You’ll need to fight through dense brambles of code and programming, sort through the clamor of social media’s infinite cacophony, to find the heart of The Public’s “Wild Goose Dreams.” Make...

“Plot Points in Our Sexual Development” — stashed away in the secluded interior of the Claire Tow Theater, the smallest of Lincoln Center’s venues, modest enough in size that you can hear yourself...

Pay close attention and you’ll find that “The Ferryman” is washed in the holy waters of classic literature. Macbeth and the Eleusinian Mysteries, Virgil and Sir Walter Raleigh, Sophocles and...

I don’t need to tell you that “Torch Song” is brilliantly funny, nor do I need to mention that “Torch Song” will make you cry, that its meditation on family and belonging will send you deep into...

Why do we stare at the David? What is it about that seventeen-foot-tall Michelangelo that so transfixes, spellbinds the human eye and stops it, frozen by some Olympian opiate, before that dwarfing marble...

Log cabins are man-made. They’re visibly intertwined, tangled structures forged by forcing lumber together into sturdy joints. Neat, organized and well-built to the eye, only air separates the sinews...

Little more than a century and a half separates the present from American chattel slavery, only six decades from American segregation. No American tradition has more permanently defined life for inhabitants...

That Shakespearean insult “you are a Senator” fell with extra weight during last Saturday’s performance of the Public Theater’s “Othello.” The senior senator from New York, Chuck Schumer, sat...

For better or for worse, there are times when theater comes dangerously close to reality, when imitation may brush too close for comfort and break the skin. Realism comes at a price. Audiences of “Peace...

Inside the Brooklyn Academy of Music lies a dismantling of your childhood – not its destruction, by any means, but a subtle, unsettling excavation of its innocence, of those fairy-bound delusions we...

The ground does shake in the course interior of New York Theater Workshop’s East Village house. It rattles and convulses with the brandished shudders of revolution, and its floorboards tremor with every...

As nomination day quickly recedes into the distance, so begins the heart of Tony campaign season, a month of cut-throat competition, flattery and persuasion as nominated shows endeavor to woo Tony voters,...

There is a distinct, delightful feeling that sails through the audience of a show as beloved as “My Fair Lady,” a collective sigh of nostalgia that hushes the theater as classic ballads of love and...

Stephen Sondheim told us that children will listen, that they’ll see and that they’ll learn. Somehow, these are the words that hung in my mind as I departed “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,”...

It’s in the eyes. From the safety of the audience—removed if only slightly from the wrenching, tour-de-force performance given by three-time Tony Award nominee Condola Rashad in George Bernard Shaw’s...

There comes a time in your experience of “Summer: The Donna Summer Musical” — and hopefully it arrives sometime before cascades of glitter rain down into the audience in a disco explosion, sometime...

What is on the exterior a well-choreographed dance, a story of that careful circling two people madly in love must make before convincing each other of their devotion, is in truth an all-out battle for...

At the heart of Jack O’Brien’s new production of Rodger and Hammerstein’s “Carousel” is the fundamental question of revival. Is the act of revival a feat of seduction? Is it an embellished, grandiose...

“The Lucky Ones” is a show like springtime, like finding a fresh plot of dirt and digging your hands deep into it, like breathing in the earth and holding it up to your face because it is new and because...

Had there been any doubt that the comedic genius of Tina Fey could not seamlessly carry to the Broadway stage, a new medium for the veteran comedy writer of “Saturday Night Live” and “30 Rock,”...

Jessie Mueller is a vocal chameleon. For her 2014 transformation into Carole King in the award-winning broadway musical, “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” Mueller took home a Tony Award for Best...

When the dark of night comes and the people take to the streets, the blackness beneath the clouds saturates with certain and distinct bursts of color. And in the many days and months following the 9th...