Every month we highlight the best programming available on BroadwayHD, a streaming service for theater around the world. Present Laughter If you missed Kevin Kline’s Tony-winning Broadway run in Noel Coward’s Present Laughter, never fear! You …Read more
If you leave Tiny Beautiful Things, which opened last night at The Public’s Newman Theater, without having wept along with the rest of the audience for at least a few moments, you make up the small minority. In a time when large-scale horrors seem to …Read more
Summer is over. And while that may mean an end of Shakespeare in the Park and several other Off-Broadway productions, there’s still plenty of theater to enjoy in the fall. Trying to list every Off-Broadway production opening in NYC this fall might ju …Read more
Blood Boundary, a play set in 1920s Oklahoma right before the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot, depicts a family with Cherokee roots but different skin tones, and what that means to themselves and each other, and their safety, as they move around an ever-unsafe …Read more
“What’s it gonna be then, eh?” Well well well, one scenario could be a Hi-NRG music video featuring the dancing droogs. Another, the once seen never forgotten Pacino movie Cruising. Such associations spring to mind while watching Liverpudlian directo …Read more
In this day and age, writing a musical in rhyming iambic pentameter is a little gutsy. To pull it off, you’re going to need a good playwright and a darn good cast. Happily, The York Theatre Company has both of those, and as a result, their Shakespear …Read more
Wicked Clone or how to deal with the evil, the cinema musical at St. Luke’s Theatre penned and performed by the Indiggo Twins, has a lot going for it. For one thing, the twins themselves (Mihaela and Gabriela Modorcea) are natural performers and a pl …Read more
I shouldn’t be surprised that an offering at New York Theatre Workshop would be an exceptional piece of theater, but Amy Herzog’s Mary Jane directed by Anne Kauffman, transcends even the highest of my expectations. Before I begin, I should admit that …Read more
It’s tempting to want to distance yourself from the main character of Max Posner’s new play, The Treasurer. Referred to only as the Son, he’s a hardworking geologist, a loving husband, and a supportive father who has assembled the trappings of a norm …Read more
Brilliant Traces, written by Cindy Lou Johnson and directed by David Newer, is a love story set in a remote cabin in Alaska during a whiteout between a woman who is running away because she doesn’t want to become indistinguishable and a man who is hi …Read more