Who would have thought watching people behaving badly could be so much fun? Now at the Hayes Theatre, and directed by Trip Cullman with bloodthirsty zeal, this revival of the Pulitzer-nominated Becky Shaw seems even fresher than it did in its Off-Broadway run almost 20 years ago. Playwright Gina Gionfriddo toys with our initial perception…
Adrian Brody, Tessa Thompson (Photo: Emilio Madrid) The Fear of 13 By Marc Miller on April 21, 2026 The woman behind me kept murmuring, “Oh, my God, oh, my God.” She was responding to the parade of indignities and setbacks being visited upon our protagonist in The Fear of 13, Lindsey Ferrentino’s docudrama at the…
Marla Mindelle (Photo: Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade) Titanique By Deirdre Donovan on April 17, 2026 A deliriously camp send-up that gleefully rewrites pop culture history, Titanique finds Céline Dion commandeering the Titanic’s legacy with a jukebox score and a wink that never fades. Yet for all its riotous invention and winning performances, this Broadway transfer…
The Company (Photo: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman) Cats – The Jellicle Ball By Matthew Roland on April 13, 2026 “What’s a Jellicle Cat?” In 1982, when Cats first prowled onto Broadway, the answer was strange but straightforward. In Cats: The Jellicle Ball, that question lands very differently. Still drawing from T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s…
Laurie Metcalf, Nathan Lane (Photo: Emilio Madrid) Death of a Salesman By Carol Rocamora on April 11, 2026 The walls of the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway are shaking, as the overpowering revival of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman takes the stage. Directed by Joe Mantello, featuring a formidable ensemble, this landmark production reminds…
Jon Bernthal, Brian D. Coats, Jessica Hecht (Photo: Evan Zimmerman) Dog Day Afternoon By Fern Siegel on April 11, 2026 In August 1972, a Chase Bank robbery gone wrong quickly turned into one of the biggest media circuses in New York City history. Although the vault was half-empty, the robbers, John (“Sonny”) Wojtowicz and Salvatore…
John Lithgow (Photo: Joan Marcus) Giant By Carol Rocamora on April 6, 2026 It’s a rare occurrence when you sit in a theatre and hear audible gasps from audience members around you, in response to what’s happening onstage. Such was my experience at the end of the first of act of Giant, the devastating new…
Daniel Radcliffe (Photo: Matthew Murphy) Every Brilliant Thing By Matthew Roland on March 22, 2026 Ice cream, a much-needed sneeze, the smell of old books, depression, suicide. After a child’s first encounter with loss comes a list of small, fleeting joys set against life’s heaviest realities. At its core, it’s one young man’s struggle to…
Carrie Coon, Jennifer Engstrom, Steve Key, Namir Smallwood (Photo: Matthew Murphy) Bug By David Schultz on February 6, 2026 Tracy Letts’ bullet train of a play, Bug, has moved to Broadway from a more modest run in its 2004 Off-Broadway debut. Twenty years ago, this intense play was both insanely entertaining and extremely disturbing; playing…
June Squibb (Photo: Joan Marcus) Marjorie Prime By David Schultz on December 31, 2026 What would it be like to conjure up a long-deceased family member and talk to them again in the twilight of your years? With Marjorie Prime, now at the Hayes, playwright Jordan Harrison has just done it, twice actually. Premiering originally…