Yeah, you might still play kickball, collect comic books (sorry, “graphic novels”), and walk around Billyburg wearing a T-shirt repping your favorite band from high school, but deep down, you are an adult. So don’t sleep on Sara Bareilles just because her music is labeled... 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 >>

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 >>

The reigning queen of jazz violin has carved a niche for herself by blending the traditionalist style of Stephane Grappelli with the avant-garde bravado of Billy Bang and the dazzling technique of Itzhak Perlman. She studied with the latter at one point as a young classical violin student at... 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 >>

Sisters Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland may not speak, but sisters Lorna Luft and Liza Minnelli do. Tonight, they’re speaking and singing together on behalf of the Phyllis Newman Women’s Health Initiative and the Dr. Philomena McAndrew For Tower Cancer Research Foundation.... 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 >>

“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 >>

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 >>

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 >>