Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Bob Dylan hovers over this opera, which tells a story about early 1970s radicals who become fugitives for some three decades. The connection is deliberate if indirect, but Dylan also comes t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:49PMMonday, January 13, 2025
“New York City is where you want to be in January,” Pat Kaufman, commissioner of NYC Mayor’s Office of Media & Entertainment, said on the opening night Friday of the Association of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:01AMSunday, January 12, 2025
Wakka Wakka is back with a new puppet musical, about the adventures of a boy and a dodo bird in the underworld. Compared to the 24-year-old company’s past shows, what most stands out ab…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:25PM“KOAL” begins with the sound of a powerful wind and the crackle of an ominous fire. Inspired by the “Black Summer” wildfires in Australia in 2019, Jacinta Yelland’s solo show th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:30AMSaturday, January 11, 2025
“Telekinetik” is about as unconventional an opera as opera can be, and therefore more or less typical of the Prototype festival, which launched its twelfth annual season Thursday with …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:37PMFriday, January 10, 2025
SpaceBridge is a show starring Russian refugee children living in New York City shelters after fleeing Russia because of their families’ opposition to the invasion of Ukraine. It is als…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59AMThursday, January 9, 2025
“For years, I’ve learned that in reaction to all the hardships, I could do only one thing: run. Run instead of talk, run instead of cry, run instead of shout, run instea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:20PMWednesday, January 8, 2025
Joshua William Gelb, an award–winning pioneer in digital theater, has restaged his earliest Internet hit in what some might consider a logical next step – in person. But if I find �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:45PMTuesday, January 7, 2025
Abigail’s mother has just died, but she can’t afford to pay for her funeral, so to raise the needed funds she decides to write a play about the death of her mother and the difficulty of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:59PMMonday, January 6, 2025
2025 begins as the Year of Wicked. Although the movie won only ”best cinematic and box office achievement” at the Golden Globes last night, both it and the stage musical broke box office…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:51AMSunday, January 5, 2025
“Techne,” one of the shows that opened the 20th anniversary “Under the Radar” festival this weekend, reinforces its reputation for theater so experimental it makes you wonder what …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:51PMSaturday, January 4, 2025
Below is a calendar of selected theater opening* this month in New York, including one Broadway show, Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer Prize winning “English,” which is transferring intact fro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:37PMFriday, January 3, 2025
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to, among the 20 that (so far) have firm opening dates on Broadway between now and April 27, 2025, when the 2024-2025 season ends. They are …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:02AMThursday, January 2, 2025
There are almost 100 shows produced by the seven annual theater festivals listed below, all of whom begin in January. Largely experimental, avant-garde, mixed-genre, and at much lower ticket…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:12PMWednesday, January 1, 2025
The year 2025 begins with some short-term questions about theater – the fate of “Warriors,” the effect of “Wicked”?– and more long-term ones – what new leadership will mean to …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:58PMTuesday, December 31, 2024
Let us celebrate the new year by honoring these twenty Broadway veterans — accomplished performers, playwrights, producers, directors, composers (at least one of them all those things tog…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30AMMonday, December 30, 2024
How much do you remember of this year in New York theater? Answer these 10 questions to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:48PMHow DO you measure a year? Yes, in laughter and strife, and also in nightlife. (New Year’s Eve in NYC Last Minute Guide to Greeting 2025) Theater lovers measure the year in shows, sure (se…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:24AMSunday, December 29, 2024
Below is a list of theater books that were published in 2024, most of which I read and enjoyed (with caveats), several I hope to get to in the new year. Beneath that is a list of 10 scripts …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:07AMSaturday, December 28, 2024
When they hug in the rain in “The Notebook.” When they fight in the rain in “The Outsiders.” When the fourth sibling finally arrives in “The Hills of California.” When the fourth…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:46PMFriday, December 27, 2024
The year began with Elton John getting an EGOT and ended with his giving Broadway a flop. It was that kind of year, offering theatergoers reasons to cheer and to jeer. Here are ten of t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:21PMThursday, December 26, 2024
My last-minute guide to New Year’s Eve in New York City, when 2024 turns into 2025, features information on: Times Square.Dining Out,Theater: Plays as parties, Broadway show schedule, fami…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:49PMWednesday, December 25, 2024
On this traditional day of moviegoing, here is my quick take on ten new feature films, most of them only available in cinemas, including “A Complete Unknown,” “The Fire Inside” and �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:11PMPortia, Act 5, Scene 1 of “The Merchant of Venice”
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:02AMTuesday, December 24, 2024
Below are some of the people from the theater community who died in 2024, listed alphabetically. Click on any photograph (and click the ⌽ button) to read the caption. (In a few of these, t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:20AMMonday, December 23, 2024
The final three Broadway shows of 2024 opened last week — a play, a musical and…something else, for a total of 33 shows running on Broadway as we head into Christmukkah (both Christmas a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:11AMSunday, December 22, 2024
“All In: Comedy about Love,” opening on Broadway tonight, is not based on Simon Rich’s humorous stories; it is a selection of those stories, read aloud from hand-held binders by a ro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:36PMBelow is the Broadway schedule between Monday December 23, 2024 and Sunday, December 29, 2024, with links to my reviews of the shows. Eight shows will be performed Christmas Eve (Tuesday), a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:37AMSaturday, December 21, 2024
My guide to the underground immersive hit “Life and Trust” was the best-read post on my NewYorkTheater.me blog in 2024, followed by my comparison of Wicked the movie with the Broadway m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:06PMFriday, December 20, 2024
Cole Escola and Nicole Scherzinger made spectacular Broadway debuts this year, justly acclaimed, but less attention-grabbing performances in less conspicuous productions also impressed, alb…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:39PMThursday, December 19, 2024
The marquee says it all: “AudraGypsy.” With less brass and more heart, Audra McDonald’s distinctive portrayal of Madam Rose, the mother of all stage mothers, is the reason to see this�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:55PM 
