New York City Theater

‘Take A Bow!’ Part 3: The Staff of DCMetroTheaterArts’ Favorite DC/MD/VA...

Here is the staff of DCMetroTheaterArts’ 3rd series of ‘Take A Bow!’ Fall 2016 honorees: Caroline Clay as Florynce Kennedy in (Re)Acts: Where Do We...

Review: ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ at The Music Box Theatre in NYC

This highly imaginative and moving musical was presented off Broadway by the Second Stage company in May of this year. It enjoyed a sold...

Review: ‘A Bronx Tale’ at The Longacre Theatre in NYC

Chazz Palminteri's career as actor and writer was given a big boost when his one-man play A Bronx Tale began its life off Broadway...

Review: ‘Shades’ at Cherry Lane Theatre in NYC

“I tell you, War is Hell.” So declared Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman in his 1879 address to the graduating class of the...

Review: ‘A Name for a Ghost to Mutter’ at Urban Stages

In the summer of 2008 a group of artists, business people and supporters gathered to talk theatre, which led to the formation of Theatre...

‘Mary Poppins’ at The John W. Engeman Theater at Northport

Everyone’s favorite high-flying nanny has landed at the John W. Engeman Theater at Northport! Mary Poppins will be playing until the wind changes on December...

Review: ‘Falsettos’ at The Walter Kerr Theatre in NYC

We must thank Andre Bishop and his staff at Lincoln Center Theatre for gifting us with  a very early Christmas present called Falsettos, composer...

Review: ‘Les Liasons Dangereuses’ at The Booth Theatre in NYC

Christopher Hampton's play, Les Liasons Dangereuses, based on the novel by Choderlos de Laclos, a story presented through a series of the characters' personal letters,...

Review: ‘The Front Page’ at the Broadhurst Theatre in NYC

This three act comedy - The Front Page -by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, currently packing them in at the Broadhurst Theatre on Broadway,...

Fringe Encore Series Review:‘The Radicalization of Rolfe’ at SoHo Playhouse in...

A deserving winner of the FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award for a play, The Radicalization of Rolfe, produced by Glenn Krutoff, is a uniquely witty...

United Solo Review: ‘Listen . . . Can You Hear Me...

Growing up as a hearing child of deaf parents, Gloria Rosen faced many challenges, both in interpreting for and communicating with her family, and...

Review: ‘She Stoops to Conquer’ at The Actors Company Theatre at...

Anglo-Irish Playwright Oliver Goldsmith's "laughing comedy"- She Stoops to Conquer- was first performed in London in 1773. It's been a favorite for study in English...

Fringe Encore Series Review: ‘Homo Sapiens Interruptus’ at The Huron Club...

Following the trajectory of his career from heavy-metal rocker to student, writer, and theater artist, Carlos Dengler not only recounts his own personal development,...

Review: ‘HEISENBERG’ at Manhattan Theatre Club at the Samuel J. Friedman...

Let's get the title out of the way for starters. Simon Stephens, the author of this play, uses it to remind us that the...

Review: “Oh, Hello on Broadway” at the Lyceum Theatre in NYC

I imagine there is a first time for everything. There I was, sixth row on the aisle at the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway, at...

Fringe Encore Series Review: ‘Piaf and Brel (The Impossible Concert)’ at...

Though they never met or performed together, Édith Piaf (1915-63) and Jacques Brel (1929-78), nearly fifteen years apart in age, both became legends of...

Review: ‘Holiday Inn’ at Studio 54 in New York City

The gifted director Michael Blakemore once said, "When the curtain goes up, the audience is in trouble." What he meant was that we out front...

Fringe Encore Series Review: ‘Opera Mouse’ at SoHo Playhouse in NYC

An engaging storyteller, a gifted soprano, and a natural with children, Melanie Gall brings her warmth, talent, and stage presence to the Fringe Encore...

Review: ‘The Encounter’ at The Golden Theatre in NYC

Simon McBurney is one of European theatre's most original and controversial artists working today. For more than 30 years he has led Complicite, the...

Seven Days in Italy with Playbill’s ‘Broadway on the High Seas...

I took me a busman's holiday from September 20 to 30, 2016, by joining Playbill on its seventh cruise featuring Broadway stars and Broadway...