If you’re looking for a great time in the theater, I highly recommend traveling to The PIT to see “Women”, a raucous 50-minute comedy that adapts Louisa May Alcott’s famous novel “Little Women” to episodic form.  Writer Chiara Atik takes the premise …Read more

Following last season’s Best Musical Tony Award win for “Kinky Boots”, Harvey Fierstein is back on Broadway with a new play, “Casa Valentina”, staged by mainstem veteran Joe Mantello. The show began previews April 1 and opened at Manhattan Theater Cl …Read more

SEE or SKIP: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical SEE because: Jessie Mueller, who plays singer-songwriter King, starts out instantly lovable, and stays that way even as King grows from awkwardly shy performer to finding her voice at the piano. “Beauti …Read more

Back in 1998, when “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” opened at off-Broadway’s grotty Jane Sreet Theater, it was easy to be excited about the music, the comedy and author/star John Cameron Mitchell’s performance. But the idea of the show moving beyond even …Read more

It’s epic. It’s bold. It’s lavish and exuberant. It’s a party on stage, it’s a red hot mess. It’s “The Mysteries”. Ed Sylvanus Iskandar and The Flea Theater have somehow pulled off the unimaginable: the salvation of humanity in a single evening. Rete …Read more

Last season, audiences thrilled to the sight of Cicely Tyson making her final visit to Broadway in “The Trip to Bountiful”. Since the actress is somewhere between her late 70s and early 90s (depending on the source), the very fact that she was doing …Read more

One of Martin McDonagh’s best plays, “The Cripple of Inishmaan” has already had two productions off Broadway, but only now is the pitch-dark comedy receiving its Broadway debut, courtesy of director Michael Grandage at the Cort Theater. The reason fo …Read more

How did Moss Hart go from being a poor immigrant to the toast of Broadway? By collaborating with comic playwright George S. Kaufman, by directing the legendary “My Fair Lady”, by penning the screenplay for “A Star is Born”, and by writing a memoir of …Read more

Lennie and George have been the subjects of a novel, an opera, radio and film adaptations, telefilms and even a Bugs Bunny parody, but it’s been since 1974 since Broadway has seen the iconic laborers that John Steinbeck so tragically limned in his Of …Read more

A musical puppet show, “The Cat that Went to Heaven” is based on the award winning 1930 book of the same name by Elizabeth Coatsworth. This staged rendition of the story was created by Nancy Harrow, who wrote the music and lyrics, and directed by Wil …Read more