The new show “Dead as a Dodo” opens with the word “Bone!” Followed by “Death! Death! Death!” This isn’t the kind of dialogue you’d expect from...
In a vivid illustration of a rapidly changing real estate landscape for theaters in New York, the commercial production company that has brought Kit Connor, Rachel...
The dramatic canon has always adored a nice, juicy perversion of motherhood — think the filicidal Medea; the incestuous Jocasta; even the ruthless Lady Macbeth, with...
The labor union representing stagehands went on strike Sunday against New York’s Atlantic Theater Company, prompting the small but prestigious nonprofit to postpone two productions that...
There is plenty of text in “Many Happy Returns,” but dance, the language of the body — presented here as intentional and slyly forthright — is...
“Praise the lord for ‘Tammy Faye,’” Matt Wolf cheered in The New York Times when the Elton John musical opened in London in 2022. The show,...
Otto Schenk, the prolific Austrian director whose lavishly traditional productions for the Metropolitan Opera and the Vienna State Opera thrilled generations of music lovers, died on...
‘Grandiloquent’ Through Feb. 8 at Lucille Lortel Theater, 121 Christopher Street, Manhattan; lortel.org. Wordplay can be fun, funny, even punny. But Gary Gulman takes it to...
The musical brought out some of the finest work from both: wit, bite and heartbreak in the libretto, and infectious melodies, cinematic underscoring and operatic sophistication...
One recent Friday night, a hidden door at the rear of Art of Play, a curiosity shop in Brooklyn Heights, swung open and theatrical smoke wafted...
