Sunday, July 18, 2021
The photographs of Edwin Booth as Iago in “Othello” in 1871 and Meryl Streep with John Lithgow in “Secret Service” 105 years later are among some 30,000 photographs that chronicle so…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:12PMSaturday, July 17, 2021
Each of these three plays from 59E59 Theater’s “East to Edinburgh Goes Virtual 2021,” a festival running through July 25, takes its inspiration from a familiar source — “Testame…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:49PMFriday, July 16, 2021
Being stuck is not necessarily a bad thing inside the world of “Schmigadoon!”, the star-studded musical series parodying Golden Age musicals, the first two episodes of which launched on …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49PMThursday, July 15, 2021
In “Endure,” a performer named Casey Howes ran through Central Park for more than an hour while we small band of theatergoers listened over earphones to an audio recording of her inner t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:53PMWednesday, July 14, 2021
Priyanka Shetty, the writer and performer of this one-hour solo play about the 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017, tells us early on that she decided to intervie…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:58PMTuesday, July 13, 2021
The seven new plays presented this year in Red Bull’s annual festival are odd hybrids that mimic the past, reflect our strange present, and suggest the future, perhaps inadvertently posing…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:25PMMonday, July 12, 2021
Heat waves? Downpours? This week demonstrated that New York theatergoers are as tenacious as postal couriers are supposed to be, stayed by neither rain nor heat nor gloom of night — not ev…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:32AMSunday, July 11, 2021
The evil, power-hungry Richard appeared on stage for the first time just a few minutes into “Seize the King,” which the Classical Theater of Harlem bills as playwright Will Power’s mod…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:00PMSaturday, July 10, 2021
“Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created ‘Sunday in the Park with George’” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 416 pages) is an eccentric, valuable and entertaining book, whi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:24PMFriday, July 9, 2021
“Lines in the Dust,” which New Normal Rep is streaming online through August 8th, is Nikkole Salter’s three-character play about a vexing side effect of modern-day segregation. It was …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:35PMThursday, July 8, 2021
“Fruma-Sarah (Waiting in the Wings),” at the Cell Theater through July 25, begins as an affectionate poke at theater folk, offering nearly everything theatergoers returning to live, in-p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:03PMWednesday, July 7, 2021
Six years ago this month, theater etiquette made headlines. Patti LuPone confiscated a cell phone from an audience member who was texting during her performance of “Show for Days,” then …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:44PMTuesday, July 6, 2021
As theater stages begin to reopen, theater artists aren’t through with theater screens — as some of the theater bloggers make clear. Terry Teachout discusses “hybrid theater” aka “…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:58PMMonday, July 5, 2021
Every work of theater I saw this past week was live and in person – which would have been an impossibility a year ago, and an insane thing to say two years ago…because what else was ther…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:19PMSunday, July 4, 2021
Some of the best-known plays or musicals about American history actually depict the Fourth of July; one of them, “1776,” is entirely about the events leading up to it. But most of the th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:50AMSaturday, July 3, 2021
“Enemy of the People” at the Park Avenue Armory remakes Ibsen’s drama into a striking one-woman show starring Ann Dowd that forces us to realize our complicity in the lead poisoning of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:06PMFriday, July 2, 2021
Below is an alphabetical list of ten shows you can catch up on over the July 4th weekend, about half of them live in person.* I’ve put a √ next to those I’ve seen and especially recom…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:45PMThursday, July 1, 2021
“The Watering Hole,” an art installation that takes over nearly every nook and cranny of The Pershing Square Signature Center, is meant to be healing and calming…like water. That’s t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:28PMWednesday, June 30, 2021
How well were you paying attention to the theatrical doings in June? Answer the dozen quiz questions below to find out. (Clockwise from top left: Scenes from “In The Heights,” “Hot Win…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:26PMTuesday, June 29, 2021
Lust was the best. Everybody seemed to agree, and it wasn’t just because Cynthia Nixon was in the cast. But, in truth, none of the eight short plays by some of America’s most original p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:09PMMonday, June 28, 2021
“It’s great to see everybody unmasked sitting next to each other in one room,” Bruce Springsteen said on opening night Saturday of the first Broadway show in 15 months … speaking on…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:34PM“Four Chords and a Gun” is John Ross Bowie’s version of a legendary (or at least deeply weird) moment in rock n roll history – the making of “End of the Century,” the 1980 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:32AMSunday, June 27, 2021
“Happy Pride!” shouted the stage full of Tina Landau’s friends, capping the free two-hour concert that featured Bill Irwin rapping and Tony Yazbeck tapping with Jared Grimes, to lot…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:15PMSaturday, June 26, 2021
Below is an attempt to answer the question: What’s coming up Off-Broadway? Long-running favorites are reopening, there is exciting new work by a slew of much-heralded American playwrights …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:37PMFriday, June 25, 2021
As Off Broadway reopens, “Off Broadway,” a play by Torrey Townsend, is streaming free online through Sunday to warn people away from Off Broadway. It’s hard to conclude otherwise,�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:29PMThursday, June 24, 2021
In “Ghosting,” Síle is a young woman from Waterford, Ireland who has exiled herself to the anonymity of London after her boyfriend Mark — “first person I kissed, I slept with, I nee…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:29AMWednesday, June 23, 2021
Special Tony Awards will be given to the Broadway Advocacy Organization, and the Broadway shows “David Byrne’s American Utopia” and “Freestyle Love Supreme,” as part of the 74th an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:54AMTuesday, June 22, 2021
See a one-minute video of “June Rites!!” below.It sounded enticing, a great way to celebrate the beginning of summer, the lifting of pandemic-era restrictions and the start of a new e…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:59PMMonday, June 21, 2021
I went island hopping this past week, without ever leaving New York City, all to see theatrical productions – Roosevelt Island, Governors Island, Little Island. These outdoor shows, along …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:36PMSunday, June 20, 2021
The Magis Theater Company’s staging of “The Alcestiad” beneath the dramatic sky on Roosevelt Island is a spectacular resurrection in several ways. The play by Thornton Wilder features …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:44PMSaturday, June 19, 2021
“This hood isn’t anything like how it used to be,” Officer Garcia is telling me and a teenage girl named Sam, as I watch the two of them play basketball in the gym of the Police Athlet…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:25PM 
