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BIG APPLE CIRCUS AT LINCOLN CENTER EXPLODES WITH WOW! HOLIDAY FAMILY FUN
By Ellis Nassour
December 10, 2025: The Big Apple Circus is back, packed with a WOW! of thrills and fun. And a bit …
By Paulanne Simmons
December 8, 2025: We all remember the great dance scenes on Broadway and in movies, whether it's Gene Kelly twirling around a lamppost in Singin' in the Rain or Judy Ga…
By Samuel L. Leiter
December 4, 2025: In 1905, Jacob Adler, a giant of Manhattan's Yiddish theater, spoke these (or similar) words from the stage of Teller's Broadway Theatre in Brooklyn's W…
By Ellis NassourÂ
December 1, 2025: On what has become an annual holiday tradition for over two decades, the Circus Vazquez has returned from Mexico to Queens' Citi Field " throug…
By David Sheward
December 1, 2025: At this year's Thanksgiving dinner, a young relative expressed her fears the world might be doomed because of AI and a certain lawless occupant of the Whi…
By David Sheward
November 30, 2025: A pair of two-character shows with differing depictions of amorous connections have recently opened on and Off-Broadway. One is a charming rom-com musica…
By Paulanne Simmons
November 26, 2025: Samuel D. Hunter's Little Bear Ridge Road has almost no set (Scott Pask) and not much by way of costumes (Jessica Pabst). One might think the writer, …
By Ellis Nassour
November 25: It's the parade that has everything: giant helium balloons, award-winning marching bands from across the country, performance groups, floats with celebrities g…
By David Sheward
November 23, 2025: The big question is does the first Broadway revival of Chess solve the cult musical's previously impossible problem of the messy book dragging down the m…
By Samuel L. Leiter
November 20, 2025: Two-hander musicals occupy the tiniest niche among the categories of Broadway musicals. A few more, like Marry Me a Little, to name just one, have pla…
By Paulanne Simmons
November 20, 2025: The story of Oedipus has terrified and troubled people for generations. But it has never been more troubling and terrifying than in Robert Icke's adap…
By Ellis Nassour
November 20: Tony winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson is co-starring opposite Tom Hanks and Kelli O'Hara in Hanks and James Glossman's This World of Tomorrow. The world premiere …
SPIN featuring Russell Young on view at The White Room Gallery through December 28, 2025.
November 19, 2025: The White Room Gallery, 3 Railroad Avenue, in the village of East Hampton will p…
By Samuel L. Leiter
November 19, 2025: The idea behind the new Off-Broadway musical, Reunions, at the New York City Center Stage II makes good sense. It takes two once very popular early 20…
By David Sheward
November 19, 2025: The countdown clock in Hildegard Bechtler's sterile set for Robert Icke's explosively dramatic adaptation of Sophocles' Oedipus was ticking down to the f…
By Paulanne Simmons
November 19, 2025: Laurie Krauz began Sets at Don't Tell Mama on November 13 with the same humor that pervaded the entire show.
"Why are we here… Back when dinosaurs …
Stephen Hamilton brings a stylish thought- provoking staging of Bradbury's 1953 science fiction classic to Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor.
By Patrick Christiano
November 18, 2025: Stephe…
By David Sheward
November 17, 2025: Stephen Schwartz has the distinction of having three shows running simultaneously on New York stages. In addition to the long-running Wicked, Schwartz's …
By David Sheward
November 14, 2025: "Now this show has some real star power," declares Miss Piggy, the porcine puppet star, late in Rob Lake Magic with Special Guests The Muppets, now in an…
By Isa Goldberg
November 13, 2025: Illusionist Rob Lake does magic on Broadway. Not any ordinary Svengali, Lake is charismatic, and confidently narcissistic. Pretty hot, in a tee shirt and…
By Samuel L. Leiter
November 12, 2025: A month ago, as I walked to a show on W. 42nd Street with my middle-aged daughter, we passed Stage 42, where large signs announced the imminent arriv…
WHO GETS TO TELL THE STORY?
By Alix Cohen
November 12, 2025 Between Acts I and II of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice the production is shut down by protesters. Saul Rubinek, as a ver…
By David Sheward
November 11, 2025: Michael Urie proves he is as adept at Shakespearean tragedy as he is at musical comedy and TV sitcoms in a powerful staging of the Bard's Richard II from…
TWO BECKETTS: ONE ON, ONE OFF
By Isa Goldberg
November 11, 2025: Friendship, because it is a sustaining force, is the revelation of Jamie Lloyd's revival of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for G…
By Paulanne Simmons
November 11, 2025: Fixing Frankie, a new musical with book and lyrics by Joe Longworth and music by Steve Marzzullo, does not tell a particularly unique story. But it te…
