Every director and stage manager knows only too well how many things can go wrong with any given performance. Hopefully, though, no stage manager has ever experienced a production as utterly catastrophic as The Play That Goes Wrong. This new Broadway …Read more
In her new play, The Antipodes, at Signature Theatre, Annie Baker once again uses the trappings of naturalism to tell a contemporary story that veers at times into the realm of magical realism. Clocking in at about two hours, this intermission-less p …Read more
It takes some guts to rewrite what is possibly the most revered play of all time: Hamlet. Even when Tom Stoppard played around with Shakespeare’s masterpiece in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, he didn’t mess with the original dialogue, but bui …Read more
Now through its new, extended close of July 2, the Manhattan Theatre Club mounts the fifth Broadway production of Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. In the decades since the 1939 debut, the family drama has been ada …Read more
In advance of the April 18 premiere of Indecent at Broadway’s Cort Theater, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel spoke to the New York Times about her long-overdue debut on the Great White Way. “You feel the ghosts in a really great way,” sh …Read more
Most of us have played Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, the game where you challenge someone to connect any actor to Kevin Bacon using only four other actors. The larger theory presented in the well-crafted revival of John Guare’s 1991 dramedy Six Degrees …Read more
Bandstand, now playing at the Bernard Jacobs Theatre, has all the ingredients necessary to make a Broadway hit: catchy songs that stay in your head long after the cast takes their bow, extraordinary choreography (what more could you expect from Tony …Read more
Uncle Abram: A Reconstructed Uncle Vanya could just as easily have been named “Uncle Vanya Gets Woke”. Set on a plantation in south-central Missouri, this adaptation by Ryan Victor “Little Eagle” Pierce visits the residents in the Reconstruction peri …Read more
We spoke to Tony nominee Lauren Worsham about her upcoming appearance in Babes of Toyland at Carnegie Hall. What makes you the most excited about the show? I’m excited to sing at the beautiful Carnegie Hall stage, being reunited with Christopher Fitz …Read more
Michael McKeever’s new play Daniel’s Husband tackles the issue of marriage by taking a relationship to the worst-case scenario, exploring what happens when tragedy befalls a couple married in all senses but the legal (which, as it turns out, i …Read more