Monday, August 1, 2022
“Who here loves their father? Who here hates their father?” Aya asks the audience each time for a show of hands, and then volunteers: “I hated my father.” Aya Ogawa’s “The N…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:58PM “High Noon” is aiming for Broadway, an announcement last week that felt aptly timed, considering all the showdowns. (see The Week in New York Theater News) Theater Quiz for July 2022: …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:36AMSunday, July 31, 2022
Below is a selection of theater opening in New York in August, with many of the most intriguing plays this month by and about first generation Americans. It’s summer, so a lot of the thea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:13AMSaturday, July 30, 2022
How well were you paying attention to theater in July? Answer these ten questions — plus two bonus questions about “Into the Woods” Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:13PMFriday, July 29, 2022
Is the theater worth the trouble? That’s the question I’ve been asking myself lately, and it turns out I’m not alone. “In the fall of 2019, in the wake of a disastrous workshop of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:36PMThursday, July 28, 2022
“I want you to close your eyes and remember your first puff puff pass,” Baba Israel raps near the beginning of “Cannabis: A Viper Vaudeville,” which is a fast-paced flashy rap conce…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:50PMWednesday, July 27, 2022
Judging from Robert Icke’s adaptation, Aeschylus took the easy way out. In the Greek playwright’s version of The Oresteia written 2,500 years ago — telling the story of the cycle of mu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:18PMTuesday, July 26, 2022
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to, and the one you are least likely to attend. The list below is for shows that have opening dates on Broadway in October, November and Dec…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:42AMMonday, July 25, 2022
Like the magnets I collect from each show for my refrigerator, Broadway exerts a pull, but I also felt a push upon my return this past week to see “Into The Woods” and “The Kite Run…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:12PMSunday, July 24, 2022
There’s an early sweet and funny scene in “The Kite Runner” that feels like a subconscious warning about how misbegotten this stage adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s 2003 best-selling…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:42AMFriday, July 22, 2022
“Into The Woods,” the musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine currently back on Broadway in a wonderfully cast concert staging directed by Lear deBessonet, has always reminded me of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:51PMWednesday, July 20, 2022
Theater has always involved risk, and pain, and they are often still viewed as necessary and good: “If you’re just doing what you know works you can be great, but you won’t get to the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:23AMTuesday, July 19, 2022
Why has there been so much conflict and conversation over a cast change on Broadway, a personnel decision in a Chicago theater, and a producer’s late payroll for a musical that’s just cl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:10PMMonday, July 18, 2022
After skipping two summers because of the pandemics *, Broadway in Bryant Park, the free weekly lunchtime concerts by the casts from current Broadway shows, will return to Bryant Park with a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:22AMSunday, July 17, 2022
Twenty-five women have portrayed Fanny Brice on Broadway* – a 26th, Lea Michele, takes over the role on September 6 — but, half a century before she became a character in the Jule Style …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:55PMSaturday, July 16, 2022
Everybody seemed to have a colorful anecdote about Tallulah Bankhead. She was said to have inspired the characters of Margo Channing in the film “All About Eve,” Blanche DuBois in Ten…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:49PMFriday, July 15, 2022
Paul McCartney’s planned new musical wouldn’t be the first time an actual Beatle created something original for Broadway. But it would be wonderful. Three years ago, McCartney announced …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:27PMMonday, July 11, 2022
Two new plays and a new musical announced for Broadway this past week, and a fourth firmed up dates and theater, bringing the number of confirmed shows in the Broadway 2022-2023 season to 17…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:08PMFriday, July 8, 2022
Theater as we know it began outdoors, in amphitheaters such as the 2,500-year-old theater at Epidaurus, Greece, which was designed by the architect Polykleitos the Younger, and is still bein…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:58PMTuesday, July 5, 2022
As a new season begins, the big questions posed in the best theater co-exist with a more immediate question: Are theatergoers safe? Starting last Friday, Broadway attendance requires neither…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:58AMMonday, July 4, 2022
“You don’t own me,” Lesley Gore sings, in one of the videos below of anthems, pop ballads and raps sung by women that have taken on a new, urgent meaning this Fourth of July, a holiday…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:28PMSunday, July 3, 2022
How well were you paying attention to the news and its impact on theater this past month? Answer these dozen questions on abortion and masks and the Tonys, plus a bonus question on hybrid th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:39PMFriday, July 1, 2022
Below is a selection of theater opening in New York in July, featuring two Broadway shows, a revival of Sondheim and Lapine’s “Into the Woods” and a stage adaptation of “The Kite Ru…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:42PMThursday, June 30, 2022
Below is a list of theater books — recently published, soon-to-be published, or newly relevant — in four categories: Scripts and Play AnthologiesBiographies and MemoirsTheater History, C…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:29AMWednesday, June 29, 2022
Below is my annual preview guide of Broadway openings in the 2022-2023 season, which features starry revivals of some of America’s most acclaimed plays and musicals, new adaptations of bel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:52AMMonday, June 27, 2022
The Broadway League will no longer require Broadway theatergoers to wear masks starting this Friday – not the most shocking decision announced last week, but like the Supreme Court rulin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:02PMWednesday, June 22, 2022
Lot bristles at the label “special needs.” He is a recluse and a self-trained artist who composed a song called “Weird” and collects trash to turn into sculpture. Yes, he says, he…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:27PMTuesday, June 21, 2022
The theater award season continues with nominations announced today by Broadway Black for its second Antonyo Awards, intended to honor extraordinary achievements in the Black theater communi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:59PMMonday, June 20, 2022
Myles Frost of “MJ The Musical” AND Jared Grimes of “Funny Girl” both won the Chita Rivera Awards for outstanding male dancer in a Broadway show, one of two ties in the annual award …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:05PMThe words “weird” or “weirdo” appear some two dozen times in “Corsicana,” a play by Will Arbery which opens on Wednesday, and which co-stars Dierdre O’Connell, who last week (c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:08PMSunday, June 19, 2022
“God’s Fool,” the 70-minute theater piece about St. Francis of Assisi conceived and directed by Martha Clarke that’s at LaMaMa through July 2, would probably be best appreciated by t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:47PM 
