Thursday, October 6, 2022
The original challenge to the creators of “1776” was how to make a commercial musical comedy out of something as somber and dry as the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Half a …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:42PMTuesday, October 4, 2022
“We are not criminals…” Kristina was saying “We are refugees,” Bohdana added, “seeking asylum.” Kristina Obluchynska and Bohdana Yakobchuk were two of the seven women from Ukra…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:26PMMonday, October 3, 2022
On the same night that I saw the exquisitely acted Broadway production of “Cost of Living” — Martyna Majok’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play that tells the parallel stories of two disabl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:23PMTom Stoppard’s nineteenth play to open on Broadway, and the Fall 2022 season’s first, launches a busy and exciting theatrical month in New York — eight shows just on Broadway, includin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:46AMSunday, October 2, 2022
“Leopoldstadt,” a play by Tom Stoppard inspired by the death of his own extended family in the Holocaust, begins with a family tree projected onto the scrim of the stage at Broadway’s …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:44PMSaturday, October 1, 2022
Below is a day-by-day calendar of theater opening* in October, a thrilling selection featuring eight Broadway shows (four of them Pulitzer winners, a fifth the nineteenth Broadway play in a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30AMFriday, September 30, 2022
How well were you paying attention to New York theater in September? Answer these dozen questions to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:14PMThursday, September 29, 2022
Before the curtain rises at BAM’s Harvey Theater on this wordless, whimsical and haunting hour-long theater piece cryptically entitled “300 el x 50 el x 30 el,” a huge screen proje…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:19PMWednesday, September 28, 2022
In María Irene Fornés’ 1984 musical “Sarita” — presented in a rare staged reading free online through October 16th as part of Roundabout’s Refocus Project — we first meet the t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:12PMMonday, September 26, 2022
With the announcement this week that Mike Birbiglia is returning to Broadway for his latest solo show about his life, “The Old Man and the Pool,” (opening at the Vivian Beaumont Novembe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:47AMSaturday, September 24, 2022
“Cheek to Cheek,” an intelligent, entertaining musical revue that showcases two dozen of the songs that Irving Berlin wrote for movie musicals, makes no claims that his work in Hollywood…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:56PMFriday, September 23, 2022
In the music video below, Deaf West Theater interprets Lin-Manuel Miranda’s song “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” into American Sign Language in a music video from the animated film “En…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:29PMThursday, September 22, 2022
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to, of the twenty that have an official opening on Broadway in October, November or December 2022. They are listed chronologically below by …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:14PMTuesday, September 20, 2022
The 1934 Broadway debut of “Four Saints in Three Acts,” a then-shocking and much celebrated avant-garde opera with a libretto by Gertrude Stein and a score by Virgil Thomson, featured an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:08PMMonday, September 19, 2022
At “Sesame Street the Musical,” an hour-long show in which nine puppeteers portray 11 familiar Sesame Street characters who each get a familiar Sesame Street song to sing, there was one …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:28PMTheater is evanescent; that’s part of its appeal. The one exception seemed to be “The Phantom of the Opera.” But this week the musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and directed by H…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:19AMSunday, September 18, 2022
Sometimes the set design is the best thing about a Broadway show. I thought that about “Moulin Rouge,” which won Derek McLane his second Tony Award for set design. Sometimes the sets are…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:27AMSaturday, September 17, 2022
It’s a shock, but it probably shouldn’t be. “The Phantom of the Opera,” the longest-running show in Broadway history, will close on February 18th, shortly after commemorating its 35T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:03AMFriday, September 16, 2022
On the third day of her three-week trip to New York City, the ten-year-old Syrian refugee, and 12-foot-tall puppet, visits Father Duffy Square in Times Square, where she looks over the TKTS …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:54PMThursday, September 15, 2022
FDR knew. In 1943, Jan Karski told President Roosevelt firsthand about the Holocaust, after Karski, a Polish diplomat turned Resistance fighter had been smuggled into both the Warsaw Ghetto …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PMWednesday, September 14, 2022
Little Amal, a ten-year-old Syrian refugee and a 12-foot-tall puppet, has traveled 6,000 miles since July 2021, arriving today in New York City, first at JFK Airport, for 55 events over seve…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:52PMTuesday, September 13, 2022
Sheryl Lee Ralph gave an acceptance speech for the ages when she won the Emmy award last night for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as the veteran kindergarten …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:22AMMonday, September 12, 2022
The first four new Broadway shows of the Fall season begin performances this week, although they won’t officially open until next month. Two more shows were added to the Broadway 2022-2…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:36AMSunday, September 11, 2022
Machine Dazzle walks with me through some 80 of his fabulously intricate costumes on display at the opening day of his solo exhibition at the Museum of Art and Design, to one of some two doz…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:47PMSaturday, September 10, 2022
Walt Disney is pissed. “Why the hell would anybody need to unionize at a place like this? We got volleyball!“ “Burbank,” a play by Cameron Darwin Bossert at The Wild Project throug…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:41PMFriday, September 9, 2022
Queen Elizabeth II, who died yesterday at the age of 96, commanded the world stage during her 70-year reign. She was also a character on theatrical stages — in Great Britain of course, but…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:28PMThursday, September 8, 2022
In 1999, three physicists took a train from Cambridge to London, and in their discussion on that hour-long trip came up with a new theory about the origin of the universe, an alternate view…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PMWednesday, September 7, 2022
“My Onliness” is billed as “a fable/cabaret/circus entertainment about a mad king’s desperate attempt to impress a mysterious petitioner” – a description that doesn’t completel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PMTuesday, September 6, 2022
Adele and Paul McCartney were among the winners of the Creative Arts Emmys announced over the weekend, which means, for an EGOT (Emmy Grammy Oscar Tony), they only now need…a Tony. McCa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:28AMMonday, September 5, 2022
Where are the American plays about labor? About unions, or workers, or workplaces? I’ve been asking that question every Labor Day, a legal holiday created by Congress in 1884 to celeb…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:26AM 
