New York

GONG WITH THE WIND In Charles L. White’s new play Gong Lum’s Legacy, currently running at Theatre @ St. Clements in New York City, things happen very quickly. A young Chinese man, a recent immigrant from China, falls in love with a young African American woman within a few minutes of meeting her. However, the…

The  WP Theater announces  the creative teams for the 2022 Pipeline Festival, the fourth biennial showcase of the artists in its celebrated WP Lab residency for playwrights, directors, and producers, as well as the cast for the first project,  They Came in The Night. Returning live and in-person from  March 24 – May 14, 2022  at  WP Theater (2162 Broadway, at…

Announces Schedule Change for the 2022 BROADWAY BY THE YEAR   Concerts New dates have been announced for the 21st Season which will breaking new ground for its signature series THE TOWN HALL (123 W. 43rd Street) www.TheTownHall.org The Town Hall has announced new dates for Broadway By The Year, created, written, hosted and directed by…

CreateTheater in association with The Prism Stage Company are jointly presenting CreateTheater’s New Works Festival – the first new theater festival to emerge post-shutdown. The new festival will run from Thursday, April 14 to Sunday, May 15 at Theater Row’s Theater Four, (410 West 42nd  Street) and provides a new model for developing theater online and…

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