Stars in Spanx and borrowed jewellery make for a tough crowd, and we love nothing more than when a comedian bombs When are we going to get over the idea that hosting a huge awards ceremony i…
Message to Netflix: Stick to the flicks. "Stranger Things: The First Shadow," the streamer's freshman attempt at a stage play is a huge, insufferable embarrassment. Mega-fans of the TV serie…
The show must go on for the trio of hapless performers in Parolin's new production Zonder, which finds the funny side in failure Contemporary dance and comedy don't exactly go hand in hand b…
The Tony Awards are moving to Lincoln Center. After this past summer's disaster in Washington Heights, the Tony's have made a wise
Millennial Notes Erika Dickerson-Despenza Delivers a Force of Nature by Beau McGlasson It can be a challenge to find joy and beauty in the face of cruelty, racism, and government failings. S…
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In theater, catastrophes are usually reserved for dramatic works. But in Broadway's "Peter Pan Goes Wrong," calamity drives farce forward. British co-conspirators Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer…
This play-within-a-play is full of topsy-turvy chaos that makes you think of Basil Fawlty stumbling into a community theater. Comparisons to British comedy icons"from Monty Python to Mighty …
The last great production of The Cherry Orchard I saw was at Steppenwolf, nearly 20 years ago. Tina Landau turned the company's upstairs theater into a near-immersive experience, with Riccar…
The tragic history of the Johnstown Flood of 1889 is dramatically brought to life by a young generation now accustomed to mass fatality.
 As Karen Malpede points out in her introduction to Acts of War, tragedy "arose as a complement to, perhaps also as an antidote to, war." The greatest of the early playwrights wrot…
The Under the Radar festival kicks off with an allegory about climate destruction by the Belgian provocateurs Ontroerend Goed.
This season, the New York City Ballet is celebrating the composer, whose work took time to be fully appreciated.
The actor discusses his new drama at the London film festival, being starstruck by Meryl Streep " and the best way to take environmental action On the day that Mark Rylance video-calls from …
Ian Karmel is back and he's different - but that's what happens when you get married and Manny at Barbeques Galore in Pasadena absolutely hooks you up! And when we get into the headlines, a …
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A NEAR DISASTER HANDLED BY A MASTER Jones and Schmidt, the creative team behind one of Broadway's longest running hits, The Fantasticks, also wrote another, lesser-know musical called Philem…
Dramatization of Kavita Puri's Partition Voices is moving and compelling Partition equals trauma. It cannot have escaped anyone's attention that the British Empire's solution to intractable …
As a piece of writing, "The Near Disaster of Jasper & Casper" is whacky and creative, and except for a couple of out-of-place bits of humor, one involving a middle finger and another a c…
Jennifer Simard received her second Tony nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for playing Sarah in the nine-time Tony-nominated revival of Company. Although she's cu…
For affluent and educated 30-something New Yorkers, a favored set of the playwright Matthew López, a chain-hotel reception is as tacky as it gets.
Louis D'Ailleboust, one of the dead, was the great-grandfather of dance artist Barbara Kaneratonni Diabo. Her new work, "Sky Dancers", arrives at Harbourfront Centre this week.
The former James Bond stars in an uninvolving and ponderous production that's a real Blunderball.