New York’s theater industry can finally focus on the business of recouping the last several years’ drop off in business and attendance

The Bard's best play has been abbreviated and simplified, reduced to a simple story of vengeance and revenge

New York City’s economy is deeply affected by theater tourism

This season's offerings capture the prevalent mood of loss, sadness and injustice

This is Chastain’s play, and she dominates it masterfully

A brief look at some of the offerings on off-Broadway stages through March

Though Broadway is not quite recovered from the pandemic, audiences are coming back and filling the seats at even mediocre shows

****/ ***** (four stars out of five) The very idea of a Broadway Musical about the world of rock n’ roll is antithetical to the whole concept of the genre. So when Led Zeppelin’s “Ramble On” bursts onto the stage early in Cameron Crowe’s staged rendition of his excellent 2000...

*****/***** (five out of five stars) The 2022-23 New York Theater season is finally upon us—one that we hope will remain uninterrupted by Covid lockdowns—and already there’s an interesting thematic pattern emerging. Though plays about anti-Semitism and the Holocaust have long been a part of the theater world’s rich tapestry,...

 **/***** (two out of five stars) If you’re the kind of person who finds Improv comedy unbearably cringey, try to imagine something that would add an audible eye roll to your uncomfortable squirming in your seat at an Improv show. Yes, that’s it: Hypnosis. Take Improv, a spontaneous comic styling...