From June through August, Park Avenue Armory will present the North American premieres of Robert Icke's award-winning modern adaptations of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Aeschylus’ Oresteia, perform in repertory in the grand Wade Thompson Drill Hall. Directed and...
by Adam F. Cohen . . . Biographical jukebox musicals follow an established path – heroic artist is especially talented; challenged by demons (bad relationships or addiction); defy barriers and the adoring crowd stands soaking in hit from a bygone...
Review by Carole Di Tosti . . . Extended thru July 10th Judging by the applause as the curtain lifts and John Lee Beatty’s luxurious, shimmering set for Plaza Suite unveils, director John Benjamin Hickey’s...
Listings Here: Aunt Susan and Her Tennessee Waltz (Theater for the New City) - The United Nations: The Border & the Coast (Third Wing at The Wild Project) - for Colored girls who have considered suicide... (Booth Theatre) - A Strange Loop Original Cast Recording...
by Carol di Tosti . . . When money and wealth become more important than the lives of others, that is the time to write a play with powerful, sonorous music. Oh, not to uplift the CEOs who collect the millions like Don Blankenship of Massey-owned Performance...
Mrs. Doubtfire, the new musical produced by multi-Tony Award winner Kevin McCollum (Avenue Q, Rent, In The Heights, Something Rotten!), is pleased to welcome new cast members to the company, all making their Broadway debut. Titus Landegger and Tyler Wladis will share...
By JK Clarke . . . Long-form standup comedy is often compelling because it allows us to get to know the comic better, more intimately than short form and one-liner standup sets. And as is the case with some of the best in the business—Mike Birbiglia being the greatest...
KPOP, the new musical about the global K-pop phenomenon, will begin performances on Broadway with previews starting on Thursday, October 13, 2022, in advance of an opening night on Sunday, November 20, 2022. The show will play at the Circle in the Square Theatre (235...
By Tania Fisher . . . Award winning playwright, Joseph Krawczyk provides yet another beguiling piece of theater in this real-life-events-inspired alluring play. Krawczyk’s leads the way in mastering the combination of drama, absurdist, and moments of light...
By Carole Di Tosti . . . Based on a true story The Chinese Lady currently at the Public Theater is being presented by the Barrington Stage Company and Ma-Yi Theater Company until 10 April. Finely directed by...
Producers Brian Anthony Moreland, Sonia Friedman and Tom Kirdahy announced that August Wilson’s seminal, Pulitzer Prize®-winning drama The Piano Lesson will return to Broadway next season, marking the first Broadway revival in more than 30 years since the play’s Main...
By Melissa Griegel . . . Set to open just prior to the Broadway shutdown, Plaza Suite got put on hold until it’s official opening March 28th at the Hudson Theatre on 44th Street. A star-studded red carpet included former Sex and the City castmates, stars of film,...
Roundabout Theatre Company announces full casting for the Roundabout Underground world premiere of Exception to the Rule by Dave Harris, directed by Roundabout Resident Director Miranda Haymon. The cast includes MaYaa Boateng as...
By Marcina Zaccaria . . . In I Agree to the Terms, we travel back to the exhilarating computer explosion of the 1980s. Gurus love this era, before email and before the Internet, when we could marvel at the sale of commercial goods streaming rapidly across the...
By Adam Cohen . . . Mile Square Theatre is a jewel tucked into a corner of Hoboken, NJ—just a short ferry or bus ride from midtown. They present compelling, thoughtful, well-executed productions for audiences and performers. Artists broach a variety of topics...
By Carol Rocamora . . . “If you don’t think this play is funny, you are missing a lot of my play.” So writes playwright Dominique Morisseau in the program notes of Confederates, her high-spirited, high-stakes play that just opened at the Signature Theatre. And...
Coming Up: Mr. Saturday Night - H*tlers' Tasters - Anthony Rapp - POTUS - Acedia - Lucille Lortel Awards - Kenny Ortega - MCC Youth Company - Vaccine Mandates Theater Martin McDonagh’s Hangman – a killer comedy comes to Broadway. McDonagh is writer of the Academy...
By Bart Greenberg . . . A Touch of the Poet is one of Eugene O’Neill’s problematic plays. Written in the 1940s, but not produced until 1958, after his death. It was planned to be the first of a nine-play cycle, but only the immediate sequel, More Stately Mansions, was...
By Ron Fassler . . . If a play is plotless and devoid of characters, is it a play? It’s a question you might ponder while watching Claudia Rankine’s Help, now in a limited engagement at The Shed in Hudson Yards. Described in the program as a “theatrical work,” it is...
By Ron Fassler . . . This past Sunday afternoon was the closing performance of the brief, limited run of Huang Ruo and Basil Twist’s Book of Mountains & Seas. Both puppet theater and choral performance, the sold-out audience at St. Ann’s Warehouse was enraptured...
By Barton Greenberg . . . Celebrating their 60th season, the historic La Mama Experimental Theater Club, in association with Spiderwoman Theater, in partnership with Aanmitaagzi and Loose Change Productions, has offered up a new work, Misdemeanor Dream. Developed...
George Street Playhouse shared photos from the first rehearsal for the East Coast premiere of the new musical A Walk on the Moon, which begins preview performances April 26 and opens May 6 at The New Brunswick Performing Arts Center, only a short train ride from New...
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . A playwright needs to have a lot of confidence if he’s going to give his play a name like Garbageman, the title of Emmy-nominated Keith Huff’s (A Steady Rain) new play at Off Broadway’s Chain Theatre. A fellow reviewer, in fact, sent me an...
Dave Malloy's Octet, Norm Lewis-A Soldier's Play, The Karate Kid Musical-John Cardoza; MusicCares Honors Joni Mitchell,Bill Pullman/David Harbour, Kinky Boots-West End, John Gabriel Borkman, SIX, The Parent Trap, Broadway Grosses The Karate Kid: the Musical (book by...
By Marilyn Lester . . . There’s a show business axiom that drama is easy, comedy is hard. Well, biography is harder still and portraying a legend ups the game even more—biography is an open invitation to sallies of criticism at large. How delightful, then, that Laiona...
Teatro SEA-Cesar Chavez; MTC - How I Learned to Drive; Hadestown-Jewelle Blackman; Birthday Candles - Debra Messing Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director/CEO) presents the New York premiere of Birthday Candles by Noah Haidle,starring Emmy Award...
By Brian Scott Lipton. . . In a recent interview explaining his decision to significantly rework the 1997 musical The Life for its current presentation at New York City Center Encores, the multi-talented Billy Porter explained that its writers, Cy Coleman, David...
Ilana Glazer ("Broad City," "The Afterparty") is proud to bring Alison Leiby’s critically acclaimed comedy about no one’s favorite subject to the stage. Hailed as the "Best Political Comedy of 2021" by the New York Times and directed by Lila Neugebauer (The...
Beth Leavel, Brad Oscar, Laila Robins, Emily Skinner, Victor Slezak - other Broadway talent Emerging Artists Theatre will kick off its 29th season by showcasing fifty performances (in various stages of development) at its bi-annual New Work Series. The diverse...
By Carole di Tosti The delightful musical by Stephen Schwartz (music and lyrics) and Joseph Stein (book), The Baker’s Wife, has never been produced on Broadway. Based on the titular 1938 French film La Femme de Boulanger by Marcel Pagnol and Jean Giono, the musical...
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