Woodie King Jr. always had a gift for teasing talent from unconventional sources. One young playwright was minister of culture for the Black Panther Party. Another had an idea for a dance dr…
Mark Harris' biography of Mike Nichols pulses with a narrative energy equal to its subject.
Hermione Lee's exhaustively researched biography takes us inside the works of a literary genius.
Let's get right to it. I'm going to reveal the ending of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Before I do, I urge you to find Netflix and spend 94 minutes with Viola Davis, the late Chadwick Boseman an…
Let's get right to it. I'm going to reveal the ending of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Before I do, I urge you to find Netflix and spend 94 minutes with Viola Davis, the late Chadwick Boseman an…
Bill Irwin adapts his award-winning meditation on Samuel Beckett's works for the screen.
Richard Nelson's Zoom trilogy explores a family grasping for connection in these unprecedented times.
Theater makers show their ability to adapt to our new reality in these two productions tailored to watching on a screen.
For those who couldn t see Hamilton on Broadway or those who want to see it again, the smash musical is now streaming on Disney+.
If anyone still believed in the idea of American exceptionalism, they might be rethinking that notion now.
Wynn Handman, a revered acting teacher whose Off-Broadway company, The American Place Theatre, defied Broadway commercialism while providing early support to many of the country's most talen…
This tribute to Terrence McNally looks back at one of his less-praised works and the anger that burned within it.
Betty Buckley uses her beautiful voice to create dreamscapes that will send you home on a cloud.
This is a timely new play from a promising writer, with a fine, committed cast.
As the best folk songs often do, this powerful show may make you both sad and elated.
"Crrrritic!" Estragon sneers as the trumping put-down in the battery of insults he trades with Vladimir in "Waiting for Godot." You might say that for theater critics, it's been downhill eve…
Missteps in this production include cutting the show too short and using giant video projections that overwhelm the action onstage.
Jerry Herman's 1974 flop has been reborn and reformed into a splendid show.
It s unclear why this carbon copy of the 1969 film has been transferred to the stage.
"Kid, the show is yours." The words were recalled, not sung at Monday afternoon's tribute to the late Jerry Herman. And while they may lack the urgent iambic promise of "You charm the husk r…
The play's Broadway debut couldn't be fresher, timelier or more satisfying.
Here are some of the highlights from a year full of big shows and stunning performances.
"I live for the next musical. I live in the future. I'm totally mindful that nobody will ever have the life I've had in the theater. That's past. And that's damned sad." Harold Prince once s…
Diablo Cody has framed her first musical around Alanis Morrissette's 1995 album of the same name.
Composer and actress joined together in an impassioned performance.