The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in 1914 had cataclysmic results — Austro-Hungary declared war on Serbia — and unleashed the carnage known as WWI. The assassination was carried out by 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip, aided by fellow nationalists and members of the Black Hand. In Archduke, a dark absurdist comedy by Rajiv Joseph, now Off-Broadway at…
Initiative sweeps through four tumultuous years in a nowhere town on the California coast, where seven teenagers cling to one another as they stumble into friendship, first love, and the aching question of who they’re allowed to become. Guided with tender, clear-eyed direction by Emma Rosa Went, Else Went’s sprawling five-hour epic at The Public…
In its sweeping Broadway revival, Chess transforms a Cold War standoff into a pulse-pounding triangle of power, love, and betrayal. With Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele, and Nicholas Christopher at its center, Michael Mayer’s new production turns the world’s most cerebral game into a fierce theatrical showdown. Like Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita—also penned by lyricist…
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 future, this electrifying adaptation thrusts Sophocles’ tragedy into an urgent modern arena where destiny collides…
Transferring from a successful run on the West End and the first fully original Broadway musical of the 2025–2026 season, “Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York),” tells the story of an energizer-bunny Brit named Dougal, who has flown to New York for just two days to attend his estranged father’s wedding. Tasked with…
The pretty young woman is erotically drawn to the sexy young stud, but for plot reasons she’s committed to the much less attractive older man, and after a tryst with the young hottie, remains so. Surprise, it’s three musicals! Fanny (1954), in which Harold Rome, whose usual demographic was working-class New York Jews, proved he…
Signature Theatre launches its newest residency with Heather Christian’s Oratorio for Living Things, an immersive, in-the-round explosion of sound and spirit that bridges science, memory, and cosmic wonder. Under the direction of Lee Sunday Evans, the celebrated ensemble—many returning from the Ars Nova premiere—creates a theatrical universe where the human and the celestial hum in…
Sometimes, less is more. Theater aficionados know George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion as the inspiration for the Lerner and Loewe musical “My Fair Lady.” What’s less known is that Shaw based his work on a Greek myth. An artist prays for his marble sculpture to turn into a real woman — and Aphrodite grants his wish….
The highly regarded Irish theatre company, Druid, has returned to New York City with a limited run of Samuel Beckett’s Theatre of the Absurd classic, Endgame. In a rare coincidence, Beckett’s more famous Waiting for Godot is currently running on Broadway with a starry cast, drawing in huge crowds. This Off-Broadway play at the Irish…
If the words “climate-change thriller” make you wonder if you’ve heard wrong, you haven’t. Kyoto, now at the Mitzi E. Newhouse in a stylish, nearly-immersive production that makes great use of their almost-theater-in-the-round stage, is indeed thrilling—at times. Even if just thinking about climate change makes you want to nap, you likely won’t. That’s partly…