Tuesday, 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 07:55PMMonday, January 10, 2022
Given all the cancellations and delays caused by the Omicron variant surge (see news below), digital theater is suddenly looking good again (see reviews below.) If the theater news this w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:12PMSunday, January 9, 2022
Sidney Poitier wasn’t expected to live long; he was born prematurely in Miami, where his parents, who were tomato farmers from the Bahamas, happened to be visiting in order to sell their p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:18PMSaturday, January 8, 2022
“I haven’t done anything wrong,” Chris Quinn says again and again in Caitriona Daly’s play, which focuses on an accusation of rape. Chris is not the one accused. His friend Davey is,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:02AMThursday, January 6, 2022
“Sweetheart, I’m fine, and I’m running for my life, I cannot talk to you right now,” Rep. Norma Torres (D-Calif) recalls telling her son, when he telephoned her while she was scrambl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:02AMWednesday, January 5, 2022
Immediately after I watched the first-ever “simulcast” of a Broadway play — the exact same live performance of Lynn Nottage’s “Clyde’s” on my computer screen that the audi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:14PMTuesday, January 4, 2022
Was 2021 a cause for celebration or for sorrow? Was it a time for gratitude, grief or gall? Yes, say the theater bloggers in the roundup below. The strange mix of emotions might be summed u…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:42PMMonday, January 3, 2022
The Omicron variant of COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc on Broadway, with “Ain’t Too Proud” becoming the fourth Broadway show in little more than a week to announce it was shutting do…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:37AMSunday, January 2, 2022
Below is a day-by-day selection of theater openings scheduled for January organized by opening date*, featuring a Broadway play, “Skeleton Crew,” and several intriguing shows Off and Off…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:20PMSaturday, January 1, 2022
Reynaldo Piniella made an abrupt Broadway debut portraying a go-getting actor in 2021 under strange and trying circumstances; “It’s been such a crazy time,” he says. “Within like a 2…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:13PMFriday, December 31, 2021
Let us celebrate surviving to a new and surely better year, by honoring these dozen Broadway veterans aged 90 to 104. Click on any photograph to see it enlarged and read the caption.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:09PMThursday, December 30, 2021
How much do you remember of this unusual year in theater? Answer these 20 questions to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:17PMWednesday, December 29, 2021
Below is a list of theater books to read in 2022, most of which were published in 2021.‡ Click on the titles to find more information and to purchase these books, grouped under four categ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:01PMTuesday, December 28, 2021
Below are some of the year’s best reads and the most popular posts of 2021, which, not surprisingly, were largely about the reopening of Broadway, although the number 1 post was about the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:53PMMonday, December 27, 2021
There were good things that happened in 2021 – in general (vaccines became widely available, Britney was freed, the coup failed, Derek Chauvin was convicted, Juneteenth was made a nati…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:28PMSunday, December 26, 2021
A positive test in the company canceled what was supposed to be opening night. A torrential thunderstorm had canceled the first preview. “It’s been harrowing, harrowing, harrowing, the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:53PMSaturday, December 25, 2021
Below are some of the people from the theater community who died in 2021, listed alphabetically. Click on any photograph to read the caption, most of which link to an obituary.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:26PMFriday, December 24, 2021
Three of the most memorable moments on a New York stage in 2021 were of characters getting high; can you blame them, given the year we’ve had? Among the moments represented in the photo ga…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:19PMThursday, December 23, 2021
In “Theater of Lockdown: Digital and Distanced Performance in a Time of Pandemic” (Methuen Drama, 247 pages), Barbara Fuchs attempts to chronicle what she calls “the fundamental tran…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:27PMTuesday, December 21, 2021
The Broadway debut of “Trouble in Mind” some three decades after playwright Alice Childress’ death is the most popular choice among critics whose lists of top 10 New York theater for …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:34AMMonday, December 20, 2021
A third of all Broadway shows were canceled on Sunday because members of the company or crew tested positive for Covid, the latest in “a raft of cancellations unlike any in history,” evi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:21AMSunday, December 19, 2021
While others were busy assessing the trends in New York theater of the decade that had just ended, on January 1, 2020, I asked: What will be the trends of the future? I had a list of seven q…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:01PMSaturday, December 18, 2021
It shouldn’t surprise anybody who followed the race for New York City mayor that Eric Adams, who won and will take office on January 1, 2022, has a book out called Healthy at Last: A Plant…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:45PMFriday, December 17, 2021
This year’s holiday season in New York is meant as a return to the annual tradition of live in-person Christmas Carols and Nutcracker Suites, as well as the usual mix of family fare, offb…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:40PMThursday, December 16, 2021
It’s been 40 years since sex therapist Ruth Westheimer became a celebrity. The 4’7” “Grandma Freud,” aka Dr. Ruth, who gave advice on her radio and TV shows in a sing-song European…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:44PMWednesday, December 15, 2021
Deirdre O’Connell gave one of my favorite performances on a New York stage in 2016, and she returns in this latest of my annual lists of favorite theatrical performances (not all of th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:56AMTuesday, December 14, 2021
This past week, the last Broadway shows of 2021 opened (Flying Over Sunset) and reopened (Dear Evan Hansen, the last of the reopening shows that were shut down by the pandemic.) For all the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:01PMMonday, December 13, 2021
When he takes LSD, the movie star Cary Grant turns into a spectacular tap-dancer, in a duet with a boy in a dress – who turns out to be his younger self, Archie Leach. The novelist and fut…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:01PMSunday, December 12, 2021
Kimberly Levaco is a 16-year-old girl with a rare, terminal disease that accelerates the aging process, and makes her look as if she’s in her 70s. Seth Weetis is her nerdy, smiling classma…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:28AMFriday, December 10, 2021
The remake of “West Side Story,” the tragic story of lovers from rival New York street gangs, which opens in movie theaters today, is director Steven Spielberg’s first movie musical. S…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:38PMThursday, December 9, 2021
“Company” is perfectly timed, sadly. Opening less than two weeks after the death of Stephen Sondheim at the age of 91, in a season delayed by more than a year and a half by the worldwi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:03PM 
