New York theater

The actor’s narrative of his rise and fall has more incident than introspection - now at Gene Frankel theater, off-Broadway

Every year theater critics and pundits offer no shortage of opinions about who should and who shouldn’t win the Tony Awards in the weeks leading up to the big show—followed by both celebrations and rueful groans over the actual results....

It seems like the 2024-25 New York theater season just started, but believe it or not it’s already the end, and time for the Tony Awards, which kick off tonight at 8pm, live from Radio City Music Hall. The main...

***/***** (three stars out of five) Modern laundry bears little to no relation to the backbreaking job it was right up until the twentieth century. Carrying water, soaking clothes in harsh lye, scrubbing soiled linens, putting the items  through the...

****/***** (four out of five stars) Bursting onto the scene in 2016 with a “Steven Spielberg meets Stephen King” sensibility, “Stranger Things” has been a flagship hit for Netflix. A spinoff of some sort was inevitable, though few onlookers would...

Now that the 2024-25 theater season has begun to wind down and awards are being handed out weekly, let’s take a look at a few of the most nominated Broadway shows to see if they’re worth checking out. The Tonys...

Tony Award Nominations for the 2024-25 New York Theater season were announced yesterday, May 1. And while many nominations were predicted and expected, there were not only some notable omissions, but also some surprising differences from the Drama Desk nominations...

Yesterday, April 30, the official end of 2024-25 New York theater season, the Drama Desk announced its nominations for the 69th Drama Desk Awards, which will be held on June 1 at NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. The...

**½ /***** (two and a half stars out of five) There’s a point late in Kimberly Belflower’s John Proctor is the Villain—now in its Broadway debut at the Booth Theatre—when four high school girls engage in a sort of primal...