Photos: Maya Werner   Thursday night, November 16, was the opening of MCC’s newest show School Girls: Or, The African Mean Girls Play, written by Jocelyn Bioh, and directed by Tony Award Winner Rebecca Taichman (Time and the Conways, Indecent). The show stars...

    MCC Theater’s annual Miscast gala, held at the Hammerstein Ballroom, has become one of the hottest tickets of the theatrical season. The reason: audiences get the chance to see of Broadway’s biggest stars take on roles and songs they’d never be offered in real life. This year’s...

        by Brian Scott Lipton   “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” That quote by Albert Einstein shows up in Nick Payne’s fascinating, dense new 85-minute work Incognito at Manhattan Theatre Club. But I doubt the characters—who include some of Einstein’s...

    Boldface names from the theater world turned up Sunday night at the Barrow Street Theatre for opening night and US debut of The Effect, by Lucy Prebble. Having recently taken London by storm, winning Best New Play from the UK Critics’ circle, The Effect is now helmed by...

                                                    By Brian Scott Lipton and Sandi Durell   The 71st Annual Theatre World Awards, honoring the year’s...

                Sting, Christian Borle, Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron were just a few of the many nominees who gathered the evening of May 20th at Hudson Terrace in New York City for the Tony Awards Creative Arts Nominees Reception. The evening was held...

      Review by Sandi Durell     Things haven’t changed much from the off Broadway productions of “Hand to God” for the foul-mouthed hand puppet Tyrone, the alter-ego of the angry, dysfunctional and shy Jason (Steven Boyer) in the little Texas town of Cypress where he...