The recipe for Fairycakes: Start with a cast of beloved New York stage actors known for their comic flair (Julie Halston, Anne Harada, Jackie Hoffman, et al), stick rhyming couplets in their…
In "Best Life," two strangers start talking to one another (or at least at each other) while sitting at different tables in a café. Lourdes, a Black woman (Cherrye J. Davis), says: "An …
The Vineyard Theater has launched its Fall Forward Festival with the first two of the five planned  "new works of alternative theater," according to its website, works that promise to …
After my tickets to "Lackawanna Blues" were canceled twice because Ruben Santiago-Hudson, the author, director and star of this autobiographical solo show, had injured his back, I searched f…
Do chimpanzees fall in love? Can human couples really stay madly in love after many years, and can a brain scan prove it?  Will theatergoers still love digital theater now that in-pers…
""You're a singular talent, Billy. Nobody knows what to do with you.'"And there it is again"the smoke up my ass…Singular talent without a gig don't pay the rent, and a bitch needs to eat."…
There were five Broadway openings (and reopenings) this week, in what promises to be the oddest and busiest Broadway season in memory. There are now 51 shows on the Broadway 2021-2022 season…
"Dana H." is unlike any play you've ever seen on Broadway. It's 75 minutes of an actress sitting on a chair, lip-syncing to a tape of a woman recounting the horrific story of a deranged crim…
The country has changed in the two and a half years since The Lehman Trilogy came to America, wowing audiences at the Park Avenue Armory with a theatrical epic, inventively staged and ext…
"Thoughts of a Colored Man,"  Keenan Scott II's often powerful, often entertaining debut Broadway play about a day in the life of seven Black men in Brooklyn,  is performed by a …
Rajiv Joseph's epistolary play begins with some meager clues to the mysteries at its heart " a stack of letters from a man named Suresh, and an origami sculpture of a bird " before it slowly…
"Booster" has taken on a new meaning in the age of COVID, which Broadway has embraced in its own way. Some 250 people have been hired (so far) to serve as safety team members in Broadway the…
Much is improbable about "Is This A Room," starting with the name of the real-life whistleblower who's the subject of the play (Reality Winner), and the fact that she received a stupefyingly…
Beverly Jenkins doesn't wear black to her father's funeral. "We already Black! We should be honoring my Daddy in style, COLOR! Hell, canary yellow was his favorite, and he wore it l…
 "Hit Your Mark, Die Beautiful" lured me in because it was being promoted as a "Waiting for Guffman" for Off Off Broadway, which I took to mean a comic but affectionate look at how bad Ne…
"Divorced. Beheaded. Died. Divorced. Beheaded. Survived." The first six words of "Six" sum up the fate of each of King Henry VIII's six wives. The first six minutes of "Six" (the length of t…
If you think that reopening has solved the problems of New York's theaters and theater artists, listen up: "We're talking about life and death: The life and death of our neighborhoods; the l…
In what may be the busiest October for theater in generations, there are fifteen shows scheduled to open on Broadway, more than half of which are new, as well as much Off and Off Off Broadwa…
In "Chasing Jack," nothing is as it seems. That's true of Dr. Jack Chase, the heart surgeon who is being sued for malpractice after his patient died on the operating table. And it's true of …
"The Nosebleed," Aya Ogawa's sly, strange and ultimately rewarding autobiographical play that's at the Japan Society through October 10, focuses on Ogawa's long-dead father and their failed …
Below is a day-by-day selection of the theater that is scheduled to open in October, organized by opening date*, including fifteen shows on Broadway, more than half of which are new, as w…
How well were you paying attention to a very busy theater month? Answer these ten question to find out. Loading…
Aunt Sonia, who is gathering the whole clan for one last meal before she ends her life, looks different from when I last saw her. She once was just a huge head, with a mouth that seemed p…
Bedlam's return to live in-person theater with its new adaptation of Jane Austen's romantic final novel " about a woman who meets once again the man whose proposal of marriage she rejected e…
In this slight musical comedy with an on-the-nose title, Broadway veteran Bryonha Marie Parham portrays a fading diva named Regina Comet who hires two aspiring jingle writers (Alex Wyse and …