Following its Olivier Award-winning premiere in London’s West End, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is making its North American debut for a limited Off-Broadway engagement at The Public Theater. This musical reimagining of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s didactic short-story fantasy was first published in Collier’s Magazine in 1922, as a short story that followed the…
Rope, Gordon Greenberg’s new adaptation of Patrick Hamilton’s play, draws on the notorious 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case to tell a chilling story of murder and deception. Directed by Scott Elliott, this world-premiere production centers on two attractive Princeton graduate students who host a dinner party in a stylish Manhattan apartment, serving food atop…
How do you dramatize loss, and the grief that follows? We will all experience it in our lifetime, but it’s a huge challenge to put on the stage. Playwright Nick Payne dares to tackle this daunting topic in The Unbelievers, his new play now performing at Manhattan Theatre Club’s City Center Stage 1, under the…
As spooky season draws to a close, that doesn’t mean your hauntings and jump scares have to be put to rest for another year. After seven West End seasons, touring the UK twice, and having more than 30 productions across the globe, 2:22 – A Ghost Story is bringing some creepy storytelling Off-Broadway to the…
Among the latest publications by artists of the New York stage are a book for young readers on the development of an exuberant ballet student and the autobiography of a Tony-nominated musical-theater writer, lyricist, and director. Nancy Paris, It’s Me, Lilly McKee! (Windsor, CT, Vellamere House, 2026, paperback, 120 pages, $7.99, ISBN 979-8-9974599-0-1) – Following…
Sixteen years ago, the Apple family, an average middle-class American family in Rhinebeck, NY, gathered around their dinner table on a Public Theatre stage to talk about the 2010 mid-term elections. Since then, we’ve joined that family seven more times around that table (with essentially the same cast), in a larger series of plays by…
Lincoln Center Theater has revived Aaron Sorkin’s powerful military courtroom drama A Few Good Men. Now in performances at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, the play brings to the Broadway stage a story about military loyalty, institutional accountability, and the limits of following orders. Led by Tom Blyth as Lt. J.G. Daniel A. Kaffee, Krysta Rodriguez…
After making its stage debut in Dublin in 2022, Parcel from America has now arrived in New York for its Off-Broadway premiere at Theatre Row. Inspired by a childhood recollection of Irish storyteller Tomáseen Foley, the new musical – with book and lyrics by Jahnna Beecham, Malcolm Hillgartner, and Michael J. Hume, and music by…
Award-winning playwright and Signature Theater Resident Artist Lauren Yee’s 2017 semi-autobiographical King of the Yees is now in a limited Off-Broadway engagement in the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theater. Yee’s play uses her signature style to blend wild comedy, fantasy, and incisive observations on Chinese culture and heritage. The metatheatrical King of the Yees examines…
Everything is over-the-top in the Roundabout’s daft, delightful new version of The Imaginary Invalid, now playing at the Todd Haimes Theatre. It’s a pleasure to experience the cure it offers to our ailing souls in these turbulent, troubled times. The irrepressible Bill Irwin has seized Moliere’s 1673 play and adapted it into a madcap mishmash…