Thursday, June 12, 2025
Old Macheath is back, this time flashing his pearly whites as a thief in 1850s New York City in an updated version of John Gay and Johann Christoph Pepusch’s 1728 classic The Beggar’s Op…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 11:00PMAfter a quarter-century absence, Jean Smart makes a welcome return to Broadway in the one-woman show Call Me Izzy, a glorified Lifetime movie about a middle-aged Louisiana woman who endures …
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There is something about ancient Greek stories that continues to resonate with us millennia later. Nearly a quarter century ago, a young playwright named Sarah Ruhl decided to tackle the leg…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMHa Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha, now playing at the Public Theater after successful runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and the Soho Playhouse, is the kind of sui generis solo performance that will have you d…
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Nazareth Hassan’s play Bowl EP, now playing at the Vineyard Theatre in a coproduction with the National Black Theater and the New Group, pulses with the inventiveness and infectious energy…
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“What is human? What is divine?” Those are the opening lines of the recognizably human and borderline divine new musical Goddess, which opened Tuesday at the Public Theater. They’re sp…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:30PMLights Out: Nat King Cole, a weirdly structured biomusical about the late, great jazz singer that opened Tuesday at the New York Theatre Workshop, is a curious exercise in polarities. The br…
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Love is never quite as it seems — and lovers can be just as elusive when you try to pin down their desires. That’s a truism that is reinforced in August Strindberg’s Creditors, which i…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMA lot of time has passed since William Inge’s Bus Stop first pulled into New York theaters in 1955 with its snapshot of salt-of-the-earth folks waylaid by a bad weather for a few hours in …
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Hugh Jackman, fresh from his song-and-dance triumph at Madison Square Garden a few months ago, returns to the New York stage in a beguiling and twisty new two-hander, Sexual Misconduct of th…
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There’s a surface cleverness running through playwright Caitlin Saylor Stephens’ Five Models in Ruins, 1981, a new drama set during a Vogue photo shoot in the fall just after the royal w…
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The Encores! series at New York City Center has revived so many classic musicals and underrated gems over the years. The latest production of Wonderful Town is a surprising disappointment, b…
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Has the immersive theater bubble popped? Sleep No More, the elaborate theatrical experience mashing up Macbeth and film noir over five meticulously curated floors of a warehouse in New York�…
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Broadway stars like Megan Hilty, George Clooney, and Sadie Sink are eschewing the usual list of credits and awards with jokey Playbill bios
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 05:30PMAnnie Baker, the minimalist playwright best known for her Pulitzer-winning drama The Flick, casts a long shadow over a new generation of playwrights. But it’s not enough to write a natural…
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This Broadway season has been unexpectedly rich in promising new musicals, and it concludes with a sensational surprise: Real Women Have Curves, based on Josefina López’s 1990 play and a …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:30PMMusical theater creators have long explored some of the darkest chapters of history but few are as dark — or as unusual — as the hero of composer David Yazbek, lyricist Erik Della Penna,…
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Is there a more endearing Broadway star at the moment than Jonathan Groff? The veteran performer, who won the Tony Award last year for softening the very rough edges of the first-class jerk …
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Like Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy, Key and Peele, or green eggs and ham, W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan are a comedic duo for the ages. There are a lot of brightly hued yolks and …
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Ryan J. Haddad’s new monologue/play Hold Me in the Water, which opened Wednesday at Off Broadway’s Playwrights Horizons, has the confessional energy of an overdue catch-up session with a…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 08:30PMTuesday, April 22, 2025
Netflix’s sci-fi series Stranger Things, which is expected to stream its fifth and (supposedly) final season later this year, has developed a rabid following since its 2016 debut for its s…
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America has always found a place in its heart for dreamers, however flawed or misguided. Almost exactly a century ago, the story of a Kentucky cave enthusiast and natural risk-taker named Fl…
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There’s nothing particularly new about reframing William Shakespeare’s Scottish play around the hero’s notoriously ruthless and manipulative wife, Lady Macbeth. Zinnie Harris’s Macbe…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 11:59PMCaryl Churchill may be the best living playwright in the English language. And at 86, she’s still producing work of remarkable vigor and nuance in her quintessentially absurdist style. Her…
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There’s something refreshing about seeing a Broadway theater packed with Gen Alpha patrons. Many of them flocked to the recent Romeo + Juliet with barely-twentysomething stars Kit Connor a…
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If you’ve had the pleasure of attending performances at the Irish Repertory Theatre, you’ve grown accustomed to certain recurring themes and tropes in the grand tradition of Irish drama:…
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Even before winning the Tony Award last year for his pointed dramedy Appropriate, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins had emerged as one of the brightest lights in the current American theater scene with…
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The first episode of Smash — a backstage look at the making of a Broadway biomusical about Marilyn Monroe — was one of the most perfect TV pilots produced in the new millennium. Playwrig…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMWole Soyinka is a seminal figure in world literature and drama, but the 90-year-old Nigerian Nobel Prize winner’s works are seldom performed in New York. That’s particularly true of his …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMTuesday, April 8, 2025
Even four years after his death at age 91, Stephen Sondheim remains a towering figure in American musical theater. The breadth of his talents as a composer, lyricist, and storyteller get a l…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMMonday, April 7, 2025
Betty Boop, the baby-voiced Jazz Age flapper from black-and-white Max Fleischer cartoons of the 1930s, is not the most obvious piece of ancient IP to become the center of a new Broadway musi…
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