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…
Laurie Metcalf, Micah Stock (Photo: Julieta Cervantes) Little Bear Ridge Road By David Schultz on December 4, 2026 Playwright Samuel D. Hunter makes his Broadway debut with this play that originally premiered last year at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago. Little Bear Ridge Road takes place in Idaho, somewhere on the outskirts of Troy, a desolate…
Mark Strong, Lesley Manville (Photo: Julieta Cervantes) Oedipus By Deirdre Donovan on November 21, 2025 Robert Icke’s Olivier Award–winning Oedipus arrives on Broadway as a sleek, nerve-jangling thriller, propelled by Mark Strong and Lesley Manville reprising their celebrated West End roles. Set on a tense national election night where every revelation threatens to upend the…
James Corden, Neil Patrick Harris, Bobby Cannavale (Photo: Matthew Murphy) ART By Julia Polinsky on November 8, 2025 There’s a lot of star power on stage in the revival of Yasmina Reza’s ART, now at the Music Box. Bobby Cannavale, James Corden, and Neil Patrick Harris star in this revival, and at times, it seems…
Betsy Aidem, Kristolyn Lloyd, Irene Sovia Lucio, Adina Verson, Audrey Corsa, Susannah Flood (Photo: Little Fang) Liberation By Fern Siegel on November 3, 2025 Feminism in the 1970s fought for recognition. And the issues — pay parity, better child care, economic equality and career advancement — remain. It’s thanks to those pioneering efforts, that many…
Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter (Photo: Andy Henderson) Waiting for Godot By Deirdre Donovan on October 24, 2025 Jamie Lloyd’s Broadway revival of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot finds Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter trading Bill and Ted’s comic banter for Beckett’s haunting silences. With Brandon J. Dirden and Michael Patrick Thornton rounding out the cast,…
Will Harrison (Photo: Matthew Murphy) Punch By Carol Rocamora on October 6, 2025 Punch, James Graham’s powerful new drama, is stunning Broadway audiences with an impact that lives up to its title. In short, it’s a knock-out. Known for his award-winning plays on an impressive variety of topics – This House (2012) on the British…