All the lonely people, where do they all come from? Samuel D. Hunter grapples with this question in his heartfelt one-act drama Little Bear Ridge Road, which opened on Broadway Thursday afte…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMIn the last decade, Bess Wohl has emerged as one of the most talented and eclectic voices in American theater — whose work ranges from historical pieces (Camp Siegfried) to broad domestic …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMNot every semipopular movie from the last half century needs to get the stage musical treatment. That’s the takeaway from the lukewarm mess that is Romy & Michele: The Musical, which t…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 07:00PMThe producers of the big-hearted new country-pop musical Beau have turned the subterranean black-box space at Off Broadway’s St. Luke’s Theater into a Nashville tavern/concert space, com…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMEarly on in her brave and bravura solo performance piece Did You Eat? ((밥 먹었니?), Zoë Kim lulls you into thinking that hers will be a typical immigrant’s yarn about generational di…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:30PMThere are throwbacks and then there’s The Art of Leaving, a new one-act comedy that could pass for a middling revival of a Neil Simon knockoff from a half century ago. The characters in An…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 08:00PMEthan Coen, whose best known for his Oscar-winning film work with his older brother, Joel, brings his distinct sensibility to Let’s Love!, a collection of three short playlets that are les…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 05:55PMWe’re all familiar with the sketches that air during the final half hour of Saturday Night Live, the ones that start with a half-decent premise but outstay their welcome and only cling to …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMThere’s an old adage that actors should work hard to make their performance seem effortless. Ari’el Stachel doesn’t do that — but he offers a solid excuse in his labor-intensive one-…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMWhen Ragtime was first staged in the mid-1990s, it embodied a certain post-Reagan excess with producer Garth Drabinksy’s elaborate, budget-busting staging (fireworks! a working Model T!) a…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 11:00PMJordan E. Cooper, who delivered a satirical wake-up call to the theater world with his extended sketch comedy Ain’t No Mo’, is back with a new play. Oh Happy Day!, which is billed as a �…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:15PMThe appeal of classics is how they continue to speak to us across the centuries. Molière’s 1664 comedy Tartuffe is a telling example, offering both acute insights into religious hypocrisy…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMDylan Mulvaney, the transgender performer best known for an ill-fated 2023 branding deal with Bud Light that created a media firestorm that led to boycotts of the beer, embraces all of her m…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMMonet Hurst-Mendoza’s Torera, which opened Sunday at the WP Theater, simulates the experience of binge-watching a telenovela-style saga set in the world of a Mexican bullfighting. The twis…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 04:00PMWhy settle for one stand-up routine when you can deliver The First Three Minutes of 17 Shows? That’s the high-concept premise of American-born comedian Abby Wambaugh’s delightfully daffy…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 12:30PMHomecomings can be a tricky thing, as Chloë Grace Moretz’s Maddie learns in Preston Max Allen’s new drama Caroline. After fleeing home as a teenager amid drug-fueled rebellion, stealing…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 08:00PMIt’s only been two years since Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera ended its 35-year run on Broadway but the beloved sung-through musical that once carried the tagline “Now and …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMHow do we make sense of a senseless act? James Graham’s searing and unforgettable new drama, Punch, digs into a real-life incident in Nottingham, England in 2011 when a 19-year-old hooliga…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:30PMKeanu Reeves and Alex Winter, who famously played stoner time travelers in the Bill & Ted comedies 35 years ago, were not high on anyone’s list to tackle the philosophizing tramps Estr…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMIreland can never seem to outlive the long, dark legacy of The Troubles — a period that looms large in Leo McGann’s often gripping new thriller, The Honey Trap, which opened Sunday at th…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMTim Blake Nelson, the beloved character actor best known for his work in Coen Brothers films like O Brother, Where Art Thou? and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, continues his foray into playwr…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 04:00PMMuch ink has been spilled about Rupert Murdoch, the Australian born media mogul who at 94 remains an influential force in politics and society who’s become a hero to the right and a bogeym…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 03:00PMJohn Leguizamo is no stranger to live theater, but he’s best known for solo shows like Spic-O-Rama and the 2018 Tony winner Latin History for Morons. His new play, premiering at the Public…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMHow do we face the apocalyptic horrors of climate change? If you’re Stacey Gross, the Fresno, California, TV weather reporter at the center of Brian Watkins’ frenetically funny new one-w…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 06:00PMThe teen coming-out story has become an all-too-familiar genre, but Saturday Church updates the form with surprising club beats as well as a starry creative team that hail from the worlds of…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 06:00PMTheater can be a powerful force, both for education and entertainment. The electric new two-man musical Mexodus, which opened at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre following a successful run l…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMIt’s easy to see why actors are drawn to the showy comedic roles in Yasmina Reza’s zippy three-man comedy Art, which is getting a zippy, high-profile revival on Broadway nearly three dec…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMCharles Ludlam was a pioneering figure in queer theater in the 1980s with campy send-ups of classic works (Satyricon in Turds in Hell, Hamlet in Stage Blood) as well as Old Hollywood (like h…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMTwo years after Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, in which a community rejects a truth-telling Cassandra in their midst warning about a public health scandal unfolding in their town�…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 04:00PMOtis Redding’s “Try a Little Tenderness” features prominently in Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brothers Size, and for good reason. The play, which I first saw in 2009 as the middle sec…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMThe best part of House of McQueen, a paean to the late fashion designer Alexander McQueen, doesn’t even occur on the stage of the cavernous new Off Broadway venue dubbed the Mansion at Hud…
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