Bread is going to draw us into learning more about our next Broadway musical, a lalapalooza with a cast of over twenty featured players and an ensemble of gifted singers, all of whom are del…
ART arrives at the Music Box Theatre on Broadway to brighten the autumn season. French writer Yasmina Reza's hit comedy as translated to The King's English by Christopher Hampton has been a …
Kyoto at Lincoln Center is a production of the play by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson at the Mitzi Newhouse Theatre. It has taken me three days to unravel my thoughts and to collect and arrang…
The Lincoln Center Theatre Mgt. has mounted a new production of the musical RAGTIME to replace the recent ones that first attracted us 30 years ago. Lear deBessonet is the org…
The world of theatre has changed once again"one word titles are fashionable, and nuance is out. This production of Punch, a new play by James Graham, is based on the book Right From Wrong by…
Here is a musical about the very real mother of Gypsy Rose Lee who was a Broadway legend in her own right co-starring in musical comedies in the early 1940s"in shows that crossed the l…
The American Musical which Broadway has been said to invent has passed away. The current season on the main stem has just ended as award season selects its winners for the summer tourist …
Carolyn Bowman (Mathew Murphy) In an attempt to attract new audiences to new plays and musicals, a pattern has begun to emerge. Shows are being conceived by a new generation of producers, wr…
Who would have believed that at last a musical comedy called BOOP would arrive on Broadway late in the season (April 6) just in time to deliver an Easter gift that saves us from the…
Out of a great mess of a family, playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has fashioned a new play dealing with a celebratory birthday dinner at the very conventional looking home of Claudine…
Out of the nightly CBS talk show which once filled our radio and later our television listening hours, the 21st century has moved in early and finally taken command of the vast audience that…
Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard are now co-starring in this flashy and stylish new musical, playing the two nasty "frenemies" who were played in the non-musical movie by Meryl Streep and Gol…
The  James Earl Jones Theatre on West 48th Street (once called The Cort) has put out its newly-refurbished welcome mat to a new rom/com by Delia Ephron based on her best-selling memoir. I…
An odd quirk about the Playbill program that is notable"there is no listing of the songs' titles and no mention of why. I suspect Lloyd Webber felt that his melodies were constant; they were…
The management at New York's Lincoln Center has brought into its spacious Beaumont Theatre a flashy new production called McNeal by the highly regarded Ayad Aktar whose plays Disgraced a…
The new Broadway season begins with this two-character play from Jen Silverman who is a "they/them" playwright, novelist, and screenwriter; and they seems to have had productions every…
After 30 years of devotion and much love for this marvelous institution, this will be my final report. The management has for three years ignored my request for a change of seat location. I …
On a fine evening in late June with a hundred celebrants in the Green Room at Yotel on 10th Avenue and 42nd Street, I was with my partner, Christian Foy, and two friends" the cartoonist Tom …
Chip Zien and Judy Kuhn (Joan Marcus) I was unable to attend an early performance of this grand finale to the 2024 season, but I did catch it just before it finished its brief run on June…
This is an odd column  for me, as I reviewed this play by Amy Herzog in 2017 when it first appeared in the smaller venue of the New York Theatre Workshop on East 4th Street where it had w…
Playwright Amy Herzog has given us her version of Ibsen's masterful play of the same name that remains set in late 19th Century Norway; but it is as though it was first conceived yesterday b…
I've been privileged to be one of the few survivors of the 1966 opening of this landmark musical when its original production opened on Broadway. I was then a young theatre agent representin…
There are classical themes that seem to interest and attract playwrights in each succeeding generation. Certainly Shakespeare was aware of the class distinctions of his time in urban England…
There is a note in the Playbill for Corruption the current occupant of the Mitzi Newhouse Theater in Lincoln Center. It's by the play's author J.T.Rogers and in it he tells us that his p…
This elaborately titled musical is based on a novel of the same name by Sara Gruen which was a best seller and served as the source of a film with Reese Witherspoon and others. It's now been…