How to Transcend a Happy Marriage
As directed by Rebecca Taichman for Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, the play is a subversive examination of monogamy and lust that blends realism and magical realism.
Sunset Boulevard
Twenty-three years after since her original, Tony-winning performance as Norma Desmond, Glenn Close has returned to the role of the fading film star clinging desperately to the past.
Gideon Glick on Playing Jordan in ‘Significant Other’
Gideon Glick has grown up onstage — as a former teenager and now millennial would say — literally.
Theater: In ‘Linda,’ She Has It All, But How Can She Keep It?
The play opens with 55-year-old Linda declaring to an unseen group of other middle-aged women, “We know you’re out there! We see you! You exist!” This proclamation is a fitting opening for a drama that can be described as an act of defiance.
A History of ‘Sweeney Todd’: Why Stephen Sondheim's Pies Never Get Stale
Sweeney Todd, Stephen Sondheim's musical about revenge, lust, murder and cannibalism, has found yet another home in New York City — downtown, at the Barrow Street Theater in an immersive production staged in a pie shop.
Doctors and Legal Experts Fear the Worst for Trans Healthcare Under Trump
Should we lose hard-won anti-discrimination protections and healthcare access, an already marginalized community may suffer tragic consequences.
The Object Lesson
This cluttered and confusing performance art/installation piece at New York Theatre Workshop did not inspire anxiety in me throughout its 100-minute performance. Instead, I merely felt bored.
‘Sunday in the Park With George’: Jake Gyllenhaal brings the tortured artist to Broadway
Jake Gyllenhaal, who wowed audiences with his vocal talents in the 2015 summer concert production of ‘Little Shop of Horrors,’ stepped into the dual tortured artist role in October.
Escaped Alone
This 50-minute production from London’s Royal Court Theater unsettlingly juxtaposes a cosy conversation in an English garden with an end-of-the-world scenario.
Do "The Rules" Apply?: Dating in 2017
Apple got it wrong. When the company aired its controversial “Lemmings” commercial back in 1985, showing people grimly marching off a cliff to their death, whistling “Heigh-Ho,” it was 10 years too early and featured the incorrect gender.
‘The Tempest’ Turned Upside Down In Brooklyn
The third Shakespeare play directed by Phyllida Lloyd and performed with an entirely female cast is now at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Dumbo, Brooklyn.
‘Split’ star Betty Buckley on the M. Night Shyamalan film's controversy and ending
Betty Buckley has come a long way since she saw her first scary movie. On a family outing to see The War of the Worlds in 1953, the five-year-old child had to leave the movie theater and be calmed by her father in the lobby.
Josh Groban: how the pop sensation became Broadway's leading man
Last year might have been an annus horribilis for most, but for Josh Groban, 2016 couldn’t have gone much better. The multiplatinum-selling singer-songwriter, who shot to fame as a teenager, made the transition to Broadway star after making his debut in the musical Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812.
The Front Page
Written by former newspapermen Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, this unapologetically vulgar comedy was first produced in 1928, and its age is showing. Directed by Jack O’Brien, the star-studded cast is all white, mostly men and incredibly misogynistic.
Mariah MacCarthy On Her New Show ‘Baby Mama’
When asked, “What is scarier—doing live theater or giving birth?” Mariah MacCarthy responds without hesitating, “Doing live theater.”
8 ‘Trumptastic’ Holiday Gifts
Ten years ago, I worked at Trump magazine, the short-lived publication that aimed to attract a readership of wealthy men with an unending parade of luxury.
Dead Poets Society
When stripped of cinematic close-ups and intimate camera work to heighten the experience of this simple and bittersweet story, it is lessened rather than heightened.
Dear Evan Hansen
This new musical, with a score by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, and a book by Steven Levenson, follows the titular character, a painfully shy and anxious teenager who finds himself skyrocketing to popularity and online fame.