When Sophocles' OEDIPUS REX was first performed over 400 years B.C., the Greek chorus that opened the play wore the traditional identical masks. But in Luis Alfaro's contemporary adaptation,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:18PM[SHARE]As societies in post-apocalyptic stories go, the one envisioned by playwright Zoe Kazan in her insightful relationship drama AFTER THE BLAST, seems to have it pretty good.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AM[SHARE]The term 'alternative facts' wasn't part of the popular lexicon when Stephen Adly Guirgis' superb drama of public morality and personal convictions, JESUS HOPPED THE 'A' TRAIN premiered in 2…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:48AM[SHARE]It was thirty-five years ago when FORBIDDEN BROADWAY's genius creatorlyricist Gerard Alessandrini first collaborated, so to speak, with Tony-winning composerlyricist Maury Yeston. That's wh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:06PM[SHARE]'We opened for an eight-week limited engagement and could not give a ticket away for three weeks.' That's how Harvey Fierstein described the giant leap of faith that, in 1981, brought a t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06AM[SHARE]When their current engagement at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club concludes this weekend, members of the Belarus Free Theatre will return to their homeland, where they and their audience me…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:42PM[SHARE]To describe Diana Oh's newest performance art installation as the pep rally that precedes the dismantling of the patriarchy is by no means a knock on her vibrantly raucous mixture of glitter…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:12PM[SHARE]Playwrightdirector Aaron Mark has a habit of leaving audiences in the dark. Not that his plays are especially hard to grasp, but the author who specializes sending chills up and down spines…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:33PM[SHARE]I will be in Hell because I don't love my mom, the central character of Max Posner's comedic drama THE TREASURER causally admits to the audience with unemotional matter-of-factness.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:33AM[SHARE]Regarded by The Public Theater's artistic director Oskar Eustice as a resident company of the Astor Place venue, Elevator Repair Service's niche has always been productions with a clear focu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:12PM[SHARE]When J.B. Priestley's absorbing and poetic drama, Time and the Conways premiered on the West End in 1937, you couldn't blame London audiences if they felt a bit wistful observing the playwri…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:54AM[SHARE]For over twenty years, artistic director Dan Wackerman's Peccadillo Theater Company has specialized in mounting handsome productions of infrequently revived Broadway fare of notable pedigree…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:12AM[SHARE]It may have been underestimated how popular TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS would prove to be when it opened at The Public's Shiva Theater last November. Actorplaywright Nia Vardalos' warm, funny and…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AM[SHARE]If director Alexandra Spencer-Jones' intention was to stage an erotic word ballet that finds beauty in the well-chiseled male form through highly-stylized acts of choreographed violence, the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:36AM[SHARE]To say that there are no dramatic highs and lows in Amy Herzog's touching new drama, Mary Jane, is by no means a criticism. It's more of a recognition of the beautifully understated naturali…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:33PM[SHARE]The beloved and classic premise of an idealistic teacher determined to reach out and help a classroom full of troubled and disrespectful students 'Up The Down Staircase,' 'To Sir, With Love'…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:18AM[SHARE]While Suzan-Lori Parks' ferocious drama from 2000, FUCKING A, enjoys an excellent new production at Signature Theatre, across the lobby of their multi-stage center, her more sensitive 1999 e…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:18AM[SHARE]It wasn't long after Mary Martin took her first Broadway flight as Peter Pan that Ann, the central character of Sarah Ruhl's sometimes-whimsicalsometimes-philosophical new drama took her own…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:42PM[SHARE]For over forty years, the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players have been Gotham's go-to company for high-quality GampS productions produced with full choruses and orchestras in the traditio…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:41AM[SHARE]British playwright Simon Stephens scored big his first time on Broadway, taking the 2015 Best Play Tony Award for THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME two years after receiving …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:12AM[SHARE]Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter' may have served as the initial inspiration for Suzan-Lori Parks' ferocious 2000 drama, FUCKING A, but, especially in director Jo Bonney's chilling …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:24AM[SHARE]'All the world's a stage And everybody's in the show. Nobody's a pro.' Those words, sung at the opening of Shaina Taub and Laurie Woolery's thoroughly enchanting musical adaptation of Sha…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:12PM[SHARE]Snuggled at the curve of a quiet little Greenwich Village side street, the quaint and historic Cherry Lane Theatre is a perfect spot to engage in a quiet little drama.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:42AM[SHARE]While the underrepresentation of women playwrights in contemporary American theatre remains an important issue, the Mint Theater Company, those invaluable specialists in rediscovering intere…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:12AM[SHARE]Harold Prince, who has been honored with 21 Tony Awards for his seven decades of achievements as a Broadway producer and director, did not write one word nor compose one note of the 17 music…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:36AM[SHARE]It doesn't take long before Nancy Opel starts tearing your heart out as the title character of the new musical, Curvy Widow.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:42AM[SHARE]'If you knew in advance exactly what was going to happen in your life, and how everything was going to turn out, and if you knew you couldn't do anything to change it, would you still want t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:35AM[SHARE]When this reviewer first critiqued Lucas Hnath's clever and intriguing A DOLL'S HOUSE, PART 2, he envisioned much discussion being provoked over the fact that a new Broadway play that debate…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:12AM[SHARE]After Florenz Ziegfeld spent the early decades of Broadway's 20th Century 'glorifying the American Girl,' a young composerlyricist named Jerry Herman spent a good hunk of the second half sho…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:54AM[SHARE]Red, white and blue bunting is draped across a stage left box at the Belasco Theatre because, as Michael Moore explains at the beginning of his more-or-less solo Broadway performance, THE TE…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:36AM[SHARE]Given her distinguished career that includes such significant works at PAINTING CHURCHES, COASTAL DISTURBANCES and PRIDE'S CROSSING, a new play by Tina Howe is certainly a noteworthy event.
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