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 2closing 9/24!- 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 -- and, as of 1/20/18 Bernadette Peters and Victor Garber. . . Read
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War Paintclosing 12/31/17! -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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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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Small World - a small, well-acted play about two men with very big egos. . . Read
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The Violin< - Outstanding performances make Dan McCormick's 3-hander about a lost Stradivari worth seeing. . .Read
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CharmExtended to 10/15! - a talented cast conjures the figures from playwright Philip Dawkins' fertile imagination, creating a group portrait that's vivid, credible, and heartbreaking. Read
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Inanimate - The Flea inaugurates their new theater with a unique take on the romantic comedy by Nick Robideau. Read
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In the Blood - Extended to 10/15! A stunning new production of Suzan-Lori Parks' 2nd Red Letter Play. . . Read
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Rhinoceros -
While it's not evident that this Yiddish translation adds anything to Eugene Ionesco's original work, it certainly is a faithful translation of his tragic message. Read
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For Peter Pan On Her 70th Birthday - Even with a committed cast, headed by Kathleen Chalfant this one act meditation on aging and dying never escapes feeling like watching someone's home movies with commentary about landmarks in their family's shared memories. Read
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F**king A -Extended to 10/08/17. . .A fine director and cast give new life to Suzan-Lori Parks' 2003 play that's as relentlessly downbeat and bloody as any Greek tragedy. Read
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Loveless Texas - Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost reimagined in American rawhide and cowboy boots. . . . Read
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The Baroness -this tale of obsession fabricated from odds and ends of the historical record isn't likely to send playgoers in search of Isak Dinesen's literary works. . . Read
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Suitcase Under the Bed -
This evening of 4 short plays by Teresa Deevy completes one of the Mint Theater Company's most ambitious and welcome rescue missions of a playwright whose work deserves wider recognition Read
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Curvy Widow - Extended to 12/31--and performances now include a Thursday matinee.. . . Read
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Sweeney ToddExtended again to 2/25/18! -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
Oslo The big hit from Broadway arrives in London telling the tale of the most unlikely peace process in secret talks between the Israelis and the PLO. . . . Read More
Prism Terry Johnson writes and directs this play about the legendary cameraman and director Jack Cardiff . . . . Read More
The Blinding Light Howard Brenton's intriguing play looks at the playwright August Strindberg's time in Paris reflecting on his life and obsessions . . . . Read More
The March on Russia David Storey's play was a prequel to his novel Pasmore and comes from a theatre company dedicated to illustrating what is extraordinary about people's ordinary lives . . . . Read More -
Knives in Hens Yael Farber directs a revival of David Harrower's 1995 play about a medieval power struggle between man and wife . . .
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Against The premiere of Christopher Shinn's latest play is about a Silicon Valley billionaire turned philanthropist to make fundamental changes to society with Ben Whishaw in the lead . . .
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Apologia Stockard Channing is the draw in Jamie Lloyd's revival of a play about a 1960s activist as a mother. . . -
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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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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BREAKING NEWS New:
War Paintclosing 12/31/17. . .
F**king Aextended to 10/08/17. . .and
Sweeney Todd extended yet again, to 2/25/18. . .
Tiny Beautiful Things gets a second life at the Public Theater this fall . .The National Theater production of Tony Kushner's Angels in America coming to the Neil Simon Theatre (now home of Cats). The NT cast includes Nathan Lane. . .
Hello, Dolly! will get new star power with Bernadette Peters and Victor Garber as Dolly Levy and Horace Vandergriff on 1/20/18; with an official opening on 2/22/18. . . . The Band's Visit is moving to Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theater starting 10/07/17 and opening 11/09/17.. . FEATURES New: Hello Dollys. . .They Never Say Good-Bye
Time's like a river,sometimes
Time is an ocean—
Lyric from
The Band's Visit
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 ,
Even if you've always been that Barely-in-the-background kind of guy/You still matter— Dear Evan Hansen
