Jessica Lange is unforgettable in Paula Vogel’s unforgiving portrait of the title character in “Mother Play,” her semiautobiographical new play opening tonight on Broadway — a role that i...
https://newyorktheater.me/2024/04/25/mother-play-broadway-review/
As Vanya, Steve Carell, who’s been a low-level whiner for the first two Acts, suddenly gets so angry at his pompous-ass brother-in-law who’s been sponging off him for thirty years, that he po...
https://newyorktheater.me/2024/04/24/uncle-vanya-broadway-review/
“Illinoise,” an exquisite stage interpretation of Sufjan Stevens’ acclaimed 2005 album “Illinois,” is opening on Broadway today just six weeks after it opened at the Park Avenue Armory...
https://newyorktheater.me/2024/04/24/illinoise-opens-on-broadway/
“Dead Outlaw” leads the nominations for the 73rd annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, announced this by Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez. (video below) The winners will be a...
https://newyorktheater.me/2024/04/23/outer-critics-circle-award-2024-nominations/
“Very poppy,” a character says to Bobby (Corey Cott), the Leading Man, just after he’s performed “Do You Believe in Love,” one of more than two dozen songs from the 1980s band Huey Lewi...
https://newyorktheater.me/2024/04/22/the-heart-of-rock-and-roll/
Vladimir Putin was working as a taxi driver when he visited one of the richest and most powerful men in Russia to ask for a favor. The previous month, Putin had lost his job as the deputy mayo...
https://newyorktheater.me/2024/04/22/patriots-broadway-review/
Below are the nominations for the 90th annual Drama League Awards, announced this morning (video below) by Vanessa Williams and Bebe Neuwirth. The awards will be held at The Ziegfeld Ballroom o...
https://newyorktheater.me/2024/04/22/drama-league-award-2024-nominations/
Four musicals and a play that has a lot of original music in it, opened on Broadway this past week, and two plays opened Off Broadway. By the end of the day Thursday, which marks the official end...
Orlando (Taylor Mac) has already been living an unusual life as a nobleman in Queen Elizabeth’s court when he suddenly becomes a woman. “Let biologists and psychologists argue. It is enough f...
If so much of it weren’t so out of balance, this fourth Broadway revival of “Cabaret” would be impressive in its complete transformation of Kander and Ebb’s great musical – physicall...
https://newyorktheater.me/2024/04/21/cabaret-broadway-review/