Thursday, July 24, 2025
Parody is a tricky art form. Off Broadway iterations like Ginger Twinsies, an unauthorized sendup of the 1998 Nancy Meyers family comedy The Parent Trap, seem to thrive on inside jokes but n…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMRolling Thunder, which opened Thursday at New World Stages, is a curious exercise in boomer nostalgia — a jarring blend of jukebox musical and tribute-band concert that evokes the Vietnam …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 08:00PMMonday, July 21, 2025
We’re in a wonderful moment when the stand-up set as a form is open to radical reinterpretation by talents as diverse as Hannah Gadsby, Tig Notaro, James Acaster, and more. The latest inno…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 08:00PMSunday, July 20, 2025
The opening number of Joy, a new bio-musical about the QVC-famous Miracle Mop inventor Joy Mangano, is a marvel of narrative concision. In short strokes set to composer-lyricist Annmarie Mil…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 08:00PMThursday, July 17, 2025
Ever since its 1997 debut in London (followed by a successful Broadway run two years later), Conor McPherson’s intimate drama The Weir has been hailed as a modern masterpiece. And rightly …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 08:00PMSunday, July 13, 2025
The outdoor amphitheater at Little Island near the Chelsea piers is an apt setting for the exuberant new revival of The Gospel at Colonus, a blend of Greek tragedy and gospel music that prem…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 11:00PMThursday, July 10, 2025
When Heathers The Musical first opened at New World Stages in 2014, you could feel the creators struggling to adapt the caustic 1989 dark comedy that launched the careers of Christian Slater…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMThursday, June 26, 2025
There’s a beguiling quality to the latest immersive theater piece from the Punchdrunk company that brought us Sleep No More. Viola’s Room, which just opened at The Shed, invites groups o…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 08:00PMWednesday, June 25, 2025
There are some provocative ideas in play during Emmanuelle Mattana’s brief and quick-paced new dramedy Trophy Boys, starting with the decision to cast women and nonbinary actors as the fou…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 07:00PMTuesday, June 24, 2025
Jay Ellis (Insecure) and Stephanie Nur (Lioness), two rising stars on film and TV, spark with a sizzling onstage chemistry in Charles Randolph-Wright ripped-from-the-headlines romantic drama…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMWednesday, June 18, 2025
What does a monster look like? In Angry Alan, now playing at Off Broadway’s newly rechristened Studio Seaview (formerly the home of the Second Stage Theater), he bears a striking resemblan…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 01:53PMTuesday, June 17, 2025
The provocation in Jordan Tannahill’s explosive and explosively entertaining new play starts with the title: Prince Faggot. The show begins with a prologue in which all six cast members si…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 08:30PMMonday, June 16, 2025
The 7 Fingers is a Montreal-based circus troupe built in the shadow of Cirque du Soleil, but the similarities only go so far. While Cirque du Soleil is now a Hollywood-scale behemoth owned b…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 08:00AMThursday, 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 …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 11:00PMMonday, June 2, 2025
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…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 04:49PMSunday, June 1, 2025
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…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 06:00PMSunday, May 18, 2025
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 …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 08:00PMThursday, May 8, 2025
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…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMMonday, May 5, 2025
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…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMThursday, May 1, 2025
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…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:03AMTuesday, April 29, 2025
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�…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 08:00PMMonday, April 28, 2025
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…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00AMSunday, April 27, 2025
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,…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 05:00PMSaturday, April 26, 2025
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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