Sometimes the only refuge from the brutalities of a life pre-destined for loneliness, poverty and violence is a poetic voice. In playwright Jamie Wax’s one-hander “Call Me Izzy,” Jean Smart returns...
The 2025 Tony Awards had it all — Cynthia Erivo, Oprah, a “Hamilton” reunion, and a fair share of snubs and surprises to keep awards-season prognosticators on their toes. After making...
With the 2024-25 theater season now complete, a new rule has been added to the old Broadway playbook. That rule? Throw out the playbook. In a banner year that’s seen...
The Emmy-winning writer-actor Lena Waithe (“The Chi,” “Master of None”) recently sat down with the playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins to discuss his Pulitzer Prize-winning new play, “Purpose,” now up for six Tony...
Bob Odenkirk (“Better Call Saul”) earned a Tony nomination for his Broadway debut in the hit revival of “Glengarry Glen Ross.” But almost 30 years ago, if he’d gotten his way,...
The Latina seamstresses at a dressmaking workshop in East L.A. express their credo at the top of the new musical “Real Women Have Curves.” With the pulsating song “Make It Work”...
It might be time to call it quits on biographical jukebox musicals. “Jersey Boys” ignited a trend, but its many spawn have been mostly ill-conceived. Recently we’ve had “Summer: The Donna...
What ever happened to Gilbert and Sullivan? Once theatrical icons, Gilbert and Sullivan — co-creators of famed comic operettas including “H.M.S. Pinafore” and “The Mikado” — have taken a noticeable dip...
