Mayor Bill de Blasio said this morning that the city plans to "fully reopen New York City on July 1… We are ready for stores to open, for businesses to open, offices, theaters " full stren…
Watch "A Mother's Rite," a 40-minute film of an original dance by Jeremy McQueen's Black Iris Project starring Courtney Celeste Spears of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, which is availab…
Yes it's true that Frances McDormand howled like a wolf during one of her acceptance speeches for "Nomadland," which won Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress (her), and Glenn Close d…
Best Picture "Nomadland" Best Director Chloé Zhao, "Nomadland" Best Actress Frances McDormand, Nomadland Best Actor Anthony Hopkins, The Father Best Supporting Actor Daniel Kaluuya, "Judas …
Watch 90 seconds from "West Side Story," Steven Spielberg's first movie musical, scheduled for released in movie theaters in December, starring g Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler as Tony…
The 93rd annual Academy Awards take place tonight, so it seems a good time to test your knowledge of Broadway at the Oscars, both this year's and throughout its history. Loading…
I've viewed and recommend the following five plays and a musical that are still available, though two of them only through this weekend. (For theater that is opening this weekend, check o…
Viewers may first be drawn to Clubbed Thumb's "The Woman's Party" because of the fascinating, little-known history it dramatizes, but another reason becomes immediately clear: It's terrific …
Is this the right time for a work of theater that explores the aftereffect of gun violence and bigotry and a flawed criminal justice system? Sure.  How about one that compares Jewish h…
Like many a performer, Jan Damm has been climbing the walls during the pandemic, but he did it literally. After live performances dried up, he started creating at-home skits for the Bindlest…
In "Two Sisters and a Piano," Jimmy Smits plays a lieutenant in the Cuban army in 1991 who is supposed to keep tabs on the two women (Daphne Rubin-Vega and Florencia Lozano) who are under ho…
"Into The Woods" was "a huge smash hi," when it opened on Broadway in 1987, we're told in the ten-minute video below, the latest from the "Encores! Inside the Revival." Given that the video …
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris spoke after the jury in the trial of Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd convicted him on all three counts, including two for murd…
There are so many productions opening/being announced now that it feels as overwhelming as any April (even moreso, since BroadwayCon 2021 went virtual over the weekend, which you can still w…
It was sunny on the roof of the Empire Hotel overlooking Lincoln Center when more than a dozen dancers today from Broadway and ballet and modern dance companies took a break from a dark year…
As the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota is nearing its end, Studio Theatre of D.C. today debuts a new streaming production …
"The Wandering," which its creators bill as an immersive theatrical experience inspired by the music of the 19th century classical composer Franz Schubert " "part visual album, part qu…
Before she wrote the libretto and then the screenplay for "In The Heights," before she became the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright of "Water By The Spoonful," Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes create…
In "Shadow/Land," the opening play of Erika Dickerson-Despenza's projected ten-play-cycle  about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, Ruth has come by on August 29, 2005 to pick up her…
"It's a song that I wrote about coming out of lockdown, with some much needed optimism,"Â Mick Jagger announced today in a statement about his new pandemic anthem, Easy Sleazy. "Thanks to …
Ten days into the much ballyhooed reopening, April has been as busy a month for theater as it usually is " I've seen a play every day this week (see my reviews)" but the April overload is du…
Babette, like Garbo, just wants to be alone. The legendary French courtesan has retired to her country estate,  designed for "trading the sins of lust for a more relaxed sin of sloth,"…
When Amber Iman was asked to perform on Broadway as part of NYPopsUp, "I began to freak out." The pressure was on: "I should at least get either a Tony nomination or a husband or both if I d…
Below is the video of the Reverb Theater Arts Festival, viewable until Thursday, May 20. It is close-captioned. For separate videos that provide ASL interpretation and audio description o…
At 91, John Cullum has had a long and remarkably varied Broadway career,  spanning six decades and some 30 shows " musicals ranging from "Camelot" to "Urinetown," straight plays from "…