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The cast of “Copperfield! The New Musical” at The Duke on 42nd Street (Photo credit: Jeremy Daniel) While many of Charles Dickens’ novels have been adapted successfully for the musical…
Terrence McNally, the four-time Tony-winning playwright of Love! Valour! Compassion!, Master Class and Ragtime, died March 24, 2020, at 81. Looking back at 16 TheaterScene.net reviews and co…
So beloved is he, that he can be forgiven for rehashing autobiographical material he’s used before, either in his previous Broadway hit, "700 Sundays," also seen on TV and published as a b…
NYC theater this week, Nov 2–8, 2026: Broadway and Off-Broadway openings, previews, closings, news and galas, from Wanted to Here There Are Blueberries.
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While Jamie Armitage’s "A Ghost in Your Ear" is only intermittently scary (though those scares are worth the price of admission,) it is a chilling ghost story expertly told. Both written a…
The New York Pops opened its Carnegie Hall season on October 23, 2026, with “007: James Bond Forever.” Music director Steven Reineke conducted, with Lena Hall as guest artist. Drawing on…
The premise is as cheerfully appalling as its title suggests. Queeney Todd, played by the formidable baritone Nathaniel Sullivan, returns to London after a decade away, determined to settle …
If "Other Desert Cities" has one silver lining, it's the play's uncanny ability to attract the type of star power that blinds audiences to a mundane narrative. For its Broadway debut fifteen…
Stephen Sondheim, the composer and lyricist who reshaped the American musical, died on Friday, November 26, 2021, at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut. He was 91. His lawyer, F. Richard Pappa…
Duncan Sheik, the singer-songwriter who went from the pop charts to Broadway and gave Spring Awakening its rock score, died on September 17, 2026, in New York. He was 56. His family had said…
Anna Louizos, the three-time Tony-nominated scenic designer behind Avenue Q, In the Heights and School of Rock, died August 25 at 69. TheaterScene's critics reviewed her work 19 times, from …
Elsa Went’s last play "Initiative" was a five-hour epic about a group of high school students from their first day to graduation. "Degenerates," her new play being given its world premiere…
Inspired by the Twitter debate in July 2022 as to whether Holocaust victim Anne Frank acknowledged her white privilege (as much good as it did her),"Slam Frank", the musical satire of "The D…
Marilu Henner and Shannon Purser in a scene from Matthew Freeman’s “The Ask” at Theater 555 (Photo credit: Joan Marcus) Matthew Freeman’s The Ask, now receiving a return engagement a…
Eugène Ionesco’s "The Bald Soprano," that mischievous masterpiece of the Theater of the Absurd, is a play in which the ordinary becomes extraordinary, conversation becomes combat, and the…
The Mint Theater Company, in its relentless search for forgotten dramatic plums still ripe for the picking, has come up with another juicy one in Cicely Hamilton’s 1911 British dramedy, "P…
As the play progresses, these interactions, both between and across the couples, give the non-human observers and the audience plenty of drama and intrigue to witness. The character defects …
Brody, the director, has the unenviable task of making Yee’s deliberately unstable theatrical architecture feel like a coherent evening rather than an assortment of comic sketches held tog…
Ryan J. Haddad’s deliciously comic but ultimately poignant "Good Time Charlie" having its world premiere at The Public Theater is his first non-monologue play. This time he uses seven acto…
Matt de Rogatis as Bjorn Faulkner and Hannah Beemer as Lady Justice and the company of the Ruth Stage production of Ayn Rand’s “Night of January 16th” at Theatre Row (Photo credit: Gab…
Set in London in the summer of 2016, when Brexit looms and the world seems to be tilting toward a new and more openly hostile political order, "Fish" follows a young woman whose efforts to e…
The verdict: "Midnight" is memorable for its thoughtful theme, unusually powerful vocal ensemble, its engaging (if repetitious) score, imaginative staging, and visual delights. However, its …
A good deal of the interplay comes from the clash between the famously combative Kramer and the cool, scientific Fauci. Kramer criticizes Fauci for saying that science has to work slowly to …
"Soon" is a timely attempt to deal with climate change while wedding it to more personal happenings in a person’s life. Writing book, music and lyrics, Nick Blaemire could have used anothe…
In Tom Rowan’s "Burning Leaves," a play of considerable tenderness and moral complexity, the distance between being someone’s inspiration and becoming someone’s responsibility proves b…
