Sunday, May 23, 2021
Below is a day-by-day selection of theater* that is opening between May 23 and May 31, 2021 — from Broadway Barks to the National Memorial Concert, and much inbetween, such as Ben Platt a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:06PMFriday, May 21, 2021
Below are the five winners of the 87th annual Drama League Awards, the first (and so far only) major theater award to step up to the moment and honor the forms of theater that have flourishe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:39PMFor months I had watched the construction of this strange 2.4 acre public park placed atop new concrete piles like so many oversized golf pegs where the old rotting wood Pier 54 had been —…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:05AMThursday, May 20, 2021
Five years ago, when Florian Zeller’s “The Father” debuted on Broadway, Frank Langella portrayed the fifth character I’d seen that year on a New York stage who was struggling with de…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:37PMWednesday, May 19, 2021
The Drama Book Shop will reopen to the public on June 10, 2021 in its new location, under the proprietorship of Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda and director Thomas Kail. The century-o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:44AMTuesday, May 18, 2021
Ben Platt reprises his Tony-winning role as an anxious, isolated high school student in the film of the 2017 Tony winning best Broadway musical “Dear Evan Hansen,” scheduled for release …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:04PMThis half-hour piece, billed as “a video docudrama,” manages to work in several of the infamous apologies from the #MeToo era. “The Sprezzaturameron,” available for free on the Barys…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:05PMMonday, May 17, 2021
In a series of video interviews with the leading candidates for mayor of New York City, the New York Times asked each for their favorite Broadway show. (Shaun Donovan said that his high scho…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:10AMSunday, May 16, 2021
Watch the video of Miscast below, available through May 20th. For the 21st year in a row (and the second year on YouTube), MCC Theater’s fundraiser showcased Broadway stars performing song…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:13PMPlay-PerView has done a mitzvah for those of us who missed this savage comedy about bickering college-age cousins when it was first produced Off-Broadway; “Bad Jews” was the first New Yo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:34AMSaturday, May 15, 2021
Below is a day-by-day selection of theater* that is opening between May 15 and May 21, 2021, including three free (mostly outdoor) theater festivals, Miscast21, two virtual tours of Broadwa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:28PMFriday, May 14, 2021
This is the third time I’ve seen Nia Vardalos’ moving, funny stage adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s best-selling collection of “Dear Sugar” advice columns. If I can’t embrace all t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:21PMThursday, May 13, 2021
Below are photographs from the exhibition “A Dozen Dreams,“, at Brookfield Place’s Winter Garden through May 30. “I used to have vivid dreams,” the playwright Rehana Lew Mirza says…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:59PMWednesday, May 12, 2021
The Republicans in the House of Representatives by voice vote ousted Rep. Liz Cheney from her leadership position today because she insists on telling the truth about Donald Trump. “Today,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:35AMTuesday, May 11, 2021
Below is my annual preview guide of Broadway openings chronological by opening date — a list with a twist this year: It’s also Broadway reopenings…of shows that have been on the Great …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:42PMHamilton, The Lion King and Wicked have announced reopening dates of September 14, the earliest possible date, with Aladdin on September 28 and Tina the Musical on October 8. Tickets are ava…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00AMMonday, May 10, 2021
Broadway musicals are making the reopening feel real, with tickets back on sale and specific opening dates announced: Chicago, Sept 14. Six, Sept 17. Come From Away, Sept 21. Aint Too Prou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:52AMSunday, May 9, 2021
The latest free reading from Roundabout’s new Refocus Project, “I Gotta Home,” is a 1940 play about a financially challenged preacher, his large rambunctious family, and his long-lost …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:17PMSaturday, May 8, 2021
Below is a day-by-day selection of theater* that is opening between May 8 and May 14, 2021, including TWO tributes to Kander and Ebb (at the exact same time!), TWO new works about the effec…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:53PMIt must have seemed the exact right time to produce “Waiting for Godot,” the bleak, sardonic, enigmatic play about a pair of scruffy pals trying to stay connected and hopeful during a ti…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:28AMFriday, May 7, 2021
Near the end of “The Woman’s Party,” Clubbed Thumb’s clever, stylishly designed three-part dramatization of an odd, little-known moment in the history of the fight for women’s righ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:55AMThursday, May 6, 2021
It would be too glib to call Jeremy Jordan pop hot and Marilyn Maye jazz cool. Both these terrifically talented and engaging singers can either belt or croon at will. But there is an astonis…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:53PMStarting today, Broadway can start selling tickets for shows that can open or reopen at full capacity beginning September 14. That was what New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced yesterday…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:39AMWednesday, May 5, 2021
A young widow is framed for a murder she didn’t commit, and her ghost causes a three-year drought as revenge, forcing the community to acknowledge her innocence: That’s the story told in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:47PMTuesday, May 4, 2021
“Major Reopening” is what New York Governor Andrew Cuomo headlined the announcement from all three governors of the tri-state region that starting May 19th there will be “a significan…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:45AMMonday, May 3, 2021
Michael Gene Jacobs slept in the same bed as his mother throughout his childhood, but they never touched. Now, he tells us speaking as his mother, he realizes why: “’I can’t afford to …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:44PMIt’s challenging even just to describe “The Waves in Quarantine,” a digital “Theatrical Experiment in 6 Movements” starring six beloved Broadway veterans, which is available …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:05PMSaturday, May 1, 2021
Below is a day-by-day selection of theater* – both online and in person! — that is opening between May 1 and May 7: a starry Waiting for Godot, musical celebrations of the lives of actr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:29PMFriday, April 30, 2021
After the fascinating first episode last week of Clubbed Thumb’s “The Woman’s Party,” there was no way I was going to miss the second of this three-part play about the little-remembe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:02AMWatch the 40-minute play by Julia Izumi below Theater in Quarantine returns with another “Youtube theater thingy,” as Joshua William Gelb refers to this latest original, off kilter play …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:14AMThursday, April 29, 2021
Mayor Bill de Blasio said this morning that the city plans to “fully reopen New York City on July 1… We are ready for stores to open, for businesses to open, offices, theaters — full s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:31AM 
