448 stories by "David Roberts"
Philadelphia Theatre Company announces its 2025/26 season featuring three mainstage productions, special programming, and single tickets now on sale. The season features three mainstage prod…
The only effort Betsy Wolfe has to put forth to sell a new musical is to use those incredible vocal cords to mesmerize an audience, but in the "new true musical", "Joy", with a book by Ken D…
Loving Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner is easy. Making an audience care about them theatrically? That is the challenge "Gene & Gilda" never manages to meet. Any play about such strong and w…
Unless your bucket list includes testing the limits of your eardrums before they tear beyond repair, after exposure to unbearable decibels, it would be prudent to avoid the new jukebox music…
"Exorcistic: The Rock Musical" is set to make its triumphant return Off Broadway at The Asylum NYC for a limited engagement beginning August 25th, 2025. This bold, high-octane horror-comedy …
The producers of "Duke & Roya" have announced the unexpected closure of Charles Randolph-Wright's engaging dramatic examination of how the ravages of war affect the lives of two disparat…
The inaugural production of Seaview Studio, the newly renovated Off-Broadway theater (formerly known as the Tony Kiser), is titled "Angry Alan," penned by playwright Penelope Skinner and sta…
Under the Radar returns for its 21st edition January 7"25, 2026, serving as a singular catalyst for the city's performing arts organizations to introduce the best of U.S. and international e…
Abingdon Theatre Company (Chad Austin, Producing Artistic Director) is thrilled to announce two-time Tony Award Winner Christine Ebersole as their 33rd Anniversary Gala Honoree. Kicking off …
This fall, "the Shakespeare of pop culture satire" (NYT), playwright and performer Ryan Raftery (Mother of the Year: The Kris Jenner Musical, The Trial of Andy Warhol, The Rise and Fall a…
Playwright Rishi Varma announces the debut of his new play "Sulfur Bottom," set to take the stage at The Jerry Orbach Theater at The Theater Center located at 210 West 50th Street. The play …
The characters in Conor McPherson's "The Weir," currently running at the Irish Repertory Theatre, tell ghost stories and stories of the supernatural to newcomer Valerie (Sarah Street) at the…
Currently running at Playwrights Horizons, "Prince Faggot" is a story within a story within a story about a fictional British Prince George/Pips (a hapless John McCrea) who is queer and meet…
After a successful run, including two extensions, "Geovanni's Room" at Quintessence Theatre, the show closed on Sunday, July 6, 2026. Although the adaptation could have had a third extension…
Isabelle Scutley is the main character in a new Broadway play that stars a riveting Jean Smart. She prefers to be called "Izzy" even though her husband Ferd disapproves. Fred is also psychol…
"Lowcountry," currently running at the Atlantic Theater Company, is the third narrative in a trilogy written by playwright Abby Rosebrook. The complex and dark new play follows the developin…
Flowing in the same vein as the triumphant off-Broadway show "Dead Outlaw," which made a move to Broadway last season, is the wonderful "Beau the Musical," now playing at Theatre 154. Produc…
NEW SEASON, NEW PLAYS: Broadway Bound Theatre Festival -2025 hosts 12 new plays and musicals this summer at AMT Theater in midtown NYC. These new works are by emerging playwrights from acros…
The Outer Critics Circle (OCC), the official organization of writers on New York theatre for out-of-town, national, and digital news publications, has announced the winners for the 2025 Oute…
The somewhat recognizable journey from play, to film, and finally to musical delivers the new "Real Women have Curves" to the James Earl Jones Theatre on Broadway. It has morphed into a smal…
The "Match" in Kimberly Belflower's thoughtful new play "John Proctor is the Villain," currently playing at the Booth Theatre, is between the heavyweight team "Toxic Masculinity" and the und…
Only in America, where greed, fame, crime and capitalism reign and members of a civilized society aspire to become part of the materialistic regime, can you discover the story of Elmer J. Mc…
If you are not a Baby Boomer, chances are you would have never seen any of the black and white Betty Boop cartoons that made the spit curl bombshell a household name. Now that she has made h…
The Outer Critics Circle (OCC), the official organization of writers on New York theatre for out-of-town, national, and digital news publications, has announced the nominees for the 2025 Out…
Broadway Bound Theatre Festival is proud to announce its 2025 Season, showcasing the brand-new works of playwrights from across the country at AMT Theater on 45th Street. "We're so excited t…