Robert Downey Jr., who earlier this year won an Academy Award, will make his Broadway debut this fall in “McNeal,” a new drama by the Pulitzer-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar. The play is about a gifted novelist with a difficult family life and a potentially problematic interest in artificial intelligence. Downey will play the writer. The … Read more
Fifteen new musicals opened on Broadway this season, but you wouldn’t know that from the brutal 2024 Tony Award nominations announced on Tuesday. When the list was read aloud by Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Renée Elise Goldsberry, it was snub city. Barry Manilow’s “Harmony,” the Britney Spears popsical “Once Upon a One More Time,” Huey … Read more
The nominations for the 2024 Tony Awards, honoring the best of Broadway, were announced Tuesday morning. The 2023-2024 Broadway season was a highly competitive and unpredictable one. Fifteen new musicals opened during the past year, which is the widest field in at in at least three decades. There were also 10 new plays, five play … Read more
“No use permitting some prophet of doom to wipe every smile away!” sings Sally Bowles in the musical “Cabaret.” Well, I’m not here to erase every grin in Times Square, but I guarantee that a lot of folks on Broadway won’t be beaming come Tuesday morning. That’s when the 2024 Tony Award nominations will be … Read more
Theater review ILLINOISE 1 hour, 30 minutes, no intermission. The St. James Theatre, 246 W. 44th St. “Illinoise,” which opened Thursday at the St. James Theatre, is the closest Broadway may ever get to putting an indie movie onstage. A sad-then-uplifting hipster fantasy told mostly in entrancing dance, it’s like something out of Sundance — … Read more
Theater review THE GREAT GATSBY Two hours and 30 minutes, with one intermission. At the Broadway Theatre, 53rd Street and Broadway. Forget East Egg and West Egg. The creators of the new musical “The Great Gatsby,” which opened Thursday night on Broadway, have laid an egg. This song-and-dance version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s enduring 1925 … Read more
Theater review UNCLE VANYA Two hours and 30 minutes. At the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, 150 West 65th Street. When Steve Carell emerges from behind a bench onstage at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, the crowd giggles automatically at the “Office” star. Now playing the hapless title role in Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya,” the revival of which … Read more
Vivid Seats is the New York Post’s official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Everyone knows how “Romeo and Juliet” tragically ends. In “& Juliet,” William Shakespeare’s classic play is reimagined with a twist. The musical, currently running at New York City’s … Read more
Theater review MARY JANE Ninety minutes with no intermission. At the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, <br>261 W. 47th St. <br>Through June 2. Rachel McAdams brings an instantly heartbreaking quality to her performance in “Mary Jane”: Her steadfast optimism. Writer Amy Herzog’s affecting play, which opened Tuesday night on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, … Read more
Merrily they rolled along … down the aisle. Lindsay Mendez cast her Broadway co-stars Daniel Radcliffe and Jonathan Groff as ring bearer and officiant, respectively, in her New York City nuptials to fellow actor J. Alex Brinson. Her 3-year-old daughter, Lucy, from her marriage to Philip Wakefield, also played a major part in the intimate … Read more
Theater review PATRIOTS Two hours and 40 minutes, with one intermission. At the Barrymore Theatre, 243 West 47 Street. Through June 23. What a bore-scht. Peter Morgan’s new play “Patriots,” about how Russian oligarchs catastrophically enabled the rise of Vladimir Putin, opened Monday at the Barrymore Theatre on Broadway. It’s as slow and frigid as … Read more
Theater review THE HEART OF ROCK AND ROLL Two hours and 30 minutes, with one 15-minute intermission. At the James Earl Jones Theatre, 138 West 48th Street. Here’s something I never imagined writing five years ago: In 2024, there are no musicals by Andrew Lloyd Webber currently running on Broadway, but there are somehow two … Read more
Walking into the August Wilson Theatre, which has been gutted and impressively transformed into a sexy nightspot called the Kit Kat Club, my immediate reaction was, “Wow. This is cool!” Theater review CABARET Two hours and 45 minutes, with one intermission. At the August Wilson Theatre, 245 West 52nd Street. The audience enters, not through … Read more
This girl is finally on fire. Theater review HELL’S KITCHEN Two hours and 40 minutes, with one intermission. At the Shubert Theatre, 225 West 44th Street. The Alicia Keys musical “Hell’s Kitchen,” which opened Saturday night on Broadway following a rocky run last fall at the Public Theater, has greatly improved now that it’s only … Read more
Although “Stereophonic” is not a musical, it’s easy to get swept up by the terrific original rock songs that throb through it. movie review STEREOPHONIC Three hours and five minutes, with one intermission. At the John Golden Theatre, 252 West 45th Street. And as writer David Adjmi’s play, which opened Friday night at the John … Read more
Theater review SUFFS 2 hours and 30 minutes, with one intermission. At the Music Box Theatre, 239 W. 45th Street. The suffragist characters of the musical “Suffs,” which opened Thursday night at the Music Box Theatre, rarely take a breath to celebrate their victories. As soon as they achieve something monumental, such as securing a … Read more
Vivid Seats is the New York Post’s official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. The critics are raving about the rumble midway through “The Outsiders” at Broadway’s Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. Described as “breathtakingly visceral” by the New York Post’s critic Johnny … Read more
Let me start with a confession: I’ve never liked “The Wizard of Oz.” But give me a retelling with, say, a Black Dorothy and Black Oz, and I’m immediately clicking my heels. When “The Wiz” debuted on Broadway in 1975, it was a colorful exclamation of Blackness on the stage. That’s to say a Black … Read more
My apologies to Evilene, the wicked witch in “The Wiz,” who famously demands in song that her henchmen bring her “no bad news.” Theater review THE WIZ Two hours and 30 minutes, with one intermission. At the Marquis Theatre, 210 W. 46th Street. Because I must unfortunately report that the new revival of that musical, … Read more
What “Lempicka,” the mystifying new musical about Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka, needs more than anything else is turpentine. Theater review LEMPICKA Two hours and 30 minutes, with one intermission. At the Longacre Theatre, 228 W. 48th Street. Gallons and gallons of it. Unfortunately, having garishly blared open Sunday night at the Longacre Theatre, it’s … Read more