New York City Theater

As the theatre season races to the end of its nomination deadline for the Tony Awards, musical shows are exploding all over the place....

DC Mega-hits Dear Evan Hansen and Come From Away, which wowed  audiences  during  their sold out runs at Arena Stage and Ford's Theatre, will be vying  for Best...

“Alternative facts” and “fake news” are nothing new with the current presidency; they led to the Bush administration’s justification for the war in Iraq...

The night I saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the new musical based on Roald Dahl's novel, the theatre was packed with moms and...

Andy Karl is a delightful musical theatre leading man, but he's been having a bit of bad luck lately. During a late preview of...

Published in 1915, Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology - a collection of free-verse poems in which the deceased residents of a fictional rural...

John Guare's masterpiece from 1990 solidly launched his career, earning a run of 155 performances off-Broadway which extended to a run at the Beaumont...

I've seen this play so many times. As a youngster of 19 I played "Horace" at NYU in a production that helped me along...

Did you ever wonder what happens when “a duck walks into a bar”? Anthony Caporale (performer, playwright, and Director of Beverage Studies at New...

I'm going to tell you a short story before I get to my review of Hello, Dolly! which is now playing at the Shubert...

What’s so funny about suicide, cremation, drug addiction, PTSD, and familial dysfunction? Playwright Lauren Ferebee finds the dark comedy in all of that, along...

Socially relevant and thought-provoking, profoundly heartrending and often funny, playwright Camilo Almonacid’s The Assignment – inspired by a true story and developed by Houses...

Playwright Paula Vogel has been writing plays for almost forty years, in which she has dealt with issues that fueled her life. She's been...

This project began with a fine title, one that conjurs up a fun musical once you know it's about the battle for supremacy in...

When John Cameron Mitchell (book) and Stephen Trask (music and lyrics) were developing their gender-bending rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch for its Off-Broadway...

Philadelphia-based artists Dan Martin (composer) and Michael Biello (lyricist) are about to make their Off-Broadway debut this month with Marry Harry at The York...

I had only dim memories of the 1993 agreement between the Palestinians and the Israelis, which had been secretly arranged by a Norwegian couple,...

Family plays have changed so in the past few decades. They once concerned themselves with sibling rivalry for power and control (The Little Foxes),...

 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  DCMetroTheaterArts Squelches Rumors of Closing, Announces Plan for Future Leadership and Growth Staff Rallies in Response to Founding Editor’s Diagnosis, Thanks Local Theater Community...

It doesn’t take much to create a smash Broadway hit. All you need for starters is a  witty script that isn’t in a hurry...