New York Theater News

Eugene O'Neill's masterwork shows up in London or on Broadway every other season or two, and with good cause. It remains a bravely probing...

I'm sorry to have to report that Jessie Mueller, the appealing young lead in last season's Beautiful, the Carole King Musical, has moved on...

As  I gleefully watched Jesse Tyler Ferguson's brilliant tour de force performance in this one man telephone marathon called Fully Committed, I pictured him...

From what would seem to be the most unlikely source material, Duncan Sheik and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa have fashioned a dazzling and original musical theatre piece....

A company called Wellington Road, LLC has produced this 80-minute play by Cate Ryan at the Beckett Theatre on Theatre Row on 42nd Street,...

I doubt if in 1777 Richard Brinsley Sheridan was giving much thought to whether or not his comedy of manners would have any relevance...

Floria  Zeller, the French playwright might have called his play The Father In Winter, for The Lion in Winter was already taken. In this...

This revival of The Color Purple opened at the Bernard Jacobs Theatre on Broadway in December of 2015 but I wasn't able to get...

Jean Webster's novel, on which Daddy Long Legs is based, was written in 1911 in a farmhouse in Massachusetts. and much of its New England...

Arthur Miller's 1953 play has been resurrected by Producer Scott Rudin and 20 cohorts in a production staged by Ivo Van Hove, who performed...

If you insist on edge in your musicals, Bright Star is not for you. On the other hand, if you care to spend a...

I once heard the late director Moss Hart say that when a show is a great hit, there were omens that predicted its future....

If you're in the mood for a visit with a shipload of fun loving actors, many of whom you've seen and enjoyed in shows...

Under Joe Mantello's keen direction, Blackbird begins with a bang and ends with a cry in the night. In the 80 minutes that elapse...

Danai Gurira, the author of this white hot very topical play about sexual slavery in Nigeria, has made a remarkable start to a major...

Revealing the concealed underpinnings and durable structures of American musicals is no easy undertaking. Let alone covering and analyzing the past seven decades of...

In yesterday's NY Times, Michael Paul's article called For a Young Donald J. Trump, Broadway Held Sway talked about how Donald Trump dabbled in...

Jason Robards first played the central  character in this Eugene O'Neill one-act mood piece; that was in 1964. That character isn't "Hughie" -- no,...

"Suddenly there is God so quickly" is one of those gems in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, and it flashed into my mind...

Known for his bold cutting-edge artistry and glam-rock/drag personae, Erik Ransom commands the stage as a singer, musician, and actor, and behind the scenes...