Tuesday, March 17, 2026
The indie folk-rock duo known as the Bengsons have been a regular fixture on Off Broadway stages over the last decade (and even made an appearance on Broadway last year performing Stephen Me…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 06:00PMMonday, March 16, 2026
It’s the early days of perestroika in St. Petersburg and Evgeny (Adam Chanler-Berat), the son of a local Communist Party boss turned budding oligarch, is struggling to please his dad with …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00AMSunday, March 15, 2026
David Ireland’s Ulster American, now playing at the Irish Rep, is a well-crafted skewering of straight, white, male creative types of a certain age who are desperate to maintain their rele…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 08:00PMSaturday, March 14, 2026
The theater can be like a campfire from childhood, a place where you gather in the darkness to listen to a story about things that go bump in the night. David Cale’s The Unknown makes the …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMThursday, March 12, 2026
It’s not every day that Harry Potter calls you old. To be clearer, it was Daniel Radcliffe, now a bearded young dad in his mid-30s, who approached my partner and me minutes before the star…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 11:00PMWednesday, March 11, 2026
Sophocles is having a moment. Robert Ickes’ Oedipus, recently on Broadway, recast the title character as an Obama-like political upstart facing down birtherism allegations, while Lee Zeldi…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMDirector/choreographer Martha Clarke made her name with a danced drama inspired by Hieronymus Bosch’s symbolism-heavy 16th century masterpiece “The Garden of Earthly Delights.” It’s …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 08:00PMTuesday, March 10, 2026
Ro Reddick’s absurdist historical drama Cold War Choir Practice was inspired by her experience growing up in Syracuse, New York, as one of the only Black members of a Reagan-era children�…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 07:00PMFriday, March 6, 2026
Millennial anxiety runs deep in Clare Barron’s You Got Older, which is getting an insightful revival at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Alia Shawkat stars as Mae, a thirtysomething who decides to…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 01:00PMWhen receiving a diagnosis of cancer, it’s tempting to retreat into yourself, to shut out all friends and family, and bear the burden of an uncertain future alone. Yasmine (Brooke Ishibash…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00AMThursday, March 5, 2026
Wallace Shawn’s best known collaboration with director André Gregory is the 1981 Louis Malle film My Dinner With André, in which the two denizens of the downtown arts scenes engage in a …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:30PMOrganized mayhem is the overriding aesthetic of Burnout Paradise, a celebration of multitasking produced and performed by the Pony Cam theater troupe from Melbourne, Australia. Four performe…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMSunday, March 1, 2026
There are laughs aplenty in the Fringey new musical Bigfoot! — which is perhaps not surprising since the book and score are by veteran comedy writer Amber Ruffin (with an assist from David…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:30PMNoah Galvin, a former Evan Hansen on Broadway who starred in the TV shows The Real O’Neals and The Good Doctor, delivers a star-making performance in the new dramedy The Reservoir that rec…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 07:00PMThursday, February 26, 2026
Investment banking is not the most welcoming of industries — especially for folks who don’t carry the privilege of being white and male. That familiar truth gets a fresh reworking in Ale…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMMonday, February 2, 2026
A thread of Gen X nostalgia runs strongly through British illusionist Jamie Allan’s Amaze, where the walls of the auditorium at New World Stages are lined with posters of ’80s films and …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 07:00PMWednesday, January 28, 2026
Who says Silicon Valley techies don’t have a conscience? Matthew Libby’s unbelievably timely drama Data centers on computer scientists at a firm called Athena trying to develop a top-sec…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMTuesday, January 27, 2026
You can see why rising Hollywood stars Abbey Lee (Mad Max: Fury Road) and Owen Teague (IT) were drawn to Joe White two-handed drama Blackout Songs, making its New York debut at the MCC Theat…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 07:00PMSunday, January 25, 2026
Elevator Repair Service — the troupe best known for its eight-hour, word-for-word staged reading of The Great Gatsby — has decided to tackle another 20th-century literary classic: James …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMWednesday, January 21, 2026
Live theater traipses into the uncanny valley of high-tech performance capture with An Ark, a fascinating new production that outfits audience members with mixed-reality headsets that allow …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMThursday, January 15, 2026
Erica Schmidt has packed her new play The Disappear with many promising elements, including some sharp insights into a middle-aged narcissist who’s earned a dubious reputation as a creativ…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMSunday, January 11, 2026
Tracy Letts’s Bug, making its Broadway debut three decades after its first performance, is a psychological thriller that has a timely prescience in David Cromer’s riveting production. Ca…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 01:00PMThursday, December 18, 2025
Australian author Joan Lindsay has credited a dream as the inspiration for her beloved 1967 novel Picnic at Hanging Rock — a story centered around the disappearance of a teacher and three …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMIt was a remarkable year for theater in New York, even if some of my favorites didn’t linger for very long. In whittling down my list, I decided to exclude some shows that transferred to B…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMTuesday, December 16, 2025
Molière’s 1664 satire Tartuffe is having a moment in New York this fall. First, André de Shields led a campy revival in the Gilded Age library at House of the Redeemer. Now Matthew Brode…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 06:00PMMonday, December 15, 2025
The world has changed a lot since I first saw Jordan Harrison’s Marjorie Prime at Off Broadway’s Playwrights Horizons a decade ago. The premise had once seemed like science fiction: A fa…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 04:00PMSunday, December 14, 2025
Anna Christie has become a kind of oddball stepchild in the Eugene O’Neill canon, seldom seen in New York City since the memorable 1993 Broadway revival with Natasha Richardson and Liam Ne…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 04:30PMThursday, December 4, 2025
God bless us every one. Ebenezer Scrooge is back in town, in a highly modified adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol that first played on Broadway in 2019 (and scooped …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 08:00PMWednesday, December 3, 2025
Directors have always had a reputation for their god complex, but Asa Leon — the manipulative theater-maker at the center of Nazareth Hassan’s dark satire Practice — takes matters to a…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 11:30AMMonday, November 24, 2025
It’s apt that Else Went’s epic theater piece Initiative is opening at the Public Theater just as Netflix prepares to roll out the final season of Stranger Things. Both projects are binge…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMSunday, November 23, 2025
Kara Young and Nicholas Braun make an engaging odd couple as emotionally (and physically) damaged young people in a decades-long situationship in Gruesome Playground Injuries, which opened S…
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