1984 - George Orwell's novel about a dystopian world has been relevant for almost 70 years. Current events have resulted in starry new Broadway production . . .
Marvin's Room - Scott McPherson's heroic Bessie still tugs at our heart strings but also manages to make us laugh. . . Read
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A Doll's House, Part 2Extended to 1/07/18!- Lucas Hnuth's highly original sequel to Ibsen's classic adds yet another terrific new play to the Broadway season. . . Read
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Anastasia - The famous Russian princess fairy tale boasts a top team Read
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Hello, Dolly! - Jerry Herman's bouncy score plus Bette Midler and David Hyde Pierce . . .no wonder this old-fashioned musical is the season's hottest ticket. . . Read
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Groundhog Day - Even an injured knee can't keep Andy Karl from making our visit to Punxsutawney, Pa. fun . . . Read
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Bandstand -
The masterful choreographer of Hamilton and a first-class musical theater team have concocted a show that mixes music inspired by the swing era with an overall sensibility that's up-to-the-minute.. .Read
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Indecentin response to all the support, the show will run a bit longer, now closing 8/06/1- Paula Vogel's more relevant than ever homage to the power (and danger) of creativity and dissent. . .Read
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War Paint -musical stars Patty LuPone and Christine Ebersole do their utmost to make to stars of the beauty industry fascinating. . . Read
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Miss Saigon -
Claude-Michel Schönberg-Alain Boublil- Richard Maltby Jr musical is back at the same theater where it made its long running Broadway debut-- and so is the helicopter. . .Read
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Come From Away - Its uplift message has helped this fact-based musical fly from Canada to Broadway. . . Read
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Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet Of 1812 - (update to now cover both Josh Groban and understudy Scott Stangland's as Pierre in the little musical engine that could at Broadway's 1000-seat Imperial theater. . . Read
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Dear Evan Hansen - A small musical's big heart and big on talent cast is now a welcome addition to the Broadway musical scene. . . Read
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A Bronx Tale - Chazz Palminteri's solo play gets yet another life as a Broadway musical. . . Read
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School of Rock - It's a large, loud show with a totally improbable plot but it;s impossible not to root for its ensemble of super talented kids . . . .
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Death of a Salesman - Mitu's production is for the most adventurous theater-goers and for serious students of contemporary drama. . .Read
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Pipeline - in her Lincoln Center debut Dominique Morrisseau once again tackles a universal social problem from a personal perspective. . . Read
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Encores! Off-Centre Assassins- a here today-gone in 4 days revival of Sondheim's chilling yet thrilling killer show buoyed by a killer cast. . . Read
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2017 New York Music Festival - Our first Festival reviews: Matthew McConnaughey v. the Devil. . . My Dear Watson, a Sherlock Holmes Musical (other reviews coming up Read
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Hamlet - Oscar Isaac as the melancholy Dane at the Pubic TheaterRead
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Spoon River Soulpepper's exhilarating 95-minute musical adapted from the famous "anthology" by Edgar Lee Masters. . .Read
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AMERIKE— The Golden Land - Extended to 8/20! This wonderful revival by National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene is at the Museum of Jewish Heritage through early August Read
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Of Human Bondage - More than a hundred years and 3 movies later, W. Somerset Maugham's novel comes to the stage, courtesy of Toronto's Soulpepper Company. . . Read
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Kim's Convenience - Soulpepper's home grown comedy hit that seeded a TV sitcom is live and lively again on 42nd Street Read
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Napoli, Brooklyn - Meghan Kennedy's play about the effect of the burgeoning social changes and an actual flight disaster on her own family. . . Read
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Measure For Measure - Staged by
Simon Godwin in modern-dress and with fresh bite and emotional immediacy. . .Read
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The Traveling Lady -Extended to 7/30/17! a welcome return to Horton Foote's beloved sleepy Texas town where nothing much happens. . .until it does! Read
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Somebody's Daughter - Playwright Chisa Hutchinson proves herself a sharp-eyed observer of character with an up-to-the minute ear for how Americans of differing ages and backgrounds speak and interact. Read
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Julius Caesar - a Trump-inspired Caesar steps out of a bathtub to meet those who've come not to praise but to bury him . . . Read
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Animal - Claire Lizzimore's play may be providing a heavy dose of the psychotic. But who will complain when its being doled out by the terrific Rebecca Hall. . . Read
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Sweetee You gotta have heart and this little show has it despite plot and other problems . . .
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The Government InspectorReturning for another 6 weeks at New World Stages! - Don't be surprised if some of the over-the-top characters in Jeffrey Hatcher's adaptation of Gogol's farce remind you of some of the real life shenanigans in our current body politic. . . Read
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The Boy Who Danced On Air -this well-crafted production and its gifted performers bring an intriguing, though certainly unsettling tradition to the stage. . . Read
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The Whirligig - Hamish Linklater dons his playwright's hat for a complex story about how the untimely death of a young woman sends her parents and others who knew her into a whirligig of grief and guilt. . . Read
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The Lucky One -A.A. Milne's 1922 play about sibling rivalry among the upper class gets another go by the Mint Theater. . . Read
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Derren Brown: Secret - The
British mentalist and illusionist pulls out his full bag of tricks for his Atlantic Theater debut Read
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Pacific Overtures - Stephen Sondheim's complex musical given a timely political focus with drastic, but brilliant new staging John Doyle. . . Read
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Sweeney ToddExtended to 12/31! -the Demon Barber's story goes immersive, its thrilling music intact and the pies and mash served before show time are delicious . . .Read
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Spamilton Extended again to 12/28/17!-
It was inevitable that Gerard Alessandrini would find the rap rage that has taken over the spotlight on Broadway with the mega hit Hamilton. . . Read More
Touch
Phoebe Waller-Bridge acts as dramaturg on this scintillating, sexy follow up to Fleabag at the Soho . . . . . . Read
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The Mentor
F Murray Abraham stars in a play about the agonies of writing . . . Read
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Ink
James Graham's new play looks at Rupert Murdoch's acquisition of The Sun newspaper and editor Larry Lamb turning around its popularity in a sure fire theatrical hit. . Read
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Gloria
Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins's play about New York magazine journalism stirs up the industry at Hampstead Theatre. . . Read
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CommonDC Moore's new play for Headlong and the National Theatre astonishes and confuses. . . Read
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887 Robert Lepage's storytelling narrative compels for two hours as he looks at his memories with all the technical wizardy commanding astounding visuals . . . Read
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Othello The Tobacco Factory and English Touring Theatre's Othello is the best I have ever seen for clarity and understanding. We were blown away by Mark Lockyer's Iago and Abraham Popoola's Othello . . . Read
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The FerrymanJez Butterworth's epic successor to Jerusalem is set in a family in Northern Ireland among the troubles and has its West End transfer booked . . . Read
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An American in Paris
London's Dominion Theatre welcomes the Tony award winning musical of An American in Paris with its balletic dance and fabulous visuals . . . Read
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The Girls
Gary Barlow and Tim Firth's charming musical about the middle aged women who stripped off for a nude charity calendar is delightful, poignant and well worth seeing . . . Read
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child -
John Tiffany's startling production of the eighth story in the Harry Potter series charms fans and Muggles alike in the theatrical event of the year . . . . . Read
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Constellations -Kudos to playwright Nick Payne who has written both a love story that tickles the cerebellum and a brainy play that makes you swoon . . Read
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Cabaret - The revival currently at the Kennedy Center is very much "in yer face." That's before the first note of John Kander's fabulous music is played. . . Read
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The Father - Florian Zeller's play about aging given a fine new production . . Read
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Cymbeline - Shakespeare & Company founder Tina Packer's very fine production of the Bar's last play. . . Read
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Children of a Lesser God - Mark Medoff's play is still a challenging and touching play for people of both hearing and non-hearing worlds. Read
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Ragtime
- Barrington Stage has created a tight, intimate production that tells a timeless dramatic tale which parallels many of today's headlines and reminds us of the possibility of redemption, change and love. Read
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There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the Locusts. Then there are people who watch them do it. . . Sometimes I think it ain't right to stand and watch them do it. — Addie, in
The Little Foxes
Dear Republicans, dear Mr. Trump: if you encircle our country with the tallest walls of steel while abolishing the NEA, the NEH, and PBS, you are not making America great again. We will be imprisoned in a vast cultural wasteland.— from open letter in defense of the Trump cuts to the arts and education by Paula Vogel, Publitzer Prize winner and author of
Indecent , now on Broadway
Even if you've always been that Barely-in-the-background kind of guy/You still matter— Dear Evan Hansen
