‘Manhunt’ Is a Case Study in Fragile Masculinity
A new play by Robert Icke about a real-life police chase takes the form of an imagined trial.
April 9, 2025
‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’: What to Know About the Broadway Show
The new play, set 24 years before the start of the Netflix series, combines lavish spectacle with a cast of familiar characters.
April 9, 2025
Review: A Party With 17 ‘Old Friends’ and 41 Sondheim Songs
Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga lead the festivities in a new Broadway revue of the great musical dramatist’s work.
April 9, 2025
The Loose Screws, Hot Flames and Infinite Joy of William Finn
The composer and lyricist of “A New Brain,” “Falsettos” and other shows answered the pains of life with jaunty songs. He died this week at 73.
April 8, 2025
William Finn, Tony Winner for ‘Falsettos,’ Is Dead at 73
An acclaimed musical theater writer, he won for both his score and his book and later had a huge hit with “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.”
April 8, 2025
At 90, Wole Soyinka Revisits His Younger, More Optimistic Self
With the Off Broadway debut of his 1958 play “The Swamp Dwellers,” the Nigerian Nobel laureate looks back on the writer he was when he was starting out.
April 8, 2025
‘Boop! The Musical’ Review: Betty Gets a Brand Extension
The It girl with the spit curl looks great for 100, but her Broadway musical, which feels like one big merch grab, is boop-boop-a-don’t.
April 8, 2025
At James Earl Jones Memorial, Friends Share Laughs, Tears and Moving Stories
At a gathering in the Broadway theater renamed to honor the star, speakers including Denzel Washington and Phylicia Rashad described Jones as an inspiration.
April 8, 2025
The Snubs and Surprises of the 2025 Olivier Awards
Times critics discuss the big winners — a new play about Roald Dahl, a “Fiddler on the Roof” revival and a folk-rock “Benjamin Button”— at London’s theater awards.
April 7, 2025
6 Songs From ‘Just in Time’ That Capture Bobby Darin’s Versatility
The show’s star, Jonathan Groff, and members of the creative team on how songs like “Splish Splash” and “If I Were a Carpenter” illuminate Darin’s life.
April 7, 2025
Review: How ‘The Last Five Years’ Became a Blur on Broadway
Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren star in a muddy revival of Jason Robert Brown’s still-scathing musical.
April 7, 2025
‘I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan’ Review: What Are You Waiting For?
Mona Pirnot’s comic ode to the downtown artist doubles as a meditation on the precariousness of playwriting as a creative life.
April 7, 2025
Denis Arndt, Who Was a First-Time Tony Nominee at 77, Dies at 86
After more than 40 years as a stage and television actor, he broke through in “Heisenberg” as a butcher who has a romance with a much younger woman.
April 6, 2025
John Lithgow’s ‘Giant’ Is Among the Big Winners at the Olivier Awards
The play, about Roald Dahl’s antisemitism, took home three awards at Britain’s equivalent of the Tonys. So did a “Fiddler on the Roof” revival and a folk rock “Benjamin Button.”
April 6, 2025
How the Stars of ‘All Nighter’ Get That College Vibe
The actresses talk about bonding over their nightly cram session, and have also compiled a playlist of some of the songs that get them going.
April 5, 2025
The Surprising History of Betty Boop
From her 1930 debut as a poodle-human hybrid to a modern-day symbol of empowerment, Betty Boop has had an unusual journey to the Broadway stage. Boop-oop-a-doop!
April 5, 2025
13 Off Broadway Shows to Tempt You in April
New short plays by Caryl Churchill, a comedy with one erstwhile Derry Girl and a musical starring Anika Noni Rose — here’s what’s on New York stages this month.
April 4, 2025
Review: Clooney, Fair and Balanced, in ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’
George Clooney makes Edward R. Murrow a saint of sane journalism for a world that still needs one in a stage adaptation of the 2005 movie.
April 4, 2025
How ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ Went Digital
Sarah Snook, camera operators and other crew members bring to life multitudes on Broadway via an elaborate synthesis of live action, live video and recorded video.
April 3, 2025
‘The Cherry Orchard’ Review: A Captivating Take on Chekhov
Nina Hoss stars as a melancholic matriarch in Benedict Andrews’s immersive rendition of the classic at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn.
April 3, 2025
From Hasidic Brooklyn to Off Broadway: The Life of a Trans Rabbi
After disavowing her strict religious upbringing, Abby Stein came out as transgender. She is now the subject of a new play by New York Theater Workshop.
April 2, 2025
Andrew Scott on ‘Vanya’: ‘Who Isn’t Sad?’
The actor calls his solo performance in Chekhov’s melancholy comedy an “endless experiment.” Even all alone, he can really fill a stage.
April 1, 2025
Othello and Iago, a Marriage Made in Both Heaven and Hell
Because Shakespeare gave his hero and anti-hero equal weight, the contest between them has never been that easy to call.
April 1, 2025
‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ Review: Caveat Emptor, Suckers!
Kieran Culkin, Bill Burr and Bob Odenkirk star in a bumpy revival of David Mamet’s play about salesmen with nothing worth selling.
April 1, 2025
Othello and Iago, a Marriage Made in Both Heaven and Hell
Because Shakespeare gave his hero and antihero equal weight, the contest between the actors playing them has never been that easy to call.
March 31, 2025
12 Plays and Musicals Across the U.S. to Brighten the Spring
On stages across the country, there is no shortage of adventurous work, including plays by Lauren Yee, Larissa FastHorse and Zora Howard.
March 28, 2025
Scott Rudin, Producer Exiled for Bad Behavior, Plans Return to Broadway
Rudin stepped away from show business four years ago amid reports that he had bullied assistants. He says he has “a lot more self-control” now.
March 28, 2025
Review: Sarah Snook Stars in the Selfie of ‘Dorian Gray’
The “Succession” actress plays all 26 roles in this Oscar Wilde classic reimagined as a video spectacle. If only there were less screen time and more IRL contact.
March 28, 2025
Review: Long-Lost ‘Love Life’ Still Has a Lot to Say About America
Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kate Baldwin and other top-shelf singers star in an overly sentimental production of the long-lost Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner show.
March 27, 2025
At 50, the Wooster Group Is Experimenting on Itself
Elizabeth LeCompte and Kate Valk reflect on their decades of making daring theater together. Just don’t call it a nostalgic exercise.
March 27, 2025
An Essential ‘Buena Vista’ Song Finds Its Emotional Place on Broadway
Of all the “Buena Vista Social Club” songs, the beloved “Chan Chan” is the most recognizable. But figuring out where in the musical to put it became a challenge.
March 27, 2025
In ‘Streetcar,’ Patsy Ferran Gives Blanche a Nervy New Read
The London-based actress has been heralded as one of the most talented of her generation. Still, she worried audiences would balk at her “very unconventional Blanche.”
March 26, 2025
How a Broadway Musical Revealed a Family’s World War II Spy Secrets
Descendants of characters in “Operation Mincemeat,” a hit British musical now in New York, have gotten more out of seeing it than a few catchy melodies.
March 26, 2025
George Clooney Play Breaks a Broadway Box Office Record
“Good Night, and Good Luck” grossed $3.3 million last week, breaking a record that was set earlier this month by Denzel Washington’s “Othello.”
March 25, 2025
‘Wine in the Wilderness’ Review: Beauty in Blackness
Written by Alice Childress in 1969, the play feels just as revelatory more than 50 years later in a new production from Classic Stage Company.
March 25, 2025
Phylicia Rashad Knows Her Purpose
Five decades into her career, the Tony Award-winning actress and TV icon, making her Broadway directing debut, feels like “part of something bigger.”
March 24, 2025
‘Othello’ Review: Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal Are Prey and Predator
Shakespeare’s leanest tragedy gets a starry, headlong production that embraces the action but misses the mystery.
March 24, 2025
The Lost Great American Musical Returns, Over 75 Years Later
Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner’s pioneering “Love Life” was thwarted by circumstance. Now, it is coming to Encores! at New York City Center.
March 22, 2025
8 New Shows Our Theater Critics Are Talking About
A British satirical comedy, a Tennessee Williams classic, a soundscape of Havana: These are productions worth knowing about.
March 21, 2025
Review: The Stiff Who Saved Europe, in ‘Operation Mincemeat’
A proudly silly British musical comedy about the “Trojan corpse” of World War II comes to Broadway.
March 21, 2025
‘Buena Vista Social Club’ Brings the Thrill of Music Making to Broadway
A new musical inspired by the 1997 hit album gives a fictional back story to the veteran performers of the Havana music scene.
March 20, 2025
‘We Had a World’ Review: Through the Fourth Wall and Into the Past
Joshua Harmon’s new play features uniformly standout performances and tells a poignant story of family dynamics.
March 20, 2025
She May Be the Most Powerful Producer Working in Theater
Sonia Friedman has “created her own theater studio system,” balancing big properties like “Harry Potter” and “Stranger Things” with more prestige work by Stoppard and Sondheim.
March 19, 2025
Review: Eight Andrew Scotts in a Heartbreaking Solo ‘Vanya’
Playing all the characters in an update of Chekhov, the Irish actor turns what could be merely a stunt into a tour de force.
March 19, 2025
‘Amerikin’ Review: A White Supremacist’s Undoing: DNA
The protagonist of Chisa Hutchinson’s new play is proud of his racial heritage, until he gets some unexpected test results.
March 19, 2025
Tituss Burgess in ‘Oh, Mary!’ Is Cole Escola’s Dream Come True
As Burgess prepares to step in to the hit Broadway comedy, he thinks he should have “spent more time at the gym.”
March 18, 2025
‘Purpose’ Review: Dinner With the Black Political Elite
A family not unlike Jesse Jackson’s gets barbecued on Broadway by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.
March 18, 2025
In ‘Weather Girl,’ Climate Change Sets Off a Meltdown
A new one-woman show from the producer of “Baby Reindeer” and “Fleabag” is an irreverent allegory about wildfires and global warming.
March 17, 2025
With $921 Seats, a Star-Powered ‘Othello’ Breaks a Box Office Record
Demand to see Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal play Shakespeare has set a record in a year when big stars have been driving up the prices of Broadway plays.
March 15, 2025
Theater to Stream: ‘Beckett Briefs’ and One of Gavin Creel’s Last Shows
Also available for streaming: A masterful F. Murray Abraham in “Beckett Briefs,” and Christopher Walken and Susan Sarandon in a take on “Streetcar.”
March 14, 2025
Bringing a Persian Epic to the World, With Help From 483 Puppets
Hamid Rahmanian has made it his life’s work to share the richness of Iranian culture. “Song of the North,” at the New Victory Theater, is just the latest installment.
March 14, 2025
Anne Kaufman Schneider, 99, Ardent Keeper of Her Father’s Plays, Dies
She shepherded the works of George S. Kaufman from the 20th century into the next, encouraging regional theater productions and helping to steer two of them to Broadway.
March 14, 2025
No American Drama Is as Haunted by Ghosts of Actors Past as ‘Streetcar’
With a revival starring Paul Mescal and Patsy Ferran in Brooklyn, a look at the carefully weighted balance that actors playing Blanche and Stanley need to strike.
March 13, 2025
A Ferocious Paul Mescal Stars in a Brutal ‘Streetcar’
Desire comes a distant second to violence in a Brooklyn revival of the Tennessee Williams classic.
March 12, 2025
In ‘The Great Privation,’ Fending Off the Body Snatchers
Nia Akilah Robinson’s new play, for Soho Rep, digs into an ugly historical practice.
March 11, 2025
Athol Fugard’s Plays Illustrated the Value of Every Human Life
“Sizwe Banzi Is Dead” and other works bear witness to forgotten lives and to the moral blindness and blinkered vision of the realities of apartheid South Africa.
March 11, 2025
‘Ghosts’ Review: The Sins of the Father, Visited on Everyone
Ibsen’s scathing drama about medical and moral contagion gets a high-sheen Off Broadway staging starring a riveting Lily Rabe.
March 11, 2025
Striking Stage Crews Reach Agreement With Atlantic Theater
The deal will be scrutinized by New York’s other Off Broadway theaters, which the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees has been working to unionize.
March 10, 2025
‘All Nighter’ Review: No Sleep but Plenty of Gripes
A new play about a group of college students putting in one last study session evokes recent stories about young women, but without the well-rounded characters.
March 10, 2025
Jean Smart Will Star in a One-Woman Broadway Show
The new play, “Call Me Izzy,” will begin previews in May and open in June at Studio 54.
March 10, 2025
How ‘Operation Mincemeat,’ a Very British Hit, Was Fine-Tuned for Broadway
Now in previews, the musical comedy about an outrageous World War II spy mission is working to adjust to the particular sensibilities of its New York audience.
March 10, 2025
A Play About Segregation Tries to ‘Ride a Fine Line’ in Florida
A production partly aimed at students that highlights Tampa’s history in the civil rights movement lands at a time when the state is changing what schools teach about race and history.
March 8, 2025
For the Actors of ‘Sumo,’ Learning Lines Was Just the Half of It
The play’s cast members wrestle, slap and toss one another in ambitiously choreographed fight sequences that took months of training to learn.
March 8, 2025
In ‘The Seagull,’ Cate Blanchett Outshines a Director’s Tired Tropes
Thanks to Blanchett’s charismatic turn as a fading actress, this new Chekhov adaptation in London hangs together in spite of Thomas Ostermeier’s antics.
March 7, 2025
Paul Mescal, Andrew Scott, Nina Hoss and More, Off Broadway in March
Underwater drama, a daunting solo undertaking, a gaggle of students and a version of “The Cherry Orchard” that aims to recapture Chekhov’s winking tone.
March 7, 2025
Just Before It Was a Cult Film, ‘Rocky Horror Show’ Was a Broadway Flop
Tim Curry and colleagues recall the musical’s misadventure at the Belasco Theater in 1975.
March 7, 2025
‘Oedipus’ and ‘Rocky Horror Show’ Are Returning to Broadway
The Roundabout Theater Company will also present Noël Coward’s “Fallen Angels,” starring Rose Byrne and Kelli O’Hara.
March 6, 2025
Theaters Sue the N.E.A. Over Trump’s ‘Gender Ideology’ Order
The lawsuit seeks to block a new rule that requires groups applying for grants from the National Endowment for the Arts to agree not to promote “gender ideology.”
March 6, 2025
Review: Wrestling With Angels and Demons in ‘Sumo’
An Off Broadway play opens a window on the spiritual and physical trials of the ancient Japanese sport.
March 6, 2025
‘Hamilton’ Cancels Kennedy Center Run Over Trump’s Takeover
“We’re not going to be a part of it while it is the Trump Kennedy Center,” said the show’s creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda.
March 5, 2025
A ‘Greatest Showman’ Musical Is Coming to the Stage, in Britain
The show, developed by Disney with a Tony-winning creative team, will have an initial production in Bristol, England, in the spring of 2026.
March 5, 2025
Olivier Awards: ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Secures Most Nominations
The acclaimed revival, which is about to transfer to London’s Barbican, scored 13 nominations at Britain’s equivalent of the Tonys.
March 4, 2025
After a Decade Away, ‘Mamma Mia!’ Is Returning to Broadway This Summer
The musical’s original run was the ninth-longest in Broadway history; a six-month return engagement will start in August.
March 4, 2025
Sadie Sink Heads Back to School, This Time on Broadway
In “John Proctor Is the Villain,” the actress is among a group of students studying “The Crucible,” just as the #MeToo movement tears through their classroom.
March 4, 2025
‘Mary Said What She Said’ Review: A Hypnotic Huppert
In this Robert Wilson production, Isabelle Huppert is everywhere onstage, all at once, reciting a nonstop script that may well touch on everything.
February 28, 2025
‘Dakar 2000’ Review: Which One Is the Liar?
In Rajiv Joseph’s two-hander, a couple of Americans in Senegal twist, deflect, massage, stretch and maybe even tell the truth.
February 28, 2025
Theater Company’s Lost French New Wave Film Gets Its New York Premiere
Future members of Mabou Mines produced the footage over 50 years ago. Now it’s a film with new dialogue spoken by children of the original cast.
February 26, 2025
Review: ‘Curse of the Starving Class’ Doesn’t Satisfy
The New Group production of Sam Shepard’s classic tragicomedy comes off as disjointed and self-consciously stagy.
February 26, 2025
At France’s Oldest Theater, Things Change, but They Also Stay the Same
A new leader for the Comédie-Française, Clément Hervieu-Léger, is an insider who looks set to keep the venerable Paris company on a steady course.
February 25, 2025
Bill Burr Is About to Hit Broadway. Broadway Better Duck.
The acerbic comic sounds like a Mamet character, and thanks to Nathan Lane, he’s making his Broadway debut as one in “Glengarry Glen Ross.”
February 25, 2025
‘Grangeville’ Review: Am I My Half Brother’s Keeper?
A story as old as Cain and Abel gets filtered through cellphone and video confrontations in Samuel D. Hunter’s bleak two-hander.
February 25, 2025
A Rising Star Rides the Stormy Seas in a Maritime ‘Hamlet’
Luke Thallon expertly blends sincerity and neediness as the embattled prince in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s latest production.
February 24, 2025
Finding a Common Thread in Jonathan Larson’s Unheard Music
“The Jonathan Larson Project,” a years-in-the-making musical collage of Larson’s life, features songs he wrote before he died. Now it’s onstage at the Orpheum.
February 22, 2025
‘Safe House’ Review: Singing a Song of Loneliness
Enda Walsh’s formal experiment, at St. Ann’s Warehouse, finds him in pared-back mode.
February 21, 2025
These Actors Made Broadway Debuts as Children. Now They’re Back.
Nick Jonas, Sadie Sink and Christian Slater are among this year’s unusually large cohort of stars who first appeared onstage as tweens or even younger.
February 21, 2025
Review: In ‘Liberation,’ the Feminist Revolution Will Be Dramatized
Bess Wohl’s moving new play, about a group of women in 1970s Ohio, explores the power of sisterhood and the limits of motherhood.
February 21, 2025
Being George Clooney Is Harder Than It Looks
He is making his Broadway debut with a stage version of his 2005 movie “Good Night, and Good Luck.” He’s ready, but also terrified.
February 20, 2025
Drawing From Bob Dylan’s Songbook, Learning Lessons in Mortality
Todd Almond wrote an oral history on Conor McPherson’s “Girl From the North Country” and its passage through Broadway’s pandemic shutdown.
February 19, 2025
Cynthia Erivo Will Host This Year’s Tony Awards
The actress won a Tony Award for “The Color Purple,” and is now nominated for an Oscar for playing Elphaba in the film adaptation of “Wicked.”
February 19, 2025
For Playwrights, Making It to Midcareer Is a Cliffhanger
Act 1 was a constant struggle for rent and opportunity. But now that these emerging dramatists have emerged, what will they make of Act 2?
February 19, 2025
Jonathan Bailey’s Bratty, Bad-Boy ‘Richard II’
The actor, on a hot streak after “Wicked,” takes on his biggest stage role to date. In London, he plays Shakespeare’s unfortunate king as a flouncing sociopath.
February 18, 2025
Hear How a ‘Smash’ Song Got a Broadway Makeover
“Let Me Be Your Star,” which evokes an actor’s longing to shine, has come a long way from its TV days. Here’s how the song evolved on its way to the stage.
February 18, 2025
An Abortion Scene Gets Theater Audiences Talking, and Fainting
“The Years,” running in London, dramatizes a woman’s life from teenage thrills to later-life sex. One intense scene is causing audience members to pass out.
February 18, 2025
Here’s What to See This Spring in New York
Onstage, Denzel Washington is Othello, and Paul Mescal is Stanley Kowalski as stars illuminate the theater marquees. Plus: FKA twigs takes “Eusexua” on tour. Bang on a Can, Twyla Tharp, and much more.
February 17, 2025
Lea Salonga Is Never Getting Tired of Sondheim
The Tony-winning actress co-stars with Bernadette Peters in “Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends,” a show that is letting her surprise audiences with her comedy chops.
February 16, 2025
Ken Wydro, Who Helped Create an Off Broadway Phenomenon, Dies at 81
He and his wife, Vy Higginsen, poured all they had into “Mama, I Want to Sing,” a long-shot musical that became an enduring staple of Black theater.
February 14, 2025
Theater to Watch at Home: ‘Uncle Vanya’ and an Alice Childress Revival
A bare-bones Chekhov, a critically acclaimed revival of “The Wedding Band” and the cult TV series “Smash” are all available for streaming.
February 14, 2025
Review: Idina Menzel Climbs to New Broadway Heights in ‘Redwood’
The “Wicked” belter scales a 300-foot tree, and a mountain of songs, in a powerful if woo-woo musical about trauma and resilience.
February 14, 2025
‘Henry IV’ Review: Two Plays Become One
The relationship between Prince Hal and John Falstaff, a favorite of Shakespeare scholars, is the focus of this condensed adaptation.
February 12, 2025
‘Night Sings Its Songs’ Review: Scenes From a Miserable Marriage
A play by the Nobel winner Jon Fosse gets a rare staging, but New Yorkers will have to wait a little longer to see a production that captures the Norwegian writer’s haunting universe.
February 12, 2025
With ‘Mindplay,’ Vinny DePonto Wants to Bring More Awe Into Your Life
In this mentalist show, the magician asks his audience: “What is meaningful to you?”
February 12, 2025
‘Doomers’ Review: Hunkered Down, Debating the Peril and Promise of A.I.
Matthew Gasda directs his new play, which was inspired by Sam Altman’s 2023 ouster from OpenAI.
February 11, 2025
The Next Hot Playwright? They Prefer the Ones Who Cooled Off.
With their Tent Theater Company, Tim Sanford and Aimée Hayes want to raise the profiles of older artists and keep them from being sidelined.
February 10, 2025
As Off Broadway Crews Unionize, Workers See Hope, Producers Peril
Workers say the move is overdue, but theater companies fear it will drive up costs in a wounded sector that has yet to recover from the pandemic.
February 10, 2025
Can Movie Stars Handle Greek Classics? London Is Finding Out.
Sophocles is suddenly everywhere on the city’s stages. In concurrent shows, Rami Malek is playing Oedipus and Brie Larson is taking on Elektra.
February 7, 2025
Troubled Volksbühne Theater Announces Another New Director
Matthias Lilienthal will take over running the Berlin playhouse, which has been lurching from crisis to crisis for years.
February 7, 2025
‘Urinetown’ Review: More Than Toilet Humor
The Encores! revival of the musical from Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis seems even more relevant today.
February 6, 2025
New York Theater to See Now: Isabelle Huppert, ‘Urinetown’ and More
Also onstage in February: Calista Flockhart in a Sam Shepard revival, boldface names in Joy Behar’s “My First Ex-Husband” and a marionette made of ice.
February 6, 2025
A Tennessee Williams-Marlon Brando Tango, and Other Riffs on Classics
Three new plays onstage in Manhattan, “Kowalski,” “Mrs. Loman” and “Nina,” mine treasures of theater history.
February 5, 2025
‘The Antiquities’ Review: Relics of Late Human Life in 12 Exhibits
According to Jordan Harrison’s museum piece of a play, we are long extinct by 2240. But the future has kept our Betamaxes.
February 5, 2025
The Playwright Larissa FastHorse Doesn’t Want to Be a Cautionary Tale
After a delay, “Fake It Until You Make It,” the writer’s follow-up to her Broadway satire, “The Thanksgiving Play,” is finally onstage in Los Angeles.
February 4, 2025
Merle Louise Simon, a Sondheim Mainstay, Is Dead at 90
She originated roles in four of his Broadway musicals between 1959 and 1987, and won a Drama Desk Award for her performance in “Sweeney Todd.”
February 3, 2025
Review: An Affectionate Golden Age Schpoof in ‘Schmigadoon!’
The Apple TV+ series comes to the stage of the Kennedy Center with its snark and affection for classic Broadway musicals intact.
February 3, 2025
‘Hell’s Kitchen’ Wins Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album
The musical, based on the life of Alicia Keys and featuring her music, is running on Broadway and begins a national tour this fall.
February 3, 2025
This ‘Cymbeline’ Delights. So Does F. Murray Abraham in ‘Beckett Briefs.’
Shakespeare’s overstuffed late play gets an entertaining refresh Off Broadway, where Irish Rep is also offering a program of Samuel Beckett shorts.
February 1, 2025
82,150 Gallons of Paint Later, a Blue Man Group Farewell
Over 34 years, the show gave Fred Armisen a drumming gig, “Arrested Development” a hilarious story line and more. Now the cultural sensation comes to an end in New York.
January 30, 2025
Even Jimmy Fallon Gets the Jitters When Making His Broadway Debut
The “Tonight Show” host is performing in the new comedy “All In,” which features a starry cast. “It’s a dream,” he said.
January 29, 2025
Practicing for When the Bombs Fall in ‘A Knock on the Roof’
In a new solo play about ordinary people under bombardment in Gaza, a woman rehearses how she would escape her building if Israeli forces were to strike.
January 29, 2025
Idina Menzel Played Elphaba and Elsa. Now She’s Going Out on a Limb.
Menzel, a fan favorite since “Rent,” is back on Broadway in “Redwood,” and this time she’s climbing conifers.
January 28, 2025
How a Meeting About Vaccines Devolves, Hilariously, on Broadway
In “Eureka Day,” changes were made to a scene because “the laughter was so robust backstage, they couldn’t hear the cues.”
January 27, 2025
7 Surprisingly Busy Days in the Life of an Experimental Theater Maker
Peter Mills Weiss shared details of a week of “everyone doing everything all the time, and by the seat of everyone’s pants.”
January 27, 2025
Putting His Father’s Final Words Onstage, With a Little Ambivalence
The Portuguese director Tiago Rodrigues’s latest show, “No Yogurt for the Dead,” is based on his dying father’s scribbles but resists sharing much emotion.
January 24, 2025
Review: In ‘English,’ Looking for a Language to Live In
For the students in Sanaz Toossi’s dramedy about mother tongues and other tongues, the world’s lingua franca is not exactly free.
January 24, 2025
In TikTok Theater, All the World’s an Audience
“Famehungry,” a show that’s performed simultaneously for in-person and online crowds, comes to New York in the wake of the app’s brief ban in the United States.
January 23, 2025
‘Vanya on Huron Street’ Review: Chekhov in Brooklyn
Instead of a departure, the writer and director Matthew Gasda’s take on “Uncle Vanya” at the Brooklyn Center for Theater Research tends to adhere to the original.
January 22, 2025
Joel Paley, Writer of ‘Ruthless,’ an Off Broadway Hit, Dies at 69
The show, with music by Marvin Laird, portrayed a schoolgirl’s murderous theatrical ambition. Paley also performed in the parody dance group Les Ballets Trockadero.
January 21, 2025
Against All Odds, a Vegas Theater Scene With a ‘Sense of the Wild West’
Local artists straddle aesthetic and artistic worlds in the land of mega-spectacles and oversize flash.
January 21, 2025
Theater Productions to Stream Now
This month’s picks include “Prima Facie,” intimate audio plays and bite-size dramas.
January 17, 2025
In a ‘Show Boat’ Reboot, Ol’ Man River Gets an Extreme Makeover
“Show/Boat: A River” reverses the racial lens on the great-grandfather of American musicals.
January 16, 2025
Under the Radar: Venturing to Fantastical Universes With a Dodo and More
Stories from refugee children, gloriously morbid puppets and a rooster who defies a dictator. These are some of the offbeat offerings this January.
January 14, 2025
Prolific Producer to Take Over Theater That Was Too Costly for Nonprofit
Seaview, whose buzzy shows include “Romeo + Juliet,” has seized a chance to have its own theater by taking over Second Stage’s former Off Broadway home.
January 13, 2025
The Mothers on Broadway Are Finally More Than Monsters
Onstage, the flip-side of filial devotion has often been contempt. But a wave of forceful and multidimensional mothers suggests that may be changing.
January 13, 2025
Stagehands Walk Off the Job at Atlantic Theater Company
The stage employees union accused the nonprofit theater of stalling talks. The strike forced the cancellation of Sunday performances of two new plays.
January 12, 2025
Abigail McGrath, Founder of an Experimental Theater, Dies at 84
She was an aspiring actor when she was cast in an Andy Warhol film called “Tub Girls.” But she was best known for the beloved Off Center Theater.
January 12, 2025
They Were Hits in London. Then They Got Smacked in New York.
What happened to “Sunset Boulevard,” “Back to the Future,” “Cinderella” and “Tammy Faye” when they crossed the Atlantic?
January 10, 2025
#MeToo Theater Campaigners Stage a Drama of Their Own
The French activists behind the hashtag #MeTooThéâtre have devised a play that shows the personal cost of bringing abuse claims to light.
January 7, 2025
Close-Up Magic Gets an Up-Close Venue in Brooklyn
69 Atlantic hosts weekly shows by the world’s best magicians in a suitably intimate setting.
January 7, 2025
Mel Shapiro, Honored Stage Director of ‘Two Gentlemen,’ Dies at 89
He worked with the playwright John Guare in mounting his “House of Blue Leaves,” and they helped turn “The Two Gentlemen of Verona” into a hit musical.
January 6, 2025
Richard Foreman, Iconoclastic Playwright and Impresario, Dies at 87
The Ontological-Hysteric Theater, which he founded in 1968, presented more than 50 of his plays, among them “My Head Was a Sledgehammer” and “Permanent Brain Damage.”
January 5, 2025
9 Plays to Warm Up Winter in New York
Several festivals, including Under the Radar, are bringing a tantalizing breadth of new work to stages across New York.
January 3, 2025
What to See on London Stages This Winter
Some recommendations for visitors and residents who want to get the most from the city’s varied theater scene.
January 3, 2025
For Shailene Woodley, Every Day Is Christmas
The actress is starring in the Broadway play “Cult of Love,” about a dysfunctional family gathered for the holidays. That means another month of caroling.
January 2, 2025
Dick Capri, Catskills Comic Who Took His Shtick to Broadway, Dies at 93
He was a regular at the mountain resorts where many comedians honed their acts, then had a star turn in the long-running revue “Catskills on Broadway.”
January 1, 2025
Alaska Knows Why Her Drag Show Resonates: ‘It’s About Family’
The performer discusses her Off Broadway musical about warring queens. “Everyone can connect to being a young person not feeling understood,” she said.
December 31, 2024
7 New Shows Our Theater Critics Are Talking About
A film adaptation onstage, a Broadway classic, comedy galore: These are the productions worth knowing about this holiday season.
December 27, 2024
Broadway Shows Closing Soon: ‘Our Town,’ ‘Cult of Love’ and More
Thornton Wilder’s classic, starring Jim Parsons, wraps up, as does Leslye Headland’s angsty family drama. Catch these and other plays while you can.
December 26, 2024
‘A Christmas Carol’ Comes Back Every Year. So Does This Actress.
Over three decades, Sally Vahle has played Scrooge, ghosts and many of the other characters in Dallas Theater Center’s annual production of the Dickens classic.
December 24, 2024
Review: Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of Who Knows When
Dave Malloy’s musical, which was a hit in New York, comes to London in an antirealist staging that loses the 1812 setting and some emotional punch.
December 23, 2024
‘All In’ Review: A Slight Affair for John Mulaney-Led Comedy About Love
A talented cast has fun in Simon Rich’s Broadway debut, but the minimally staged show doesn’t quite justify the hefty price of tickets.
December 23, 2024
In ‘Mrs. Stern’ and ‘Racecar,’ Humans Keep Repeating Their Worst Mistakes
Pernicious patterns figure heavily in two thought-provoking plays on small Manhattan stages.
December 21, 2024
21 Movies, Books and Albums With a Theater Focus to Consume During the Holidays
Make it through the holidays with these movies, books and music from the past year that are adapted from stage productions or evoke a theatrical spirit.
December 20, 2024
‘The Tempest’ Review: A Weak Wind Blows for Sigourney Weaver
The veteran actress, playing Prospero in her West End debut, is strangely absent from Shakespeare’s narrative.
December 20, 2024
Review: In a Stripped-Down ‘Gypsy,’ Audra’s Gonna Show It to Ya
Hold your hats and hallelujah, our leading musical tragedienne offers an ultra-dramatic Rose in George C. Wolfe’s Broadway revival.
December 20, 2024
This Corpse Has Had a Wild Journey. Its Next Stop? Broadway.
“Dead Outlaw,” a musical about the mummified body of a bandit, will open at the Longacre next spring, following a successful Off Broadway run.
December 19, 2024
‘Annie’ Review: Whoopi Goldberg Is a Holiday Gift as Miss Hannigan
In a just sweet enough production with a strong cast, the “View” host delivers a performance that reaffirms her savvy as a comic actor.
December 17, 2024
A New Richard Foreman Play Puts a Twist on His Metaphysical Puzzles
New York theater’s elder statesman of the avant-garde brings “Suppose Beautiful Madeline Harvey” to the stage, his first new work in over a decade.
December 17, 2024
What’s Funny About John Mulaney and Simon Rich’s Friendship? Everything.
The former “S.N.L.” writing partners have reunited for Rich’s “superficially wacky” Broadway show, “All In: Comedy About Love.”
December 17, 2024
Review: In ‘Eureka Day,’ Holding Space for Those You Hate
A hilarious new Broadway production asks: Can the superwoke vaxxers and anti-vaxxers at an elite private school learn to get along?
December 17, 2024
‘Cult of Love’ Review: We Wish You a Wretched Christmas
A hilarious, harrowing holiday gift from Leslye Headland, who brings another unhappy family to Broadway. Zachary Quinto and Shailene Woodley star.
December 13, 2024
A Visual Tour of ‘Oh, Mary!,’ Broadway’s Hit Comedy
Cole Escola stars as a self-involved Mary Todd Lincoln who dreams of becoming a cabaret star. Here’s how the creative team came up with the show’s aesthetic.
December 12, 2024
The Highs and Lows on London Stages in 2024
Our critics discuss which A-lister performances on the West End were worth the ticket price, and why so many new musicals struggled this year.
December 12, 2024
Martin Benson, Regional Theater Impresario With Impact, Dies at 87
South Coast Repertory, a California company he founded with a partner, grew to stage world premieres of major works that made their way to Broadway.
December 11, 2024
Raygun Shuts Down Musical Inspired by Her Jeered Olympic Breaking
The comedian behind the parody about the Australian breaker who became a summer celebrity said she was willing to make some changes to avoid legal drama.
December 11, 2024
Adam Lambert Is Finding the Fun, and the Fear, in ‘Cabaret’
Making his Broadway debut as the show’s Emcee, the singer is reveling in what he calls “a thinking piece of musical theater.”
December 11, 2024
9 Best Theater Moments of 2024
“The Outsiders,” “Sunset Boulevard” and “Ragtime” were among the productions with stage moments that stood out this year.
December 9, 2024
Best Theater of 2024
Broadway roared back, but the kitties were downtown and the prayer service was in Brooklyn.
December 9, 2024
What I Learned at Shiz University: How ‘Wicked’ Changed the Lives of Its Stars
Only the women who’ve played Elphaba and Glinda in the show’s two decades onstage understand why the roles are so taxing — and so rewarding, too.
December 7, 2024
Avett Brothers Musical ‘Swept Away’ to Close on Broadway After Short Run
The new musical, about a shipwreck and its aftermath, opened Nov. 19 at the Longacre Theater.
December 6, 2024
Broadway, Seeking Growth and Facing Challenges, Has a New Representative
The Broadway League, an industry trade organization, named Jason Laks as its new president. “I think our mission has to be more than to make it 2019 again,” Laks said.
December 2, 2024
Momma Rose’s Many Faces, From Ethel Merman to Audra McDonald
In her various incarnations, the “Gypsy” character is always loud, always scary, but so different. Ben Brantley reflects on all the onstage Roses he has known.
December 2, 2024
Review: This ‘Importance of Being Earnest’ Is a Fabulous Romp
A new production in London, starring Ncuti Gatwa, releases Oscar Wilde’s 1895 comedy from period convention and brings it stunningly into the 21st century.
November 29, 2024
Artists, Then (as in the 17th Century) and Now
“The Light and the Dark” dramatizes the life of Artemisia Gentileschi, while “300 Paintings” was born during the fever dreams of Covid.
November 29, 2024
Theater to See in N.Y.C. This Holiday Season
“Elf the Musical,” inventive spins on “A Christmas Carol” and classic family fare: Here are some of our favorite shows of the season.
November 27, 2024
In ‘Yuletide Factory,’ Cirque Mechanics Manufactures a Family Holiday Show
It’s Christmas at the sweatshop, but the mood fluctuates between ho ho ho and ho hum.
November 27, 2024
Review: ‘We Are Your Robots,’ Still Tuning Up
In Ethan Lipton’s musings on A.I., Mozart has a place alongside humpback whales.
November 26, 2024
Blue Man Group to End New York Run After Three Decades Off Broadway
The troupe is also closing its Chicago company, but continues to perform in Berlin, Boston, Las Vegas and, soon, Orlando.
November 23, 2024
Stratford-Upon-Lake-Michigan: Royal Shakespeare Company Plays Chicago
With less touring, it’s been a while since all the world has been its stage, but the troupe is working with the Chicago Shakespeare Theater — where it has family ties.
November 23, 2024
6 Minutes. 62 People. 1 Epic ‘Sunset Boulevard’ Sequence.
Down the stairs, out the doors and onto the sidewalk, a Broadway show hits the street. Here’s how they pull it off.
November 22, 2024
‘The Blood Quilt’ Review: An Elaborate Tapestry
Katori Hall’s new play about sisters gathering after their mother’s death features standout performances but an overabundance of themes.
November 22, 2024
Review: In ‘Death Becomes Her,’ Spiking the Fountain of Youth
Hilarious star turns from Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard make the mostly unfunny 1992 film into an intermittently memorable Broadway musical.
November 22, 2024
In ‘Music City’ and ‘Babe,’ Existential Battles of the Heart and Soul
Bedlam’s country music show is a rollicking good time. But the New Group’s production of “Babe,” starring Marisa Tomei, is a frustrating one-act lacking cohesion.
November 21, 2024
How to Buy Broadway Tickets? Your Questions, Answered
Box-office sales, discount booths, same-day rush: Here’s everything you need to know about nabbing seats to plays and musicals in Manhattan.
November 20, 2024
‘Tammy Faye’ Musical to Close After Failing to Find Broadway Audience
Well-reviewed in London but poorly received in New York, the musical with an Elton John score will end its run on Dec. 8.
November 19, 2024
TKTS to Open Booth in Philadelphia, Hoping to Boost Local Theaters
The first domestic TKTS outpost outside New York comes at a time of rising concern about ticket prices and theater economics.
November 19, 2024
‘Les Misérables’ Returns Home
The most famous French musical has never been popular in Paris. A major new production hopes to change that, reworking it for a contemporary French audience.
November 19, 2024
Review: Everyone at the Party Sees Your Texts. A New Play Revels in the Chaos.
Neil Patrick Harris, Jane Krakowski, Debra Messing and Constance Wu star in the vulgar and entertaining new work from Robert O’Hara.
November 19, 2024
Morgan Jenness, 72, Dies; Her Artistic Vision Influenced American Theater
A beloved figure in the theatrical community, she redefined the role of dramaturg, influencing playwrights like David Adjmi and David Henry Hwang.
November 18, 2024
The ‘Death Becomes Her’ Frenemies Take Their Youth Potion to Broadway
The campy supernatural movie comes to Broadway as a big, bawdy musical starring Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard.
November 18, 2024
Review: In ‘Elf’ on Broadway, Buddy Lands on the Very, Very Nice List
The musical, starring Grey Henson, has gotten Buddy delightfully, entirely right. But he is trapped inside a creaky adaptation.
November 18, 2024
Why ‘Tammy Faye’ the Musical Feels Like a Redemption
The televangelist defended gay men during the AIDS crisis. Now she’s getting perhaps the gayest tribute: a Broadway show led by Elton John.
November 17, 2024
Uncovering Gay and Lesbian History in a 1941 ‘Sex Variants’ Study
The Civilians theater group has adapted a study of homosexuality into a work that explores the lives of lesbians and gay men in the early 20th century.
November 16, 2024
What’s Your ‘Romeo and Juliet’ I.Q.?
Test your knowledge, for never was a quiz of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
November 15, 2024
Murder as Family Tradition in ‘Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists’
Tiago Rodrigues’s play is intentionally a work of provocation, but it is also stylized to create a helpful distance from events and ideas.
November 15, 2024
Review: Tammy Faye Was Over-the-Top. This Musical Makes Her Small.
“Tammy Faye,” a bland, tonal mishmash of a show opening on Broadway, seems afraid to lean into what made the televangelist so distinctive.
November 15, 2024
Review: ‘King Lear,’ Faster and Less Furious
Kenneth Branagh’s production of the Shakespeare classic speeds through the material and can’t quite figure out its tone.
November 15, 2024
In the Slightly Dark ‘Strategic Love Play,’ a Not-Quite-Romance Blooms
In this first-date comedy, Michael Zegen and Heléne Yorke play people who might just be willing to settle for each other.
November 13, 2024
Broadway Shows Closing Soon: ‘Suffs,’ ‘Stereophonic’ and More
Many Tony Award-winning musicals and starry plays (Robert Downey Jr., anyone?) are wrapping up their runs in January. Catch them while you can.
November 13, 2024
Big Apple Circus Review: A City Tour, Pizza Rats Included
This year’s show is an underwhelming exercise in nostalgia. But it’s still a joy to be under the big top with acts like the Wheel of Destiny.
November 13, 2024
Timothy West, Who Portrayed Kings and Prime Ministers, Dies at 90
A staple of British television, he played Churchill three times over a long career. Onstage, he was King Lear, Macbeth and Willy Loman.
November 13, 2024
‘Maybe Happy Ending’ Review: For Robots, Is It Love or Just a Hookup?
A supersmart musical about making a connection arrives on Broadway in a joyful, heartbreaking, cutting-edge production.
November 12, 2024
‘The Vegetarian’ Review: Putting a Nobel Prize Winner’s Work Onstage
After Han Kang won the Prize in Literature last month, a stage version of her novel “The Vegetarian” sold out its run at a struggling Paris theater.
November 12, 2024
Review: Blowing Louis Armstrong’s Horn Isn’t Enough in ‘A Wonderful World’
The great jazz trumpeter and sandpaper vocalist gets the old jukebox treatment in a new Broadway musical starring James Monroe Iglehart.
November 12, 2024
Paul Mescal Rides ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ to Brooklyn
The award-winning production will begin performances in February as part of Brooklyn Academy of Music’s next season.
November 11, 2024
How the Tale of a Brutal Shipwreck Became a Broadway Musical
The Avett Brothers were all ears a decade ago when a determined crew of theater upstarts and veterans came aboard to adapt their maritime album for “Swept Away.”
November 11, 2024
Everyone Else Is Giving a Standing Ovation. Do I Have To?
Theatergoers and other performing-arts lovers are noticing the practice seems to have become the rule, not the exception.
November 11, 2024
How a Sex-Positive Cuban Lesbian Helped Her Creator Play Herself
In “Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!,” Alina Troyano and her former student Branden Jacobs-Jenkins explore the ways art made by one person can live inside others.
November 9, 2024
A New Broadway Musical Asks: Can Robots Fall in Love?
“Maybe Happy Ending” had an initial Korean-language production in Seoul in 2016. Here are five things to know about the show.
November 8, 2024
‘Walden’ Review: My Sister! My Twin! My Astronaut!
Emmy Rossum and Zoë Winters star in a new Off Broadway play that’s a climate disaster drama cohabiting with a domestic soap opera.
November 8, 2024
He’s Getting Raves for a Role He Wasn’t Supposed to Play
Seventeen years after he first appeared in “Yellow Face,” the veteran actor Francis Jue has returned with a nuanced performance as a blustery patriarch.
November 6, 2024
‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ Gets a Folk-Musical Makeover
The decade-spanning story of a man aging in reverse comes to the West End, transformed into a thoughtful fable opening on the English coast.
November 5, 2024
John Leguizamo Talked Diversity at the Emmys. He Has Ideas for Theater Too.
The actor discusses his new play, “The Other Americans,” feeling underappreciated as a dramatist, and Latino representation.
November 2, 2024
Hit Play About U.S. Constitution Debuts in Canada. Amended, of Course.
How do you retool “What the Constitution Means to Me” for those unfamiliar with the U.S. Constitution? Consult Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
November 1, 2024
‘Phantom of the Opera’ Closed on Broadway. Next Year It Will Hit the Road.
The enduring Andrew Lloyd Webber musical will begin a multiyear tour in Baltimore in November 2025.
November 1, 2024
Review: A Vocally Splendid ‘Ragtime’ Raises the Roof
Joshua Henry stars in an exhilarating gala revival of the 1998 musical about nothing less than the harmony and discord of America.
October 31, 2024
Two Climate Change Plays Keep the Flames of Hope Alive
“Hothouse,” at Irish Arts Center, fends off despair with loopiness; “In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot,” at Playwrights Horizons, is a fuzzy world lacking depth.
October 30, 2024
‘Ragtime’ Crushed Brandon Uranowitz’s Dream. Now It’s Healing His Wounds.
Nearly 30 years after being let go from the Broadway-bound show, this Tony Award winner is taking a lead role in a new revival at City Center.
October 29, 2024
‘Bad Kreyòl’ Review: Dueling Cultural Identities Make for a Weighty Comedy
Dominique Morisseau’s new play explores the tensions between a Haitian American woman and her Haitian-born cousin.
October 29, 2024
Broadway Is Singing Louis Armstrong’s Songs. Here Are 6 Classics.
By exploring Armstrong’s offstage struggles and tensions, “A Wonderful World” wants to shatter the image of an entertainer who was far more than just affable.
October 28, 2024
Review: ‘We Live in Cairo’ Falls Short of Being Revolutionary
Egyptians stand up to their government in a play that excels in its design but rings hollow when its subtext and character development are scrutinized.
October 27, 2024
Mimi Hines, a Replacement Star in ‘Funny Girl,’ Dies at 91
She was best known as half of a comedy team with her husband, Phil Ford, until her hall-filling voice earned her raves in a role made famous by Barbra Streisand.
October 27, 2024
Anime on Broadway May Be a Perfect Match
“Attack on Titan: The Musical” showed what a crossover between two seemingly different types of fans could look like.
October 26, 2024
How a Play About A.I. Lured Robert Downey Jr. to Broadway
In “McNeal,” the playwright Ayad Akhtar explores the way artificial intelligence is disrupting the literary world and raising questions about creativity.
October 26, 2024
Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler Make Puppy Love in the Puppy Pile
The Broadway revival of “Romeo + Juliet” plays to the TikTok crowd. But maybe that’s a good thing.
October 25, 2024
‘Back to the Future’ to Close on Broadway, Rerouting DeLorean to Germany
The musical, which opened in London three years ago, is still going strong there and touring North America, while productions are planned in Japan and on a cruise ship.
October 24, 2024
Review: Delia Ephron’s ‘Left on Tenth’ Treads Lightly
Julianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher star in this quasi romantic comedy adapted from Ephron’s memoir, which went deeper into her illness and grief.
October 24, 2024
‘Franklinland’ Review: A Founding Father, but Not the Best Dad
Lloyd Suh’s nimble period comedy about Benjamin Franklin examines a timeless struggle: the unmet expectations that divide parents and children.
October 23, 2024
Review: A Reverse Angle on Arthur Miller in ‘A Woman Among Women’
Julia May Jonas’s compelling play, opening the Bushwick Starr’s new theater, explores how a story written about men looks from the other side.
October 23, 2024
This Theater Was a Haven for Bold Art. Then the Archdiocese Intervened.
The Connelly Theater has suspended operations after its church landlord began more carefully scrutinizing show scripts and its general manager resigned.
October 22, 2024
A Reluctant Satirist Takes On the Bomb
Armando Iannucci, the mastermind behind “Veep,” has adapted “Dr. Strangelove” for the theater and insists that laughing at nuclear disaster couldn’t be more timely.
October 22, 2024
In ‘Sunset Boulevard,’ Nicole Scherzinger Is 23 Feet Tall
A fascinating Broadway revival of the bombastic 1994 musical blows it up even further.
October 21, 2024
‘The Warriors’ Hooked Lin-Manuel Miranda at 4. Now Comes the Album.
He collaborated with Eisa Davis to make a concept album inspired by the 1979 movie. One big change: the main gang is made up of women.
October 18, 2024
Sadie Sink to Star in Broadway Play Inspired by ‘Crucible’ and #MeToo
Kimberly Belflower’s “John Proctor Is the Villain” will be directed by Danya Taymor, who won a Tony this year for “The Outsiders.”
October 17, 2024
American Sign Language Brings New Layers to ‘American Idiot’
Performed simultaneously in sign language and sung English, a Los Angeles revival of the Green Day musical finds new ways to communicate rage and angst.
October 14, 2024
‘Suffs’ Won Tony Awards for Best Score and Book. Now It’s Closing.
The musical, created by Shaina Taub, announced that it will play its final performance on Jan. 5 and start a national tour next fall.
October 12, 2024
Review: An ‘Our Town’ for All of Us, Starring Jim Parsons
The Thornton Wilder classic returns to Broadway, still brutal and avant-garde after 86 years.
October 11, 2024
Review: Daniel Dae Kim as a Playwright Unmasked in ‘Yellow Face’
David Henry Hwang’s 2007 play, now in a fine Broadway revival, is a pointed critique of identity, masquerading as a mockumentary.
October 2, 2024
Robert Downey Jr. Is a Novelist With a Novel Muse in ‘McNeal’
The “Oppenheimer” star makes his Broadway debut in Ayad Akhtar’s timely new play about a literary lion who gets assistance from A.I.
October 1, 2024
Gavin Creel, Tony-Winning Musical Theater Actor, Dies at 48
He won the award playing a Yonkers feed store clerk in “Hello, Dolly!” and was also nominated for roles in “Thoroughly Modern Millie” and “Hair.”
September 30, 2024
Hollywood Is Heading for Broadway (and Off). Here’s a Cheat Sheet.
George Clooney as Murrow! Denzel Washington as Othello! Mia Farrow as a larcenous landlord! So much to see!
September 12, 2024
Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler Are Star Crossed in Central Park
As the stars of the “Romeo + Juliet” that opens on Broadway, they will die for love. And to make that convincing, they need to become friends first.
September 11, 2024
Julianna Margulies: ‘This Is the Play I’ve Been Waiting For’
The actress returns to Broadway after 18 years, starring in Delia Ephron’s new play about falling in love again after her husband’s death.
September 9, 2024
How to Survive (and Maybe Conquer) the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
It’s a prime opportunity for performers looking to make a splash. Nadia Quinn, a comic actress and singer from New York, decided to give it a shot.
August 24, 2024
An Unexpected Bright Spot in Theater? Look to Wisconsin.
No musicals and no mics: At American Players Theater in Wisconsin, nothing comes between the actors, their words and the public.
August 12, 2024
Tony Awards 2024: Who Will Win (and Who Should)
Our chief theater critic names the shows and artists he thinks will win, should win and should have been nominated — and suggests a few new categories.
May 14, 2024
Review: In ‘The Outsiders,’ a New Song for the Young Misfits
The classic coming-of-age novel has become a compelling, if imperfect, musical about have-not teenagers in a have-it-all world.
April 12, 2024
10 Years of ‘Aladdin’ on Broadway
The musical “Aladdin” has been running on Broadway for 10 years, a bright spot in an industry that hasn’t fully recovered from the pandemic. Michael Paulson, a theater reporter for The New York Times, attended the March 28 anniversary performance.
April 1, 2024
‘Dear England’ Review: When Soccer Success Becomes a Moral Victory
A new James Graham play about the soccer coach Gareth Southgate is a lively romp, but its core message about embracing male vulnerability feels soppy.
June 21, 2023
‘It’s Intoxicating’: 39 Tony-Nominated Performers on Why They Act
Each year we photograph Tony nominees, and talk with them about their craft. This year we focused on actors.
June 5, 2023
Strike First, Strike Hard: How ‘The Karate Kid’ Became a Musical
The new production, an adaptation of the classic 1984 martial arts film, is onstage now just outside St. Louis and aiming for a Broadway run.
June 1, 2022
The Last Word: Stephen Sondheim
In a never-before-seen interview, Stephen Sondheim sat down with The New York Times in June 2008 to talk about his life, career and accomplishments.
November 26, 2021
Broadway Shows to See This Spring: ‘Gypsy,’ ‘Othello’ and More
A guide to every show on Broadway, including new musicals, Tony-winning dramas, quirky hits and veterans like “Hamilton” and “Chicago.”
July 15, 2021
A Tireless Actress, Back at the Scene of the ‘Crime’
Before the pandemic, Catherine Russell had missed only four performances of an Off Broadway perennial since 1987. She was onstage for its reopening.
April 19, 2021
Night of Free-Flowing Verse, Booze and Elusive Connections on Dublin Bar Stools
“Boys and Girls,” Dylan Coburn Gray’s play at 59E59, follows four young hot-blooded people through a boozy night in Dublin.
September 9, 2014
Elaine Stritch on Life, Sex and Death
Elaine Stritch built her Broadway career playing brash and bawdy characters.
January 1, 2009
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