In May 1965 the first Kander and Ebb musical premiered on Broadway. Flora the Red Menace, despite a lovely score, was not too long for the Great White Way. It scored a Tony for Liza Minnelli (in her Broadway debut) as the eponymous Flora, but it clos …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
The term “the singularity” can refer to a number of different theoretical futures that humanity could face. Some are more specific and often-discussed than others, but all carry both hope and anxiety for the future. It is a loaded term that betrays t …Read more
As he prepares to wrap up performances in the show where he made his Broadway debut, Josh Grisetti has already lined up his next musical, which happens to open exactly six days after It Shoulda Been You closes. In the show The Crack in the Ceiling, p …Read more
Like some of the world’s best trattorias, Torino Italian is located in a corner so familiar that you might walk by it without noticing it, which would mean you’re missing out on one of New York City’s absolutely greatest restaurants. Just a few block …Read more
Children’s theatre in New York City seems to vacillate between being an embarrassment of riches and being a quagmire of treacle. Rock n’ Roll Mother Goose!, a high-energy one-woman performance created and performed by Judi Lewis Ockler, is one of the …Read more
The company of the Tony-winning musical Beautiful: The Carole King Musical made the earth under Central Park’s SummerStage move to the rhythm of the show’s most memorable tunes. Hosted by Hoda Kotb, the one night only event featured a selection of th …Read more
One of theater’s greatest gifts is that it can externalize the internal, connecting people by articulating emotions that are impossible to convey in ordinary life with ordinary language. John Patrick Shanley’s comedy of anguish, the dreamer examines …Read more
Playwright Howard L. Craft has perhaps done more with 90 minutes than some writers have done with entire trilogies. In Craft’s Freight: The Five Incarnations of Abel Green, playing July 25th through August 9th at HERE Arts Center, the eponymous chara …Read more
The high-profile world of the NBA is dominated by men, but in King Liz, it’s a woman who takes center court. Fernanda Coppel’s new play, currently premiering at Second Stage Uptown, takes on professional basketball from the perspective of Liz Rico (K …Read more