The uncertainty of the presidential election next week, far scarier than Halloween, has colored many events this week – certainly the “appalling” decision by two major newspaper…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:25AMThe Arab Spring, a wave of demonstrations by citizens demanding democracy in some dozen countries in the Middle East and North Africa, now seems like distant history. But the uprisings were …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:04PMAll eyes in “Sunset Blvd” have been focused on the fierce, full-throated and humongously-photographed performance by Nicole Scherzinger as Norma Desmond, the once-reigning silent movie q…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:23PMThis is a Romeo and Juliet aimed unapologetically at Gen Z: Its two stars, fan-magnets Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler, are both under 25. They lead a young cast, all but two of whom are ma…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:48PM“Left on Tenth,” which Delia Ephron has adapted for the stage from her best-selling memoir about death, second love, and survival, stars beloved TV star Julianna Margulies; it’s put to…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:32PMThere are several things Benjamin Franklin says or does in Lloyd Suh’s play “Franklinland” that I knew to be true; or at least that I had read about previously: He invented the lightni…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:28PM“Smash,” a backstage musical about the making of a Marilyn Monroe musical called “Bombshell,” will open at Broadway’s Imperial Theater on April 10, its producers announced today, a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:18AMArthur Miller was in the spotlight this week, because of the announcement of a Broadway run this season for “John Proctor Was the Villain,” a riff on “The Crucible,” one of Miller’…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:57AM“Warriors,” a newly released concept album by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis adapted from the 1965 novel by Sol Yurick and the 1979 film directed by Walter Hill, features twenty-six…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:44AMArthur Miller’s first Broadway hit, “All My Sons,” was inspired by a newspaper account of a young woman in Ohio who had informed on her father for having defrauded the military duri…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:53PM“Show Boat” gets a radical remake. Theater in Quarantine’s Joshua William Gelb comes out of his (8’ by 4’) closet. Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Robert Schenkkan takes a br…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:53PMWhat most surprised me about director Kenny Leon’s production of “Out Town” were not his distinctive touches. What most surprised me is how emotionally I reacted to this “Our Tow…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:42PMAdam Driver as superstar Strings McCrane seems to loom over the cramped set in a black ten-gallon hat, as he screams at a personal assistant who is about half his size, smashes his guitar, s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:55PM“Vladimir” is the second play in New York this year set in Russia decades ago at the beginning of the reign of Vladimir Putin. Opening tonight Off-Broadway, Erika Sheffer’s new play is…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PMSuffs will play its final Broadway performance on January 5, 2025 following 24 previews and 301 regular performances, according to an announcement late Friday night. A national tour will …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:53AMComposer Stephen Sondheim’s greatness lies “beyond the clever lyrics, beyond the complex music.” Sondheim can make you a better person: “The ambitions, dreams, disasters, and fix…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:29PMThe twentieth anniversary of the La MaMa Puppet Festival starts its three-week run on all four stages of La MaMa ETC later this month, but the festival is just the largest offering in two mo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:38PMMost of us think about climate change in the wrong way, David Finnigan tells us. It is not “this apocalyptic event that’s on its way, and we need to prevent it from hitting,” Rather, �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00PMEarly every morning, Paul buys a cup of coffee and jokes around with Katie, the waitress in the otherwise empty local diner in the kind of small town in Upstate New York where the townsfolk …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PMAdam Szymkowicz, the author of this book offering advice about how to be a playwright, has been a student of such well-known playwrights (and teachers) as Christopher Durang, Marsha Norman, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:42PMIn the swirl of the new theater season, with three shows opening on Broadway last week and another this week, and daily announcements of the season ahead (of Broadway debuts, for example, fo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:24AMElection Day is in one month from today, November 5, 2024. Here’s what you need to know in order to vote in the General Election in New York City. Registration In order to vote in New York…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:03PMJust about a month before the election, one can hardly expect every theater blogger — or podcaster or substacker – to ignore politics: So this roundup begins with three examples, then go…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:26PMA look back at Black vaudeville, an anthology of dramatic criticism by women writers, and the 600-year history of Latinx performing arts in America have been named the best theater books of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:37PM“What do the following have in common: Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, the list goes on and on…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:10PMDavid Henry Hwang wrote “Yellow Face” almost two decades ago, comically rendering three deflating or enraging real-life events in which he was involved up to three decades ago. And yet a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30PM“Good Bones,” by James Ljames, the Pulitzer-winning author of “Fat Ham,” is essentially a debate about gentrification, with sharply different views expressed by the characters, and a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:10PMGavin Creel died yesterday at the age of 48, from a rare form of cancer, after an acclaimed career on Broadway of more than two decades, mostly in starring roles. Herewith some samples from …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:43AM“McNeal” is a great showcase for Robert Downey Jr., making his Broadway debut as the novelist Jacob McNeal, who is unraveling just at the moment of his greatest acclaim. But Downey a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:05PMThe latest new artistic director of many announced this year: Christopher Ashley has been named the new artistic director of Roundabout Theater Company. The Tony winning director of Come Fro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:01AM“The Hills of California,” about four sisters in their thirties called back to their childhood home, to attend to their dying mother, and relive their traumatic childhood brush with fame…
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