A peek at the magic of hair & make-up in TARTUFFE! by New York Theatre Workshop

Everyone say hi to Rob and Katie, the talented hair and makeup designers putting the “icing on the cake” of TARTUFFE! Videography and editing by Ellie Gravitte. TARTUFFE By Molière In…

Go behind-the-scenes at the TARTUFFE costume shop! by New York Theatre Workshop

Jeffrey Wallach, everyone's favorite Costume Shop Manager, brings you behind the scenes of TARTUFFE to share insight about some of the many fabrics and details layered within our extravagant…

Audrey Heffernan Meyer and Alan Ceppos Chat ART OF LEAVING

How do you know when it’s time to leave?Described as Neil Simon-meets-A Doll’s House, Anne Marilyn Lucas’ new comedy Art of Leaving is a razor-sharp look at a marriage in crisis. As th…

Sharp design and performances elevate MAT’s ‘A Doll’s House’ by Judith Sears

Ibsen’s timeless play of female empowerment gets a strong staging in the Springs

IS THERE A BETTER STAGE ACTRESS IN AMERICA THAN LAURIE METCALF? by Ron Fassler

Laurie Metcalf as Sarah and Micah Stock as Ethan in “Little Bear Ridge Road” (photo by Julia Cervantes).November 13, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler. In 1984, I attend…

Photos: ART OF LEAVING Celebrates Opening Night

Anne Marilyn Lucas’s new comedy, Art of Leaving, just celebrated opening night at the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at the Pershing Square Signature Center. Directed by Matt Gehring, Art…

AI Recommends Outdated Broadway Shows, Overlooks New Titles

Two Cautionary Takeaways 1) AI is recommending closed or irrelevant shows: Across two test days (October 2 and 3, 2025), Open AI’s ChatGPT repeatedly recommended titles that are closed (e.…

My Variety Review: Keanu Reeves in Broadway's 'Waiting For Godot' by Frank Rizzo

Forget the tree. That iconic lone tree from the stage directions in Samuel Beckett’s tragicomic masterwork “Waiting for Godot” is offstage in Jamie Lloyd’s re-envisioned revival. The…

Waiting for Godot *** by Barry Gordin

By David Sheward September 28, 2025: The biggest box-office hit of the new, startlingly sparse Broadway fall season is, surprisingly, a revival of Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett’s clas…

‘Waiting For Godot’ Review: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter Bring a Cooler, Cosmic Take to This Broadway Waiting Game  by Gordon Cox

Forget the tree. That iconic lone tree from the stage directions in Samuel Beckett’s tragicomic masterwork “Waiting for Godot” is offstage in Jamie Lloyd’s re-envisioned revival. The…

The Wild Duck **** by Barry Gordin

By David Sheward September 15, 2025: The Wild Duck (1884) is the red-headed step-child among Henrik Ibsen’s classic plays. It seems every time a high-powered actress best known for her fi…

The Wild Duck **1/2 by Barry Gordin

By Samuel L. Leiter September 14, 2025: Revivals of Henrik Ibsen are common enough, though A Doll’s House tends to dominate. Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, and An Enemy of the People appear regul…

‘A Doll’s House, Part 2’ presents emotional fireworks in a static setting by Toni Tresca

Denver Theatre Ensemble delivers a solid but uneven take on Lucas Hnath’s drama.

Fix+Foxy’s “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen: A Playful Study in Radical Intimacy by Duška Radosavljević

Imagine Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, staged as a sort of salon game, in a real couple’s home serving as a set for the classic drama of duty versus love. Fix+Foxy’s innovative production, …

Video: Jon Clark Talks Tony Win for Best Lighting Design of a Play

Earlier tonight at the 78th Annual Tony Awards, Jon Clark took home a Tony Award for 'Best Lighting Design of a Play' for his outstanding work on Stranger Things: The First Shadow. After lea…

Stars, shockers, psychos and evangelists: Rupert Goold’s mighty end to his high-wire Almeida tenure by Arifa Akbar

A smattering of famous names, a big-ambition project, a gay classic and a musical thriller … the powerhouse artistic director’s final productions have all his hallmarks, showing how he m…

Review: Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House, Part 2 Sputters When It Should Sparkle

“A Doll’s House, Part 2” now at Pasadena Playhouse by Pauline Adamek

Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (1879) is one of the foundational works of modern drama. The play was written and first staged during the Victorian era, which was a time where rigid gender…

Michael Patrick Thornton Joins Keanu Reeves-Alex Winter “Waiting For Godot’ On Broadway by Greg Evans

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Patrick Thornton, last on the New York stage opposite Jessica Chastain in 2023’s A Doll’s House, will return to Broadway in this fall’s much anticipated staging of W…

SHANGHAI DOLLS Kiln, NW6 by Libby Purves and Friends

TWO WOMEN, LONG YEARS ACROSS HALF A CONTINENT       1935: below projected headlines about Communists executed in Shanghai and the war between Japan and Red China comes an audition call fo…

A Doll’s House, Part 2

Elizabeth Reaser and Jason Butler Harner to Star in A Doll’s House, Part 2

‘Ghosts:’ A Haunting And Emotionally Devastating Ibsen Revival by Frank J. Avella

I haven’t been emotionally slayed at the theater in quite a while. And I can shamefully state that Ghosts is a Henrik Ibsen play I was not completely familiar with. In terms of the Norwegi…

Hedgerow Theatre presents Stef Smith’s Nora: A Doll’s House by Isabel Soisson

Nora: A Doll’s House, now getting its American premiere at Hedgerow Theatre, takes the Ibsen classic and reimagines Nora’s life in 1920, 1973, and 2018. Isabel Soisson reviews.

Ghosts Review by Jonathan Mandell

As Helena Alving in “Ghosts,”, Lily Rabe seems to do the exact inverse of what Jessica Chastain did as Nora Helmer in “A Doll’s House” two years ago. Chastain sat in a chair for th…

Ghosts **1/2 by Patrick Christiano

By Samuel L. Leiter March 15, 2025. Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts, now in an uninspired production at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre, has not received anywher…

Mrs. Loman *1/2 by Barry Gordin

By: David Sheward February 7, 2025. Sequels of classic plays have a mixed history. Some are total bombs such as the famous flop musical A Doll’s Life which follows Ibsen’s Nora after …

Sunset Blvd. by Joel Benjamin

Now, director Jamie Lloyd has taken the clunky—but entertaining—Andrew Lloyd Webber musical "Sunset Blvd." (1993) and stripped it of all realistic scenery—and a few songs—hoping to g…

A Doll’s House by Steven Morris

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"Sunset Blvd." Glows in All the Wrong Ways by Jan Simpson

You're unlikely to find anyone who doesn't have a strong opinion about Sunset Blvd., the latest revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black and Christopher Hampton’s musical adaptation of Bi…

“Robbin, from the Hood” at The Road by Terry Morgan

Message plays are a pillar of western theater. Our entire theatrical ecosystem is unthinkable without works such as Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House or Larry…