After Death of a Salesman, The Crucible is generally considered Arthur Miller’s most powerful and trenchant work. A look at religious hysteria in a Puritan colony, the 1953 play was a thinly veiled stab at Joseph McCarthy’s communist witchhunt—which …Read more

Though rarely mentioned in the same breath as Fiddler, My Fair Lady, Guys and Dolls, and the Rodgers and Hammerstein classics, the Sheldon Harnick, Jerry Bock and Joe Masteroff tuner, She Loves Me, ranks up there with the most loved and admired stage …Read more

Although we’re still weeks away from the end-of-season crunch, it’s been a busy week on The Street, with three Broadway shows opening in five days. Sunday saw the arrival of Eclipsed, while Tuesday brought the zany Disaster!. The third one-word title …Read more

Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o (“12 Years a Slave”) made her Broadway debut last night, March 6, in the opening of Eclipsed, a drama about a group of women held captive by a Liberian war lord. The play, by Danai Gurira and directed by Liesl Tom …Read more

One of the sleepers of the off-Broadway season, Stephen Karam’s The Humans snagged the kinds of reviews that lead to Pulitzer talk (well, if Hamilton weren’t in the race) and uptown aspirations. Sure enough, the dysfunctional family comedy-drama, whi …Read more

If there were any doubts that the new musical, Waitress, would reach Broadway in the spring, reviews for the show’s pre-New York try-out should allay them. Running in Cambridge at the American Repertory Theater through Sept. 27, Waitress tells of a w …Read more

Even before Lin-Manuel Miranda’s new musical, Hamilton, opened at off-Broadway’s Public Theater months ago, the buzz was so hot that speculation had the production searching frantically for a Broadway theater to overtake before the end of last season …Read more

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock far away from the theater district, you’re aware that next week brings the Broadway opening of Hamilton, the much-anticipated musical from In the Heights Tony-winner Lin-Manuel Miranda and director Thomas Kail. …Read more

You may not know this. In fact, there’s no particular reason for you to know it, but July 24th is “Tell an Old Joke Day.” Yes, a day apparently exists that is devoted to recounting quips that your great-grandpappy made when he was sitting around a ca …Read more

One talks, the other doesn’t, but both speak volumes by debunking magic while, at the same time, showing how dazzling honest trickery can be. They’re Penn and Teller, together for four decades, during which time they morphed from off-Broadway enfants …Read more