Ryan J. Haddad's new monologue/play Hold Me in the Water, which opened Wednesday at Off Broadway's Playwrights Horizons, has the confessional energy of an overdue catch-up session with a fri…
Netflix's sci-fi series Stranger Things, which is expected to stream its fifth and (supposedly) final season later this year, has developed a rabid following since its 2016 debut for its sav…
America has always found a place in its heart for dreamers, however flawed or misguided. Almost exactly a century ago, the story of a Kentucky cave enthusiast and natural risk-taker named Fl…
There's nothing particularly new about reframing William Shakespeare's Scottish play around the hero's notoriously ruthless and manipulative wife, Lady Macbeth. Zinnie Harris's Macbeth (An U…
Caryl Churchill may be the best living playwright in the English language. And at 86, she's still producing work of remarkable vigor and nuance in her quintessentially absurdist style. Her s…
There's something refreshing about seeing a Broadway theater packed with Gen Alpha patrons. Many of them flocked to the recent Romeo + Juliet with barely-twentysomething stars Kit Connor and…
If you've had the pleasure of attending performances at the Irish Repertory Theatre, you've grown accustomed to certain recurring themes and tropes in the grand tradition of Irish drama: dom…
Even before winning the Tony Award last year for his pointed dramedy Appropriate, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins had emerged as one of the brightest lights in the current American theater scene with…
The first episode of Smash " a backstage look at the making of a Broadway biomusical about Marilyn Monroe " was one of the most perfect TV pilots produced in the new millennium. Playwright T…
Wole Soyinka is a seminal figure in world literature and drama, but the 90-year-old Nigerian Nobel Prize winner's works are seldom performed in New York. That's particularly true of his 1958…
Even four years after his death at age 91, Stephen Sondheim remains a towering figure in American musical theater. The breadth of his talents as a composer, lyricist, and storyteller get a l…
Betty Boop, the baby-voiced Jazz Age flapper from black-and-white Max Fleischer cartoons of the 1930s, is not the most obvious piece of ancient IP to become the center of a new Broadway musi…
Sarah Snook, the Australian actress best known for her Emmy-winning turn as Siobhan "Shiv" Roy on Succession, goes more than a little Wilde in the spellbindingly high-tech adaptation of Osca…
Composer Jason Robert Brown was something of a wunderkind, winning a Tony Award before the age of 30 for his rapturous, symphonic score for the 1999 musical Parade. He followed that critical…
The Chicago salesmen cursing and scheming in David Mamet's 1983 drama Glengarry Glen Ross are just as small (and petty) as ever, but to invert the words of Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard,…
Nearly two decades have passed since George Clooney directed and co-wrote Good Night, and Good Luck, a black-and-white drama depicting beloved CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow's challenge to Sen…
Star power can be a curious thing, especially when it's the driving force behind the revival of a problematic play like Othello. Shakespeare's drama famously centers on a Black antihero who …
It's been a decade since Hamilton exploded the possibilities of what musical theater could do with historical subject matter, jam-packing a lot of narrative and footnote-worthy tangents into…
You don't have to be a fan of Cuban music, or even understand Spanish, to get caught up in the infectious, rhythmic joy that is Buena Vista Social Club, the new musical based on Wim Wenders'…
Like many a gay man, playwright Joshua Harmon has been shaped at least in part by the dynamic of, dare-I-say-it, domineering women in his life. As he demonstrates in his remarkable but spare…
The British director Rebecca Frecknall has unearthed new depths in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, turning a classic that can be played as maudlin melodrama into a kinetic pri…
In the three decades since the premiere of Rent and the sudden death of its 35-year-old creator, Jonathan Larson has become an almost mythic figure in the musical theater world. The admirati…
Lily Rabe, the gifted actress last seen on the New York stage in the 2015 Shakespeare in the Park production of Cymbeline, is a natural choice to play Helena Alving, the wealthy, long-suffer…
Nia Akilah Robinson, a recent Juilliard grad now at the Yale School of Drama, stakes a claim as a major playwright to watch with her genre-bending drama The Great Privation, which premiered …
There are not many plays that truly capture the liminal period when young adults are in the thick of that awkward, exhilarating process of becoming. Natalie Margolin's one-act dramedy All Ni…