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When you enter the Frankel Theater at the Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space, the ushers seem a bit like hosts seating you inside a vibrant, trendy restaurant. Some audience members take pla…
The creative collaboration between lyricist Richard Maltby Jr. and composer David Shire has lasted well over 60 years and is still in motion, making other musical-theatre teamings seem like …
I'm in love with a girl named Fred! And I venture to say you will be, too, at least as she is being portrayed in all her unabashed glory by Sutton Foster in the thoroughly irresistible Broad…
Playwright Catherine Gropper is here to offer us a break from any anxiety we might be feeling about the impending 2024 presidential election by taking us back in time to recall the anxiety w…
How long is it appropriate to grieve one's personal loss? Are some losses worthier of sympathy than others? Is there a proper way to grieve? These are just some of the questions pondered, de…
Job is just a two-hander, but it feels populated by a crowd of characters who haunt the mind of the play's desperate protagonist. This makes for 80 minutes of intense, gripping action as a h…
The Sabbath Girl: A New Musical, by Cary Gitter (book and lyrics) and Neil Berg (music and lyrics), had a successful and well-received world premiere at Penguin Repertory Theater in Stony Po…
Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author caused a cultural firestorm when it opened in Rome in 1921. Reportedly, after the show's premiere the playwright had to leave through…
Following in the nimble footsteps of Twyla Tharp and most recently Justin Peck, choreographer and dancer Jakob Karr has turned to the music of a contemporary singer/songwriter to create a na…
As one who has often found the works of Samuel Beckett to be baffling, boring, or both, I wasn't looking forward to On Beckett. The lecture on and excerpts from the man's oeuvre, returning t…
The Goodman Theatre continues its season with a world-premiere musical, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, an adaptation of the book by John Berendt, with a book by Taylor Mac, music a…
Say you had managed to pull off a consummate fusion of talent and good fortune to become the darling of the 2023-24 Off-Broadway season with a queer-centric, campy, and raucous comedy that w…
On June 12, 2016, the attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando was (at the time) the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. It remains the most violent assault on LGBTQ+ people. Set…
To close its forty-eighth season, Steppenwolf Theatre Company is presenting the world premiere of Samuel D. Hunter's Little Bear Ridge Road. Under the direction of Joe Mantello, Laurie Metca…
Tonight, even as the theatrical face-off between presidential candidates Joseph Biden and Donald Trump is unfolding on television, another political theatrical event is opening at an actual …
Let's start with a recent Off-Broadway cast recording of a show that takes on religion, relationships, and right wing propaganda. Then it's love's ups and downs taking center stage for two s…
The dynamic duo behind the PS Classics recording label take their project from sounds to stage.
Mark Twain's preface to "Huckleberry Finn" famously states, "Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banish…
They say that wonderful things sometimes come in small packages. Case in point: Appraisal, a thrilling and splendidly performed cat-and-mouse play opening tonight as part of the Brits Off Br…
Dottie and Dottie could not be less alike. He (let's call him Dottie 1) is a tight-assed neuroscientist whose life is pretty much wrapped up in his research. Not what you'd call a social but…
Ten Questions with Jason Graae.
The stage, concert, and television star returns to the Coachella Valley for one night only.
Titanic, the 1997 musical by Peter Stone (story and book) and Maury Yeston (music and lyrics), is about as massive a theatrical endeavor as you are likely to encounter. The cast alone number…
British playwright Lucy Kirkwood has a propensity for writing big, bold works that draw from real-world events to tackle disturbing subjects in ways that make us consider the larger implicat…
A program note states that New York's AMT Theater in Hell's Kitchen was established for several different purposes, including serving "as a launching pad to Broadway" and presenting "childre…
You might think of Home, a Tony nominee for Best Play in 1980 when it was originally performed on Broadway, as a folk tale with roots in the Black farming community. But it's also a romance …
