Review: Jessica Lange Stars in Paula Vogel?s ?Mother Play? | |
Jessica Lange stars as a ferocious matriarch alongside Celia Keenan-Bolger and Jim Parsons in Vogel?s latest family drama. | |
Review: A New ?Great Gatsby? Leads With Comedy and Romance | |
This musical adaptation, now on Broadway, is a lot of Jazz Age fun. But it forgot that Fitzgerald?s 1925 novel endures because it is a tragedy. | |
Review: ?Jordans? Tackles Race at Work at the Public Theater | |
Alternating between funny and bleak, the Public Theater?s latest production tackles race and the modern workplace. | |
?Forbidden Broadway? Scraps Summer Broadway Run, Citing Crowded Season | |
The parody show was scheduled to begin performances in July at the Helen Hayes Theater. | |
?Harlequin, Refined by Love? Review: A French Showman?s First Steps | |
The revival of a 2006 work by Thomas Jolly, the director masterminding the opening ceremony at the Paris Olympics, shows his gift for visual flamboyance. | |
Review: Welcome to ?Illinoise,? Land of Love, Grief and Zombies | |
Sufjan Stevens?s 2005 concept album has become an unlikely and unforgettable dance-musical hybrid, directed and choreographed by Justin Peck. | |
Review: Steve Carell as the 50-Year-Old Loser in a Comic ?Uncle Vanya? | |
Sleek, lucid, amusing, often beautiful, it?s Chekhov with everything, except the main thing. | |
The Culture Desk: Alicia Keys on Reimagining ?Fallin? for Broadway | |
The singer talks about finding a new home for her first hit. | |
Improv Is Making a Comeback in New York | |
The pandemic dealt a major blow to the once-thriving comedy form, but a new energy can be seen in performances throughout the city. | |
?Mary Jane? Review: When Parenting Means Intensive Care | |
Amy Herzog?s heartbreaker arrives on Broadway with Rachel McAdams as the alarmingly upbeat mother of a fearfully sick child. | |
?Orlando? Review: A Virginia Woolf Fantasy That Plays With Gender | |
In this revival of Sarah Ruhl?s adaptation of the Woolf novel, now starring Taylor Mac, the flashes of comedy can?t make up for the loss of poetry. | |
?Oh, Mary!,? a Surprise Downtown Hit, Will Play Broadway This Summer | |
Cole Escola?s madcap comedy about the former first lady Mary Todd Lincoln will begin performances in June. | |
Lady Macbeth Gets Two Very Different Interpretations | |
One of Shakespeare?s most coveted roles for women gets different interpretations onstage in New York and Washington. | |
?Mary Jane,? ?Hell?s Kitchen? and More New Broadway Shows | |
This past week has been jam-packed with openings. Our reviewers think these new shows are worth knowing about even if you?re not planning to see them. | |
Carrie Robbins, Costume Designer for Dozens of Broadway Shows, Dies at 81 | |
She made a classic wig and poodle skirt for ?Grease? (using a bath mat and a toilet cover) and turned actors into Spanish inquisitors, British highwaymen and more. | |
Terry Carter, Barrier-Breaking Actor and Documentarian, Dies at 95 | |
He was a rare Black presence on ?Combat!? and ?The Phil Silvers Show,? then made well-regarded documentaries on luminaries like Duke Ellington and Katherine Dunham. | |
Huey Lewis?s Music Makes ?The Heart of Rock and Roll? | |
The new musical doesn?t take itself too seriously and has many winning moments ? almost enough to eclipse the weaknesses of its story. | |
?Cabaret? Opening on Broadway: Eddie Redmayne, Angela Bassett and Baz Luhrmann | |
A party for the buzzy revival of the Broadway musical was held at a theater that has been transformed to look like a 1930s-era nightclub. | |
?Patriots? Review: What Happened to the Man Who Made Putin? | |
Michael Stuhlbarg and Will Keen shine as a kingmaker and his creature. But in Peter Morgan?s cheesy-fun play, it?s not always clear which is which. | |
Review: ?Grenfell? Sees Tower Fire Through Residents? Eyes | |
At St. Ann?s Warehouse, this documentary play about a London fire is blood-boiling and aggrieved. | |
How ?Stereophonic? Made Musicians Out of Actors | |
The new Broadway play conjures a group as dazzling as peak Fleetwood Mac. This is how five actors with limited training (one never held a bass) became rock stars. | |
?Cabaret? Review: Dancing, and Screaming, at the End of the World | |
Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin star in a buzzy Broadway revival that rips the skin off the 1966 musical. | |
?Hell?s Kitchen? Review: Alicia Keys?s Musical Finds Its Groove on Broadway | |
The retooled jukebox musical, with its top-notch performances and exciting choreography, ?stands out as one of the rare must-sees? in a crowded season. | |
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