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Riffing on the origin of humanity, Richard Maxwell crams a lot into a family restaurant.
We freshen up in them, overhear theater gossip in them, and wash our hands before leaving them. Now we rank them.
The death of a close colleague from COVID-19 helped inspire Eduardo Machado's new play at the Theater for the New City.
This revival " with most of the original cast " brings the show new urgency, and one new actor: Common, making his Broadway debut.
Paul Bettany dons a white wig to make his Broadway debut in this play about Andy Warhol's partnership with Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Thanks to superlative casting (including Daniel Radcliffe) and canny direction, this elegant, emotionally searching production may be the finest 'Merrily' you'll ever see.
Dusted off, polished and revitalized to reflect contemporary values, 'Some Like It Hot' remains close to perfect.
In this Broadway revival of Adrienne Kennedy's 1992 play, Audra McDonald is more interesting than the show itself.
Like a band on tour, 'Almost Famous: The Musical' had a few stops and starts along the way but is finally at its destination on The Great White Way.
The six-time Tony winner spent Saturday onstage at Carnegie Hall and opens in 'Ohio State Murders' on Broadway on Thursday, in what she calls "the most difficult role I've ever played."
This sloppy Broadway embrace of Neil Diamond is a jukebox musical in search of a plot.
Having spent 54 of his 83 years directing stunning theater, Jack O'Brien talks about working with Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tom Stoppard and Neil Simon, as well as his next Broadway show, 'Shucke…
The playwright's latest examines society's need to identify collective villains that can be perpetually punished.
Set to the music of Max Martin, this moronic new Broadway show asks the question, "What if Romeo died but Juliet didn't kill herself and lived on to bore everybody else to death?"
"Every single person on that stage is someone who would not have been allowed to be inside Independence Hall in 1776."
Family ties provide added resonance to this two-character play about a welder who suffers a devastating injury, for both the audience and the actors. "But we're still really goofy with each …
From playwright Kareem Fahmy, 'Dodi & Diana' is a play reckoning with love's survival on the anniversary of the death of Princess Diana.
The ovations (many of them standing) greeting Lea Michelle as Fanny Brice are contagious.
Stoppard's new show traces a Jewish family in Vienna as darkness overtakes them. Betsy Aidem and director Patrick Marber talk about the Broadway production.
Soon to be opened to the public on October 8, Lincoln Center's new David Geffen Hall further cements its architectural reputation.
Memory plays are having a moment in theater but "The Memory Exam" may not live up to its name.
The actor " known for his role on 'Nurse Jackie' " talks about the challenges of playing a father with an ill son " and a fantasy life " in 'Jasper.'
Debuting in 1988, Phantom of the Opera is set to leave Broadway.
Jackson gets the chance to revisit the August Wilson play that almost " but not quite " afforded him his Broadway debut.
New York theater rolls into fall again with a packed schedule of Broadway, off-Broadway, and experimental theater.
