Theater
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No Mask Required: The Joys and Fears of Seeing U.K. Theater Now
LONDON — Before the Covid-19 pandemic hit, Nicolette Jones used to go to the theater with her daughter about 50…
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Cupid’s Revenge review: A breathtaking celebration of life and love
After an introduction in which they challenge the audience to work out what’s funny and what isn’t, Roden and Shenton…
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Review: ‘Designing Women,’ With 30 Years of Pent-up Angst to Air
The women of Sugarbaker and Associates are ready to unload, and it’s easy to see why — the last time…
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Review: In the Disturbing ‘Dana H.,’ Whose Voice Is It Anyway?
And your own: While mimicking Higginbotham’s mental dissociation, the uncanniness of the lip-sync destabilizes most other notions of normalcy in…
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Satyagraha REVIEW: Glass’s Operas are quite unlike anything else
The strikingly imaginative production by Phelim McDermott and the Improbable theatre company relieved the tedium a little, but the composer’s…
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Macbeth review: Saoirse Ronan shines in a thrilling new production
Some may resist the purposefully slow pacing of the first half. Farber has turned one of The Bard’s shortest plays…
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Glimmerglass Festival Unveils Its Leader’s Final Season
Next summer, the Glimmerglass Festival of opera and music theater in Cooperstown, N.Y., will return indoors in full force for…
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‘Schitt’s Creek’ Actor Noah Reid To Make Broadway Debut In Tracy Letts Comedy ‘The Minutes’
Schitt’s Creek actor Noah Reid will make his Broadway debut next spring in Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s The Minutes, the Tracy…
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‘The Lehman Trilogy’ Broadway Review: An Empire Rises, Falls And Inspires A Masterpiece
Money, the pop song says, changes everything, and as Broadway’s magnificent The Lehman Trilogy so splendidly demonstrates, everything means everything,…
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Hamlet REVIEW: Cush Jumbo is a star in the wrong production
The good news is that Jumbo is very good as a shaven-headed, androgynous Hamlet; the bad news is that she…
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The Mirror and the Light REVIEW: Hilary Mantel is no playwright
Ben Miles has been marvellous in the lead role, growing in stature as Cromwell himself grew from a Putney blacksmith’s…
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Don Pasquale REVIEW: Glorious revival not to be missed
The farcical plot centres on the decision of rich and lecherous old bachelor Pasquale to find himself a young wife…
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On London Stages, Brevity Reigns Supreme
LONDON — Theatrical convention has never mattered to Caryl Churchill, the questing English playwright who at 83 continues to display…
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‘Thoughts Of A Colored Man’ Broadway Review: Seven Men And A Neighborhood Brought To Exhilarating Life
This Broadway season, as stop and start as it has been, has been blessed with some truly stellar moments –…
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Review: ‘Thoughts of a Colored Man’ Preaches to the Choir
Seven Black men step onto the stage in the opening of Keenan Scott II’s “Thoughts of a Colored Man.” Over…
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Former ‘Hamilton’ Cast Member Files Discrimination Complaint Against Show
A former “Hamilton” cast member filed a federal workplace complaint against the show on Wednesday, alleging that the show had…
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‘Hamilton’ Trans Actor Claims Retaliation Over Gender-Neutral Dressing Room Request
Suni Reid, a non-binary performer who appeared in the Broadway, Chicago and Los Angeles productions of Hamilton in both ensemble…
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‘Slave Play’ Back On Track For Los Angeles After Venue Pledges Commitment To Address Gender Imbalance
Slave Play will arrive in Los Angeles after all. Playwright Jeremy O. Harris announced last night that his Tony-nominated comedy-drama…
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Fidelio maintains its reputation as a difficult opera to stage
As the director, Frederic Wake-Walker, has pointed out, the opera’s themes of incarceration, loneliness, love, totalitarianism and escape are particularly…
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Cecily Strong Sets New York Stage Debut In Revival Of Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Solo Show ‘The Search For Signs Of Intelligent Life In The Universe’
Saturday Night Live‘s Cecily Strong will make her New York stage debut this December in an Off Broadway production of…
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