New York theater that is scheduled to open in November, organized by opening date.* That includes six more Broadway shows, two of them reopening hits " …
Costumes, masks, makeup, macabre wit: Is there a difference between Halloween and the theater? Answer the ten questions to find out how well you paid attention to the theater on stage and of…
In "Brecht on Brecht," TBTBÂ Â presents a fascinating collage " more like a barrage " of the poems, stories, songs, plays, parables and sayings by the prolific and consequential German t…
If you had just graduated from college and learned for the first time that your mother got her start as a prostitute and made her fortune as the owner of a string of brothels, how would you …
As the title character of "Caroline, or Change," Sharon D. Clarke sings a breathtaking 11 o'clock number called "Lot's Wife" that sparks thunderous applause; the audience at Studio 54 is cle…
Six weeks after the hoopla greeting reopening night of four hit Broadway musicals, the longest-running show in Broadway history returned this week, heralded with a block party, DJ-ed by comp…