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This Week on Stage: November 2–15, 2026
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Still Open860
By Samuel L. LeiterBilly Crystal turns heartbreak into hilarity in “860,” a moving reminder of why he’s truly beloved.Full review →
Still OpenAmaze
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefBritish illusionist Jamie Allen's magic show which includes card tricks, levitation and digital arts truly awesome.Full review →
Still OpenArias with a Twist
By Karen Karin RosenbergThe story is an excuse for extravagant settings with many moving parts. Hidden puppeteers have clearly practiced so long and hard that their precision is incredible.Full review →
Still OpenThe Ask
By Tony MarinelliAn absorbing clash of generations, ideology and philanthropy, brought vividly to life by Marilu Henner and Shannon Purser in battles of wills and principles.Full review →
Still OpenBuena Vista Social Club
By Joel BenjaminThe off-Broadway to Broadway import, Buena Vista Social Club at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, is a warm, sensual and entertaining work whose genesis…Full review →
Still OpenCopperfield! The New Musical
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefJeffrey Scharf's skillful and clever "Copperfield! The New Musical" brings Dickens' masterwork to the lyric stage.Full review →
Still OpenDegenerates
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefVivid but long, an intimate depiction of the incel community over the course of 24 hours.Full review →
Still OpenFriends! The Musical Parody
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefWitty and clever satire, reducing the popular series’ ten seasons and 235 episodes to a swift one hour and 45 minutes including intermission.Full review →
Still OpenA Ghost in Your Ear
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefSpooky ghost story set in a sound studio is short on thrills but long on mood and atmosphere.Full review →
Still OpenGoing Bacharach: The Songs of an Icon
By Christopher "Caz" CaswellThe songs of Burt Bacharach dazzle the ears in this nostalgic, jazzy revue.Full review →
Still OpenThe Great Gatsby: A New Musical
By Joseph PisanoThe green light twinkles seductively in a new musical version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic Jazz Age novel.Full review →
Still OpenHadestown
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefRachel Chavkin turns Anaïs Mitchell’s new folk-rock Depression era musical into a dazzling theatrical event.Full review →
Still OpenHamilton
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefA theatrical revolution is taking place on the stage of the Richard Rodgers Theatre and it is not just the birth of the American nation.Full review →
Still Open& Juliet
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefThe latest jukebox musical is a delightful and witty reimagining of Shakespeare’s "Romeo and Juliet" told from a revisionist and feminist point of view.Full review →
Still OpenJust in Time
By Joel BenjaminLast year's Tony Award winner Jonathan Groff is simply sensational in a jukebox musical about Bobby Darin's life and career.Full review →
Still OpenThe Kick Inside
By Tony MarinelliAn intriguing experiment in theatrical surrealism, rich in visual invention and committed performances, ultimately undone by its own fragmented execution.Full review →
Still OpenKing of the Yees
By Tony MarinelliA wildly inventive, bighearted comedy that transforms family friction, cultural identity and ancestral lore into a delirious, deeply moving adventure.Full review →
Still OpenLittle Shop of Horrors
By Joel BenjaminAn extravagantly cast (Tammy Blanchard, Jonathan Groff and Christian Borle) and staged revival of a much-beloved musical is a hit once again.Full review →
Still OpenLivia
By Tony MarinelliA gifted Baize Buzan animates an ambitious Roman-American political allegory whose warnings about tyranny are sharper than its dramatic revelations.Full review →
Still OpenThe Lost Boys
By Samuel L. LeiterA $25‑million vampire spectacle that flies high, sings loud, and still can’t find a vein.Full review →
Still OpenMaybe Happy Ending
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefUtterly beguiling new musical that has Darren Criss and Helen J Shen as obsolete and lonely robots who fall in love just as their time is running out.Full review →
Still OpenMidnight
By Samuel L. LeiterTodrick Hall’s ambitious, visually dazzling, vocally explosive Civil War musical has talent to burn, but needs a sharper focus and a shorter clock.Full review →
Still OpenMJ
Still OpenOh, Mary!
By Joel BenjaminA campy, frankly sexual take on the assassination of our sixteenth president.Full review →
Still OpenOn the Town with Chip Deffaa: At the Museum of Broadway
By Chip Deffaa, Editor-at-LargeThe Museum of Broadway is such a great idea that you wonder why no one ever created such a place before.Full review →
Still OpenON THE TOWN WITH CHIP DEFFAA… CELEBRATING “BROADWAY BEFORE BEDTIME”
By Chip Deffaa, Editor-at-LargeYair Keydar and Remi Madden Tuckman are now (“small humans with big dreams,” as they say) are the youngest co-hosts of a theater podcast.Full review →
Still OpenON THE TOWN WITH CHIP DEFFAA… MEETING CABARET’S YOUNGEST ARTIST, ETHAN MATHIAS
By Chip Deffaa, Editor-at-LargeIn the past year, Ethan Mathias has won one award and honor after another, from the Broadwayworld Award to the MAC Award, to first-place honors at the NATS. To learn more about this rising…Full review →
Still OpenON THE TOWN WITH CHIP DEFFAA…. AT “A WALK ON THE MOON”
By Chip Deffaa, Editor-at-LargePamela Gray--an insightful writer with a terrific ear for dialogue--has turned her 1999 motion picture, "A Walk on the Moon," into a new musical.Full review →
Still OpenOperation Mincemeat
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefMonty Python-esque British musical comedy troupe tells the story of the famous ruse used in 1943 to trick the Nazis.Full review →
Still OpenOther Desert Cities
By Joseph PisanoConflating the personal and the political, a Tony Award-winning family potboiler about a divided America returns looking for more.Full review →
Still OpenOur Sinatra
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefEric Comstock, Christopher Gines and Hilary Kole return in their magnificent tribute to "Ol' Blues Eyes" in this 25th anniversary production.Full review →
Still OpenThe Outsiders: A New Musical
By Joseph PisanoA musical version of S.E. Hinton's classic YA novel tries to stay gold.Full review →
Still OpenParanormal Activity
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefScary new story in the celebrated film franchise finds an American couple haunted in their new London home.Full review →
Still OpenPhyl
By Samuel L. LeiterA spirited rediscovery at the Mint of an appealing Edwardian dramedy about a governess who refuses to know her place.Full review →
Still OpenThe Play That Goes Wrong
By David KaufmanThis British import presents a troupe of amateur players for whom everything that can possibly goes wrong, does, with hysterical, laugh-a-minute results.Full review →
Still OpenPre-Existing Condition
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefStark and powerful play about the aftermath of domestic abuse currently starring Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong'o.Full review →
Still OpenREX REED: A REMEMBRANCE
By Chip Deffaa, Editor-at-LargeRex Reed, who died Tuesday, March 12th, at his apartment in the Dakota in NYC was famous for his sharp-edged reviews.Full review →
Still OpenThe Rocky Horror Show
By Joseph PisanoA cult classic musical about a self-absorbed, pansexual alien triumphantly returns to its rightful home.Full review →
Still OpenSchmigadoon!
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefCinco Paul's stage adaptation of his TV series paying tribute to golden age musicals is even more fun than before.Full review →
Still OpenSchool Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play
By Samuel L. LeiterBeauty-pageant dreams and teenage rivalries fuel the wit and sting of Jocelyn Bioh’s "School Girls."Full review →
Still OpenSingfeld! A Musical Parody About Nothing!
By Joseph PisanoIf you're going to create an unnecessary musical parody, the television show "Seinfeld" is the perfect choice for one.Full review →
Still OpenSix: The Musical
By Joseph PisanoA new musical on Broadway about the six unfortunate wives of Henry VIII serves up more razzle dazzle than history.Full review →
Still OpenSlam Frank
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefMusical satire of "The Diary of Anne Frank" as a modern story of inclusion and diversity in the style of SNL.Full review →
Still OpenSoon
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefChamber musical by Nick Blaemire about climate change shifts to something more personal.Full review →
Still OpenStranger Things: The First Shadow
By Joseph PisanoA popular Netflix series strikingly brings its mix of horror and nostalgia to Broadway.Full review →
Still OpenTwo Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)
By Joseph PisanoA new British musical astonishes with an emotional depth that belies its title.Full review →
Broadway Plays
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Broadway Plays1984
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefGeorge Orwell’s famous dystopian novel warning of a totalitarian future comes to the NY stage with Tom Sturridge as Winston Smith and Olivia Wilde as Julia.Full review → -
Broadway Plays860
By Samuel L. LeiterBilly Crystal turns heartbreak into hilarity in “860,” a moving reminder of why he’s truly beloved.Full review → -
Broadway PlaysAn Act of God
By Darryl ReillyFans of Jim Parsons who plays God in this arch, satirical, hi-tech fantasia will be delighted by it though anyone else may be left cold.Full review → -
Broadway PlaysAin’t No Mo’
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefWild satiric series of skits with the premise that the U.S. is sending all black people back to Africa post-Obama, from new author and star Jordan E. Cooper.Full review → -
Broadway PlaysAirline Highway
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefColorful milieu of New Orleans motel full of low life denizens seems extremely familiar.Full review → -
Broadway PlaysAlex Edelman: Just For Us
By Joseph PisanoIn his one-man show, Jewish comedian Alex Edelman's bravery extends beyond entering an apartment full of anti-Semites.Full review → -
Broadway PlaysAll My Sons
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefAnnette Bening, Tracy Letts and Benjamin Walker star in a revival of Arthur Miller’s first major play which seems more relevant than ever.Full review → -
Broadway PlaysAmerican Buffalo
By Joseph PisanoA great David Mamet play returns to Broadway's Circle in the Square Theatre, which means it was written a long time ago.Full review → -
Broadway PlaysAmerican Son
By Darryl ReillyKerry Washington is commanding as a Florida mother whose son has an incident with the police in this wan racial drama that’s given a first-rate production.Full review → -
Broadway PlaysAngels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes
By David KaufmanDirected by wunderkind Marianne Elliott, Tony Kushner’s epic continues to create a universe of its own, that tells its story with conviction and truth.Full review → -
Broadway PlaysAppropriate
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefMay just be the ultimate dysfunctional American family drama, plus a scathing condemnation of the worst elements in American history.Full review → -
Broadway PlaysArt
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefYasmina Reza's Tony Award-winning play about the all-white painting returns with Bobby Cannavale, James Corden and Neil Patrick Harris.Full review → -
Broadway PlaysThe Audience
By Darryl ReillyHelen Mirren is commanding as Queen Elizabeth II in this dazzlingly staged biographical fantasia chronicling decades of her meetings with prime ministers.Full review → -
Broadway PlaysThe Balusters
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefThe best new play of the season is also the funniest skewering organizations claiming to help protect neighborhoods.Full review → -
Broadway PlaysBecky Shaw
By Samuel L. LeiterA blind date with bite: Gina Gionfriddo’s play turns romantic comedy into a ruthlessly funny autopsy of modern relationships.Full review →
Broadway Musicals
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Broadway Musicals(title of show)
By archiveIt's warm, it's hilarious, it's mesmerizing. It taps into the untold dreams of everyone in the audience watching, the rooters, the envious alike.Full review → -
Broadway Musicals1776
By Joel BenjaminA gimmicky, but effective take on a beloved musical about a seminal American historical event.Full review → -
Broadway Musicals70, Girls, 70
By archiveCharlotte Rae (Mammy Yokum in L'il Abner ) – 70, Girls, 70 – steals the scene for the musical's one real showstopper: "Go Visit Your Grandmother."Full review → -
Broadway MusicalsAin’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations
By Darryl ReillyThe great Motown group gets a lackluster jukebox musical treatment. The performers are sensational, and the orchestra is rousing but it’s a tuneful slog.Full review → -
Broadway MusicalsAll Shook Up
By archiveMr. Jackson is a seductive charmer with a wonderfully rich voice, who moves beautifully and is funny as well. He is a gorgeous hunk.Full review → -
Broadway MusicalsAllegiance
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Broadway MusicalsAlmost Famous
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefA prime example of a Sondheim “Why?” musical, Cameron Crowe’s stage version of his cult film does not supersede the earler incarnation.Full review → -
Broadway MusicalsAmazing Grace
By Joel BenjaminThough this new musical is lacking in subtlety, many will succumb to the siren call of its title song.Full review → -
Broadway MusicalsAmélie
By Joel BenjaminOnly Phillipa Soo fans would take to the charm of the show which dissipate, its pleasures barely reaching the footlights, let alone the back of the balcony.Full review → -
Broadway MusicalsAn American in Paris
By Joel BenjaminA brilliant revision of the beloved classic MGM Gershwin film by choreographer Christopher Wheeldon directing for the first time.Full review → -
Broadway MusicalsAmerican Psycho The Musical
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefExciting musicalization of the controversial book by Brett Easton Ellis about a stock trader who moonlights as a serial killer with Benjamin Walker.Full review → -
Broadway MusicalsThe Apple Tree
By archiveThis revival, at Studio 54, of Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick's 1966 The Apple Tree, consists of three satiric parables about the male and female animal.Full review → -
Broadway MusicalsBack to the Future: The Musical
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefAnother film to stage musical which slavishly follows the original and whose best songs are the classics used in the movie version.Full review → -
Broadway MusicalsBad Cinderella
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefAndrew Lloyd Webber's latest musical is a revisionist version of the beloved fairy tale with a rebellious heroine and a melancholic secondary, spare prince.Full review → -
Broadway MusicalsThe Band’s Visit
Off-Broadway Plays
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Off-Broadway Plays…and then I meowed…
By Darryl ReillyThe dating travails of a morose, aged, NYC gay man is chronicled in this solo play. The onstage appearance of a cat livens things up.Full review → -
Off-Broadway Plays…what the end will be
By archiveA dying gay Black grandfather, his gay son and his gay grandson interact in this well-observed and well-played Atlanta-set comedic family drama.Full review → -
Off-Broadway Plays(un)conditional
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefAli Keller's riveting play about sexual incompatibility is sensitively and delicately handled by director and cast.Full review → -
Off-Broadway Plays[Porto]
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefKate Benson’s new play about a trendy bar in Brooklyn, its disparate denizens, and its lonely heroine who is looking for love will please some, bore others.Full review → -
Off-Broadway Plays[Veil Widow Conspiracy]
By Mark Dundas WoodComplex and challenging, Gordon Dahlquist’s multilayered play—staged with lavish care—deals with the slippery nature of narratives.Full review → -
Off-Broadway Plays*mark (A solo performance of the Gospel of Mark)
By Christopher "Caz" CaswellA simple, meaningful storytelling of the Gospel According to Mark with George Drance in a repeat performance.Full review → -
Off-Broadway Plays#UglyCry
By Scotty BennettThis is not a fictional story with an actor taking on a role; it is a powerful emotional connection within her life.Full review → -
Off-Broadway Plays#yourmemorial
By Darryl ReillyThis fragmentary drama explores the aftermath of a recent college graduate’s 2013 death in Afghanistan while she was interning at an international agency.Full review → -
Off-Broadway Plays||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :||
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefIntriguing play about classical music students in a summer program in Berkeley is a little short on details about them.Full review → -
Off-Broadway Plays1-2-3 Manhunt
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Off-Broadway Plays1+1
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefEric Bogosian's latest play set in Los Angeles includes pornography, drugs, easy money and the seduction of a gullible woman.Full review → -
Off-Broadway Plays10 out of 12
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefFascinating idea of having audience witness Tech rehearsal in new Anne Washburn play isn’t as much fun as you might expect if you are not a thespian.Full review → -
Off-Broadway Plays17 Border Crossings
By Joel BenjaminThe adventures, humorous and otherwise, of an observant world traveler from quadruple threat talent Thaddeus Phillips.Full review → -
Off-Broadway Plays17 Minutes
By Mark Dundas WoodThe simplicity of this production lends a kind of grace to Scott Organ’s excellent, uncompromising play about the aftermath of a school shooting.Full review → -
Off-Broadway Plays2 Across
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefJerry Mayer’s "2 Across" will remind of a great many other romantic comedies but in the hands of Andrea McArdle and Kip Gilman, it is a charming…Full review →
Off-Broadway Musicals
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Musicals¡Americano!
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefA true story of an undocumented immigrant, this musical is impassioned and spirited with a cast that seems to be living their roles rather than acting them.Full review → -
Musicals(pray)
By Tony MarinellinicHi douglas’ “sacred offering” is a joyous and transcendent excursion into the celebration of a Sunday Baptist Church service seen through women’s eyes.Full review → -
Musicals{my lingerie play} 2017: THE CONCERT AND CALL TO ARMS!!!!!!!!! THE FINAL INSTALLATION
By David KaufmanAnnie Sprinkle meets Penny Arcade meets Reno meets John Leguizamo in the person of Diana Oh.Full review → -
Musicals1776
By Darryl ReillyModern dress and multi-ethnic casting are features of this splendid revival of the classic musical about the Congressional battle over U.S. independence.Full review → -
Musicals1969: The Second Man
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefLess than a musical and more than a concert, folk-rock bio of astronaut Buzz Aldrin is both mellow and informative.Full review → -
MusicalsThe 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
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MusicalsThe 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
By Joseph PisanoAn Off Broadway revival of a Tony Award-winning musical continues to find bittersweet laughs at a spelling bee.Full review → -
Musicals44 – The Musical
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefSatiric musical in the form of revue about Barack Obama's first term with all the usual suspects: Michelle, Clinton, Palin, McConnell, Cruz, Graham.Full review → -
Musicals90210! The Musical!
By adminThis musical parody pays affectionate homage to its source material and also stands out as a hilarious and enjoyable theatrical outing.Full review → -
MusicalsAccording to Howard
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefInteresting attempt to put the entire life of aviator-engineer billionaire Howard Hughes into a musical.Full review → -
MusicalsAdventures in Vegas
By Joel BenjaminA tiny dynamo sings about her fascinating year performing on the Strip in Las Vegas.Full review → -
MusicalsAfter All These Years
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefDiverting and tuneful musical revue celebrating the songs of composer/lyricist Al Tapper.Full review → -
MusicalsAlan Turing & The Queen of the Night
By Tony MarinelliA bold Alan Turing reborn: no meek genius here, just raw defiance and the wild muse who showed him how to survive. A queer icon redefined, gloriously.Full review → -
MusicalsAlice By Heart
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefFirst new musical to reach NYC from songwriting team that wrote “Spring Awakening” updates “Alice in Wonderland” now set in W.W. II London during the Blitz.Full review → -
MusicalsAll Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914
By Mark Dundas WoodAn emotionally powerful look at a spontaneous outbreak of peace during World War I—suffused with music.Full review →
Off-Broadway Solo Performances
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Off-Broadway Plays…and then I meowed…
By Darryl ReillyThe dating travails of a morose, aged, NYC gay man is chronicled in this solo play. The onstage appearance of a cat livens things up.Full review → -
Off-Broadway Plays*mark (A solo performance of the Gospel of Mark)
By Christopher "Caz" CaswellA simple, meaningful storytelling of the Gospel According to Mark with George Drance in a repeat performance.Full review → -
Off-Broadway Plays#UglyCry
By Scotty BennettThis is not a fictional story with an actor taking on a role; it is a powerful emotional connection within her life.Full review → -
Off-Broadway Plays17 Border Crossings
By Joel BenjaminThe adventures, humorous and otherwise, of an observant world traveler from quadruple threat talent Thaddeus Phillips.Full review → -
Off-Broadway Plays20 Seconds: A Play with Music
By Tony MarinelliTom Sweitzer’s play is a testament to finding one’s own music in life. As his parents bicker, young Tom runs out into the street in his pajamas to find his.Full review → -
Off-Broadway Plays300 Paintings
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefA stand-up comedy show, an art show, an autobiography and a TED talk all rolled up into one.Full review → -
Off-Broadway PlaysThe Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey
By archiveAll it takes is one person to bring a community together and change them, and one actor to play them all.Full review → -
Off-Broadway PlaysAccidentally Brave
By Darryl ReillyThe fallout of a husband’s arrest and guilty plea on child pornography charges is depicted in this solo show that’s arguably insightful or self-indulgent.Full review → -
Off-Broadway PlaysAdam
By Darryl ReillyThe eventful life and career of the long-time Harlem congressman is chronicled in this interesting solo play that showcases the talents of Timothy Simonson.Full review → -
Off-Broadway PlaysAfter Endgame
By Scotty BennettA tale well told of a life shaped by adventures in the world of chess.Full review → -
Off-Broadway PlaysAi Yah Goy Vey! – Adventures of a Dim Sun in Search of His Wanton Father
By Tony MarinelliRichard Chang salutes multicultural New York in a comic tale of a Chinese immigrant crisscrossing the boroughs to find his unknown (Jewish?) father.Full review → -
Off-Broadway PlaysAlbatross
By Joel BenjaminA dramatization of a famous poem that strips it of its clichés and finds its dramatic heart.Full review → -
Off-Broadway PlaysAlbert Camus’ “The Fall”
By Tony MarinelliA once successful lawyer, now “judge-repentent”, takes us into his mindset for a lesson in responsibility and guilt, mostly his own, in a dive bar in Amsterdam.Full review → -
Off-Broadway PlaysAlex Edelman: Just for Us
By Joseph PisanoIn his new one-man show, Jewish comedian Alex Edelman's bravery extends beyond entering an apartment full of anti-Semites.Full review → -
Broadway PlaysAlex Edelman: Just For Us
By Joseph PisanoIn his one-man show, Jewish comedian Alex Edelman's bravery extends beyond entering an apartment full of anti-Semites.Full review →
Choral, Opera, Classical
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Music¡Figaro! (90210)
By Darryl ReillyAn amusing and faithful update of the classic opera set in Beverly Hills is performed by a cast of excellent singers and is perhaps best for opera fans.Full review → -
Music27
By archiveMasterVoices’ opera by Ricky Ian Gordon is a euphonious musical tapestry that portrays Gertrude Stein’s important contributions to the art world.Full review → -
Concerts92Y’s Lyrics & Lyricists Series: “Get Happy: Harold Arlen’s Early Years”
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefJaunty, melodic and joyful tribute to the oft-neglected but great composer of popular, blues and romantic songs from his first remarkable decade.Full review → -
MusicAleko & Pagliacci (New York City Opera)
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefDouble bill of rare staging of Rachmaninoff’s opera and an exciting revival of the Leoncavallo opera by the reorganized New York City Opera’s second season.Full review → -
MusicAmahl and the Night Visitors
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefGian Carlo Menotti's one-time operatic Christmas staple returns anew with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato in Kenny Leon's astute revival.Full review → -
ChoralAmerican Classical Orchestra and Chorus: Cherubini, Beethoven and Mozart
By archiveA wonderful evening: two major masterpieces performed with elegance, energy and creative warmth.Full review → -
ChoralAmerican Classical Orchestra and Chorus: Georg Philipp Telemann’s “Day of Judgment”
By archiveAn unjustly neglected and splendid seventeenth century masterpiece, superbly presented.Full review → -
ChoralAmerican Classical Orchestra and Chorus: Johann Sebastian Bach’s Saint John Passion
By archiveA masterful performance of coherent artistic vision and intense musical integrity.Full review → -
ChoralAmerican Classical Orchestra and Chorus: Mass in B Minor
By archiveIn a passionate and loving performance, one of the great masterpieces of western culture was warmly received by an enthusiastic audience.Full review → -
ChoralAmerican Classical Orchestra: “As the Masters Heard It, Music by Beethoven, Mozart and Schubert”
By archiveA splendid evening of late eighteenth and very early nineteenth century masterpieces, played on periodic instruments and sounding absolutely new.Full review → -
MusicAmerican Classical Orchestra: “L’Isola Disabitata”
By archiveA little known Baroque chamber opera of uneven merit, charmingly and happily presented.Full review → -
ChoralAmerican Classical Orchestra: Caldara, Handel, Torelli, and Allegri
By archiveAn exhilarating and celebratory evening of familiar and unfamiliar Baroque works, all marvelous.Full review → -
ChoralAmerican Classical Orchestra: Johann Sebastian Bach
By archiveA marvelously offered and idiosyncratic selection of one genius composer's remarkable music.Full review → -
MusicAmerican One Acts, a double bill
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefAn unusual double bill of contrasting one acts opera, both set in the American South, by major composers William Grant Still and Kurt Weill.Full review → -
MusicAngels in America (New York City Opera)
By Joel BenjaminA new opera, carved out of an epic, award-winning play, makes a valiant effort to condense a vast canvas into a focused drawing.Full review →
Cabaret & Concerts
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Concerts2017 New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival: Composer as Creator
By archiveIn music constructed with new electronic and computer technologies, ideas about creativity are explored with fresh vocabularies.Full review → -
Concerts2017 New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival: Outstanding Performers
By archiveIn a festival of twenty-first century music, success always depends on the kind of artistic integrity that has characterized good music for centuries.Full review → -
Concerts2017 New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival: Overview
By archiveA major international festival of contemporary music: diverse, exciting, surprising and inspiring.Full review → -
Concerts2017 New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival: Political Protest and Social Justice
By archiveContemporary electroacoustic music explores politics, protest, violence and humanity’s cruelties.Full review → -
CabaretThe 28th Annual MAC Awards
By Darryl Reilly"Was I supposed to campaign?" Joked eternally pixyish Anita Gillette as she accepted her Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs (MAC) award for…Full review → -
CabaretThe 30th Annual Bistro Awards
By Darryl ReillyA cavalcade of distinguished cabaret artists and newcomers performed at this extravaganza celebrating outstanding figures of New York City nightlife.Full review → -
Concerts92 Y’s Lyrics & Lyricists Series: “A Good Thing Going: The Stephen Sondheim and Harold Prince Collaboration”
By Darryl ReillyThe monumental collaboration between the two musical theater geniuses was celebrated in this very entertaining and insightful retrospective concert.Full review → -
Concerts92 Y’s Lyrics & Lyricists Series: “All Dancing! All Singing! Irving Berlin in Hollywood”
By Darryl ReillySandy Duncan and Don Correia guest starred in this breezy 24-song delightful concert focusing on the great songwriter’s work for Hollywood movies.Full review → -
Concerts92nd Y’s Lyrics & Lyricists Series: “Here’s to The Girls!: Hollywood’s Leading Ladies”
By Darryl ReillyCharles Busch hosted this very enjoyable concert showcasing Hollywood movie musical numbers presented by female stars that were performed by five accomplished women.Full review → -
Concerts92nd Y’s Lyrics & Lyricists Series: I Have Confidence: Rodgers After Hammerstein
By Darryl ReillyThis delightful concert celebrated the great composer’s later works and was performed by a terrific cast and had veteran actor Larry Pine portraying him.Full review → -
Concerts92Y Lyrics & Lyricists Series: “A Beautiful Dawning: ‘Oklahoma!’ at 75”
By Joel BenjaminIt would have been impossible to come away from this edition of 92Y’s Lyrics & Lyricists without a renewed respect and admiration for this seminal musical.Full review → -
Concerts92Y Lyrics & Lyricists Series: E.Y. “Yip” Harburg: Follow the Fellow Who Follows a Dream
By Joel BenjaminA beautifully staged tribute to one of America’s greatest lyricists as part of the famed Lyrics & Lyricist Series.Full review → -
Concerts92Y Lyrics & Lyricists Series: Jerry Herman: You I Like
By Joel BenjaminA generous, warm tribute to the recently deceased theater giant in the famed 92Y series.Full review → -
Concerts92Y’s Lyrics & Lyricists Series: “A Funny Thing Happened: Songs from the Road to Broadway!”
By Darryl ReillyDisplaying her flawless vocal abilities, superb comic timing, dramatic range and exuberant presence, Ann Harada was the standout of the six-member…Full review → -
Concerts92Y’s Lyrics & Lyricists Series: “Frank Loesser: Lyricist”
By Darryl ReillyA comprehensive and exuberant concert celebrating the great song writer abundant in rarities, wonderful performances and David Loud’s erudite commentary.Full review →
Galas & Events
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Galas & Events2016 Outer Critics Nominees
By adminNew York, NY (May 9, 2016) Outer Critics Circle, the organization of writers and commentators for media covering New York theatre announced today its…Full review → -
Galas & Events2016 Tony Awards Bestow Much Love on “Hamilton”
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief"Hamilton," "The Humans," "The Color Purple" and "Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge" take home top 2016 Tony Awards.Full review → -
Dance2023 Fini Dance Festival and Italian International Dance Awards
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CabaretThe 28th Annual MAC Awards
By Darryl Reilly"Was I supposed to campaign?" Joked eternally pixyish Anita Gillette as she accepted her Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs (MAC) award for…Full review → -
CabaretThe 30th Annual Bistro Awards
By Darryl ReillyA cavalcade of distinguished cabaret artists and newcomers performed at this extravaganza celebrating outstanding figures of New York City nightlife.Full review → -
Galas & EventsA.R. Gurney’s Memorial at The Music Box
By Darryl ReillySarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick, Sigourney Weaver and James Earl Jones were among those who wonderfully commemorated the American playwright.Full review → -
FeaturesAbingdon Theatre Company Celebrates 34 Years of Opening Doors
By Jack QuinnAt its Edison Ballroom anniversary gala, Sandy Duncan, Michael Urie and John Gasdaska were honored as the company looked toward a new season of American theater.Full review → -
DanceAriel Rivka Dance: 10th Anniversary Season
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Galas & Events“THE BETTY BUCKLEY AWARD” PRESENTED TO EMILY BORDONARO
By Jack QuinnAt the awards presentation, Deffaa noted he’s worked with Bordonaro (whom he praised as being “as talented as any young actress I’ve ever worked with”) on various projects since she was 11. He added…Full review → -
Galas & EventsBroadway Stars Joined Forces To Help Raise $200,000 For Creative Alternatives Of New York (CANY) At The 2016 Annual “Theater & Therapy” Gala
By Jack QuinnAnn Hampton Callaway opened the night’s festivities with a mash up of the songs “People” and “Being Alive” to rousing applause.Full review → -
ChoralC4: The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective: Vocal – C4 honors its foundations: music for voices alone
By archiveStunning lucidity of mission and execution marks the eleventh season opening of this daring, disciplined and artistically eloquent group of musicians.Full review → -
DanceCareer Transition for Dancers: 30th Anniversary Pearl Jubilee
By Joel BenjaminThat rare event—a beautifully paced fundraiser with genuine glamour and excitement.Full review → -
Galas & EventsCool! The 60th Anniversary and Reunion Event: West Side Story
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Galas & EventsThe Drama League’s 25th annual all-star gala, “A MUSICAL CELEBRATION OF BROADWAY”
By archiveIn addition to Cady Huffman, Keith Carradine, Julie Halston, Bailey Hanks, Lee Roy Reams, the original "Cagelles" from the 1983 Broadway production of La Cage aux FollesFull review → -
Galas & EventsEighteen-Year-Old Actor with Autism Honored by Only Make Believe Charity
By adminAutistic actor Collet Reyes becomes stage manager/mentor of “best buddies program” youth & teen partnership; final performance, May 18, 2023.Full review →
Features & Columns
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ColumnsA “HAPPY BIRTHDAY” GREETING FOR EDITH O’HARA, IN HER 100TH YEAR…
By Chip Deffaa, Editor-at-LargeThis month, the 13th Street Repertory Theater will kick off its celebration of Founder/Artistic Director Edith O’Hara’s 100th year. Appropriately–since…Full review → -
Concerts2017 New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival: Composer as Creator
By archiveIn music constructed with new electronic and computer technologies, ideas about creativity are explored with fresh vocabularies.Full review → -
Concerts2017 New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival: Outstanding Performers
By archiveIn a festival of twenty-first century music, success always depends on the kind of artistic integrity that has characterized good music for centuries.Full review → -
Concerts2017 New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival: Political Protest and Social Justice
By archiveContemporary electroacoustic music explores politics, protest, violence and humanity’s cruelties.Full review → -
BlogsA 2019 Ten Best List
By Darryl ReillyThese superior revivals, bold new plays and a terrific solo show were the most fascinating and memorable productions I experienced this year.Full review → -
Features8 Leading Performing Arts Colleges in London
By Jack QuinnSo, this was all about the best-performing arts colleges in the London list. There are many scholarships available for theatre and drama in the UK. Furthermore, you can get in touch with private…Full review → -
FeaturesAbingdon Theatre Company Celebrates 34 Years of Opening Doors
By Jack QuinnAt its Edison Ballroom anniversary gala, Sandy Duncan, Michael Urie and John Gasdaska were honored as the company looked toward a new season of American theater.Full review → -
FeaturesAmerican Players Theatre: Midwest Summer Theater Destination 2018
By Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefFrom Shakespeare to Athol Fugard, American Players Theatre offers nine major plays over the course of this summer in two venues, one outdoor, one indoor.Full review → -
FeaturesAnthony Rapp’s Solo Show, “Without You,” To Get Off-Broadway Run
By Chip Deffaa, Editor-at-LargeAnthony Rapp's autobiographical solo show, Without You (based on his book of the same name), will open Off-Broadway in January of 2023 at New World Stages.Full review → -
ColumnsAppreciation of Peter Hall by Stephen Unwin
By adminThis was a man who loved words, the exact turn of the phrase, its cadence and where the stress falls, whether in Shakespeare or Pinter, Beckett or…Full review → -
FeaturesAt Home with Nigeria’s Breakthrough Star AcebergTM and his Debut EP “Far From Home”
By adminAcebergTM’s brand new debut EP "Far From Home" which was just released on April 16th, 2021 along with his music video for one of his singles “DANCA.”Full review → -
FeaturesThe Best Music Documentaries To Watch Now
By adminWe dove into the archives to find six of the best globe-trotting music documentaries to keep readers occupied and maybe even teach them something new. Whether you’re a fan of Japanese video game…Full review → -
FeaturesBetting in Broadway: A guide to NYC’s hottest shows
By Jack QuinnBroadway is the embodiment of the most in-demand shows in the world. Getting good tickets to a Broadway show can feel like winning the lottery. Famous shows like Hamilton, The Lion King, Wicked, and…Full review → -
BlogsBook review: “Still Here: The Madcap, Nervy, Singular Life of Elaine Stritch” by Alexandra Jacobs
By Darryl ReillyAdmirers of the legendary performer should be enthralled by this quite probably definitive chronicle of her life and career that’s written with zest.Full review → -
BlogsBook review: “The Last Word” by Quentin Crisp
By Darryl ReillyThat incomparable non-conformist’s third volume of autobiography is drolly philosophical and contains startling personal revelations about his identity.Full review →
Interviews
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InterviewsThe American Soldier – An Interview with Douglas Taurel
By Jack QuinnDouglas Taurel discusses The American Soldier, exploring honor, sacrifice, and craft in a one-man show built from real soldiers’ voices.Full review → -
InterviewsBroadway Producer John Breglio Shares Secrets of Life in the ‘Biz’ and What It Takes to Succeed
By archiveJohn Breglio’s love of the theater has played a large part in sustaining a longstanding career in one of the toughest industries.Full review → -
InterviewsCatherine Russell, On Her 30 Year Milestone with “Perfect Crime”
By archive"When I was a little girl, I wanted to be an actress working on stage in a play and am proud that I’ve been able to do that for 30 years."Full review → -
InterviewsA Chat with Bob Avian
By archiveThe creative forces with whom he has worked are a who’s who of the Broadway musical. They include Steve Sondheim, Kander and Ebb, Cy Coleman, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Claude-Michel Schoenberg, Neil…Full review → -
DanceChristopher Wheeldon in Conversation with Rita Moreno: From Ballet to Broadway
By archiveA delightful romp through the dancing career of one of Ballet and Broadway’s brightest choreographers.Full review → -
InterviewsConversation with Dominick LaRuffa Jr.
By Jack QuinnActor and teacher Dominick LaRuffa Jr. discusses craft, discipline, and building a working-artist life through Blue Collar Artist Studio.Full review → -
InterviewsInterview with “Reunions” lyricist Jeffrey Scharf and composer Jimmy Calire
By Jack Quinn"Reunions" may be built on two century-old plays, but under Scharf and Calise’s hand, it became something quietly contemporary: a layered conversation.Full review → -
InterviewsInterview with Billy Recce and Danny Salles, Lyricists of “Vape! The Grease Parody”
By Jack QuinnStep inside the wild, razor-sharp world of VAPE! The Grease Parody, where creators Billy Recce and Danny Salles reveal how parody becomes true theater.Full review → -
InterviewsInterview with Caleb Ryan
By Jack QuinnI would like to just encourage people to have faith in themselves and their abilities. To surround themselves with people who speak truth and…Full review → -
InterviewsInterview with James Godwin, Puppeteer
By Jack QuinnI consider myself a performance artist that specializes in puppets and masks. My puppets use a wide variety of materials, paper mâché is preferred medium.Full review → -
InterviewsInterview with Lynn Shore
By Jack QuinnHow long have you been collaborating with Mark Vogel, David Burnham, and Paul Stancato. How did you meet? Mark Vogel and I have known each other since I…Full review → -
InterviewsInterview with Marc Sinoway
By Evan Lambert“Each year that you add onto a long-term relationship kind of equips you more to play people with complicated romantic histories,” he told me. “Even just having one more year of understanding of…Full review → -
InterviewsInterview with Raja Feather Kelly
By Jack Quinnimagine watching people come into a theater, time-travel to a bare Broadway stage in 1975 and then cross fade into a 1987 version of Andy Warhol’s FactoryFull review → -
InterviewsInterview with Ty Jones, Classical Theater of Harlem
By Jack QuinnHarlem Holidays features Renée Elise Goldsberry in an intimate CTH celebration of music, storytelling, and community-driven artistry on Dec 15, 2025Full review → -
InterviewsAn Interview with young YouTuber – Born to Be Ellie
By Jack QuinnI would love to reach 1,000 subscribers on my YouTube Channel. I'd love to collab with 0fficialJenn who is a YouTuber from England.Full review →
Spotlight
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SpotlightAnna Louizos Tribute
By Jack QuinnAnna Louizos, the three-time Tony-nominated scenic designer behind Avenue Q, In the Heights and School of Rock, died August 25 at 69. TheaterScene's critics reviewed her work 19 times, from Avenue…Full review → -
SpotlightAn Appreciation of Michael Feingold (1945-2022)
By Chip Deffaa, Editor-at-LargeHe was a colleague, a friend, and the smartest, best-informed drama critic I knew. From 1982 to 2013, he was the lead theater critic of "The Village Voice."Full review → -
ColumnsAppreciation of Peter Hall by Stephen Unwin
By adminThis was a man who loved words, the exact turn of the phrase, its cadence and where the stress falls, whether in Shakespeare or Pinter, Beckett or…Full review → -
SpotlightAn Appreciation of Todd Haimes, Producing Artistic Director of Roundabout Theatre Company
By Chip Deffaa, Editor-at-LargeHaines took a bankrupt theater company and built it up into one of the world's most respected not-for-profit theater companies.Full review → -
CabaretBaby Jane Dexter Has Died and Everybody Hurts
By archiveFew artists have impacted audiences with such a raw honesty only to reveal a powerful voice and a vulnerable heart as did the late singer.Full review → -
BlogsCabaret Spotlight: Hey There, Good Times
By archiveThe measure of a singer's worth is in the ear of the beholder. What is one person's Piaf is another person's Barbra. There's no magic formula to being…Full review → -
BlogsCabaret Spotlight: Two Good To Be True
By archiveCollectively, John Lloyd Young and Spencer Day make the kind of music you're only lucky to hear in a club once every ten years.Full review → -
SpotlightCarol Channing died Jan 15, 2019
By adminTheaterscene.net is deeply saddened to report the passing of the legendary Carol Channing. Channing died at 12:31am on Tuesday, January 15th, 2019, at…Full review → -
ColumnsCAROL CHANNING… A Personal Remembrance
By Chip Deffaa, Editor-at-LargeBut to me, for several decades, Carol Channing was an extraordinary friend, a kind of "fairy godmother." A glorious burst of energy. I was so grateful to have her in my life.Full review → -
ColumnsDavid Cassidy …. A Personal Remembrance
By Chip Deffaa, Editor-at-LargeI'm sorry to note the passing of David Cassidy. And I want to share a few remembrances of him--as a performer and as a person. He was capable of…Full review → -
ChoralThe Dessoff Choirs: We Remember
By archiveA rich and rewarding evening of choral music from a well-established New York choral society under the direction of a new music director.Full review → -
SpotlightDuncan Sheik (1969–2026): The Sound of Spring Awakening
By Jack QuinnDuncan Sheik, the singer-songwriter who went from the pop charts to Broadway and gave Spring Awakening its rock score, died on September 17, 2026, in New York. He was 56. His family had said…Full review → -
ColumnsEDITH O’HARA—A PERSONAL REMEMBRANCE
By Chip Deffaa, Editor-at-LargeEdith O'Hara died exactly the way she wanted to—at home, not in a hospital, in her apartment above her beloved 13th Street Theatre.Full review → -
ColumnsHELEN GALLAGHER: AN APPRECIATION
By Chip Deffaa, Editor-at-LargeTwo-time Tony Award-winner Helen Gallagher, who just died at the age of 98, was a terrific musical-theater performer. Oh, she did work in television and film, too--winning three Emmy awards along…Full review → -
SpotlightIn Memory of Playwright/Director/Actor Douglas McGrath
By Chip Deffaa, Editor-at-LargeCartoonist Henry Martin felt that Doug McGrath had a lot on the ball--and he sure was right. McGrath was only 64 when he died unexpectedly on November 3, 2022.Full review →


































