Audiences didn’t fall slowly for New York Theatre Workshop’s adaptation of the much-loved indie film Once. Despite mixed notices, crowds fell quickly, and they fell hard. The Broadway transfer continues this fine romance, as it includes the original cast and songs in this tale of a... More >>

Is the 13th step to create a drama about the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous? Perhaps not, but Stephen Bergman and Janet Surrey have received plaudits for this show about a night in 1935 when a stockbroker and a businessman helped talk each other out of taking a drink. Seth Gordon directs a... More >>

Some years ago, composer/lyricist Michael Weiner asked an actress out on a date. She declined (though she later married him) and from this a Broadway musical was born. Weiner has teamed with colleague Alan Zachary and writer Austin Winsberg for this show about all that can go wrong—and... More >>

Not long after Alison Bechdel wrote a letter to her parents telling them she was a lesbian, her father, Bruce, was struck and killed by a Sunbeam Bread truck. But, she wonders in her bestselling 2006 graphic memoir, Fun Home, could it have been a suicide? Returning to her childhood, she tells... More >>

You don't have to be an insider to know what's new in the performing arts. PRELUDE. 13 gives you a sneak peek with tickets to work-in-progress presentations, open rehearsals, and conversations with the artists. The best part? It's all free. The incredible lineup of performers includes Taylor... More >>

If our current way of life were to be suddenly wiped out, what traditions from the past would survivors hold on to? Playwright Anne Washburn explores this scenario in Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play, which imagines that, of all things, Bart Simpson would become a vital part of the new... More >>

In a recent interview with The New York Times, real-life married couple Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz seemed as happy as could be: She thinks he’s a great cook, they love to go on luxury vacations, and they relish opportunities to work together. In other words, when they break each... More >>

They’ve got magic to do, just for you. Also tumbling, contortion, acrobatics, trapeze, and silk work. In Diane Paulus’s reimagining of Stephen Schwartz’s echt-‘70s musical, young Pippin (Matthew James Thomas) wanders around a medieval French landscape that looks a lot... More >>

Love the antics of the female prisoners in Orange Is the New Black? The people at St. Ann’s Warehouse must agree. For the first production of their season, they’re bringing over from London the highly praised and highly original Donmar Warehouse production of Julius Caesar. Set in a... More >>

“Rock of Ages,” the celebrated hymn based on First Corinthians, will not appear in this Broadway musical. Instead expect the hits of Foreigner, Styx, Pat Benatar, and Journey. The nominal plot centers on a romance conducted in the unsalubrious environs of the Sunset Strip circa 1987. More >>

“A living theatrical novel set against a magical vision of New York City,” is how master storyteller Mike Daisey describes his latest show, All the Faces of the Moon. Over 29 consecutive nights, Daisey will perform an entirely different show about NYC’s colorful characters,... More >>

Though I was born too late to enjoy an '80s prom myself, I may once have actively requested Bon Jovi's "You Give Love a Bad Name" at a junior high semiformal. Conversely, this interactive show aims to give nostalgia musicals a good name when it invites audiences to drink, dance, and vote for... More >>

With the rise of e-books, the question of how much longer traditional book publishing can hold out is the timely subject of writer-director Regina Taylor’s new play, stop. reset. At Chicago’s oldest African-American book publishing company, owner Alex Ames goes about the unpleasant... More >>

Any experienced psychiatrist will expect to encounter a range of patients, some straightforward, some difficult. It seems safe to assume that Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe belongs in the latter category and Fraser Grace’s play imagines the autocrat’s interactions with an analyst... More >>

Running in repertory with Breakfast with Mugabe, Otho Eskin’s play at Pershing Square also centers on a psychoanalyst—in this case Sigmund Freud and his prewar Viennese milieu. In this coffeehouse-set play, he’s joined by Gustav and Alma Mahler. Josef Stalin and a proto-Nazi,... More >>

In May 1965, the young heavyweight champ Cassius Clay was nearing one of his most anticipated fights when he invited the washed-up actor Stepin Fetchit into his entourage. But why? Will Power’s new drama, Fetch Clay, Make Man, concerns how this unlikely pair became friends despite their... More >>

Some of us have quite enough trouble 
simply walking in six-inch stilettos. But to sing and dance and act in them? Really, someone should hand out honorary Tonys to the Kinky Boots cast just for trying. This new tuner draws its inspiration from a 
recent British film, itself based... More >>

Take a celebrated novel about a tiny tot with telekinesis. Add a cult songwriter and a famously dark playwright. And what do you get? Dennis Kelly and Tim Minchin’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s story, one of the most spiky, tender, and delightful children’s entertainments to... More >>