Off-Broadway Review: “The Welkin” Never Comes to a Verdict at Atlantic...
Twenty-one-year-old Sally Poppy (a powerful yet broken Haley Wong) is convicted of murdering young Alice Wax and sentenced to hang in March of 1759 on the border of Norfolk and Suffolk, in England....
View ArticleTheatre News: SoHo Rep and Playwrights Horizons Enter Space-Sharing...
Soho Rep (Directors Cynthia Flowers, Caleb Hammons, Eric Ting) and Playwrights Horizons (Artistic Director Adam Greenfield, Managing Director Casey York), two of New York’s most influential champions...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Job” at the Helen Hayes Theater (Through Sunday, September...
At the beginning of “Job” which is currently running at the Helen Hayes Theater, Jane (a frenetic yet oddly focused Sydney Lemmon) enters Lloyd’s (a seemingly focused yet not fully at ease Peter...
View ArticleMusic News: PS Classics Presents the Long-Awaited Original Cast Recording of...
PS CLASSICS, the label dedicated to the heritage of Broadway and American Popular Song, will release the original cast recording of Ricky Ian Gordon’s acclaimed autobiographical musical Sycamore Trees...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Once Upon a Mattress” at The Hudson Theatre (Through...
The latest revival to open on Broadway is the classic “Once Upon a Mattress” with music by Mary Rogers, her first Broadway show, and an adapted book by Amy Sherman-Palladino, from the original by Jay...
View ArticleOff-Broadway/Dance Review: “Ain’t Done Bad” at The Pershing Square Signature...
Jakob Karr’s “Ain’t Done Bad,” currently running at the Irene Diamond Stage, portrays the familiar story of a young LGBTQ man (Jakob Karr) attempting to grapple with his sexual identity in an abusive...
View Article“Around the Sun” Anthology Audio Drama Series Announces its Season Four Cast...
Around the Sun, the award-winning, anthology audio drama series created by Brad Forenza and presented via the Broadway Podcast Network, has announced its season four cast. The announcement comes via an...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Table 17” at The Susan and Roland Frankel Theater at...
The latest production to open at MCC Theatre is the world premiere of the new play “Table 17” penned by Douglas Lyons and under the direction of Zhailon Levingston. The title refers to a table that...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Fatherland” at New York City Center Stage II (Through...
The timing of the opening of Stephen Sachs “Fatherland” at New York City Center Stage II could not be more auspicious. Based on the true story of the 18-year-old high school senior from the Wylie part...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “The Hills of California” at The Broadhurst Theatre...
In Jez Butterworth’s “The Hills of California,” the four Webb sisters gather in the summer of 1976 at Seaview the guesthouse on the outskirts of Blackpool, an English seaside resort on the Irish Sea,...
View ArticleOff-Broadway News: “Our Class” at Classic Stage Company” Runs through Sunday,...
After its sold-out run at Brooklyn Academy of Music in winter 2024, the off-Broadway production “Our Class,” by Polish playwright Tadeusz Slobodzianek, and helmed by Ukrainian-born, Jewish director...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Preview: Royal Family Productions Two-Part Adaptation of “Ann of...
New York: Outer Critics’ Circle award-nominated Royal Family Productions, a non-profit theatre company known for its innovative productions and development of new original work, will present Chris...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “McNeal” at the Vivian Beaumont Theater (Through Sunday,...
“McNeal,” currently on at the Vivan Beaumont Theater, is playwright Ayad Akhtar’s exploration into the unexpected confluence of plagiarism, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the canon of western...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “The Counter” at the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold...
Life secrets and surprises are somewhere on the menu at the way-upstate New York diner where Paul (a quiet, thoughtful, and intense Anthony Edwards) has “good coffee made with a bad machine” nearly...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “The Big Gay Jamboree” at the Orpheum Theatre (Through...
The Orpheum Theatre is hosting the newest campy musical “The Big Gay Jamboree,” with a book by Marla Mindelle and Jonathan Parks-Ramage. Ms. Mindelle, who is known for the cult favorite “Titanique,”...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Hold on to Me Darling” at the Lucille Lortel Theatre...
Strings McCrane (a complex, unsettled, and conflicted Adam Driver) did not need to be overly mindful when he was a world-famous country and western singer and a movie star: he had teams deciding what...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Vladimir” at New York City Center Stage I (Through...
At first glance, Manhattan Theatre Club’s “Vladimir,” currently at New York City Center Stage I, might receive a “what’s new” reaction from the audience. But the importance Erika Sheffer’s...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “The Roommate” at the Booth Theatre (Currently On)
It has been a long journey for “The Roommate,” the dark comedy by Jen Silverman, to finally arrive on Broadway since its premiere in 2015 at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival. It was...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Yellow Face” at the Todd Haimes Theatre (Currently On)
Something old becomes new again with the current production of “Yellow Face” by Roundabout Theatre, which has been produced nationally, and internationally since it opened off-Broadway at the Public...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Romeo + Juliet” at Circle in the Square (Through Sunday,...
In a recent “New York Times” guest essay, Drew Lichtenberg writes that although “the American theater’s relationship to the Bard might be fraying” with “a long history of theaters running from...
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