At the Delacorte Theater August 27 – September 3, Public Works enters its second decade by revisiting the play that launched the program, William Shakespeare’s The Tempest....
Barbara Maier Gustern was a widely beloved New York-based voice teacher, producer, director, and performer. Her students span a wide range of styles: from cantors to...
Cort Theater Exterior 1937 The Shubert Organization, Inc. (Shubert), announced that on Monday, September 12, the Cort Theatre (138 West 48th Street) will be officially renamed...
In seeing the play The Chinese Lady by Lloyd Suh, playing at the Public Theatre until tomorrow, I was struck by how a father could sell his...
Immigration right now is a hot topic, what with 4,000 migrants headed to America right now and the 1.6 million that have come just this year,...
When does being an actor and your beliefs part ways? The Visitor is an Off-Broadway musical about an undocumented Syrian immigrant, who is sent to a...
BroadwayHD, the premier streaming service for live theater, announced today that the critically acclaimed Broadway hit, George Takei’s Allegiance, which brings to the forefront an important piece of American...
The Drama Desk Board voted to institute a new award recognizing individual achievement over the course of a substantial career in New York City theater. The...
BroadwayHD, the premiere streaming service for theater fans, is bringing special viewings of fan favorite productions from New York’s Live from Lincoln Center and Roundabout Theatre to viewers at home....
For nearly ten years, The Public Theater has been bringing theater to communities all over New York City via The Mobile Unit. At present, they’re finishing...
Starting back in 1955, “not a good year for black girls” I first saw Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When The...
Haviland Morris, Brenda Wehle, Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders Photo by Joan Marcus Like the Apple and Gabriel plays, Richard Nelson brings back the residents of...
Good Mood Records will celebrate the vocalist and songwriter Nora York with the album Swoon, featuring unreleased, never-before-heard compositions and interpretations of pop classics, on Friday, October 4. The posthumous release is produced...
Somehow I missed seeing David Cale’s work, so I was new to this man who performs his autobiographical, one-man show with music We’re Only Alive for...
MacArthur Genius Award-winning playwright Luis Alfaro returns with the New York premiere of his stirring drama about love, immigration, and sacrifice, inspired by the Ancient Greek story of...
Tim Blake Nelson’s Socrates, is long. Written by an actor Tim Blake Nelson and starring the brilliant Michael Stuhlbarg, doesn’t help this intellectual sleeper from plodding...
“If you broke and black, we got yo back! Jordan E. Cooper’s Ain’t No Mo’, starts off at a funeral, that leads to a church service where...
“Read me story“, says one young girl, as told to us by her father. And story-telling is what this double hitting evening of one-act plays paired...
The balance of life and death and how life can turn on a dime is on double bill at The Public Theatre. Simon Stephens Sea Wall...
These things are horrible, and they’re true. I am not sure what the point is of Patricia Ione Lloyd’s new play Eve Song at the Public...
On November 5th, 2018, the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) will host its annual Free Speech Defender Awards at a benefit celebration in New York City,...
If you think the times we are living in are depressing, Girl From The North Country, now playing at The Public Theatre, is here to show you what...
The American cast of the London hit musical Girl From The North Country was announced. Mare Winningham (The Affair) will be playing Elizabeth Laine, the role that...
You’re invited to The Public Theater’s FREE performance of Elizabeth Swados’ Runaways a landmark musical about the stories, fears, and fantasies of runaway children. Channeling the energy...
The Public Theatre seems to be the hot new place for theatre in the 2018/2019 season. The West End hit Girl From the North Country, written...