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By the time the play reaches its understated yet piercing climax, the question is no longer whether ChiChi and Theodore are "right" for one another"though that question lingers"but rather wh…
Bruno Giraldi's "Love or Death?" at Don't Tell Mama blends cabaret performance, philosophy, and intimate storytelling. Each idea leads to a personal revelation; each revelation breaks into s…
With its big, if economical, imagination, "Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)" also seemingly contains a metropolis of non-digital humanity, thanks, in particular, to Tony Gayle's …
Tom Pecinka and Marianne Rendón in a scene from Anne Washburn's "The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire" at The Vineyard Theatre (Photo credit: Carol Rosegg) Playwright Anne Washburn who does…
"Saturday Night Live" has made political satire look easy and has a lot to answer for. "44 " The Musical" written, composed and directed by Eli Bauman, who worked on the Obama campaign in La…
George Bernard Shaw " A salon-style evening at the American Irish Historical Society brought artists and educators together as David Staller led a candid, contemporary look at Shaw's ideas i…
Schiff's book so slavishly follows her screenplay without adding new material that there is nothing much to wait for. The lyrics by Sanford and Jay alternate between not scanning and extreme…
At Winter Rhythms, the lights warm, the lobby hums, and Sue Matsuki runs Urban Stages with the grace of a mentor and the stamina of a producer who loves every beat of the work. More than 150…
Reunited with Chenoweth for the first time since "Wicked," Schwartz once again benefits tremendously from a genuine member of Broadway royalty who, roughly two decades ago, as the original G…
Step inside the wild, razor-sharp world of VAPE! The Grease Parody, where creators Billy Recce and Danny Salles reveal how parody becomes true theatre " from the chaotic genius of "Green Lig…
However, like its characters in their narrow world, the play itself"which premiered last year at Chicago's dynamic Steppenwolf Theatre"seems small and isolated on a Broadway stage, even at t…
"Ready for Company and Other Family Tales" is at times quite heartwarming. Amidst jokes and cakes, Kim Ima explores her family history across a century of change in the United States. The to…
In a Montana farmhouse worn thin by grief and memory, The Harvest exposes the fractures beneath a family's final crop. What begins as a quiet drama of duty erupts into a raw reckoning"where …
Reunion's lyricist Scharf and Composer Calire explore how two forgotten one-acts became a musical about second chances, memory, and the courage to reconnect.
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If the Muppets are deployed as window dressing, the illusions themselves are a museum of inherited gestures. Lake presents the familiar canon of contemporary stage magic: the bifurcated assi…
In their latest, Shaw's ever-popular "Pygmalion," Staller has staged Shaw's never-used prologue created for the 1938 film version which has the gods and goddesses on Mt. Olympus recount to t…
"Reunions" is a charming new Edwardian musical made up of two classic one- act plays: James M. Barrie's 1910 "The Twelve-Pound Look" and the Quintero Brothers' 1901 "A Sunny Morning." Using …
This year's service, held Sunday, November 9, 2025, was led by Father John David van Dooren, Rector of the Little Church and Warden of the Guild. His opening words recalled the centuries-old…
Honoring three women reshaping the American musical: Mindi Dickstein, Lisa Lambert and Anna K. Jacobs.Hosted with radiant humor by Taylor Iman Jones, the evening celebrated women and nonbina…
Kristolyn Lloyd, Adina Verson, Betsy Aidem and Audrey Corsa in a scene from the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Bess Wohl's "Liberation" at the James Earl Jones Theatre (Photo cre…
"The Yellow Wallpaper" is an enthralling new stage adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1892 short story of the same name. Gilman's original narrative is written as a series of diary ent…
Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Martyna Majok, who has specialized in plays about the immigrant experience like Ironbound and Sanctuary City, has revised her play Queens first seen at the …
Beneath the camp and chaos, 'Bat Boy" remains what it always was: a parable with a pulse. O'Keefe's rock-opera score jabs with wit but bleeds sincerity; his lyrics cut deep with irony and co…
James Corden, Neil Patrick Harris and Bobby Cannavale in a scene from Yasmina Reza's "Art" at the Music Box Theatre (Photo credit: Matthew Murphy) Yasmina Reza's Art which is turning 31 this…
'The Wasp" is not for the faint of heart. It confronts the audience with themes of mental illness, domestic violence, and sexual trauma, yet resists the easy descent into nihilism. For all i…
