‘The United States vs Ulysses’ Review: The Case That Won’t Go Away

When James Joyce’s masterpiece faced banning, the American justice system came to the rescue. A new play wonders if it would today.

When the Goddess of Evil Looms Large, Cue the (Goddess of) Music

Saheem Ali’s musical, about the goddess of music finding refuge and love at an Afro-jazz club in Mombasa, Kenya, has been nearly 20 years in the making.

Stephen Mo Hanan, Who Played Three Roles in ‘Cats,’ Dies at 78

He sang arias on the streets of San Francisco, performed on Broadway and collaborated on a musical about Al Jolson, which he also starred in.

Review: In ‘Wonderful Town,’ a Party for Writers and Weirdos

An awkward Encores! revival of the 1953 musical celebrates the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in the years when oddballs could still afford to live there.

Idina Menzel’s ‘Redwood’ to Close Following Tony Nominations Shutout

The Broadway musical will play its final performance at the Nederlander Theater on May 18.

Tony Nominations Snubs and Surprises: ‘Othello’ Misses, Clooney Scores

Ensemble-driven plays like “Purpose” and “English” received a slew of nominations, while Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal and Idina Menzel were overlooked.

George Clooney, Sarah Snook and Sadie Sink Get Tony Nominations

The new musicals “Buena Vista Social Club,” “Death Becomes Her” and “Maybe Happy Ending” tied for the most Tony nominations, with 10 each.

Tony Awards Nominations 2025: The Complete List

Nominations for the 78th Tony Awards were announced on Thursday. Here’s who made the list.

The Tony Nominations Are This Morning. Here’s What to Expect.

Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce will announce which performers and which productions from a crowded 2024-25 Broadway season will vie for awards.

‘Ceremonies in Dark Old Men’ Review: A Father in Defeat

Norm Lewis stars as the resigned patriarch of two slippery sons in this revival of Lonne Elder III’s drama from 1969.

Ewan McGregor, Back Onstage, Is the Architect of His Own Folly

“My Master Builder,” a new take on the Ibsen classic, reduces a complex play to a tawdry marital melodrama.

In Two New Works, the Power of Generational Connections

Two worlds of promise: “All the World’s a Stage,” a musical by Adam Gwon, and “Rheology,” Shayok Misha Chowdhury’s follow-up to “Public Obscenities.”

Who Should Be a Tony Awards Nominee in 2025?

Our chief theater critic makes his picks.

Where Can I Find a Cheap Broadway Ticket?

If you are determined to see a celebrity in a popular show on a busy night, you may be out of luck, but with flexibility and persistence, you can cut some costs.

In ‘Krapp’s Last Tape,’ Gary Oldman Hits Rewind

The star actor returns to the theater where he started almost a half-century ago, with Samuel Beckett’s bleak one-man play.

My Life With Uncle Vanya, the Self-Pitying Sad Sack We Can’t Quit

What is it about Chekhov’s melancholy inaction hero that makes him, and the play he stars in, so meaningful at all ages?

‘Real Women Have Curves’ Review: This American (Immigrant) Life

On Broadway, the musical adaptation is a bouncy crowd pleaser about female empowerment, self-acceptance and chasing one’s dreams.

‘Dead Outlaw’ Review: This Bandit Has Mummy Issues

A truly twisted yarn about a long-lived corpse makes a surprisingly feel-good Broadway musical.

‘Just in Time’ Review: Jonathan Groff Channels Bobby Darin

Groff is sensational as the ’60s “nightclub animal” in a Broadway jukebox bio-musical that doesn’t live up to its star.

‘Real Women Have Curves’ Is Now a Broadway Show. Here Are 5 Things to Know.

The new musical is based on Josefina López’s original play and the 2002 film adaptation that starred America Ferrera.

How a Kentucky Man Trapped in a Cave Became a Broadway Musical

Floyd Collins was pinned under a rock while exploring a cave in 1925. That history, recounted in song, is now on Broadway.

Review: Gilbert and Sullivan’s ‘Pirates,’ Now in Jazzy New Orleans

A Broadway remake of the operetta, starring David Hyde Pierce, moves the plot to the Big Easy, where good times roll, even if some jokes don’t quite land.

‘Hold Me in the Water’ Review: Smitten, and Primed to Flirt

Ryan J. Haddad follows up his Obie-winning “Dark Disabled Stories” with a rom-com.

No Power? No Problem. Nicole Scherzinger Sings With Bullhorn on Broadway.

The “Sunset Boulevard” star briefly entertained the crowd when “a technical malfunction on the sound side” forced the cancellation of a matinee performance.

Review: Little Adds Up in the Elusive ‘Grief Camp’

Les Waters’s production for Atlantic Theater Company is marvelously realized, despite the limitations of the play’s often maddening script.

Jeremy Jordan, Searching for Challenges Onstage

In “Floyd Collins,” playing a hardscrabble Kentuckian trapped while exploring a cave, the actor finds inspiration in the claustrophobic restrictions.

‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’ Review: An Origin Story for the Stage

This Broadway production delivers lots of spectacle as it winds back to the teenage years of Henry Creel, an antagonist from the Netflix series.

‘Macbeth in Stride’ Review: A Leap and Stumble Into a Classic

One of the most performed and reimagined works of English literature becomes a fourth-wall-breaking musical revue.

‘Floyd Collins’ Review: Trapped in a Cave and in a Media Circus

One of the wonders of this glorious-sounding new Broadway production is how far from claustrophobic this Kentucky cave saga feels.

A Monsoon Is About to Hit These Pirates

Jinkx Monsoon talks about feeling like a lifetime of hard work is finally paying off, and her return to Broadway as a zany maid in “Pirates! The Penzance Musical.”

Review: Caryl Churchill Times Four Makes an Infinity of Worlds

“Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp,” a new collection of one-acts by the great British playwright, is a cause for celebration, wonderment and grief.

Onstage and Off, Whitney White Is Everywhere This Spring

An actor, musician and writer, White is also now an in-demand stage director. “I am looking, I am hungry, I am searching,” she said.

Review: In ‘John Proctor Is the Villain,’ It’s the Girls vs. the Men

Kimberly Belflower’s play, on Broadway starring Sadie Sink, gives high school students a chance to prosecute a #MeToo case against “The Crucible.”

How ‘Stranger Things’ Scaled Up for Broadway

A big opening scene that took about two and a half years to perfect plunges theatergoers into the sci-fi world of the hit Netflix series.

Bernadette Peters Loves a Day Out in New York

Back on Broadway for “Old Friends,” the actress reflects on the art she saw with Sondheim and the delights of the High Line and Central Park.

Suzanne Rand, Half of a Once-Popular Comedy Team, Dies at 75

Like Nichols and May before them, Monteith and Rand had their own Broadway show. Unlike Nichols and May, they faded from view after they broke up.

Theater to Stream: David Tennant as ‘Macbeth,’ ‘Death of England’ and More

Take in Shakespeare, experimental theater and a three-play series on the fallout of Brexit, all available to watch at home.

Review: ‘Becoming Eve’ Offers Testaments Old and New

A trans woman comes out to her Hasidic Jewish father in this Off Broadway play that tussles with faith and family bonds.

Review: In a Musical Comedy Makeover, ‘Smash’ Lives Up to Its Name

En route to Broadway, the TV series about backstage shenanigans and Marilyn Monroe has been rejiggered, with the same great songs but a whole new plot.

‘Amm(i)gone’ and ‘A Mother’: Sons Calling for Their Mothers

The maternal embrace of young men and their battles figures in two very different plays, one a solo work and the other a Brechtian riff starring Jessica Hecht.

‘Manhunt’ Is a Case Study in Fragile Masculinity

A new play by Robert Icke about a real-life police chase takes the form of an imagined trial.

‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’: What to Know About the Broadway Show

The new play, set 24 years before the start of the Netflix series, combines lavish spectacle with a cast of familiar characters.

Review: A Party With 17 ‘Old Friends’ and 41 Sondheim Songs

Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga lead the festivities in a new Broadway revue of the great musical dramatist’s work.

The Loose Screws, Hot Flames and Infinite Joy of William Finn

The composer and lyricist of “A New Brain,” “Falsettos” and other shows answered the pains of life with jaunty songs. He died this week at 73.

William Finn, Tony Winner for ‘Falsettos,’ Is Dead at 73

An acclaimed musical theater writer, he won for both his score and his book and later had a huge hit with “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.”

At 90, Wole Soyinka Revisits His Younger, More Optimistic Self

With the Off Broadway debut of his 1958 play “The Swamp Dwellers,” the Nigerian Nobel laureate looks back on the writer he was when he was starting out.

‘Boop! The Musical’ Review: Betty Gets a Brand Extension

The It girl with the spit curl looks great for 100, but her Broadway musical, which feels like one big merch grab, is boop-boop-a-don’t.

At James Earl Jones Memorial, Friends Share Laughs, Tears and Moving Stories

At a gathering in the Broadway theater renamed to honor the star, speakers including Denzel Washington and Phylicia Rashad described Jones as an inspiration.

The Snubs and Surprises of the 2025 Olivier Awards

Times critics discuss the big winners — a new play about Roald Dahl, a “Fiddler on the Roof” revival and a folk-rock “Benjamin Button”— at London’s theater awards.

6 Songs From ‘Just in Time’ That Capture Bobby Darin’s Versatility

The show’s star, Jonathan Groff, and members of the creative team on how songs like “Splish Splash” and “If I Were a Carpenter” illuminate Darin’s life.

Review: How ‘The Last Five Years’ Became a Blur on Broadway

Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren star in a muddy revival of Jason Robert Brown’s still-scathing musical.

‘I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan’ Review: What Are You Waiting For?

Mona Pirnot’s comic ode to the downtown artist doubles as a meditation on the precariousness of playwriting as a creative life.

Denis Arndt, Who Was a First-Time Tony Nominee at 77, Dies at 86

After more than 40 years as a stage and television actor, he broke through in “Heisenberg” as a butcher who has a romance with a much younger woman.

John Lithgow’s ‘Giant’ Is Among the Big Winners at the Olivier Awards

The play, about Roald Dahl’s antisemitism, took home three awards at Britain’s equivalent of the Tonys. So did a “Fiddler on the Roof” revival and a folk rock “Benjamin Button.”

How the Stars of ‘All Nighter’ Get That College Vibe

The actresses talk about bonding over their nightly cram session, and have also compiled a playlist of some of the songs that get them going.

The Surprising History of Betty Boop

From her 1930 debut as a poodle-human hybrid to a modern-day symbol of empowerment, Betty Boop has had an unusual journey to the Broadway stage. Boop-oop-a-doop!

13 Off Broadway Shows to Tempt You in April

New short plays by Caryl Churchill, a comedy with one erstwhile Derry Girl and a musical starring Anika Noni Rose — here’s what’s on New York stages this month.

Review: Clooney, Fair and Balanced, in ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’

George Clooney makes Edward R. Murrow a saint of sane journalism for a world that still needs one in a stage adaptation of the 2005 movie.

How ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ Went Digital

Sarah Snook, camera operators and other crew members bring to life multitudes on Broadway via an elaborate synthesis of live action, live video and recorded video.

‘The Cherry Orchard’ Review: A Captivating Take on Chekhov

Nina Hoss stars as a melancholic matriarch in Benedict Andrews’s immersive rendition of the classic at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn.

From Hasidic Brooklyn to Off Broadway: The Life of a Trans Rabbi

After disavowing her strict religious upbringing, Abby Stein came out as transgender. She is now the subject of a new play by New York Theater Workshop.

Andrew Scott on ‘Vanya’: ‘Who Isn’t Sad?’

The actor calls his solo performance in Chekhov’s melancholy comedy an “endless experiment.” Even all alone, he can really fill a stage.

Othello and Iago, a Marriage Made in Both Heaven and Hell

Because Shakespeare gave his hero and anti-hero equal weight, the contest between them has never been that easy to call.

‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ Review: Caveat Emptor, Suckers!

Kieran Culkin, Bill Burr and Bob Odenkirk star in a bumpy revival of David Mamet’s play about salesmen with nothing worth selling.

Othello and Iago, a Marriage Made in Both Heaven and Hell

Because Shakespeare gave his hero and antihero equal weight, the contest between the actors playing them has never been that easy to call.

12 Plays and Musicals Across the U.S. to Brighten the Spring

On stages across the country, there is no shortage of adventurous work, including plays by Lauren Yee, Larissa FastHorse and Zora Howard.

Scott Rudin, Producer Exiled for Bad Behavior, Plans Return to Broadway

Rudin stepped away from show business four years ago amid reports that he had bullied assistants. He says he has “a lot more self-control” now.

Review: Sarah Snook Stars in the Selfie of ‘Dorian Gray’

The “Succession” actress plays all 26 roles in this Oscar Wilde classic reimagined as a video spectacle. If only there were less screen time and more IRL contact.

Review: Long-Lost ‘Love Life’ Still Has a Lot to Say About America

Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kate Baldwin and other top-shelf singers star in an overly sentimental production of the long-lost Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner show.

At 50, the Wooster Group Is Experimenting on Itself

Elizabeth LeCompte and Kate Valk reflect on their decades of making daring theater together. Just don’t call it a nostalgic exercise.

An Essential ‘Buena Vista’ Song Finds Its Emotional Place on Broadway

Of all the “Buena Vista Social Club” songs, the beloved “Chan Chan” is the most recognizable. But figuring out where in the musical to put it became a challenge.

In ‘Streetcar,’ Patsy Ferran Gives Blanche a Nervy New Read

The London-based actress has been heralded as one of the most talented of her generation. Still, she worried audiences would balk at her “very unconventional Blanche.”

How a Broadway Musical Revealed a Family’s World War II Spy Secrets

Descendants of characters in “Operation Mincemeat,” a hit British musical now in New York, have gotten more out of seeing it than a few catchy melodies.

George Clooney Play Breaks a Broadway Box Office Record

“Good Night, and Good Luck” grossed $3.3 million last week, breaking a record that was set earlier this month by Denzel Washington’s “Othello.”

‘Wine in the Wilderness’ Review: Beauty in Blackness

Written by Alice Childress in 1969, the play feels just as revelatory more than 50 years later in a new production from Classic Stage Company.

Phylicia Rashad Knows Her Purpose

Five decades into her career, the Tony Award-winning actress and TV icon, making her Broadway directing debut, feels like “part of something bigger.”

‘Othello’ Review: Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal Are Prey and Predator

Shakespeare’s leanest tragedy gets a starry, headlong production that embraces the action but misses the mystery.

The Lost Great American Musical Returns, Over 75 Years Later

Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner’s pioneering “Love Life” was thwarted by circumstance. Now, it is coming to Encores! at New York City Center.

8 New Shows Our Theater Critics Are Talking About

A British satirical comedy, a Tennessee Williams classic, a soundscape of Havana: These are productions worth knowing about.

Review: The Stiff Who Saved Europe, in ‘Operation Mincemeat’

A proudly silly British musical comedy about the “Trojan corpse” of World War II comes to Broadway.

‘Buena Vista Social Club’ Brings the Thrill of Music Making to Broadway

A new musical inspired by the 1997 hit album gives a fictional back story to the veteran performers of the Havana music scene.

‘We Had a World’ Review: Through the Fourth Wall and Into the Past

Joshua Harmon’s new play features uniformly standout performances and tells a poignant story of family dynamics.

She May Be the Most Powerful Producer Working in Theater

Sonia Friedman has “created her own theater studio system,” balancing big properties like “Harry Potter” and “Stranger Things” with more prestige work by Stoppard and Sondheim.

Review: Eight Andrew Scotts in a Heartbreaking Solo ‘Vanya’

Playing all the characters in an update of Chekhov, the Irish actor turns what could be merely a stunt into a tour de force.

‘Amerikin’ Review: A White Supremacist’s Undoing: DNA

The protagonist of Chisa Hutchinson’s new play is proud of his racial heritage, until he gets some unexpected test results.

Tituss Burgess in ‘Oh, Mary!’ Is Cole Escola’s Dream Come True

As Burgess prepares to step in to the hit Broadway comedy, he thinks he should have “spent more time at the gym.”

‘Purpose’ Review: Dinner With the Black Political Elite

A family not unlike Jesse Jackson’s gets barbecued on Broadway by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.

In ‘Weather Girl,’ Climate Change Sets Off a Meltdown

A new one-woman show from the producer of “Baby Reindeer” and “Fleabag” is an irreverent allegory about wildfires and global warming.

With $921 Seats, a Star-Powered ‘Othello’ Breaks a Box Office Record

Demand to see Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal play Shakespeare has set a record in a year when big stars have been driving up the prices of Broadway plays.

Theater to Stream: ‘Beckett Briefs’ and One of Gavin Creel’s Last Shows

Also available for streaming: A masterful F. Murray Abraham in “Beckett Briefs,” and Christopher Walken and Susan Sarandon in a take on “Streetcar.”

Bringing a Persian Epic to the World, With Help From 483 Puppets

Hamid Rahmanian has made it his life’s work to share the richness of Iranian culture. “Song of the North,” at the New Victory Theater, is just the latest installment.

Anne Kaufman Schneider, 99, Ardent Keeper of Her Father’s Plays, Dies

She shepherded the works of George S. Kaufman from the 20th century into the next, encouraging regional theater productions and helping to steer two of them to Broadway.

No American Drama Is as Haunted by Ghosts of Actors Past as ‘Streetcar’

With a revival starring Paul Mescal and Patsy Ferran in Brooklyn, a look at the carefully weighted balance that actors playing Blanche and Stanley need to strike.

A Ferocious Paul Mescal Stars in a Brutal ‘Streetcar’

Desire comes a distant second to violence in a Brooklyn revival of the Tennessee Williams classic.

In ‘The Great Privation,’ Fending Off the Body Snatchers

Nia Akilah Robinson’s new play, for Soho Rep, digs into an ugly historical practice.

Athol Fugard’s Plays Illustrated the Value of Every Human Life

“Sizwe Banzi Is Dead” and other works bear witness to forgotten lives and to the moral blindness and blinkered vision of the realities of apartheid South Africa.

‘Ghosts’ Review: The Sins of the Father, Visited on Everyone

Ibsen’s scathing drama about medical and moral contagion gets a high-sheen Off Broadway staging starring a riveting Lily Rabe.

Striking Stage Crews Reach Agreement With Atlantic Theater

The deal will be scrutinized by New York’s other Off Broadway theaters, which the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees has been working to unionize.

‘All Nighter’ Review: No Sleep but Plenty of Gripes

A new play about a group of college students putting in one last study session evokes recent stories about young women, but without the well-rounded characters.

Jean Smart Will Star in a One-Woman Broadway Show

The new play, “Call Me Izzy,” will begin previews in May and open in June at Studio 54.

How ‘Operation Mincemeat,’ a Very British Hit, Was Fine-Tuned for Broadway

Now in previews, the musical comedy about an outrageous World War II spy mission is working to adjust to the particular sensibilities of its New York audience.

A Play About Segregation Tries to ‘Ride a Fine Line’ in Florida

A production partly aimed at students that highlights Tampa’s history in the civil rights movement lands at a time when the state is changing what schools teach about race and history.

For the Actors of ‘Sumo,’ Learning Lines Was Just the Half of It

The play’s cast members wrestle, slap and toss one another in ambitiously choreographed fight sequences that took months of training to learn.

In ‘The Seagull,’ Cate Blanchett Outshines a Director’s Tired Tropes

Thanks to Blanchett’s charismatic turn as a fading actress, this new Chekhov adaptation in London hangs together in spite of Thomas Ostermeier’s antics.

Paul Mescal, Andrew Scott, Nina Hoss and More, Off Broadway in March

Underwater drama, a daunting solo undertaking, a gaggle of students and a version of “The Cherry Orchard” that aims to recapture Chekhov’s winking tone.

Just Before It Was a Cult Film, ‘Rocky Horror Show’ Was a Broadway Flop

Tim Curry and colleagues recall the musical’s misadventure at the Belasco Theater in 1975.

‘Oedipus’ and ‘Rocky Horror Show’ Are Returning to Broadway

The Roundabout Theater Company will also present Noël Coward’s “Fallen Angels,” starring Rose Byrne and Kelli O’Hara.

Theaters Sue the N.E.A. Over Trump’s ‘Gender Ideology’ Order

The lawsuit seeks to block a new rule that requires groups applying for grants from the National Endowment for the Arts to agree not to promote “gender ideology.”

Review: Wrestling With Angels and Demons in ‘Sumo’

An Off Broadway play opens a window on the spiritual and physical trials of the ancient Japanese sport.

‘Hamilton’ Cancels Kennedy Center Run Over Trump’s Takeover

“We’re not going to be a part of it while it is the Trump Kennedy Center,” said the show’s creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda.

A ‘Greatest Showman’ Musical Is Coming to the Stage, in Britain

The show, developed by Disney with a Tony-winning creative team, will have an initial production in Bristol, England, in the spring of 2026.

Olivier Awards: ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Secures Most Nominations

The acclaimed revival, which is about to transfer to London’s Barbican, scored 13 nominations at Britain’s equivalent of the Tonys.

After a Decade Away, ‘Mamma Mia!’ Is Returning to Broadway This Summer

The musical’s original run was the ninth-longest in Broadway history; a six-month return engagement will start in August.

Sadie Sink Heads Back to School, This Time on Broadway

In “John Proctor Is the Villain,” the actress is among a group of students studying “The Crucible,” just as the #MeToo movement tears through their classroom.

‘Mary Said What She Said’ Review: A Hypnotic Huppert

In this Robert Wilson production, Isabelle Huppert is everywhere onstage, all at once, reciting a nonstop script that may well touch on everything.

‘Dakar 2000’ Review: Which One Is the Liar?

In Rajiv Joseph’s two-hander, a couple of Americans in Senegal twist, deflect, massage, stretch and maybe even tell the truth.

Theater Company’s Lost French New Wave Film Gets Its New York Premiere

Future members of Mabou Mines produced the footage over 50 years ago. Now it’s a film with new dialogue spoken by children of the original cast.

Review: ‘Curse of the Starving Class’ Doesn’t Satisfy

The New Group production of Sam Shepard’s classic tragicomedy comes off as disjointed and self-consciously stagy.

At France’s Oldest Theater, Things Change, but They Also Stay the Same

A new leader for the Comédie-Française, Clément Hervieu-Léger, is an insider who looks set to keep the venerable Paris company on a steady course.

Bill Burr Is About to Hit Broadway. Broadway Better Duck.

The acerbic comic sounds like a Mamet character, and thanks to Nathan Lane, he’s making his Broadway debut as one in “Glengarry Glen Ross.”

‘Grangeville’ Review: Am I My Half Brother’s Keeper?

A story as old as Cain and Abel gets filtered through cellphone and video confrontations in Samuel D. Hunter’s bleak two-hander.

A Rising Star Rides the Stormy Seas in a Maritime ‘Hamlet’

Luke Thallon expertly blends sincerity and neediness as the embattled prince in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s latest production.

Finding a Common Thread in Jonathan Larson’s Unheard Music

“The Jonathan Larson Project,” a years-in-the-making musical collage of Larson’s life, features songs he wrote before he died. Now it’s onstage at the Orpheum.

‘Safe House’ Review: Singing a Song of Loneliness

Enda Walsh’s formal experiment, at St. Ann’s Warehouse, finds him in pared-back mode.

These Actors Made Broadway Debuts as Children. Now They’re Back.

Nick Jonas, Sadie Sink and Christian Slater are among this year’s unusually large cohort of stars who first appeared onstage as tweens or even younger.

Review: In ‘Liberation,’ the Feminist Revolution Will Be Dramatized

Bess Wohl’s moving new play, about a group of women in 1970s Ohio, explores the power of sisterhood and the limits of motherhood.

Being George Clooney Is Harder Than It Looks

He is making his Broadway debut with a stage version of his 2005 movie “Good Night, and Good Luck.” He’s ready, but also terrified.

Drawing From Bob Dylan’s Songbook, Learning Lessons in Mortality

Todd Almond wrote an oral history on Conor McPherson’s “Girl From the North Country” and its passage through Broadway’s pandemic shutdown.

Cynthia Erivo Will Host This Year’s Tony Awards

The actress won a Tony Award for “The Color Purple,” and is now nominated for an Oscar for playing Elphaba in the film adaptation of “Wicked.”

For Playwrights, Making It to Midcareer Is a Cliffhanger

Act 1 was a constant struggle for rent and opportunity. But now that these emerging dramatists have emerged, what will they make of Act 2?

Jonathan Bailey’s Bratty, Bad-Boy ‘Richard II’

The actor, on a hot streak after “Wicked,” takes on his biggest stage role to date. In London, he plays Shakespeare’s unfortunate king as a flouncing sociopath.

Hear How a ‘Smash’ Song Got a Broadway Makeover

“Let Me Be Your Star,” which evokes an actor’s longing to shine, has come a long way from its TV days. Here’s how the song evolved on its way to the stage.

An Abortion Scene Gets Theater Audiences Talking, and Fainting

“The Years,” running in London, dramatizes a woman’s life from teenage thrills to later-life sex. One intense scene is causing audience members to pass out.

Here’s What to See This Spring in New York

Onstage, Denzel Washington is Othello, and Paul Mescal is Stanley Kowalski as stars illuminate the theater marquees. Plus: FKA twigs takes “Eusexua” on tour. Bang on a Can, Twyla Tharp, and much more.

Lea Salonga Is Never Getting Tired of Sondheim

The Tony-winning actress co-stars with Bernadette Peters in “Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends,” a show that is letting her surprise audiences with her comedy chops.

Ken Wydro, Who Helped Create an Off Broadway Phenomenon, Dies at 81

He and his wife, Vy Higginsen, poured all they had into “Mama, I Want to Sing,” a long-shot musical that became an enduring staple of Black theater.

Theater to Watch at Home: ‘Uncle Vanya’ and an Alice Childress Revival

A bare-bones Chekhov, a critically acclaimed revival of “The Wedding Band” and the cult TV series “Smash” are all available for streaming.

Review: Idina Menzel Climbs to New Broadway Heights in ‘Redwood’

The “Wicked” belter scales a 300-foot tree, and a mountain of songs, in a powerful if woo-woo musical about trauma and resilience.

‘Henry IV’ Review: Two Plays Become One

The relationship between Prince Hal and John Falstaff, a favorite of Shakespeare scholars, is the focus of this condensed adaptation.

‘Night Sings Its Songs’ Review: Scenes From a Miserable Marriage

A play by the Nobel winner Jon Fosse gets a rare staging, but New Yorkers will have to wait a little longer to see a production that captures the Norwegian writer’s haunting universe.

With ‘Mindplay,’ Vinny DePonto Wants to Bring More Awe Into Your Life

In this mentalist show, the magician asks his audience: “What is meaningful to you?”

‘Doomers’ Review: Hunkered Down, Debating the Peril and Promise of A.I.

Matthew Gasda directs his new play, which was inspired by Sam Altman’s 2023 ouster from OpenAI.

The Next Hot Playwright? They Prefer the Ones Who Cooled Off.

With their Tent Theater Company, Tim Sanford and Aimée Hayes want to raise the profiles of older artists and keep them from being sidelined.

As Off Broadway Crews Unionize, Workers See Hope, Producers Peril

Workers say the move is overdue, but theater companies fear it will drive up costs in a wounded sector that has yet to recover from the pandemic.

Can Movie Stars Handle Greek Classics? London Is Finding Out.

Sophocles is suddenly everywhere on the city’s stages. In concurrent shows, Rami Malek is playing Oedipus and Brie Larson is taking on Elektra.

Troubled Volksbühne Theater Announces Another New Director

Matthias Lilienthal will take over running the Berlin playhouse, which has been lurching from crisis to crisis for years.

‘Urinetown’ Review: More Than Toilet Humor

The Encores! revival of the musical from Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis seems even more relevant today.

New York Theater to See Now: Isabelle Huppert, ‘Urinetown’ and More

Also onstage in February: Calista Flockhart in a Sam Shepard revival, boldface names in Joy Behar’s “My First Ex-Husband” and a marionette made of ice.

A Tennessee Williams-Marlon Brando Tango, and Other Riffs on Classics

Three new plays onstage in Manhattan, “Kowalski,” “Mrs. Loman” and “Nina,” mine treasures of theater history.

‘The Antiquities’ Review: Relics of Late Human Life in 12 Exhibits

According to Jordan Harrison’s museum piece of a play, we are long extinct by 2240. But the future has kept our Betamaxes.

The Playwright Larissa FastHorse Doesn’t Want to Be a Cautionary Tale

After a delay, “Fake It Until You Make It,” the writer’s follow-up to her Broadway satire, “The Thanksgiving Play,” is finally onstage in Los Angeles.

Merle Louise Simon, a Sondheim Mainstay, Is Dead at 90

She originated roles in four of his Broadway musicals between 1959 and 1987, and won a Drama Desk Award for her performance in “Sweeney Todd.”

Review: An Affectionate Golden Age Schpoof in ‘Schmigadoon!’

The Apple TV+ series comes to the stage of the Kennedy Center with its snark and affection for classic Broadway musicals intact.

‘Hell’s Kitchen’ Wins Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album

The musical, based on the life of Alicia Keys and featuring her music, is running on Broadway and begins a national tour this fall.

This ‘Cymbeline’ Delights. So Does F. Murray Abraham in ‘Beckett Briefs.’

Shakespeare’s overstuffed late play gets an entertaining refresh Off Broadway, where Irish Rep is also offering a program of Samuel Beckett shorts.

82,150 Gallons of Paint Later, a Blue Man Group Farewell

Over 34 years, the show gave Fred Armisen a drumming gig, “Arrested Development” a hilarious story line and more. Now the cultural sensation comes to an end in New York.

Even Jimmy Fallon Gets the Jitters When Making His Broadway Debut

The “Tonight Show” host is performing in the new comedy “All In,” which features a starry cast. “It’s a dream,” he said.

Practicing for When the Bombs Fall in ‘A Knock on the Roof’

In a new solo play about ordinary people under bombardment in Gaza, a woman rehearses how she would escape her building if Israeli forces were to strike.

Idina Menzel Played Elphaba and Elsa. Now She’s Going Out on a Limb.

Menzel, a fan favorite since “Rent,” is back on Broadway in “Redwood,” and this time she’s climbing conifers.

How a Meeting About Vaccines Devolves, Hilariously, on Broadway

In “Eureka Day,” changes were made to a scene because “the laughter was so robust backstage, they couldn’t hear the cues.”

7 Surprisingly Busy Days in the Life of an Experimental Theater Maker

Peter Mills Weiss shared details of a week of “everyone doing everything all the time, and by the seat of everyone’s pants.”

Putting His Father’s Final Words Onstage, With a Little Ambivalence

The Portuguese director Tiago Rodrigues’s latest show, “No Yogurt for the Dead,” is based on his dying father’s scribbles but resists sharing much emotion.

Review: In ‘English,’ Looking for a Language to Live In

For the students in Sanaz Toossi’s dramedy about mother tongues and other tongues, the world’s lingua franca is not exactly free.

In TikTok Theater, All the World’s an Audience

“Famehungry,” a show that’s performed simultaneously for in-person and online crowds, comes to New York in the wake of the app’s brief ban in the United States.

‘Vanya on Huron Street’ Review: Chekhov in Brooklyn

Instead of a departure, the writer and director Matthew Gasda’s take on “Uncle Vanya” at the Brooklyn Center for Theater Research tends to adhere to the original.

Joel Paley, Writer of ‘Ruthless,’ an Off Broadway Hit, Dies at 69

The show, with music by Marvin Laird, portrayed a schoolgirl’s murderous theatrical ambition. Paley also performed in the parody dance group Les Ballets Trockadero.

Against All Odds, a Vegas Theater Scene With a ‘Sense of the Wild West’

Local artists straddle aesthetic and artistic worlds in the land of mega-spectacles and oversize flash.

Theater Productions to Stream Now

This month’s picks include “Prima Facie,” intimate audio plays and bite-size dramas.

In a ‘Show Boat’ Reboot, Ol’ Man River Gets an Extreme Makeover

“Show/Boat: A River” reverses the racial lens on the great-grandfather of American musicals.

Under the Radar: Venturing to Fantastical Universes With a Dodo and More

Stories from refugee children, gloriously morbid puppets and a rooster who defies a dictator. These are some of the offbeat offerings this January.

Prolific Producer to Take Over Theater That Was Too Costly for Nonprofit

Seaview, whose buzzy shows include “Romeo + Juliet,” has seized a chance to have its own theater by taking over Second Stage’s former Off Broadway home.

The Mothers on Broadway Are Finally More Than Monsters

Onstage, the flip-side of filial devotion has often been contempt. But a wave of forceful and multidimensional mothers suggests that may be changing.

Stagehands Walk Off the Job at Atlantic Theater Company

The stage employees union accused the nonprofit theater of stalling talks. The strike forced the cancellation of Sunday performances of two new plays.

Abigail McGrath, Founder of an Experimental Theater, Dies at 84

She was an aspiring actor when she was cast in an Andy Warhol film called “Tub Girls.” But she was best known for the beloved Off Center Theater.

They Were Hits in London. Then They Got Smacked in New York.

What happened to “Sunset Boulevard,” “Back to the Future,” “Cinderella” and “Tammy Faye” when they crossed the Atlantic?

#MeToo Theater Campaigners Stage a Drama of Their Own

The French activists behind the hashtag #MeTooThéâtre have devised a play that shows the personal cost of bringing abuse claims to light.

Close-Up Magic Gets an Up-Close Venue in Brooklyn

69 Atlantic hosts weekly shows by the world’s best magicians in a suitably intimate setting.

Mel Shapiro, Honored Stage Director of ‘Two Gentlemen,’ Dies at 89

He worked with the playwright John Guare in mounting his “House of Blue Leaves,” and they helped turn “The Two Gentlemen of Verona” into a hit musical.

Richard Foreman, Iconoclastic Playwright and Impresario, Dies at 87

The Ontological-Hysteric Theater, which he founded in 1968, presented more than 50 of his plays, among them “My Head Was a Sledgehammer” and “Permanent Brain Damage.”

9 Plays to Warm Up Winter in New York

Several festivals, including Under the Radar, are bringing a tantalizing breadth of new work to stages across New York.

What to See on London Stages This Winter

Some recommendations for visitors and residents who want to get the most from the city’s varied theater scene.

For Shailene Woodley, Every Day Is Christmas

The actress is starring in the Broadway play “Cult of Love,” about a dysfunctional family gathered for the holidays. That means another month of caroling.

Dick Capri, Catskills Comic Who Took His Shtick to Broadway, Dies at 93

He was a regular at the mountain resorts where many comedians honed their acts, then had a star turn in the long-running revue “Catskills on Broadway.”

Alaska Knows Why Her Drag Show Resonates: ‘It’s About Family’

The performer discusses her Off Broadway musical about warring queens. “Everyone can connect to being a young person not feeling understood,” she said.

7 New Shows Our Theater Critics Are Talking About

A film adaptation onstage, a Broadway classic, comedy galore: These are the productions worth knowing about this holiday season.

Broadway Shows Closing Soon: ‘Our Town,’ ‘Cult of Love’ and More

Thornton Wilder’s classic, starring Jim Parsons, wraps up, as does Leslye Headland’s angsty family drama. Catch these and other plays while you can.

‘A Christmas Carol’ Comes Back Every Year. So Does This Actress.

Over three decades, Sally Vahle has played Scrooge, ghosts and many of the other characters in Dallas Theater Center’s annual production of the Dickens classic.

Review: Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of Who Knows When

Dave Malloy’s musical, which was a hit in New York, comes to London in an antirealist staging that loses the 1812 setting and some emotional punch.

‘All In’ Review: A Slight Affair for John Mulaney-Led Comedy About Love

A talented cast has fun in Simon Rich’s Broadway debut, but the minimally staged show doesn’t quite justify the hefty price of tickets.

In ‘Mrs. Stern’ and ‘Racecar,’ Humans Keep Repeating Their Worst Mistakes

Pernicious patterns figure heavily in two thought-provoking plays on small Manhattan stages.

21 Movies, Books and Albums With a Theater Focus to Consume During the Holidays

Make it through the holidays with these movies, books and music from the past year that are adapted from stage productions or evoke a theatrical spirit.

‘The Tempest’ Review: A Weak Wind Blows for Sigourney Weaver

The veteran actress, playing Prospero in her West End debut, is strangely absent from Shakespeare’s narrative.

Review: In a Stripped-Down ‘Gypsy,’ Audra’s Gonna Show It to Ya

Hold your hats and hallelujah, our leading musical tragedienne offers an ultra-dramatic Rose in George C. Wolfe’s Broadway revival.

This Corpse Has Had a Wild Journey. Its Next Stop? Broadway.

“Dead Outlaw,” a musical about the mummified body of a bandit, will open at the Longacre next spring, following a successful Off Broadway run.

‘Annie’ Review: Whoopi Goldberg Is a Holiday Gift as Miss Hannigan

In a just sweet enough production with a strong cast, the “View” host delivers a performance that reaffirms her savvy as a comic actor.

A New Richard Foreman Play Puts a Twist on His Metaphysical Puzzles

New York theater’s elder statesman of the avant-garde brings “Suppose Beautiful Madeline Harvey” to the stage, his first new work in over a decade.

What’s Funny About John Mulaney and Simon Rich’s Friendship? Everything.

The former “S.N.L.” writing partners have reunited for Rich’s “superficially wacky” Broadway show, “All In: Comedy About Love.”

Review: In ‘Eureka Day,’ Holding Space for Those You Hate

A hilarious new Broadway production asks: Can the superwoke vaxxers and anti-vaxxers at an elite private school learn to get along?

‘Cult of Love’ Review: We Wish You a Wretched Christmas

A hilarious, harrowing holiday gift from Leslye Headland, who brings another unhappy family to Broadway. Zachary Quinto and Shailene Woodley star.

A Visual Tour of ‘Oh, Mary!,’ Broadway’s Hit Comedy

Cole Escola stars as a self-involved Mary Todd Lincoln who dreams of becoming a cabaret star. Here’s how the creative team came up with the show’s aesthetic.

The Highs and Lows on London Stages in 2024

Our critics discuss which A-lister performances on the West End were worth the ticket price, and why so many new musicals struggled this year.

Martin Benson, Regional Theater Impresario With Impact, Dies at 87

South Coast Repertory, a California company he founded with a partner, grew to stage world premieres of major works that made their way to Broadway.

Raygun Shuts Down Musical Inspired by Her Jeered Olympic Breaking

The comedian behind the parody about the Australian breaker who became a summer celebrity said she was willing to make some changes to avoid legal drama.

Adam Lambert Is Finding the Fun, and the Fear, in ‘Cabaret’

Making his Broadway debut as the show’s Emcee, the singer is reveling in what he calls “a thinking piece of musical theater.”

9 Best Theater Moments of 2024

“The Outsiders,” “Sunset Boulevard” and “Ragtime” were among the productions with stage moments that stood out this year.

Best Theater of 2024

Broadway roared back, but the kitties were downtown and the prayer service was in Brooklyn.

What I Learned at Shiz University: How ‘Wicked’ Changed the Lives of Its Stars

Only the women who’ve played Elphaba and Glinda in the show’s two decades onstage understand why the roles are so taxing — and so rewarding, too.

Avett Brothers Musical ‘Swept Away’ to Close on Broadway After Short Run

The new musical, about a shipwreck and its aftermath, opened Nov. 19 at the Longacre Theater.

Broadway, Seeking Growth and Facing Challenges, Has a New Representative

The Broadway League, an industry trade organization, named Jason Laks as its new president. “I think our mission has to be more than to make it 2019 again,” Laks said.

Momma Rose’s Many Faces, From Ethel Merman to Audra McDonald

In her various incarnations, the “Gypsy” character is always loud, always scary, but so different. Ben Brantley reflects on all the onstage Roses he has known.

Review: This ‘Importance of Being Earnest’ Is a Fabulous Romp

A new production in London, starring Ncuti Gatwa, releases Oscar Wilde’s 1895 comedy from period convention and brings it stunningly into the 21st century.

Artists, Then (as in the 17th Century) and Now

“The Light and the Dark” dramatizes the life of Artemisia Gentileschi, while “300 Paintings” was born during the fever dreams of Covid.

Theater to See in N.Y.C. This Holiday Season

“Elf the Musical,” inventive spins on “A Christmas Carol” and classic family fare: Here are some of our favorite shows of the season.

In ‘Yuletide Factory,’ Cirque Mechanics Manufactures a Family Holiday Show

It’s Christmas at the sweatshop, but the mood fluctuates between ho ho ho and ho hum.

Review: ‘We Are Your Robots,’ Still Tuning Up

In Ethan Lipton’s musings on A.I., Mozart has a place alongside humpback whales.

Blue Man Group to End New York Run After Three Decades Off Broadway

The troupe is also closing its Chicago company, but continues to perform in Berlin, Boston, Las Vegas and, soon, Orlando.

Stratford-Upon-Lake-Michigan: Royal Shakespeare Company Plays Chicago

With less touring, it’s been a while since all the world has been its stage, but the troupe is working with the Chicago Shakespeare Theater — where it has family ties.

6 Minutes. 62 People. 1 Epic ‘Sunset Boulevard’ Sequence.

Down the stairs, out the doors and onto the sidewalk, a Broadway show hits the street. Here’s how they pull it off.

‘The Blood Quilt’ Review: An Elaborate Tapestry

Katori Hall’s new play about sisters gathering after their mother’s death features standout performances but an overabundance of themes.

Review: In ‘Death Becomes Her,’ Spiking the Fountain of Youth

Hilarious star turns from Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard make the mostly unfunny 1992 film into an intermittently memorable Broadway musical.

In ‘Music City’ and ‘Babe,’ Existential Battles of the Heart and Soul

Bedlam’s country music show is a rollicking good time. But the New Group’s production of “Babe,” starring Marisa Tomei, is a frustrating one-act lacking cohesion.

How to Buy Broadway Tickets? Your Questions, Answered

Box-office sales, discount booths, same-day rush: Here’s everything you need to know about nabbing seats to plays and musicals in Manhattan.

‘Tammy Faye’ Musical to Close After Failing to Find Broadway Audience

Well-reviewed in London but poorly received in New York, the musical with an Elton John score will end its run on Dec. 8.

TKTS to Open Booth in Philadelphia, Hoping to Boost Local Theaters

The first domestic TKTS outpost outside New York comes at a time of rising concern about ticket prices and theater economics.

‘Les Misérables’ Returns Home

The most famous French musical has never been popular in Paris. A major new production hopes to change that, reworking it for a contemporary French audience.

Review: Everyone at the Party Sees Your Texts. A New Play Revels in the Chaos.

Neil Patrick Harris, Jane Krakowski, Debra Messing and Constance Wu star in the vulgar and entertaining new work from Robert O’Hara.

Morgan Jenness, 72, Dies; Her Artistic Vision Influenced American Theater

A beloved figure in the theatrical community, she redefined the role of dramaturg, influencing playwrights like David Adjmi and David Henry Hwang.

The ‘Death Becomes Her’ Frenemies Take Their Youth Potion to Broadway

The campy supernatural movie comes to Broadway as a big, bawdy musical starring Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard.

Review: In ‘Elf’ on Broadway, Buddy Lands on the Very, Very Nice List

The musical, starring Grey Henson, has gotten Buddy delightfully, entirely right. But he is trapped inside a creaky adaptation.

Why ‘Tammy Faye’ the Musical Feels Like a Redemption

The televangelist defended gay men during the AIDS crisis. Now she’s getting perhaps the gayest tribute: a Broadway show led by Elton John.

Uncovering Gay and Lesbian History in a 1941 ‘Sex Variants’ Study

The Civilians theater group has adapted a study of homosexuality into a work that explores the lives of lesbians and gay men in the early 20th century.

What’s Your ‘Romeo and Juliet’ I.Q.?

Test your knowledge, for never was a quiz of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

Murder as Family Tradition in ‘Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists’

Tiago Rodrigues’s play is intentionally a work of provocation, but it is also stylized to create a helpful distance from events and ideas.

Review: Tammy Faye Was Over-the-Top. This Musical Makes Her Small.

“Tammy Faye,” a bland, tonal mishmash of a show opening on Broadway, seems afraid to lean into what made the televangelist so distinctive.

Review: ‘King Lear,’ Faster and Less Furious

Kenneth Branagh’s production of the Shakespeare classic speeds through the material and can’t quite figure out its tone.

In the Slightly Dark ‘Strategic Love Play,’ a Not-Quite-Romance Blooms

In this first-date comedy, Michael Zegen and Heléne Yorke play people who might just be willing to settle for each other.

Broadway Shows Closing Soon: ‘Suffs,’ ‘Stereophonic’ and More

Many Tony Award-winning musicals and starry plays (Robert Downey Jr., anyone?) are wrapping up their runs in January. Catch them while you can.

Big Apple Circus Review: A City Tour, Pizza Rats Included

This year’s show is an underwhelming exercise in nostalgia. But it’s still a joy to be under the big top with acts like the Wheel of Destiny.

Timothy West, Who Portrayed Kings and Prime Ministers, Dies at 90

A staple of British television, he played Churchill three times over a long career. Onstage, he was King Lear, Macbeth and Willy Loman.

‘Maybe Happy Ending’ Review: For Robots, Is It Love or Just a Hookup?

A supersmart musical about making a connection arrives on Broadway in a joyful, heartbreaking, cutting-edge production.

‘The Vegetarian’ Review: Putting a Nobel Prize Winner’s Work Onstage

After Han Kang won the Prize in Literature last month, a stage version of her novel “The Vegetarian” sold out its run at a struggling Paris theater.

Review: Blowing Louis Armstrong’s Horn Isn’t Enough in ‘A Wonderful World’

The great jazz trumpeter and sandpaper vocalist gets the old jukebox treatment in a new Broadway musical starring James Monroe Iglehart.

Paul Mescal Rides ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ to Brooklyn

The award-winning production will begin performances in February as part of Brooklyn Academy of Music’s next season.

How the Tale of a Brutal Shipwreck Became a Broadway Musical

The Avett Brothers were all ears a decade ago when a determined crew of theater upstarts and veterans came aboard to adapt their maritime album for “Swept Away.”

Everyone Else Is Giving a Standing Ovation. Do I Have To?

Theatergoers and other performing-arts lovers are noticing the practice seems to have become the rule, not the exception.

How a Sex-Positive Cuban Lesbian Helped Her Creator Play Herself

In “Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!,” Alina Troyano and her former student Branden Jacobs-Jenkins explore the ways art made by one person can live inside others.

A New Broadway Musical Asks: Can Robots Fall in Love?

“Maybe Happy Ending” had an initial Korean-language production in Seoul in 2016. Here are five things to know about the show.

‘Walden’ Review: My Sister! My Twin! My Astronaut!

Emmy Rossum and Zoë Winters star in a new Off Broadway play that’s a climate disaster drama cohabiting with a domestic soap opera.

He’s Getting Raves for a Role He Wasn’t Supposed to Play

Seventeen years after he first appeared in “Yellow Face,” the veteran actor Francis Jue has returned with a nuanced performance as a blustery patriarch.

‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ Gets a Folk-Musical Makeover

The decade-spanning story of a man aging in reverse comes to the West End, transformed into a thoughtful fable opening on the English coast.

John Leguizamo Talked Diversity at the Emmys. He Has Ideas for Theater Too.

The actor discusses his new play, “The Other Americans,” feeling underappreciated as a dramatist, and Latino representation.

Hit Play About U.S. Constitution Debuts in Canada. Amended, of Course.

How do you retool “What the Constitution Means to Me” for those unfamiliar with the U.S. Constitution? Consult Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

‘Phantom of the Opera’ Closed on Broadway. Next Year It Will Hit the Road.

The enduring Andrew Lloyd Webber musical will begin a multiyear tour in Baltimore in November 2025.

Review: A Vocally Splendid ‘Ragtime’ Raises the Roof

Joshua Henry stars in an exhilarating gala revival of the 1998 musical about nothing less than the harmony and discord of America.

Two Climate Change Plays Keep the Flames of Hope Alive

“Hothouse,” at Irish Arts Center, fends off despair with loopiness; “In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot,” at Playwrights Horizons, is a fuzzy world lacking depth.

‘Ragtime’ Crushed Brandon Uranowitz’s Dream. Now It’s Healing His Wounds.

Nearly 30 years after being let go from the Broadway-bound show, this Tony Award winner is taking a lead role in a new revival at City Center.

‘Bad Kreyòl’ Review: Dueling Cultural Identities Make for a Weighty Comedy

Dominique Morisseau’s new play explores the tensions between a Haitian American woman and her Haitian-born cousin.

Broadway Is Singing Louis Armstrong’s Songs. Here Are 6 Classics.

By exploring Armstrong’s offstage struggles and tensions, “A Wonderful World” wants to shatter the image of an entertainer who was far more than just affable.

Review: ‘We Live in Cairo’ Falls Short of Being Revolutionary

Egyptians stand up to their government in a play that excels in its design but rings hollow when its subtext and character development are scrutinized.

Mimi Hines, a Replacement Star in ‘Funny Girl,’ Dies at 91

She was best known as half of a comedy team with her husband, Phil Ford, until her hall-filling voice earned her raves in a role made famous by Barbra Streisand.

Anime on Broadway May Be a Perfect Match

“Attack on Titan: The Musical” showed what a crossover between two seemingly different types of fans could look like.

How a Play About A.I. Lured Robert Downey Jr. to Broadway

In “McNeal,” the playwright Ayad Akhtar explores the way artificial intelligence is disrupting the literary world and raising questions about creativity.

Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler Make Puppy Love in the Puppy Pile

The Broadway revival of “Romeo + Juliet” plays to the TikTok crowd. But maybe that’s a good thing.

‘Back to the Future’ to Close on Broadway, Rerouting DeLorean to Germany

The musical, which opened in London three years ago, is still going strong there and touring North America, while productions are planned in Japan and on a cruise ship.

Review: Delia Ephron’s ‘Left on Tenth’ Treads Lightly

Julianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher star in this quasi romantic comedy adapted from Ephron’s memoir, which went deeper into her illness and grief.

‘Franklinland’ Review: A Founding Father, but Not the Best Dad

Lloyd Suh’s nimble period comedy about Benjamin Franklin examines a timeless struggle: the unmet expectations that divide parents and children.

Review: A Reverse Angle on Arthur Miller in ‘A Woman Among Women’

Julia May Jonas’s compelling play, opening the Bushwick Starr’s new theater, explores how a story written about men looks from the other side.

This Theater Was a Haven for Bold Art. Then the Archdiocese Intervened.

The Connelly Theater has suspended operations after its church landlord began more carefully scrutinizing show scripts and its general manager resigned.

A Reluctant Satirist Takes On the Bomb

Armando Iannucci, the mastermind behind “Veep,” has adapted “Dr. Strangelove” for the theater and insists that laughing at nuclear disaster couldn’t be more timely.

In ‘Sunset Boulevard,’ Nicole Scherzinger Is 23 Feet Tall

A fascinating Broadway revival of the bombastic 1994 musical blows it up even further.

‘The Warriors’ Hooked Lin-Manuel Miranda at 4. Now Comes the Album.

He collaborated with Eisa Davis to make a concept album inspired by the 1979 movie. One big change: the main gang is made up of women.

Sadie Sink to Star in Broadway Play Inspired by ‘Crucible’ and #MeToo

Kimberly Belflower’s “John Proctor Is the Villain” will be directed by Danya Taymor, who won a Tony this year for “The Outsiders.”

Adam Driver in ‘Hold On to Me Darling,’ a Satire of Sincerity

A country music star embodies the clichés of celebrity in an Off Broadway revival of Kenneth Lonergan’s 2016 comedy.

In ‘Vladimir,’ a Russian Reporter’s Fight Is an Apt Election Season Tale

The writer Erika Sheffer takes a big swing in a Manhattan Theater Club production examining “the point at which a society finds itself on the brink.”

A French Play Explores the Enduring Allure of ‘Showgirls’

Inspired by Paul Verhoeven’s infamous 1995 film, “Showgirl” considers what it means to be an actress who gets naked.

Political Theater: 7 Shows That Wrestle With Cultural Issues

These productions are grappling with climate change, reproductive rights, the Arab Spring and accusations of sexual assault.

York Theater Artistic Director Out After ‘Hurtful’ Diversity Comments

James Morgan, who has been with the small New York theater company for 50 years, blamed the effects of a stroke for his behavior.

American Sign Language Brings New Layers to ‘American Idiot’

Performed simultaneously in sign language and sung English, a Los Angeles revival of the Green Day musical finds new ways to communicate rage and angst.

‘Suffs’ Won Tony Awards for Best Score and Book. Now It’s Closing.

The musical, created by Shaina Taub, announced that it will play its final performance on Jan. 5 and start a national tour next fall.

Review: An ‘Our Town’ for All of Us, Starring Jim Parsons

The Thornton Wilder classic returns to Broadway, still brutal and avant-garde after 86 years.

Review: In ‘The Counter,’ a Cup of Joe and an Off-the-Menu Order

A diner patron asks a waitress for an extraordinary side dish in Meghan Kennedy’s sweet but shaggy new play.

Broadway Theater Owners, Facing Backlash, to Dim All Lights for Gavin Creel

The landlords also said they would reconsider their process for determining who to honor with full and partial dimmings.

‘The Wind and the Rain’ Review: How Sunny’s Bar Weathered the Storm

On a barge in Brooklyn, the story of a beloved watering hole and a neighborhood’s recovery after Hurricane Sandy.

Jonathan Groff, Fresh Off Tony Win, Will Return to Broadway as Bobby Darin

“Just in Time,” a new musical about the “Mack the Knife” pop singer, will open next spring at Circle in the Square in Manhattan.

Review: An Ambitious Work, as Flimsy as a House of Cards

Robert Lepage’s latest play, “Faith, Money, War and Love,” runs for five hours, and aims to depict Germany since the end of World War II.

‘The Big Gay Jamboree’ Review: A Golden-Age Fantasia on Steroids

The goofball spirit that made Marla Mindelle’s “Titaníque” a hit is missing from her equally campy new show drenched in pop-culture references.

Time-Traveling Film ‘Safety Not Guaranteed’ Hits Some Bumps Onstage

Adapted from the offbeat 2012 movie, this new musical about loneliness and the longing for do-overs is promising but still needs to find its shape.

Review: ‘Good Bones,’ but Not Fleshed Out

A new play from James Ijames, who won a Pulitzer for his “Fat Ham,” has intriguing ideas about identity and community that never fully take shape.

Sarah Snook to Make Broadway Debut in One-Woman ‘Dorian Gray’

The “Succession” actress will play all 26 characters in a stage production of the Oscar Wilde novel.

Review: Daniel Dae Kim as a Playwright Unmasked in ‘Yellow Face’

David Henry Hwang’s 2007 play, now in a fine Broadway revival, is a pointed critique of identity, masquerading as a mockumentary.

‘Water for Elephants’ to Close on Broadway

The musical, based on the best-selling novel, featured dazzling acrobatics and puppetry. Its final performance will be Dec. 8.

3 Ambitious Song Cycles, but Only One Connects Mind and Heart

Todd Almond’s “I’m Almost There” is a work of wonder, while Gabriel Kahane’s “Book of Travelers” and “Magnificent Bird” are less effective.

Musical Comedy ‘Operation Mincemeat’ to Open on Broadway Next Spring

The show is about a real World War II episode in which British intelligence planted disinformation on a dead body to fool the Germans.

Robert Downey Jr. Is a Novelist With a Novel Muse in ‘McNeal’

The “Oppenheimer” star makes his Broadway debut in Ayad Akhtar’s timely new play about a literary lion who gets assistance from A.I.

Gavin Creel, Tony-Winning Musical Theater Actor, Dies at 48

He won the award playing a Yonkers feed store clerk in “Hello, Dolly!” and was also nominated for roles in “Thoroughly Modern Millie” and “Hair.”

Disoriented in America: Two Political Plays Reflect a Changed Country

The Off Broadway plays “Fatherland” and “Blood of the Lamb” explore the grief, anger and fear of no longer recognizing the country you love.

Review: ‘The Hills of California,’ Alive With the Sound of Music

In Jez Butterworth’s compelling new play, four girls trained to sing close harmony wind up as acrimonious adults.

Laura Donnelly, ‘Hills of California’ Star, Is Not Some Delicate Flower

But she did “burst into tears” reading Jez Butterworth’s rewrite of his new Broadway play, which left her with 10 days “to create an entirely new character.”

Review: Roald Dahl Is Antisemitic, but Not a Cartoon Villain, in ‘Giant’

A new play in London portrays the beloved children’s author as a rounded character, while making no apology for his bigotry.

Andrew Scott Will Perform One-Man ‘Vanya’ Off Broadway Next Spring

The Olivier Award-winning revival, in which the actor plays all of the parts, is to begin previews March 11 at the Lucille Lortel Theater.

The Stage Combat Is Verbal in These Off Broadway Plays

Belarus Free Theater’s “KS6: Small Forward” and three other shows are reminders that there are many ways to portray conflicts and confrontations onstage.

What to See on London Stages This Fall

Some recommendations for visitors and residents who want to get the most from the city’s varied theater scene.

The Nation’s Politics Are Dramatic. Now Its Dramas Are Political.

For the second year in a row, a play about the Constitution is the most-staged in America. And a farce about a terrible president is also pretty popular.

Roundabout, With 3 Broadway Theaters, Finds Leader in California

Christopher Ashley, the artistic director of La Jolla Playhouse and a Tony winner for “Come From Away,” will run the large New York nonprofit.

Exploring the Roots of Mideast Turbulence Onstage

A retrospective in Paris honors Lina Majdalanie and Rabih Mroué, whose theater works have examined the region’s troubles for decades.

Review: What’s Eating Trump? The Singing ‘Ghost of John McCain’

The former senator haunts the former president, or vice versa, in this sophomoric musical satire.

Britain’s National Theater Director Takes a Final Bow

As Rufus Norris prepares to leave the London playhouse he has led since 2015, he reflects on his quest to make the theater represent the audience it serves.

On City Strolls, ‘Fat Ham’ Writer Was Inspired by ‘Ghosts of Absence’

Walking around downtown Philadelphia, James Ijames reflected on his new play, “Good Bones,” gentrification and the absence that “haunts the cities.”

Kate Mulgrew Walks the Creative and Emotional Plank in ‘The Beacon’

Holding tightly to the Dublin accent of her character, the actress talks about starring in Nancy Harris’s feminist thriller at Irish Rep.

Courting Dark Emotions, and Toying With Audience Expectations

Revivals of Michael John LaChiusa’s “See What I Wanna See” and an early work by the “Past Lives” filmmaker look to the spirit world to reflect on our own.

‘Forbidden Broadway’ Review: Let Them Somewhat Entertain You

From its perch way Off Broadway, the long-running satire slings its affectionate arrows at Patti, Audra and the rest.

After an Olympic Backlash, France’s Drag Queens Are Here to Stay

Answering hatred with glitter is a time-honored drag tradition that France’s answer to “RuPaul’s Drag Race” is keeping alive in a new stage spectacle.

The Angry Old Play and the Nice Young Man

Atri Banerjee has channeled his own experiences into a new production of John Osborne’s groundbreaking 1956 work “Look Back in Anger.”

‘You’re Basically on a Broadway Stage, With New Friends’

At the touring dance party Broadway Rave, the playlist is all show tunes. But don’t worry, no house remixes of “I Dreamed a Dream” here.

A ‘Buena Vista Social Club’ Musical Will Open on Broadway Next Year

The show, which had a previous run at Atlantic Theater Company, is scheduled to begin previews in February at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater.

On Broadway, a Covid Switcheroo: Marsha Mason in for Mia Farrow

Mason, an associate director of “The Roommate,” which opened on Broadway last week, stepped in as Patti LuPone’s counterpart.

‘Counting and Cracking’ Review: One Family’s Tale Fit for an Epic

No theatrical wizardry is needed for this compelling drama about a woman’s journey to Australia from war-torn Sri Lanka and the generations that follow.

Review: Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow Clean Up in ‘The Roommate’

A Bronx grifter and an Iowa homebody share a house and eventually learn from each other in this Broadway star vehicle.

‘Why Am I So Single?’ Review: After ‘Six,’ a Scrappy, Sappy Dating Musical

The duo behind the Broadway hit follow it up with a meta reflection on finding love online that is relatable and fun but lacking narrative drive.

2 Chinese Dramas (and a Family of 3) Broaden a Theater Festival’s Scope

By presenting “The Orphan of Chao” and “Snow in Midsummer,” the Shaw Festival is helping “the past to smash its way into the modern world.”

‘Real Women Have Curves’ Musical Plans Broadway Bow Next Year

The show, adapted from the play and movie, was first staged last winter at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass.

Hollywood Is Heading for Broadway (and Off). Here’s a Cheat Sheet.

George Clooney as Murrow! Denzel Washington as Othello! Mia Farrow as a larcenous landlord! So much to see!

Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler Are Star Crossed in Central Park

As the stars of the “Romeo + Juliet” that opens on Broadway, they will die for love. And to make that convincing, they need to become friends first.

James Earl Jones’s Stage Career Was Rich, and Startlingly Diverse

In addition to Broadway crowd-pleasers, the actor deftly navigated classics, experimental theater and new works by major contemporary playwrights.

Lincoln Center Theater Chooses Lear deBessonet as Artistic Director

DeBessonet, currently the artistic director of Encores!, will work alongside Bartlett Sher, who will serve as executive producer.

Yesterday’s Broadway Warhorses, Saddled With Today’s Concerns

Revivals of “Romeo and Juliet,” “Our Town,” “Gypsy” and “Sunset Boulevard” aim to show that rethinking for the present is what makes classics classic.

Julianna Margulies: ‘This Is the Play I’ve Been Waiting For’

The actress returns to Broadway after 18 years, starring in Delia Ephron’s new play about falling in love again after her husband’s death.

Working on a Sri Lankan-Australian Epic, He Learned His Family’s Past

As the acclaimed “Counting and Cracking” makes its North American debut, the playwright describes the work as “my soul on a plate.”

Kara Young Charms in ‘Table 17,’ a Rom-Com That Believes in True Love

The Tony winner leads a top-notch cast in Zhailon Levingston’s alluringly designed production of Douglas Lyons’s hopeful new play.

15 Shows to See on Stages Around the U.S. This Fall

Matthew Broderick stars in “Babbitt” in Washington, D.C., and five companies nationwide will stage Eboni Booth’s Pulitzer-winning play “Primary Trust.”

28 Broadway and Off Broadway Shows to See This Fall

New York stages are welcoming Robert Downey Jr., Adam Driver, Audra McDonald and more this season.

‘The Wizard of the Kremlin’ Review: Putting Putin’s Rise Onstage

The best-selling, much discussed French novel is now a play. It gives a similarly humanizing view of the Russian leader and his inner circle.

Daniel Dae Kim Isn’t Afraid to Fail

In the new Broadway production of “Yellow Face,” the “Lost” and “Hawaii Five-0” star is taking a risk. “I am aware,” he says, “that people have not usually seen me in this way.”

‘The Notebook’ Will End Its Broadway Run in December. A Tour Is Next.

The show, nominated for three Tony Awards, opened March 14 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater. It will go on a national tour starting next September.

Was 45 Years Leading Second Stage Enough? Not for Carole Rothman.

As she departs the acclaimed nonprofit, Rothman discussed why women need to be in leadership, her Tony Awards mic drop and the “perfect production.”

Is This the Edinburgh Fringe, or a Wellness Convention?

Grief narratives were in vogue, and psychological maladies, too, at the annual Scottish arts showcase.

For a New ‘Empire Records,’ Zoe Sarnak Set Out to Write a ’90s Anthem

The composer is breaking the rules of musical theater and finding an increasingly warm welcome this year for her rock sound. Next up, “Empire Records: The Musical.”

How to Survive (and Maybe Conquer) the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

It’s a prime opportunity for performers looking to make a splash. Nadia Quinn, a comic actress and singer from New York, decided to give it a shot.

At Edinburgh Festival, Sometimes Simpler Is Better

The event’s best theater production avoided the gimmicks of other shows in favor of well-drawn characters and well-written dialogue.

Theater Breaks Ties With Ivo van Hove After Report on Bullying

An investigation found that a “culture of fear” had developed at the International Theater Amsterdam during the years when the star director led the company.

Want to See a Play About Gwyneth Paltrow’s Ski Trial? How About 2?

Multiple shows at the Edinburgh Fringe make camp fun out of the 2023 civil action that spurred a thousand memes — and one of them is a triumph.

He Wants People Restarting Their Lives to See Themselves Onstage

Tarell Alvin McCraney, the artistic director of the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, is focused on bringing marginalized people to the theater.

At the Ruhrtriennale, Searching for the Sublime Among the Ruins

In the abandoned industrial sites that serve as the festival’s venues, our critic witnessed beauty struggling to be born: fitfully, clumsily and sometimes stunningly.

What’s the Next ‘Baby Reindeer’? This Producer Might Have the Script.

Francesca Moody has put on some of the Edinburgh Fringe’s biggest breakout hits. This year, she has three shows that she’s hoping will go global.

Sydney Lemmon Puts the Twisted Humanity Behind Tech on Broadway

After a small part in “Succession,” the actor has a breakout role in “Job,” in which she plays a content moderator having a mental breakdown.

At a Festival Amid Industrial Ruins, Ivo van Hove Takes Charge

For the Belgian director’s first edition as leader of the Ruhrtriennale, abandoned sites are “the starting point and the end point,” he says.

‘Life and Trust’ Review: Choose Your Own Faustian Adventure

A new theatrical experience in the Financial District is composed of 25 individual stories, but it’s hard to make sense of any of them.

The Tony Winner Behind ‘Appropriate’ Is Back. This Time, With ‘Purpose.’

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins had Broadway success this year with a drama starring Sarah Paulson. In February, he’ll return with a new play directed by Phylicia Rashad.

My Midsummer Dream: 7 Plays, 5 Days, 4 Stages, 1 Story

At the Stratford Festival, a remix of genders and genres tells a brand-new, age-old tale of personal freedom.

Sutton Foster and Michael Urie Reunite in the Zany ‘Once Upon a Mattress’

The hit Encores! production has transferred to Broadway, with a cast fiercely dedicated to entertaining its audience.

An Unexpected Bright Spot in Theater? Look to Wisconsin.

No musicals and no mics: At American Players Theater in Wisconsin, nothing comes between the actors, their words and the public.

How Hollywood Glamour Is Reviving the Endangered Broadway Play

George Clooney, Robert Downey Jr., Denzel Washington and Mia Farrow are coming to Broadway, where some producers see plays with stars as safer bets than musicals.

Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr to Star in Broadway ‘Glengarry’

A revival of “Glengarry Glen Ross,” David Mamet’s classic play about unscrupulous real estate agents, is to open next spring.

A Play About J.K. Rowling Stirred Outrage. Until It Opened.

The muted reaction to the Edinburgh Fringe show “TERF” suggests that when activists engage with potentially inflammatory art, offense can quickly vanish.

Compassion Is in Short Supply at This Grief Support Group

In “Someone Spectacular,” Domenica Feraud skewers group therapy and the futility of sharing trauma in a fishbowl.

A ‘Stranger Things’ Prequel Is Coming to Broadway Next Spring

The play, now running in London, is set 24 years before the start of the Netflix series.

A Jingle Put Cellino & Barnes on the Map. Their Split Inspired a Play.

Many New Yorkers can rattle off the phone number by heart. “Cellino v. Barnes” chronicles the rise and fall of these prominent injury lawyers.

Two New Musicals Poke at the Seamy Underbelly of the American Dream

Kristin Chenoweth stars in “The Queen of Versailles” in Boston, while a new “Gatsby” musical in Cambridge takes Myrtle seriously.

What to See at the Edinburgh Fringe

Previous editions of the performing arts event launched shows like “Baby Reindeer” and “Fleabag.” Maybe there’s another breakout hit among this year’s more than 3,600 shows.

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter to Star in ‘Waiting for Godot’ on Broadway

They played slacker buddies in three “Bill & Ted” films, and next year they plan to reunite for Beckett’s classic tragicomedy.

Adam Driver Is to Star Off Broadway as a Country-Western Singer

The actor will return to the stage this fall in a revival of Kenneth Lonergan’s “Hold On to Me Darling.”

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Next Project: A ‘Warriors’ Album With Eisa Davis

The recording, inspired by Walter Hill’s 1979 film about a gang making a perilous trek through New York City, will be available on Oct. 18.

Review: In ‘Pamela Palmer,’ a Blonde, a Gumshoe and an Existential Mystery

David Ives’s new play at the Williamstown Theater Festival is less a whodunit than a who done what.

A Salzburg Festival Tradition Deserves a Wider Audience

Robert Carsen’s take on “Jedermann,” a play staged at the festival every year, stands head and shoulders above other recent stagings of the work.

In Chicago, 3 Shows That Keep the Audience in Mind and Engaged

Musical adaptations of “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” and “The Lord of the Rings” as well as a new Samuel D. Hunter play were on our critic’s itinerary.

‘Job’ Review: The Psychopath Will See You Now

A patient, a shrink and a gun are the raw ingredients of a chic, sadistic Broadway thriller.

‘Six Characters’ Review: Making the Case Against a White-Centric Theater

At Lincoln Center Theater, Phillip Howze’s daring new play offers a hefty critique but takes aim at more targets than it can accommodate.

Two More New York Theaters to Share Space

The prestigious downtown nonprofit Soho Rep will share space with Playwrights Horizons in Midtown Manhattan while figuring out a longer-term plan.

Baldwin’s ‘Blues for Mister Charlie,’ 60 Years After It Hit Broadway

On the centennial of James Baldwin’s birth, a look at this revolutionary work that was a playwriting milestone for him.

‘Inspired by True Events’ Review: True Crime Thriller Riddled With Clichés

The actor Ryan Spahn makes his Off Broadway playwriting debut with an immersive, psychologically shallow dark comedy.

In ‘Pre-Existing Condition,’ a Character Isn’t Defined by Abuse, or One Actress

Stars like Edie Falco and Deirdre O’Connell bring a communal quality to Marin Ireland’s play about the aftermath of domestic violence.

For Some Old Musicals, Not Just Revival but Reappropriation

How a Black lieutenant, a gay kiss and a catless ballroom are helping reclaim Broadway classics.

‘Hello, Dolly!’ Review: Imelda Staunton Has the Wow, Wow, Wow Factor

The veteran British actress shines in a new revival that is the musical theater highlight of the West End summer.

With a Killer Onstage and a Body Part in a Bag, the Show Went On

The creators of “Inspired by True Events” wanted their new immersive theater piece to convey ominousness, not a haunted-house riff on “Noises Off.”

In ‘Life and Trust,’ the Details Are in the Devil

A new immersive piece of theater from the producers of “Sleep No More” transports visitors to the Gilded Age through a retrofitted skyscraper in Manhattan.

Review: What Makes ‘Oh, Mary!’ One of the Best Summer Comedies in Years

Cole Escola’s dragtastic White House farce asks the immortal question: Besides that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?

‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Review: Sprinkling Magic Under a Night Sky

Fun is the main point of Carl Cofield’s stylish outdoor staging of Shakespeare’s comic fantasy for the Classical Theater of Harlem.

At Avignon Festival, Theater’s World Gets Wider

Under its new director, the event is shining a spotlight on countries and performers rarely represented on the biggest European stages.

The Five Women Who Started a Secret Theater Society

Years before they ascended to influential leadership roles, they worked at the Public Theater and became cheerleaders for each other’s professional dreams.

Resisting the Far Right at a Festival of French Theater

Tiago Rodrigues said the Avignon Festival, which he leads, would become “a festival of resistance,” juggling activism with the premiere of a new play.

15 Summer Theaters for That Nearby, Out-of-Town Experience

Easygoing days of drama and comedy are just a few hours away (or even closer) in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts.

‘Starlight Express’ Review: The Gravy Train Rolls On

Nostalgia will undoubtedly lure many to a London revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. It has more in common with a theme park than with theater, our critic writes.

Review: ‘Dämon: El Funeral de Bergman’ Brings Electricity to Avignon

The Spanish director and performer Angélica Liddell elicited a standing ovation at the Avignon Festival in spite of her attacks on critics.

Brooke Shields Has Worn Many Hats. Now She’s a Labor Boss.

The model-turned-actress-turned-businesswoman is the new president of Actors’ Equity. In an interview, she explained what she’s doing there.

Where Can Sondheim’s Operatic Musicals Find a Home?

Jonathan Tunick, Stephen Sondheim’s longtime collaborator, unveiled a grand orchestration of “A Little Night Music” that deserves more than a concert.

‘N/A’ Review: For Nancy Pelosi and A.O.C., It’s a House Divided

Is moral leadership possible without parliamentary power? Two very familiar congresswomen battle it out onstage.

Second Stage Becomes First Broadway Nonprofit in Decades to Name New Leader

The organization, which won this year’s best play revival Tony Award for “Appropriate,” has chosen Evan Cabnet as its next artistic director.

Betty Boop Time Travels to New York, and Broadway, Next Spring

“BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical” had a run in Chicago last year. It is slated to open at a Shubert theater in April.

After a Brief Run, ‘Tommy’ Revival to Close on Broadway

“The Who’s Tommy,” which has a rock score by Pete Townshend, will end on July 21. A national tour is in the works.

‘I Might Be Real-Life Good at This’: Shooting for Broadway at the Jimmy Awards

The awards, which celebrated excellence in high school musical theater on Monday, have become a launchpad for future stars and Tony nominees.

Review: A ‘Ulysses’ That Squeezes Bloomsday Into 2 Hours, 40 Minutes

Elevator Repair Service’s staged reading of the huge James Joyce novel retains much of its humor, pathos and bawdiness.

Review: In ‘Find Me Here,’ Sisters Grapple With a Father’s Will, and His Legacy

A family gathering fuels Crystal Finn’s new play, in which an excellent cast teases out the many complications of inheritance.

Leslye Headland’s ‘Cult of Love’ to Open on Broadway in the Fall

The play will be produced by Second Stage, which is also planning an Off Broadway production of a two-character drama by Donald Margulies.

What to See on London Stages This Summer

British theater recommendations for visitors and residents of all ages — and inclinations.

Review: A 10th Life for Those Jellicle ‘Cats,’ Now on the Runway

Resetting the “Memory” musical in the world of ballroom competitions makes for a joyful reincarnation.

‘Pre-Existing Condition’ Review: Recovering From a Traumatic Relationship

Marin Ireland’s play opens with Tatiana Maslany in a rotating cast of stars, and “What Became of Us” continues its own experiment with changing casts.

Elinor Fuchs, a Leading Scholar of the American Stage, Is Dead at 91

As a journalist and later as a Yale professor, she provided the intellectual tools to help actors, directors and audiences understand challenging theatrical work.

The Sisters Who Turned a Sondheim Flop Into a Tony Winner

Maria and Sonia Friedman discussed their long history with “Merrily We Roll Along,” after a bittersweet Tony Awards.

Huey Lewis Musical to Close on Broadway as New Shows Struggle

“The Heart of Rock and Roll” is the first new Broadway musical to announce a closing plan following Sunday’s Tony Awards.

How to Make Thrilling Theater About Climate Change Negotiations

A new play from the writers of “The Jungle” dramatizes the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, a landmark climate agreement preceded by years of arguments over its wording.

Review: In ‘Dark Noon,’ American History Is a Shoot-’Em-Up Western

A play from Denmark, with a South African cast, turns the heroic tropes of horse operas into the tools of tragedy at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn.

‘Cats’ Returns, Ditching the Junkyard for Queer Ballroom

As part of a wave of reimagined Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals, a new revival of “Cats” unfolds as a ballroom competition.

First-Time Tony Winners Talk About Their Victories

All of the actors who took home Tonys were first-time winners. Here’s what they had to say after their wins.

Jay-Z’s Big Tonys Duet With Alicia Keys Was Pretaped

The two stars brought down the house with “Empire State of Mind,” their 2009 love song to New York City, which they had recorded earlier on a grand marble staircase outside the auditorium.

‘The Outsiders,’ a Broadway Adaptation of the Classic Novel, Wins the Tony for Best Musical

The gritty, bloody and relentlessly youthful musical features some of the most effectively vivid violence seen on a Broadway stage.

Jonathan Groff’s Star Turn in ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ Lands Him His First Tony

The gregarious performer who loves and is loved by Broadway picked up a trophy for best leading actor in a musical.

Sarah Paulson Wins Her First Tony for Best Actress in a Play

In the searing family drama “Appropriate,” Paulson plays an elder sister intent on protecting her father’s legacy.

How ‘The Outsiders’ built the fight of their lives.

‘Merrily We Roll Along’ Was a Flop in 1981. Now It’s a Tony Winner.

The musical by Stephen Sondheim follows the implosion of a three-way friendship in reverse chronological order.

‘Stereophonic’ Wins the Tony Award for Best New Play

It was the fifth award of the night for the production, a meditation on the joy and torture of creative collaboration.

‘Appropriate’ won the Tony Award for best revival of a play.

Daniel Radcliffe Conjures Up His First Tony

“Merrily We Roll Along” is Radcliffe’s fifth show on Broadway, but the first for which he was even nominated for a Tony Award.

Jeremy Strong wins his first Tony Award for ‘An Enemy of the People.’

‘The Outsiders’ Wins Tony Award for Best Musical, ‘Stereophonic’ Best Play

Stephen Sondheim’s “Merrily We Roll Along,” long considered a flop, was named best musical revival, and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s “Appropriate” won best play revival.

Portraits of 43 Tony nominees, who reveal the shows that shaped them.

A Baltimore director receives the excellence in theater education award.

George C. Wolfe and Jack O’Brien are receiving lifetime achievement awards.

We surveyed Tonys voters to see who is most likely to win.

What do the Tonys tell us about the state of Broadway? Here are 5 ideas.

Choreography nominees have a broader vision for dance on Broadway.

Philadelphia’s Wilma Theater is honored with a regional Tony.

Alex Edelman is among 8 recipients of special honors and awards.

How to watch the Tony Awards.

Here’s what to see on Broadway this summer.

Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren to Star in ‘Last Five Years’ on Broadway

Whitney White will direct the first Broadway production of Jason Robert Brown’s popular musical, which plans to open next spring.

5 Ways This Year’s Tony Awards Reveal That Theater Is Changing

As Broadway prepares to celebrate the best of the season, our theater reporter explores what the nominations tell us about the industry and the art form.

Ariana DeBose, Tonys Host, Just Might Be the Busiest Woman on Broadway

Back in New York City after filming a movie, the actress has been racing to shows while also rehearsing for Sunday night’s ceremony.

How to Watch the Tony Awards

The main event will be broadcast on CBS and livestreamed for Paramount+ with Showtime subscribers. A simulcast will also air at Damrosch Park in Manhattan.

‘The Welkin’ Review: Is She Guilty, Pregnant or Both?

A somber yet witty play set in 18th-century England is a clever perversion of a courtroom drama that features strong performances from an ensemble cast.

Tony Predictions: Expect Wins for ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ and ‘Stereophonic’

Our reporter surveyed a quarter of Tony voters before Sunday’s ceremony. One certainty: Sondheim’s onetime flop seems destined for redemption.

‘How Long Blues’ Review: Twyla Tharp in Overdrive at Little Island

Her frenetic new dance-theater work, which opens a new festival at the new park on the Hudson, includes references to Camus and music by T Bone Burnett.

Listen to the Best Tracks From 8 Tony-Nominated Shows

“Hell’s Kitchen,” “Stereophonic” and others are up for top prizes at Sunday’s ceremony. Our critic takes stock of their cast albums, all available now.

Idina Menzel Will Return to Broadway in ‘Redwood’

The new musical, about a woman seeking healing, is to arrive early next year.

Review: A Glorious ‘Titanic,’ Returned From the Depths

Maury Yeston’s score, stupendously played and sung, is the star of the final production of an excellent Encores! season at New York City Center.

As Nonprofit Theaters Struggle, Seattle Rep Cuts 12% of Staff

The institution, Seattle’s pre-eminent repertory theater, says it is making the cuts so it can focus its resources on productions.

Jessica Lange and Paula Vogel on Breaking, and Keeping, the Family Contract

In the Tony-nominated “Mother Play,” the writer conjures warm memories and thorny ones, not to judge her mother, but to understand — and to forgive.

All in the Details: Tony-Nominated Set Designers on Getting It Right

For this year’s nominees, some of their most rewarding — and realistic — work was in the smaller details.

On Broadway, ‘Suffs’ Has a New Tune (and 6 Tony Nominations)

A reworked opening number, less historical bulk and a general push to “have fun with these women” helped a musical find its way.

‘Wedding Day at the Cro-Magnons’’ Review: A Bittersweet Premiere

An Arabic production of Wajdi Mouawad’s 1991 work, planned to open in Lebanon, was canceled because of his perceived ties to Israel. It found a home in France.

A Cave Explorer Died 99 Years Ago. Now His Story Is Broadway Bound.

“Floyd Collins,” a musical about a trapped spelunker and the media circus surrounding his failed rescue, had a brief Off Broadway run in 1996.

In ‘Dark Noon,’ Hollywood Westerns Get a South African Reboot

At St. Ann’s Warehouse, a collaboration between a Danish director and a South African troupe that questions the tropes of Western films.

Pride Month 2024: An Abundance of Theater of All Stripes

From Broadway to the city’s smaller stages, a flurry of shows with wide-ranging appeal, familiar faces and rising talent.

Dolly Parton Says a Musical About Her Life Is Broadway Bound

The show, expected to arrive on Broadway in 2026, will be called “Hello, I’m Dolly.”

Review: In a Nostalgic Revival, ‘Home’ Is Where the Heart Was

Samm-Art Williams’s 1979 play about the uprooting of a Black farmer returns to Broadway for the first time.

‘What Became of Us’ Review: Reflections on a Family’s Immigration Tale

Shayan Lotfi’s topical play about a family building a new life in a new country leaves the details vague, deliberately.

Review: In ‘Breaking the Story,’ All’s Unfair in Love and War

Maggie Siff plays a war journalist facing the most dangerous assignment of her life: domesticity.

Jez Butterworth’s ‘The Hills of California’ to Open on Broadway

The play, about a group of English sisters who reunite at their mother’s deathbed, plans to open in New York in September. It ends a London run this month.

Public Theater Takes Shakespeare in the Park Out on the Town

The Delacorte Theater is being renovated, so a musical version of “The Comedy of Errors” is touring some of the city’s outdoor spaces.

Janis Paige, Star of Broadway’s ‘The Pajama Game,’ Is Dead at 101

She first made her mark in the all-star 1944 movie “Hollywood Canteen” before finding acclaim on the musical stage. Movie and TV roles followed.

What if the Disabled Characters Were Just Going About Their Day?

Madison Ferris and Danny J. Gomez star in the meet-cute “All of Me” — proof that depictions of disability onstage don’t have to be “a buzz kill,” as Ferris puts it.

Audra McDonald to Star in ‘Gypsy’ Revival on Broadway This Fall

The six-time Tony-winning actress will play musical theater’s most famous stage mother in a production directed by George C. Wolfe.

Review: For ‘Molly Sweeney,’ Not Seeing Was Never the Obstacle

The Irish Rep ends its season-long Brian Friel survey with the story of a blind woman who undergoes an operation to try to restore her sight.

Two More ‘Succession’ Actors Are Broadway Bound, in ‘Job’

Peter Friedman and Sydney Lemmon will star in the two-hander, a psychological thriller that previously found success downtown.

‘Bluets’ Review: This Maggie Nelson Adaptation Is All About the Vibes

How do you bring an almost plotless book of elliptical fragments to the stage? The director Katie Mitchell has tried with three actors, four screens and three bottles of whiskey.

Wayne Brady and Nichelle Lewis on Striving for Excellence in ‘The Wiz’

The veteran and the newcomer each had their own fears as they joined the Broadway revival of the beloved all-Black musical.

Brooke Shields Elected President of Stage Actors’ Union

She takes office immediately. The previous leader of Actors’ Equity, Kate Shindle, had been president since 2015, and did not run again.

Review: In ‘The Fires,’ a Triptych of Stories About Gay Men and Love

Raja Feather Kelly makes his playwriting debut with a spellbinding story of three generations of Black men at Soho Rep.

‘Romeo and Juliet’ Review: Plenty of Style, but Little Love

The London production, starring Tom Holland, sold out in hours. But its understated rendering of the central romance may leave some theatergoers wanting more.

New ‘Richard III’ Raises an Old Question: Who Should Wear the Crown?

A production at the Shakespeare’s Globe theater faced criticism because a nondisabled actor plays the scheming king. But disputes like these miss the point, our critic writes.

Review: In ‘Usus,’ Pig Latin Gets Lost in Translation

T. Adamson’s new comedy, which opens Clubbed Thumb’s popular Summerworks series at the Wild Project, is about a group of worked-up Franciscan friars.

Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler Headline Broadway ‘Romeo and Juliet’

A production featuring the screen stars, with music by Jack Antonoff, will open in October at Circle in the Square.

‘Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha’ Review: This Absurdist Clown Is Just Here to Help

A hit at Edinburgh Fringe last year, Julia Masli’s show arrives at SoHo Playhouse for its New York debut.

Review: Rocking Out, and Falling in Love, in ‘The Lonely Few’

Lauren Patten and Taylor Iman Jones star in an achingly romantic, softly sexy new musical by Rachel Bonds and Zoe Sarnak.

Review: In ‘Three Houses,’ a Dark Karaoke Night of the Soul

It’s open mic at the post-pandemic cocktail bar where Dave Malloy’s hypnotic triptych of monodramas takes place.

Choreographer’s ‘Dog Poop Attack’ on a Critic Inspired This New Play

At this year’s Theatertreffen drama festival, one production explores an incident that shocked the German theater world last year.

Review: ‘Nobody Cares’ About Laura Benanti, but They Let Her Entertain Them

While poking fun at her own agreeable malleability, Benanti flexes her talents in a show that will be available on Audible, without the physical dimension.

Avett Brothers Musical, ‘Swept Away,’ to Open on Broadway This Fall

The show, inspired by a 19th-century shipwreck, has had previous runs in Berkeley, Calif., and Washington.

‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Review: Community Building One Dice Roll at a Time

Improv adds a theatrical dimension to the role-playing game, which has been undergoing a renaissance as it turns 50 this year.

Review: ‘Problems Between Sisters’ Puts a Spin on the Berserk Boys Club

Julia May Jonas turns the menacing male siblings of Sam Shepard’s “True West” into squabbling pregnant sisters in Vermont.

Sutton Foster to Star in ‘Once Upon a Mattress’ on Broadway

The revival, which had an earlier run at New York City Center, is scheduled to open in August and close in November, followed by a run in Los Angeles.

Samm-Art Williams, Playwright, Producer and Actor, Dies at 78

He challenged racial barriers in Hollywood, was a producer of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” and earned a Tony nomination for “Home,” a paean to his Southern roots.

‘Terraces’ Review: A Stunning Tragedy Revisits the Paris Terror Attacks

The French writer Laurent Gaudé taps into collective trauma from the Nov. 13, 2015 terrorist outrage and channels it into something like catharsis.

Review: In ‘Invasive Species,’ the Acting Bug Bites, Dramatically

Maia Novi stars in her play about a Hollywood-struck actress from Argentina who stops at Yale’s drama school and an inpatient psych ward on her way.

‘Death Becomes Her’ Musical to Open on Broadway This Fall

The musical comedy, which is now running in Chicago, stars Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard. It is based on the 1992 film.

Review: A Text-to-Speech Meet-Cute in ‘All of Me’

Laura Winters’s romantic comedy pays careful attention to the dynamics of living with disabilities.

Betty Buckley Is Not Wedded to the Same Old Songs

The actress is back in concert mode at 76, and doing new material. She’s also looking forward to a bold new take on “Sunset Boulevard.”

Darren Criss to Return to Broadway as a Robot in Love

The actor will star in “Maybe Happy Ending,” an original musical set in a future Seoul. It will begin previews in September.

Tony Awards 2024: Who Will Win (and Who Should)

Our chief theater critic names the shows and artists he thinks will win, should win and should have been nominated — and suggests a few new categories.

Review: A New Lens on Auschwitz in ‘Here There Are Blueberries’

Archivists are the heroes of a documentary play about a photograph album depicting daily life among the perpetrators of the Holocaust.

George Clooney to Make Broadway Debut in ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’

A stage adaptation of the film is planned for next spring, with Clooney playing the journalist Edward R. Murrow.

Sarah Paulson Dares to Play the People You Love to Hate

The actress has received a Tony nomination for “Appropriate,” in which she portrays a woman who makes a sport out of verbally eviscerating her family members.

‘Sally & Tom’ Frees Sally Hemings From Being a Mere Footnote

Suzan-Lori Parks’s play is the latest work by a Black writer seeking to prioritize Hemings’s life and perspective to make her fully dimensional.

Review: Impressed, but Not Transported, by ‘Spirited Away’

A stage production of the beloved Studio Ghibli movie is big on spectacle, but rarely grabs the heart.

For Her Broadway Debut, She Sings Alicia Keys’s Story

Maleah Joi Moon almost gave up on theater. Now, in her first professional role, the “Hell’s Kitchen” star is a Tony nominee.

Robert Downey Jr. to Make Broadway Debut in Ayad Akhtar Play

The Oscar-winning actor will star as an A.I.-curious author in “McNeal,” starting performances in September at Lincoln Center Theater.

Eboni Booth on Winning the Drama Pulitzer for ‘Primary Trust’

This play about a lonely, emotionally damaged man resonated with audiences returning to the theater after the pandemic.

‘The Keep Going Songs’ Review: Vexed by Grief and Worried About the Planet

Abigail and Shaun Bengson muse on death in their latest work, but its looseness makes it hard to get a handle on.

‘The Miser’ Review: Updating Molière, but Missing a Key Ingredient

This Molière in the Park production doesn’t have the sharp satirical bite of the original.

‘The Cherry Orchard’ Review: Chekhov in the Fun Zone

Benedict Andrews’s production in London offers perfectly pitched comedy where other directors find somber tragedy.

‘Lempicka’ to End Broadway Run a Month After Opening

The first show to fall in the wake of the Tony nominations on Tuesday, this musical about an art world individualist was years in the making.

In the Bard’s Hometown, a Challenge for New Theater Leaders

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s co-artistic directors have put together a challenging debut season. But many visitors come to Stratford-upon-Avon seeking something more traditional.

Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow to Star in ‘The Roommate’ on Broadway

The production is to begin performances Aug. 29 at the Booth Theater.

‘Staff Meal’ Review: The Last Course for Doomsday Diners and Dates

Restaurant patrons and staff members are oblivious to the impending apocalypse in Abe Koogler’s new show at Playwrights Horizons.

Here’s what we know about the Tony Awards ceremony.

What’s up next on Broadway? Plenty.

Alicia Keys on ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ Nods: I’m in ‘a Deep State of Freaking Out’

She had been working on the semi-autobiographical musical for 13 years, and it earned 13 nominations.

So many shows only just opened. How did the nominations happen so quickly?

Jessica Lange, nominated for ‘Mother Play,’ wanted to create a new role.

Leslie Odom Jr. on his Tony nomination for ‘Purlie Victorious.’

Jeremy Strong on his nomination and a role in ‘Enemy’ that felt ‘undeniable.’