You can’t fault Allison Moore for originality. Few playwrights would consider a deadly bridge collapse and post-traumatic stress disorder as the spark for a comedy, but that’s just what she’s done. In this Women’s Project production, directed by Jackson Gay, Hannah must... More >>

Nathan Lane may number among the most talented of our stage entertainers, but not perhaps the most masculine. This makes him an ideal star for Douglas Carter Beane’s new play, about the world of 1930s burlesque and the men and women called upon to play gay in service of comedy. Jack... More >>

In the early morning of June 28, 1969, what was going to be just another police raid on the underground gay bar the Stonewall Inn turned into the pivotal event for the modern gay-rights movement. Ike Holter's new play, which James Hannaham called "an explosive extravaganza" in his Voice review,... More >>

If the shoe-obsessed Filipina First Lady Imelda Marcos were able to attend David Byrne and Fatboy Slim’s new musical about her life titled Here Lies Love, she’d probably wear fancy high heels for the occasion. But, for the rest of us, comfortable footwear will be more practical as... More >>

Zelda Fitzgerald may have enjoyed the occasional drink. It’s hard to imagine that America’s first flapper bathed in all those fountains sober. In this play, she steps into an extraordinary nightspot, The Club Oasis, and with the help of a piano man and several cocktails begins to... More >>

Joe Gilford: Are you now or have you ever been a playwright? Indeed, he has and in his latest script—produced by Ensemble Studio Theatre and directed by Giovanna Sardelli—he offers a fictional retelling of his parents, Jack Gilford and Madeline Lee Gilford, who were both... More >>

You only have to check the price tags 
at the John Varvatos boutique where 
CBGB’s once was to know that things aren’t what they used to be in the East 
Village. To explore the area’s rich history and gentrified present, the Obie-winning Metropolitan... More >>

OK, theatergoer: You’ve silenced your cellphone, unwrapped your candy, and shushed your seatmate. Nicely done. But how are your table manners? Well, get ready to put your napkin in your lap and seize your appetizer fork as you dine out on Richard Greenberg’s new show, The Assembled... More >>

Charlie Castle in Clifford Odets’s The Big Knife would seem to have it all—a successful Hollywood acting career, a big house, and a beautiful wife. But all is not well. His wife (Marin Ireland) is threatening to leave him, the almighty studio bosses own him, and a starlet is poised... More >>

The New Group has been enjoying a rather lackluster season, but what better show to shake a company out of its doldrums than a musical that borrows Bollywood’s razzle dazzle. The first-rate Ayub Khan Din’s new work tells of a flailing film studio and the producer struggling to keep... More >>

Following a long-running TV show and some successful stage stints, actor Michael Urie no longer needs to suffer demeaning day jobs. But perhaps he can draw on earlier experience to enact a struggling thesp. In Jonathan Tolins’s comedy, Urie plays Alex More, an unlucky actor employed by a... More >>

Obviously everyone who wishes to be married should be allowed to do so, but is marriage such a desirable institution? Few portraits of it are more pessimistic than this 1900 play by August Strindberg. Red Bull Theater revives this work of malevolent matrimony with Laila Robbins, Daniel Davis,... More >>

Bette Midler has a fine set of teeth, and she’ll use them to play hardheaded “superagent” Sue Mengers. As scripted by celebrated stage and screenwriter John Logan, this one-woman show demonstrates Mengers’s ruthless rise—from childhood poverty to Hollywood... 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 >>

Working Theater keeps on truckin’. Literally. With his new play, La Ruta, Ed Cardona Jr. follows a group of immigrants as they make a risky attempt to steal across the U.S. border. In the service of verisimilitude (or to avoid those pesky theater rental fees), director Tamilla Woodard... More >>

How might you feel if upon reading your husband’s final testament, you learned he’d left you his second best bed? Playwright Robert Brustein will likely answer this question in the ultimate entry in his William Shakespeare trilogy, which shows Will’s retirement and growing... More >>

A highlight of last summer’s Lincoln 
Center Festival, the National Theatre of Scotland’s Macbeth starring Scottish actor Alan Cumming as a mental patient who channels just about every single character in the play is back for a limited engagement on Broadway. Staged by Tony... 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 >>

You may not think Alzheimer’s is something to sing about. But the Transport Group politely disagrees. This new musical by Sara Cooper and Zach Redler, described by its creators as a “comic tragedy,” is a two-person tuner about an adult daughter who returns home to care for her... More >>

Who doesn’t like a Gershwin tune? The producers of the new musical Nice Work If You Can Get It are betting no one. Taking all the favorite Gershwin classics (including “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off,” “I’ve Got a Crush on You,” and “Someone to... More >>

No one really believed Richard Foreman when he said in 2009 that Idiot Savant would be his last play, did they? The 75-year-old avant-garde auteur is now back at the Public Theater with Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance). As with any Foreman piece, don’t expect a straightforward... More >>

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 >>

Most boys have to grow up and most Broadway shows have to close. But just as Peter Pan managed to maintain eternal youth, this play, a prequel to J.M. Barrie’s story, has found a way to continue on, just down the block from Broadway at New World Stages. Alex Timbers and Roger Rees remount... 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 >>

“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 >>