Jose Llana will be returning to Siam as the leading man in the Lincoln Center Theater production of The King and I from April 19 to May 1. But that’s not all that’s keeping him busy this spring, on May 13 he will also release his American debut solo …Read more

After making her Broadway debut in Beautiful – The Carole King Musical last spring, Jessica Keenan Wynn is stepping back into the shoes of one of music history’s most iconic women: Cynthia Weil. Bursting onto the scene with her husband and songwritin …Read more

Eva Noblezada’s overnight stardom seems to be the kind of story that inspires musicals. After being spotted at the National High School Musical Theater Awards, she was handpicked by the producers of a London Miss Saigon revival to play leading lady K …Read more

Irish writer Eimear McBride’s debut novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing took a mere six months to write but a further nine years to get published, such is the struggle of the burgeoning scribe. McBride however, may well consider that time well worth …Read more

In Not I, the first of the evening’s three Beckett shorts at NYU’s Skirball Center, Lisa Dwan is blindfolded and strapped to a wooden board in almost complete darkness. But we cannot see this. The only thing illuminated in the entire theater is her m …Read more

What’s it like when everything you think you know about your life is slowly slipping away? Extraordinary stage and film actor Frank Langella and the cast of The Father explore the frightening realities of dementia in this gripping play by French play …Read more

The acclaimed one-woman show One Funny Mother, now playing at New World Stages, welcomes you into the home of Dena Blizzard. Don’t mind the mess, this is her self-proclaimed “crazy town” and she is its self-appointed mayor. Dena has the day off, whic …Read more

An author’s first play is usually subject to the regular pitfalls: stilted dialogue, unbelievable characters, slightly askew dramatic mechanisms. Not so for Francesca Pazniokas’ Keep, currently running at the TBG Theater. Performed in collaboration w …Read more

I was a bit too young in the mid- to late-1960s to have attended a “happening.” But Nassim Soleimanpour’s White Rabbit Red Rabbit, performed Monday nights at Manhattan’s Westside Theatre, is much like what I’ve imagined such attention-grabbing events …Read more

Written in 1779, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s verse drama Nathan the Wise was not performed until 1783, two years after the German playwright’s death. British translator Edward Kemp, who fashioned the 2003 prose version used for this Classic Stage Comp …Read more