Sunday, September 14, 2025
Charles 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 04:00PMWednesday, September 10, 2025
Otis 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 09:00PMTuesday, September 9, 2025
The 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…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMThursday, August 21, 2025
Huzzah! Shakespeare in the Park has returned to Central Park’s newly refurbished Delacorte Theater — the perfect venue to celebrate one of the city’s most remarkable and entirely free …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMMonday, August 18, 2025
Jeff Ross has earned the moniker “Roastmaster General” for a brand of insult comedy he’s honed on stage and in multiple Comedy Central specials over the years. But he proves himself to…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMThursday, August 14, 2025
Nobody could mistake Mamma Mia! for high art. Cardboard-cutout characters vamp through a ridiculous romantic plot, while beloved disco-era ABBA hits are shoehorned in often as clumsily as Ci…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMThursday, August 7, 2025
It’s easy to see why Elizabeth McGovern might have been drawn to the story of Ava Gardner, another American actress who found Hollywood fame in her 20s and 30s and then moved to London as …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMQuincy Tyler Bernstine, one of the finest actors of her generation, is the heart and soul of Bubba Weiler’s transcendent new drama Well, I’ll Let You Go, which opened Thursday in a magni…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 08:00PMMonday, August 4, 2025
Frank Maya was a true pioneer, arguably one of the first out gay American comics to reach a mainstream audience. In the early ’90s, he appeared on MTV and landed a half-hour special on Com…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 08:00PMThursday, 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…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 05:00PMTuesday, May 20, 2025
“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…
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