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Adrienne Warren to lead ‘Room’ on Broadway Adrienne Warren, who made headlines right before the pandemic began for her Tony Award-winning performance as Tina Turner in the bio musical “Tina,” will return to Broadway in the spring in “Room,” an adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s 2010 novel about a mother and son who escape from their captor’s purpose-built room. Donaghue prepared both the stage… → Read More
Springtime on Broadway looks particularly promising, especially the revivals of “Sweeney Todd,” “Camelot,” and “Parade,” and the reinvention of the 1977 → Read More
The acclaimed New York City Center revival of Jason Robert Brown and Alfredy Uhry’s unapologetically dark 1999 musical “Parade,” starring Ben Platt ("Dear → Read More
Six years ago, “The Play That Goes Wrong,” Mischief Theatre’s knockabout farce about a clueless attempt by an amateur theater group to put on a melodramatic → Read More
Given that I recently named the best Broadway and Off-Broadway shows of the year, it seems only fitting that I should also address the worst shows. → Read More
“People are coming, loving the show and calling it the best theatrical experience of their life, but traditional Broadway marketing doesn’t work for this kind → Read More
The hottest ticket in town right now is “Straight Line Crazy,” English playwright David Hare’s new bio drama starring Ralph Fiennes as the legendary and → Read More
On the other hand, David Lindsay-Abaire’s 2000 dark comedy “Kimberly Akimbo” depicts a 16-year-old girl who has the same medical condition and consequently → Read More
It was Presidents’ Day Weekend in 1999. I was 15 years old and had gone with my family to the TKTS booth to grab tickets to a matinee. I was expecting to see → Read More
A return trip to the new Broadway revival of “Funny Girl” reveals both good news and bad news. → Read More
Whereas financial organizations traditionally equate the “cost of living” with the minimum expenses necessary to sustain a basic standard of living in a → Read More
Mere days after taking over as Fanny Brice in “Funny Girl,” Lea Michele has tested positive for COVID. She is currently slated to rejoin the show on Sept. 20. → Read More
Swing your razor wide, Sweeney - because it’s official at last. As previously reported and rumored, a revival of Stephen Sondheim’s 1979 masterpiece “Sweeney → Read More
“Spoiler alert: it’s a happy ending,” warns writer and performer Shaina Taub in her joyful and user-friendly 90-minute musical version of Shakespeare’s → Read More
Is a Broadway musical still a “Broadway” musical after it packs up and moves Off-Broadway? → Read More
Following a divisive production of “Richard III” earlier this summer, the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park series has returned with a new 90-minute → Read More
Weezer cancels Broadway residency I’ll admit it: I had no idea that the rock band Weezer was supposed to play a short residency on Broadway. (If they sent a press release, I never got it.) But in any event, frontman Rivers Cuomo has announced that the concerts have been canceled due to “low ticket sales and unbelievably high expenses,” as per a Reddit post. During the summer of 2019, a number of… → Read More
'13: The Musical’ to premiere on Netflix on Friday → Read More
Going on a theater-free vacation doesn’t mean you actually need to leave Broadway behind. Below are some new books for theater fans that should make for → Read More
With the exception of free outdoor Shakespeare, the summertime is generally not considered a prime time for the New York theater scene, with few new shows → Read More