How do you retain the feeling of rapport inherent in an intimate small theater setting when you move things to a much larger Broadway house? How do you manage to create a feeling of spontane…
Is "ripsnortin'" still a thing? In any event, the first Broadway revival in seventy years of Noël Coward's 1925 comedy Fallen Angels, opening tonight at the Todd Haimes Theatre, is a rips…
Calculus is "intuitively obvious." At least that's what they told me when I enrolled in a college calc course a gazillion years ago. In my case, it turned out not to be so true. But mathemat…
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New York City's New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players (NYGASP) will perform a full production of Utopia, Limited for the very first time. (The company presented "concert" versions of the piece…
It is said that the wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine. Fortunately, few of us can claim to have had first-hand experience in testing this adage, especially the "slowl…
Hi there, all you ignominious peons stuck in dead-end, soul-sucking jobs that you'd give anything to chuck yet are worried about losing to mechanization or AI or robots. You think this is a …
When Arthur Miller's seminal work Death of a Salesman was first produced in 1949, and indeed for some time after, it was viewed as an indictment of the evanescent nature of the "American Dre…
Full disclosure: I am a dog guy. If T. S. Eliot had come up with a book of poems about highly impractical dogs instead of one about "highly practical cats," I'd have been first in line to se…
Here's a bit of wisdom to cross-stitch on a throw pillow: "There are times when lying is the most humane thing you can do." Well, maybe. But in the case of Second Stage's glistening revival …
"The day you looked at me. Really looked at me. That's the day I was born. I hated myself till you." Healthy relationships aren't exactly the cornerstone of playwright John Patrick Shanley'…
"The best things happen while you're dancing." So wrote Irving Berlin for the classic 1954 film White Christmas. Musical theatre fans might amend it slightly to "the best things happen while…
"We come in peace!" Comforting to know when the person who declaims these words is holding you at gunpoint during a poorly planned and even more poorly executed bank robbery that kickstarts …
The good news"actually the very splendid news"is that The York Theatre Company, which has been spending decades developing new musicals, has granted a very handsome world premiere production…
If you took On the Town, stripped it down, and gave it a lobotomy, it might end up very like No Singing in the Navy, now cavorting upstairs at Playwrights Horizons. The entertainment, "writt…
There seems to be a developing trend on the New York stages where audiences witness women characters deconstructing stage classics written by men, focusing on underdeveloped feminist aspects.
Once upon a time, towards the end of the first decade of the 21st century, there was a Black man who served as U.S. President and a woman who served as his Secretary of State. Barriers were …
Genuinely disturbing or tempest in a teapot? That's the prompt for post-performance discussion after seeing Mark Rosenblatt's Olivier Award-winning play Giant, which opened tonight at the Mu…
Gin. Skin. Sin. Put them all together, and you're in for the hedonistic ride of your life in the flawlessly performed, few-holds-barred Encores! production of Michael John LaChiusa and Georg…
"My joy is heavy." What the heck does that mean? Well, you'll find out at My Joy Is Heavy, the autobiographical musical by the Bergsons at New York Theatre Workshop, detailing a painful time…
Despite his highly distinctive physical appearance, Jesse Tyler Ferguson's versatility as an actor has allowed him to triumph in roles as disparate as a naïve young sailor in On the Town,…
Primary Stages' production of Libby Carr's coming-of-age play Calf Scramble, opening today at 59E59 Theaters, offers up an intriguing premise and a well-executed series of set pieces about a…
Mrs. Christie, currently onstage at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park through March 29th, is an intriguing blend of fact & fiction. It's rooted in a real episode from the life of mystery …
The title of Anna Ziegler's explosive new play, having its world premiere at the Public Theater, is Antigone (This Play I Read In High School). It's catchy, and it may lead you to expect a v…
Last fall, Stephen Rea appeared in a celebrated revival of Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, in which he portrayed a reclusive 69-year-old man grappling with decades of sadness and regret.…