There's a beguiling quality to the latest immersive theater piece from the Punchdrunk company that brought us Sleep No More. Viola's Room, which just opened at The Shed, invites groups of up…
There are some provocative ideas in play during Emmanuelle Mattana's brief and quick-paced new dramedy Trophy Boys, starting with the decision to cast women and nonbinary actors as the four …
Jay Ellis (Insecure) and Stephanie Nur (Lioness), two rising stars on film and TV, spark with a sizzling onstage chemistry in Charles Randolph-Wright ripped-from-the-headlines romantic drama…
What does a monster look like? In Angry Alan, now playing at Off Broadway's newly rechristened Studio Seaview (formerly the home of the Second Stage Theater), he bears a striking resemblance…
The provocation in Jordan Tannahill's explosive and explosively entertaining new play starts with the title: Prince Faggot. The show begins with a prologue in which all six cast members sit …
The 7 Fingers is a Montreal-based circus troupe built in the shadow of Cirque du Soleil, but the similarities only go so far. While Cirque du Soleil is now a Hollywood-scale behemoth owned b…
After a quarter-century absence, Jean Smart makes a welcome return to Broadway in the one-woman show Call Me Izzy, a glorified Lifetime movie about a middle-aged Louisiana woman who endures …
Old Macheath is back, this time flashing his pearly whites as a thief in 1850s New York City in an updated version of John Gay and Johann Christoph Pepusch's 1728 classic The Beggar's Opera …
There is something about ancient Greek stories that continues to resonate with us millennia later. Nearly a quarter century ago, a young playwright named Sarah Ruhl decided to tackle the leg…
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha, now playing at the Public Theater after successful runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and the Soho Playhouse, is the kind of sui generis solo performance that will have you d…
Nazareth Hassan's play Bowl EP, now playing at the Vineyard Theatre in a coproduction with the National Black Theater and the New Group, pulses with the inventiveness and infectious energy o…
"What is human? What is divine?" Those are the opening lines of the recognizably human and borderline divine new musical Goddess, which opened Tuesday at the Public Theater. They're spoken b…
Lights Out: Nat King Cole, a weirdly structured biomusical about the late, great jazz singer that opened Tuesday at the New York Theatre Workshop, is a curious exercise in polarities. The br…
Love is never quite as it seems " and lovers can be just as elusive when you try to pin down their desires. That's a truism that is reinforced in August Strindberg's Creditors, which is gett…
A lot of time has passed since William Inge's Bus Stop first pulled into New York theaters in 1955 with its snapshot of salt-of-the-earth folks waylaid by a bad weather for a few hours in a …
Hugh Jackman, fresh from his song-and-dance triumph at Madison Square Garden a few months ago, returns to the New York stage in a beguiling and twisty new two-hander, Sexual Misconduct of th…
There's a surface cleverness running through playwright Caitlin Saylor Stephens' Five Models in Ruins, 1981, a new drama set during a Vogue photo shoot in the fall just after the royal weddi…
The Encores! series at New York City Center has revived so many classic musicals and underrated gems over the years. The latest production of Wonderful Town is a surprising disappointment, b…
Has the immersive theater bubble popped? Sleep No More, the elaborate theatrical experience mashing up Macbeth and film noir over five meticulously curated floors of a warehouse in New York'…
Broadway stars like Megan Hilty, George Clooney, and Sadie Sink are eschewing the usual list of credits and awards with jokey Playbill bios
Annie Baker, the minimalist playwright best known for her Pulitzer-winning drama The Flick, casts a long shadow over a new generation of playwrights. But it's not enough to write a naturalis…
This Broadway season has been unexpectedly rich in promising new musicals, and it concludes with a sensational surprise: Real Women Have Curves, based on Josefina López's 1990 play and a …
Musical theater creators have long explored some of the darkest chapters of history but few are as dark " or as unusual " as the hero of composer David Yazbek, lyricist Erik Della Penna, and…
Is there a more endearing Broadway star at the moment than Jonathan Groff? The veteran performer, who won the Tony Award last year for softening the very rough edges of the first-class jerk …
Like Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy, Key and Peele, or green eggs and ham, W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan are a comedic duo for the ages. There are a lot of brightly hued yolks and …