Sunday, 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“Lessons in Survival 1971,” running at the Vineyard Theater through June 30, is based on then-28-year-old poet Nikki Giovanni’s interview-turned-conversation with the famous writer Ja…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:40PMOn the 100th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s monumental modernist novel “Ulysses,” Symphony Space gave over its annual Bloomsday celebration to a new theater piece, als…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:59PMThursday, June 16, 2022
The moments in “The Orchard” that suggest the current Russian invasion of Ukraine would surely get the most attention in a more conventionally focused adaptation of “The Cherry Orchard…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:20PMTuesday, June 14, 2022
In the prologue of “Circle Jerk” — a funny, campy, discombobulating hybrid theater piece that’s a spoof of both gay and digital culture (and also an example of each) — the Troll, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:23PMMonday, June 13, 2022
There were delightful surprises and predictable disappointments during the 75th Tony Awards, honoring the first full season since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down theaters in March 2020 and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:18AMSunday, June 12, 2022
Below the winners of the 75th annual Tony Awards (Here’s a guide to the full 2021-2022 Broadway season, including those not nominated, and those that reopened.)(Here is the list of the nom…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:09PMSaturday, June 11, 2022
Years before the end of her long illustrious life, Lena Horne, singer, actor, dancer, elegant beauty, fierce civil rights activist, pioneering movie star — the first Black performer to …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:58PMThursday, June 9, 2022
In this most trying of seasons, the theater community has been attempting to redefine what Broadway means, and that includes producing work that surely would not have made it to Broadway bef…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:13PMWednesday, June 8, 2022
(Full list of nominees here) (Don’t know the difference between the Drama Desk and the Drama League and the Drama Critics Circle and the Outer Critics Circle awards? Check out my New York…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:13PMA dozen luminous first-time New York stage performers, plus Harvey Fierstein, and 21 members of the ensemble of The Music Man, were honored at the 76th annual Theatre World Awards — the fi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:41AMMonday, June 6, 2022
The 75th Annual Tony Awards will be presented next Sunday at Radio City Music Hall and live on your TV or (more likely) computer, celebrating the strangest of Broadway seasons, which officia…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:21AMSunday, June 5, 2022
Below are two short videos from the two new Broadway musicals that were most nominated for 2022 Tony Awards: “A Strange Loop” by Michael R. Jackson received 11 Tony nominations, “MJ th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:56AMSaturday, June 4, 2022
When Alexandria Wailes was growing up, people would stop her mother, incredulous, and ask her: “ Your deaf daughter is dancing!? How is that possible?” She reminded Wailes of this over …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:54PMThursday, June 2, 2022
In Mansa Ra’s new play, three generations of Black gay men live under the same roof – grandfather, father and son. If it’s hardly unusual of late to see Black queer male characters …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:04PMWednesday, June 1, 2022
Below is a selection of theater opening in June, presented in a day-by-day calendar and featuring several festivals, mostly outdoors and mostly free, as well as an usual number of hybrid pr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:22PMTuesday, May 31, 2022
While we await the remaining theater awards to top off the triumphant and traumatic 2020/21-2022 season, the next Broadway season is starting to take shape. The latest announcement: The New …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49AMMonday, May 30, 2022
Memorial Day became an official national holiday in 1971 to honor Americans who died in military service, some 1.1. million people since the nation’s founding. But it feels appropriate t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:29AMSunday, May 29, 2022
Take this quiz about the nominations for the 2022 Tony Awards, and some of the other theater awards announced in May. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:32PMThursday, May 26, 2022
‘Fat Ham,” this year’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, which opened tonight at the Public Theater, is inspired by “Hamlet,” but it parts ways with the Bard, and not just because of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:58PMWednesday, May 25, 2022
An 18-year-old yesterday shot and killed at least 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, a mass shooting that occurred just ten days after another 18-year-o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:35AMTuesday, May 24, 2022
Harmony was designated new new musical and Sanctuary City best new play in the 11th annual Off Broadway Awards. (Check out my New York Theater Awards 2022 Guide and Calendar) BEST NEW MUSIC…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:42AMMonday, May 23, 2022
Theater awards season is heating up, with four of the major annual theater awards announcing their winners or nominations this past week; favorite shows are coming into focus. I won’t call…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:54AMSunday, May 22, 2022
There is no question which side playwright Margaret Vandenburg favors in her play “Roe v. Wade 2.0,” which is inspired by the Supreme Court’s oral arguments in the case Dobbs v. Jacks…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:20PMSaturday, May 21, 2022
The story that seems to be struggling to emerge from “The Karpovsky Variations” concerns Julia Karpovsky, an American Jew who spent her childhood abroad and is trying to connect with her…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:47PMFriday, May 20, 2022
“The Lehman Trilogy” was voted outstanding play and “A Strange Loop” outstanding musical at the 88th annual Drama League Awards, which were announced today at the Ziegfeld Ballroom. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:46PM“When I was a kid in the Bronx, I went to the theater for $1.10,” says Emanuel Azenberg. Granted that was a while ago; he’s 88. But he is also a Broadway producer and general manager w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:27PMThursday, May 19, 2022
Sanaz Toossi, California-born daughter of immigrants from Iran, has racked up awards for her two New York debut plays this season, “English” and “Wish You Were Here.”* Both are set i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:03PMWednesday, May 18, 2022
A century and a half after the first American musical, the art form “is growing up, and it is time for us to address the growing pains,” historian Margaret Hall said at her TEDx Broadway…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:27PMTuesday, May 17, 2022
Below is the complete list of the nominations for 2022 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography, on Broadway, Off-Broadway and the movies, with the love spread wide. The awards will be…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:11PM“Six”won outstanding Broadway musical, “Lehman Trilogy” outstanding Broadway play, “Kimberly Akimbo” Off-Broadway musical, and “Prayer for the French Republic” Off-Broadway p…
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