How did I not know this? That question has been following me around this week, especially after seeing Crow’s Theatre’s world-premiere stage adaptation of Rohinton Mistry’s...
A curtain call used to feel like the beginning of the end. Now, sometimes, it is only the beginning of a show’s second life. More and...
Seeing a new show in the theatre is never simply an evening of entertainment. It is a moment in cultural history. Every play, musical, opera, ballet,...
Christian Borle, Stephanie J. Block, Brandon Uranowitz, Andrew Rannells, Betsy Wolfe, Tracie Thoms in 2026 Broadway fans have plenty to celebrate this fall, from a long-awaited...
A great farce always feels a little like watching someone carry an impossibly tall wedding cake across a crowded room. Every wobble makes you gasp. Every...
The most persistent conversations often happen inside our own heads. Medusa asks, or maybe demands, us to listen to them. Before the space ignites, audience members...
For the first several minutes of Sleuth, I wasn’t entirely sure what kind of game playwright Anthony Shaffer (“Death on the Nile“) wanted me to play....
A musical flourish accompanies the parting of the red curtains, and a man stands, just to the right of the spotlight. He seems caught off guard,...
“Once upon a time“, she walks in, suitcase in hand. There’s “a special kind of man,” she sings, smooth and haunting, as her voice rises in...
Suzzy Roche, Grace McLean, Alana Raquel Bowers (center), and Nina Ross in Cold War Choir Practice. Photo by Maria Baranova. A child asking for a nuclear shelter...
Ben Platt and Rachel Zegler perform in The Last Five Years at the Hollywood Bowl The first time I encountered The Last Five Years, I remember...
“She’s late, the girl.” The line lands like a flared warning before anything else has the chance to settle. It is tossed out with precision, edged...
They file in like a think-tank assembly, taking their positions for an intellectual discussion at the highest level. And then it shifts, slapping us hard with...
Broadway is about to get a luminous new presence. Emmy and Golden Globe winner Mariska Hargitay will make her long-awaited Broadway debut in Every Brilliant Thing,...
We have been cordially invited to a wedding, and a soft hum of sweet expectation fills the room like Golden notes in the air. We file...
Sometimes, out of the blue, a press release arrives that plants a feeling you cannot quite explain. Reading about Silver Manhattan, the Off-Broadway debut from Jesse...
Every awards season brings with it a nagging, but all too-familiar mixture of excitement and longing. Still, few announcements inspire quite the same feeling of theatrical...
There is something particularly exciting and enticing about this; the shortest of limited runs in an off-Broadway space that only holds ninety-nine people. And it doesn’t...
The lights on Broadway seem a little dimmer today. We mourn the loss of Harry Haun, a brilliant theater journalist, critic, and champion of artists whose...
An old-fashioned clock is stationed over the stage like a warning, or a stopwatch, counting down the minutes until High Noon strikes and Marshal Will Kane...
Rain lashes the stage as John Millington Synge’s masterpiece comedy The Playboy of the Western World arrives at the National Theatre, with bodies moving through the...
It’s all delicious art deco inside Noël Coward’s Fallen Angels, revived most brilliantly at the Menier Chocolate Factory under Christopher Luscombe’s immaculate direction. The revival arrives...
“All the world’s a stage,” Feste (Moses Sumney) sings with passion and charm, crooning most delightfully to the enthusiastic crowd that has come together inside the...
“Can’t you remember?” he asks his wife, who is reclined with ease and tension on the angular couch, referring to the female guest who is arriving...
“Why is the urge to dance so inside us?” asks one of the four standing before us. There’s music everywhere, all around us in The Shaw...
