Mary Louise Parker Really Comes Back to Broadway: New Play this Fall, Then "How I Learned to Drive" Next Spring
Mary Louise Parker really wants to conquer Broadway this season. She's doing not one, but two plays for 2019-2020. First up, Parker
Mary Louise Parker really wants to conquer Broadway this season. She's doing not one, but two plays for 2019-2020. First up, Parker
The Sam Shepard play begins Sept. 6 at the Black Box theater in Braddock; the new play "Dance Nation" runs Nov. 22-Dec. 15.
Annie Garrett-Larsen, nominated for Outstanding Lighting Design And Then There Were None By Agatha Christie Directed by Christopher Noffke Produced by The Secret Theatre NOMINATED FOR: Out…
Sam Rudy, whose career covers generations of Broadway history, is leaving show business " and New York City " after 40 years as a theater publicist.
The stakes are too low in this musical about the life span of a gay relationship. Three versions of lovers Daniel and Greg"in their 20s, 30s, and "50s and older"…
Jeff Clarke set up Opera della Luna in 1994 to stage the neglected repertoire of comic operas and operettas. He tells George
Dennis Manning and Ronnie Larson's musical, "Now & Then," can't seem to find its footing as it traces the decades-long relationship of a gay couple. The post When, Where and Why? 'Now &…
Showrunner David E. Kelley had a plan, but he didn't share it with British filmmaker Andrea Arnold before shooting began … or finished. "There was a dramatic shift in late 2018 as the show…
"Contrary to the popular view, I think that we sometimes have good reasons to argue against the person. In other words, ad hominem arguments can be good arguments, especially when they are c…
Sam Wood (1883-1949) was one of a long line of Marx Brothers' directors that Groucho liked to dis, but the reality doesn't support that scorn. Not only did Wood direct two of the team's bigg…
After starring together in "The Last Five Years" and "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," Norbert Leo Butz and Sherie Rene Scott had a "fracture" in their relationship. How do you set that to music?
Opening on July 4, at a moment when immigrants and their living conditions are once again in the forefront of the news, Now Circa Then is an inspired choice. The post Theater Review: "Now Ci…
(Nancy Coleman's article appeared in the New York Times, 6/21; via Pam Green.) Jeremy Wechsler was on his way to rehearsal one morning in March when his phone started, and then wouldn't stop…
"I've known periods of chronic depression, the most serious of which was in 1974. It was impossible for me to live without a plastic lobster that I took with me everywhere, leaving it behind…
Issues at the heart of the scandal resonate in "Admissions," Joshua Harmon's comedy. How did the news affect the show?
If I could look into Madame Arcati's crystal ball I think I would see a West End transfer on the cards for Richard Eyre's playful production of Blithe Spirit.
The last-minute interventions were revealed as part of a (none-too-favorable) independent review of Creative Scotland's operations and processes that followed a major controversy over fundin…
"I remember more experienced writers telling me that I should say yes to every opportunity until I had earned the privilege to say no. But hope is both a strength and a weakness; it takes ti…
The museum lost about 15,000 items " but its collection is huge, luminous, and important. "Art historians and archaeologists know how exceptional the collection is. But despite Baghdad's rel…
Six visits to six theaters, with decades between them, but the energy backstage is a constant.
Audra McDonald and Michael Shannon star in a touching revival of Terrence McNally's play about first and last chances.
Style and grace fill the stage with abundance in Black Ensemble Theater's latest show. When you're focusing on Lena Horne and Nancy Wilson, how could they not? But if you're looking for deep…
Below are the seven most popular posts in the seven years since I began NewYorkTheater.me in May 2012. Below that  are the seven most popular reviews, and below that 10 of the profile por…
Shows by Cornwall's Kneehigh theatre company can by roughly divided into two categories. There's the balladic, heart-breaking ones such as Tristan and
"It's amazing that this landmark symphony could have been so easily forgotten. As with the other seminal New Englanders"George Whitefield Chadwick, Horatio Parker, and Edward MacDowell, amon…