Pete Hempstead

Pete Hempstead

Born in Albany, N.Y., Pete Hempstead joined TheaterMania in 2013. He is the Deputy Executive Editor, as well as a critic, news writer, and listings editor. He is a voting member of the Drama Desk Awards and of the Outer Critics Circle Awards. Pete received his MA in 2002 from Brooklyn College where he wrote his master's thesis on the role of wine in Shakespeare's plays, and his work as a playwright received a reading at the Workshop Theater in 2017.

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Latest Articles by Pete Hempstead

Under the Radar Review: An Impotent Takedown of a Dead Dictator in Old Cock

Under the Radar Review: A Story About Dyslexia Told Through Dance in Little Murmur

Under the Radar Review: New Life Rises From the Ashes in Spectacular Dead as a Dodo

Under the Radar Review: Ian Kamau Brings His Multimedia Memoir, Loss, to Harlem

Review: John Mulaney and Friends Read Us Stories by Simon Rich in All In: Comedy About Love on Broadway

The 5 Best Off-Broadway Shows of 2024

The 10 Best Performances of 2024

The 11 Best Broadway Debuts of 2024

Review: Another Christmas, Another Family Meltdown in Cult of Love on Broadway

Review: Guilt and Sex Go Hand in Hand in A Guide for the Homesick

Review: The Machines Are Here to Entertain Us in We Are Your Robots

Review: Francesca D’Uva Gets Us to Smile — Noisily — in This Is My Favorite Song

Review: Neil Patrick Harris and Debra Messing Reveal Cellphone Secrets in Shit. Meet. Fan.

Review: Another Shot Shows a Radio Host Stumbling Toward Sobriety

Review: Kit Connor Flexes and Rachel Zegler Belts in a Lit Romeo and Juliet

Review: Benjamin Franklin Is a Great Founding Father but a Lousy Real Father in Franklinland

Review: Our Town Returns to Broadway With Jim Parsons, a Diverse Cast, and Onstage Seating

Review: Time-Travel Musical Safety Not Guaranteed Clocks a Win as a Low-Tech Charmer

Review: Strange Occurrences Haunt a Couple’s Renovated Home in Good Bones

Review: Orange Is the New Red for Kate Mulgrew in The Beacon at Irish Repertory Theatre

Glengarry Glen Ross Returning to Broadway With Kieran Culkin and Bob Odenkirk

Frasier’s Dan Butler to Star in Another Shot Off-Broadway

Calvin Leon Smith to Join Adam Lambert in Cabaret

Review: Six Characters in Search of Coherence

What Shows Will Win the Best Musical, Play, and Revival Tonys in 2024?

Who Will Win Best Director, Choreographer, Score, and Book Tonys in 2024?

Review: A Man's Odyssey Begins While God's on Vacation in Home

Story of the Week: Which Actors Are Going to Win a Tony in 2024?

Review: Love Is Hell for the Men in The Fires

Review: Message in a Bottle, a Story of War and Refuge Told Through the Music of Sting

Review: Finding Joy in Grief in The Keep Going Songs

Review: I Ought to Be in Pictures Has Some Nostalgic Charm but Not Much Else

Review: Grenfell Looks at the Failures That Led to a Deadly Fire in a London High-Rise

Review: Taylor Mac Journeys Through Genders and Centuries in an Exuberant Orlando

Review: Sally & Tom Takes On Thomas Jefferson and His Relationship With Sally Hemings

Review: Laurence Fishburne Leaves Us Wanting Morpheus in Like They Do in the Movies

Review: Shakespeare and Shaw Are a Deadly Combination in The Assassination of Julius Caesar

Review: The Effect Asks, Is It Love or Is It Just the Drugs?

Review: Shakespeare’s Oft-Neglected Pericles Gets a Hilarious Revival Off-Broadway

Review: Richard Burton and Sir John Gielgud Create a Hamlet for the Ages in The Motive and the Cue

Jonathan Norton Talks About Taking Audiences to Church in His Hilarious New Comedy I Am Delivered’t

Review: Jonah Looks at the Creative Ways We Deal With Pain

Review: A Family Tries to Escape From Its Emotional Cage in The Animal Kingdom

Review: You Won’t Get Your Kicks During The Greatest Hits Down Route 66

Review: Nutty Second City Revue Oh, the Places You’ll Glow! Gets Laughs With a Bright Cast

Review: Housecleaning Is a Woman’s Path to Marital Bliss in In Quietness

Review: An Underappreciated LGBTQ Icon Blazes to Life in Make Me Gorgeous!

Review: Under the Radar 2024: Open Mic Night

Review: Under the Radar 2024: Inua Ellams’s Search Party

5 Predictions for the Theater in 2024

The Best Broadway and Off-Broadway Performances of 2023

The Best Broadway Debuts of 2023

The 8 Best Off-Broadway Shows of 2023

Review: Legendary Cuban Musicians Come to Life in an Electric Buena Vista Social Club

Interview: Matt de Rogatis Talks About Bringing an Updated Lone Star to the Stage

Review: Mind Mangler Entertains More With Laughs Than With Magic

Review: A Dental Lab Technician Wrestles With Questions of Career and Family in Off-Beat A Good Day to Me Not to You

Review: Waiting for Godot, Starring Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks, Still Packs a Wallop — and an Angry One, Too

Robert Brustein, a Staunch Advocate for Nonprofit Theaters, Dies at 96

Review: Brian Friel’s Translations Looks at Language as a Tool of Oppression

Review: Arms and the Man Revival Gets Laughs, but Not as Many as It Might Have

Review: A DNA Test Throws an American Family Into Turmoil in Redwood

Review: A Woman Body’s Changes Before Her Own Eyes in Daphne

Review: A Houdini Magic Act Inspires a Story About the Problem of Animal Abuse in The Vanishing Elephant

Review: Patrick Page Conjures Shakespeare’s Villains in His Solo Show All the Devils Are Here

Review: The Popular Sesame Street Musical Returns Off-Broadway in a New Theater

Review: No Shark but Lots of Jawing in The Shark Is Broken

Review: Basketball Courts Are the Pantheon of Actual Gods in The Half-God of Rainfall

Review: The Cottage Is a Welcome Retreat From the Summer Heat

Review: James T. Lane Gives New Meaning to the Phrase Triple Threat

Review: Two Young Black Men of Caribbean Descent Live on the DL in Foxes

Predictions: What Will Win the Best Musical and Best Play Tony Awards in 2023?

Predictions: Which Revivals Will Win Tony Awards in 2023?