Monday, August 3, 2026
For decades, sports culture has embraced a kind of hyper-masculinity that rejects even the appearance of softness or vulnerability. Even in 2026, a half century after the Stonewall revolutio…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 08:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 2, 2026
Search “hiking boots” once and darned if you’re not bombarded with ads for REI, LL Bean, and Dick’s for the next month everywhere you go online. That phenomenon is at the heart of An…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 08:00PM[SHARE]Monday, July 27, 2026
Ivan Howe and Julius Rinzel are magnificent as two young altar servers whose faith is put to the test in Bubba Weiler's compelling follow-up to "Well, I'll Let You Go."
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PM[SHARE]One year after breaking into the mainstream with a 2022 Netflix special, the comedian/cabaret singer Catherine Cohen suffered a stroke. She was 31, days away from a European tour, and sudden…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 23, 2026
With ticket prices for hit Broadway shows like Oh, Mary! and Just in Time consistently topping $500 apiece, you might think that New York theater is the exclusive domain of the one percent. …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 05:30PM[SHARE]Monday, July 20, 2026
It’s rare to see a Broadway show that improves over time. Just in Time, the year-old biomusical about mid-20th-century crooner Bobby Darin, has emerged as a sprightly and delightful vehicl…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 07:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 15, 2026
When they first meet in Mr. Harris’s year-12 philosophy class, the two characters in Benedict Lombe’s sweet but derivative two-hander Shifters feel an immediate spark. Sure, they seem to…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 08:30PM[SHARE]Monday, July 13, 2026
Revivals are a tricky thing. There are particular challenges when mounting solo pieces long associated with a single performer (who frequently is the author). In recent years, we’ve gotten…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PM[SHARE]Can we declare a moratorium on meta musicals about the act of writing a musical? I’ve admired shows like Tick, Tick… Boom!, A Strange Loop, and [title of show] but at some point one grow…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:30PM[SHARE]Friday, July 10, 2026
Jennifer Nettles, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter best known for her work with the alt-country duo Sugarland, is a one-woman force of nature. She not only wrote the score and book for t…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PM[SHARE]Monday, June 29, 2026
It’s a paradox of theater that the most universal emotions often arise out of situations rooted in the particulars of one culture or subculture. Jonathan Spector’s epic new dramedy Birth…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 11:00PM[SHARE]Not all movies are crying out for musical adaptation. Add to that growing list A Walk on the Moon, a middling 1999 indie drama directed by Tony Goldwyn that featured a seriously miscast Dian…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 24, 2026
What’s remarkable about director Robert O’Hara’s new production of La Cage aux Folles is not that it features an all-Black cast, with cultural references to everyone from Beyoncé to D…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 12:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 23, 2026
Maryann Plunkett has delivered so many extraordinary performances over the years. In her latest, Erica Murray’s intimate drama The Loved Ones, she plays a sixtysomething woman living in a …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 08:00PM[SHARE]Monday, June 22, 2026
We’ve entered a brave new world in live experiences, when technology and storytelling are being mashed up in ways that blur traditional definitions of theater. The Black Mirror Experience…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 05:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 21, 2026
Few theaters dare to tackle the early history plays of William Shakespeare, and for good reason. The Bard was just getting his feet wet as a playwright when he wrote the three-part Henry VI …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 18, 2026
There is an irony baked into the well-meaning but meandering new musical Label-less, a Gen Z revue created and directed by former 98 Degrees boy-bander Drew Lachey and his choreographer wife…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 08:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Imagine if Odysseus was actually the middle-aged gay dude who lives in your building, the one who nods politely but never learns your name and always seems to be rushing off to some probably…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 14, 2026
Nearly 80 years ago, 10 directors, screenwriters, and producers were blacklisted from the entertainment industry (and jailed) after refusing to testify before a House committee about their p…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 06:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 11, 2026
Nearly a decade ago, Public Theater artistic director Oskar Eustis kicked up a firestorm with a politically charged production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar that presented the title chara…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 7, 2026
The 79th annual Tony Awards really spread the love — starting with a dynamic performance from host Pink, a theater newbie whose sole Broadway credit is having written one of the Billboard …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 11:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 4, 2026
One way to grapple with the mostly white, mostly male classics of American drama is to rethink them entirely, from a female point of view. That’s the mission of Julia May Jonas in a A Woma…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PM[SHARE]A lot has changed in the world since 1967, when 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen checked into a psychiatric hospital following a suicide attempt. Mental health issues were more stigmatized and les…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 2, 2026
A sign in front of the curtain at John J. Caswell Jr.’s new drama Jerome informs us that the title is not the protagonist of the show — or even a secondary character — but a “ghost c…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 31, 2026
In less than a week, Pink will get the party started at Radio City Music Hall for the 79th annual Tony Awards. It’s been an interesting year on Broadway, with a surprisingly deep field of …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 01:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 28, 2026
As the shortest kid in his seventh grade class in a Long Island school in the 1970s, Robert Montano yearned for a way to make himself bigger, perhaps even using his diminutive stature to his…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PM[SHARE]There’s a too-muchness to Eisa Davis’s new play with music that goes beyond the overstuffed typography of the title. ||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :|| is an evocation of female adoles…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 26, 2026
Jean Genet’s 1947 dramatic provocation The Maids gets a new-millennium update in Kip Williams’ slick but surface-heavy new revival, now playing at Brooklyn’s St. Ann’s Warehouse foll…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 19, 2026
It’s 2008, in the middle of the financial crisis, and a group of white suburban dads has signed up to connect with their young daughters, ages 9 to 12, in the YMCA program known as Indian …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:30PM[SHARE]Heather Christian made a name for herself with Oratorio for Living Things, a singular concert-cum-theater piece that won numerous awards after its 2022 premiere. Now Signature Theatre is mou…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PM[SHARE]Monday, May 18, 2026
Thornton Wilder has been having something of a resurgence in recent years, with acclaimed productions of his two most famous plays, Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth as well as a lovely mus…
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