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A NOT SO PLAIN JANE Did you know that William Shakespeare was a narcissistic, whiny, pansexual, selfish, misogynistic, plagiarizing, womanizing fop? Scholars may debate the accuracy of this description but in playwright Talene Monahon’s riotous new comedic farce, The Lamentable Comedie of JANE ANGER, that Cunning Woman, and also of Willy Shakefpeare and his Peasant…

DECORATIVE CHINA Immediately upon entering The Shiva Theater within The Public Theater building, the audience for The Chinese Lady is greeted with an onstage shipping container that fills the playing space. It is a bit off-putting but mostly curious. And, as it turns out, a perfect image to start playwright Lloyd Suh’s exploration of the…

THE 75th ANNUAL TONY AWARDS TO AIR LIVE COAST TO COAST ON CBS, SUNDAY, JUNE 12 AND STREAMING ON PARAMOUNT+ Celebrating 75 Years of the Best of Broadway, the Tony Awards Will Return Live from Radio City Music Hall to Honor the 2021-2022 Broadway Season   Broadcast Marks the First Time the Tony Awards Will Be…

BROADWAY’S HIT MUSICAL CHICAGO WELCOMES PAMELA ANDERSON The Tony Award-winning, record-breaking hit musical  Chicago returned to the Broadway stage at the Ambassador Theatre (219 W. 49th St.; New York, NY). The Broadway company will welcome actress and activist  Pamela Anderson  making her Broadway debut in the role of Roxie Hart beginning Tuesday, April 12, 2022. She will play…

Learning another language is like becoming another person.                                                                                  Haruki Murakami Marjan Neshat (Marjan) As tedious as it may sound to sit through a term of English classes in…

The Broadway premiere of A STRANGE LOOP,  Michael R. Jackson’s  Pulitzer-Prize winning musical,  directed by  Stephen Brackett and choreographed by  Raja Feather Kelly is coming up — previews will begin at Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre (149 W 45th St) on Wednesday, April 6, 2022, and opening night is set for Tuesday, April 26, 2022. Tickets available at Telecharge.com (212-239-6200). For more…

VIRGIN PLAY GETS TESTED AT IRISH REP Ciara Ní­ Chuirc’s new play Made By God, now being given its world premiere run by Irish Rep, is described in the show’s promotional materials thusly: Made by God features the true and tragic story of the 1984 death of Ann Lovett and her newborn baby in Granard,…

A 1913 PLAY IN MINT CONDITION In a coal-mining district in the Erewash Valley of the English Midlands, lives a young miner named Luther. Luther has been married to his hyper-critical bride Minnie for all of seven weeks. Luther’s father is dead but his domineering mother, Mrs. Gascoyne, is very much alive. His younger brother…

MUSIC MAN HATH CHARMS TO SOOTH THE SAVAGE BREAST “Oh, there’s nothing halfway about the Iowa way to treat you, when we treat you, which we may not do at all” sing the taciturn and straight-shooting citizens of River City, Iowa, shortly after the curtain rises on Meredith Willson’s classic Americana musical The Music Man….

BILLY CRYSTAL WILL STAR IN THE NEW MUSICAL COMEDY MR. SATURDAY NIGHT BOX OFFICE OPENS TODAY, FEB 21, 2022

BLACK NO MORE: A NEW MUSICAL George Schuyler’s classic novel Black No More — written during the famous Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 30s — is a funny, absurdist, searing indictment of American White Supremacy ideology. It also pointedly skewers hierarchies based on physical appearance created during American slavery that privileged a white, European…

MAC’S MULTI-TALENTED TRIBE AND FABULOUS PHILOSOPHERS HANG AT HERE Taylor Mac is nothing if not creative. Perhaps oppressively so. Mac’s latest on-stage extravaganza is titled The Hang and is currently hanging out at HERE Arts Center in New York City. It offers such a clever torrent of color, music, intellect, dance, joy, design, queerness, ideas,…

CONRAD RICAMORA OFFERS A NEW SEYMOUR Audrey II is back and New York’s got……Him? Her? It? Hard to tell, especially since this giant-alien-Venus Flytrap has an insatiable appetite for human flesh. And a great singing voice. And impeccable comic timing. And an energetic new production from which the plant continues to grow and grow –…

STARRING DANIEL CRAIG AND RUTH NEGGA DIRECTED BY TONY AWARD WINNER SAM GOLD PERFORMANCES BEGIN TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 2022 OPENS ON THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 2022 AT THE LONGACRE Tickets are now on sale for DANIEL CRAIG’s Â return to Broadway as Macbeth and Â RUTH NEGGA’s Â Broadway debut as Lady Macbeth in the all-new production of Â MACBETH Â on Broadway by visiting Â Telecharge. The…