448 stories by "David Roberts"
New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) (Artistic Director Patricia McGregor and Managing Director Jeremy Blocker) announced today that Jonathan Groff will star as "Franklin" and Lindsay Mendez wil…
Drawing inspiration from concerts that evolved from Brooklyn front porches to its own rooftop balcony and large-scale exhibitions mounted on its exterior facade, St. Ann's Warehouse returns,…
The Joyce Theater Foundation (Linda Shelton, Executive Director) is pleased to welcome Danni Gee as the organization's new Director of Programming, effective September 12, 2022. A f…
Producers Michael Cohl and EMC Presents, in association with Larry Mestel, Deborah Klein, and Steven Greener for Primary Wave Music announce today the world premiere of Grammy & Academy …
The Lucille Lortel Theatre presents a solo play presentation of Four Saints in Three Acts, starring renowned actor David Greenspan (The Patsy, Strange Interlude) interpreting 66 unique ro…
The Joyce Theater Foundation (Linda Shelton, Executive Director) celebrates the opening of its Fall '22/Winter'23 season with not only a Joyce debut, but the U.S. dance theater debut of a…
"Skipper and me had a clean, true thing between us!"had a clean friendship, practically all our lives, till Maggie got the idea you're talking about. Normal? No!"It was too rare to be normal…
"Fairy Tales" and "Happily Ever After" have been great fodder for musical theater usually targeting multi-generational audiences, being prudent to include visual and intellectual content tha…
Under director Matt Pfeiffer's helm, Akeem Davis (Benedick) and Brett Ashley Robinson (Beatrice) and the cast of "Much Ado About Nothing" bring Shakespeare's late comedy (1598 or shortly the…
In an email with several attachments (none of which any of the invitees bothered to read), Morkan (the incomparable Marylouise Burke) invites several friends to her "very big house, on the b…
Things are going as well as they can as Juicy (a pensive, smart, and gay Marcel Spears who is thicc, beautiful, and lonely) and his cousin and oldest friend Tio (a relaxed and clever Chris H…
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival opens its Main Stage musical "A Chorus Line," the iconic winner of both the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The show previews June 22 and 23. It opens Ju…
Comedy is usually a successful way to approach any discussion about a difficult and awkward situation and often eases the tension surrounding the stigma that might be associated with the unc…
In "Exception to the Rule," currently playing at the Black Box Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center, is playwright Dave Harris more concerned about what might be the exception t…
There are times when a trip to the theatre should being nothing but fun and entertainment. A clever and ingenious musical performed by a remarkable cast is an additional bonus. One need to l…
The Outer Critics Circle (OCC), the official organization of writers on New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers and national publications, is pleased to announce the winners of the 71st …
The nominees for the 66th Annual Drama Desk Awards: Outstanding Play Cullud Wattah, by Erika Dickerson-Despenza, The Public Theater English, by Sanaz Toossi, Atlantic Theater Company Prayer …
Two deeply significant plays by Jeremy O. Harris " "Daddy" (Off-Broadway 2019) and "Slave Play" (Broadway 2021) " highlighted significant issues about the self-identity of young black gay an…
Award Announcement: The Outer Critics Circle 71st Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards Nominees By David Roberts Theatre Reviews Limited The Outer Critics Circle (OCC), the official organizati…
"The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft a-gley." " "To A Mouse" by Robert Burns Despite his claim to be "quite content to keep [his] own counsel, as [he] sees fit, and leave the ji…
"Since its premiere at The Public in 1976 and its subsequent transfer to Broadway later that year, much has happened to continue to impact the lives of the women of color celebrated by Ntoza…
The revival of "Take Me Out" by Richard Greenberg which opened at The Helen Hayes Theater, in many ways does not feel as if it were written twenty years ago, given the current political clim…
The Comedian Harmonists was an internationally famous all-male German singing group that was formed during the Weimar period and was forced to disband in the early 1930's when the Nazi regim…
It has taken this reviewer a couple of days to contemplate the new stage version of the well-known children's story "The Little Prince" penned by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, which has taken up…
There is something very special happening at New World Stages that every ardent admirer of great musical legends and theatre enthusiast should see. "Little Girl Blue", the new Nina Simone mu…