Sunday, February 20, 2022
Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became a famous writer, orator and crusader, was reportedly the most photographed man in the 19th century. So it probably shouldn’t be surpris…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:15PMFriday, February 18, 2022
It’s no mystery why Meredith Willson’s 1957 musical is so beloved: The songs are terrifically tuneful, the lyrics terribly clever. But the story of a con artist who in 1912 seduces a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:06PMThursday, February 17, 2022
Bert Williams was, according to his friend W.C. Fields, “the funniest man I ever saw and the saddest man I ever knew.” Williams was probably the most popular African-American entertainer…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:30PMTuesday, February 15, 2022
Everything about “Black No More” sounded promising – a new musical inspired by a 1931 satiric novel of the same name that imagines what America would be like if there were a machine …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:08PMMonday, February 14, 2022
On Valentine’s Day, when thoughts (at least) turn to kissing, it’s a good time to note the return of the stage kiss. There may not be as much kissing at all in new in-person shows, and k…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:29PMFriday, February 11, 2022
“This place is fraught,” Niegel Smith, the artistic director of The Flea, was saying at the beginning of “Arden,” the first production by the Off-Off Broadway theater company after a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:03PMThursday, February 10, 2022
James Tyrone (Bill Camp) is wearing a face mask and shorts, and bringing home Starbucks takeout, while Mary Tyrone (Elizabeth Marvel), in sweatpants, is doing yoga, near a pile of Amazon…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:15AMTuesday, February 8, 2022
BEST PICTUREBelfastCODADon’t Look UpDrive My CarDuneKing RichardLicorice PizzaNightmare AlleyThe Power of the DogWest Side Story BEST DIRECTORPaul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza)Kenneth B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:17AMMonday, February 7, 2022
Both Tambo and Bones are dressed in the clownish rags of minstrel show performers, while Tambo is explaining to Bones how to get white people to give up their quarters: “You gotta deliver …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:24PMIt’s been a busy week for New York theater. See the seven reviews below, from “MJ” on Broadway and “The Tap Dance Kid” to “Shhhh” and “The Hang” downtown; and not one but t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:03PMSaturday, February 5, 2022
When the publicists for the Broadway revival of “The Music Man” starring Hugh Jackman announced that theater critics had to see the show on opening night, the pushback might have baffled…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:31PMFriday, February 4, 2022
There are two heartbreaking moments in “Intimate Apparel,” one exquisite, the other devastating, that eventually won me over to this production at Lincoln Center. But much earlier I s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:34PMThursday, February 3, 2022
In “The Tap Dance Kid,” a young Black girl named Emma wants to be a lawyer – prescient for a Broadway musical that debuted in 1983; that would make the character just about the righ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:59PM“The Hang” is terrific entertainment. It is a jazz opera, performed by a wondrous nine-member ensemble and versatile eight-piece band, with an intensely sensual score by Matt Ray t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:13PMTuesday, February 1, 2022
“With respect, I wanna keep this about my music,” Michael Jackson (Myles Frost) says near the start of “MJ The Musical.” And that’s what this show, opening tonight on Broadway, ce…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:20PMThe best thing to be said about these two new theatrical works is also the worst thing – that their exploration of antisemitism is well-timed and necessary. If they have little else in com…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:26PMMonday, January 31, 2022
Only once does anyone call anything “disgusting” in “Shhhh,” a play written, directed and starring Clare Barron that seems designed to make theatergoers uncomfortable*. Kyle (Greg…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:01PM“The Gilded Age,” the HBO series that began last week, employs an army of Broadway veterans to make a 19th century New York City version of “Downton Abbey” (both series were created …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:49AMSunday, January 30, 2022
Below is a day-by-day selection of theater openings scheduled for February organized by opening date*, featuring two big Broadway musicals – MJ the Musical and The Music Man – and a bu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:27PMSaturday, January 29, 2022
Answer the ten questions to find out how well you paid attention to the goings-on in New York theater in the month of January, some of it unprecedented. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:10PMWednesday, January 26, 2022
As Faye, Phylicia Rashad has lost her health, her house, her family, and is in danger of losing the job she’s held for 29 years. “I’m runnin’ on soul now Reggie,” she tells her fo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:40PMTuesday, January 25, 2022
Below are the videos of five entries in the sixth annual Exponential festival, which has gone completely digital this year and largely loopy. I’ve written brief reviews, but I try to be…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:55PMMonday, January 24, 2022
The current rise of antisemitism is suddenly getting stage time. Last week: “Witness,” which explored the doomed 1939 voyage of the German Jewish refugees aboard the St. Louis and exp…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:58PMThursday, January 20, 2022
In “Addressless,” the audience helps three characters navigate the tricky path to getting an affordable apartment in New York City. This is a daunting challenge for anyone. But it’s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:48PMWednesday, January 19, 2022
In “Reopening: The Broadway Revival,” an hour-long documentary on PBS that’s a bit painful and embarrassing to watch, actor Andrew Rannells compares the start of the shutdown of Broa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:52AMTuesday, January 18, 2022
Broadway Week launches today, but this has not been Broadway’s week. Two more Broadway shows joined “Mrs. Doubtfire” in announcing a hiatus. “To Kill A Mockingbird” ended its r…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:15PMMonday, January 17, 2022
Below is a recording and the text of a sermon that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered on February 4 1968 at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia exactly two months before h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:22AMSunday, January 16, 2022
The night I saw “Witness,” a rabbi and several members of his congregation were being held hostage in a synagogue near Fort Worth, Texas. The live scene of the police gathered on the str…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:43PMFriday, January 14, 2022
Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand do Shakespeare….online. Uzo Aduba is villainous simultaneously on Broadway…and online. A celebration of Sondheim; horrid, strange and theatrical m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:17PMWednesday, January 12, 2022
Kevin R. Free, who is one of the busiest theater artists I know– actor, playwright, director, producer, mentor, teacher, audiobook narrator – has taken on two new jobs…. both of them a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03PMTuesday, January 11, 2022
Trudy, a crazy bag lady who is one of the 11 characters that Cecily Strong portrays in this one-woman play originally performed by Lily Tomlin, tells us she brought her “space chums” —…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:55PM 
