Below are my preferences — not my predictions — for the 73rd Annual Tony Awards. See my article in DC Theatre Scene for an explanation for each of my choices, and shout-outs to other nom…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:23PMIn its ultimately lovely if overlong Broadway revival, “Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune” begins with loud grunting and shrieking, amid glimpses of breasts and buttocks in the dim…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:02PMCasual theater lovers might think that there’s nothing else happening beside the Tony Awards in June. They would be wrong! June calendar of theater openings: Stonewall 50 on Stages! Fairvi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:51PMA dozen luminous first-time New York stage performers, plus Nathan Lane, were honored at the 75th annual Theatre World Awards. Some spoke on the red carpet about when they first realized the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:01AMChristopher Shinn’s “Dying City,” which was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Drama after it received an admired production at Lincoln Center in 2007, is being revived here at the sa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:19PMThe Play On! Festival is presenting staged readings through June 30 of all 39 of William Shakespeare’s plays “translated” into “contemporary modern English” by 36 American playwrig…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:19AMThe Ferryman and The Prom were winners for best play and best musical of the 64th annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:45PMBroadway is busy with the Tony Awards on June 9th, but June is bustin’ out all over with new shows on other New York stages. A good number of the openings mark the 50th anniversary of the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:06PM“Underground Railroad Game,” a much-praised 2016 play from Ars Nova that is being revived for just two weeks, is inspired by an actual game that co-creator Scott Sheppard was forced to p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:26PMHow well were you paying attention to New York theater news, views and previews in the month of May? Answer these 10 questions to find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:49PMBefore he was a poet, Walt Whitman, who was born two hundred years ago today — on March 31, 1819 – was a theatergoer, and an opera fan, and a drama critic…and, some argue, a dramatist.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:36AMCan life be lived offline anymore? That’s what the eight characters are exploring as part of an Internet addiction support group in “Octet,” a beautifully sung a cappella chamber music…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:53PMYeah that was Lin-Manuel Miranda as Bob Fosse, at the end of “Fosse Verdon,” sort of. In the finale of the eight-episode series on FX, Bob Fosse (Sam Rockwell) is writing and directing �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:10PMAs the theater awards season enters the home stretch – what’s left: Drama Desk Awards, Theatre World Awards, the Tonys – the question arises once again:How does one determine, or even …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:09AMFosse Verdon, the FX TV series about the marriage and artistic collaboration between Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon, ends its eight-episode run on May 28, 2019. What other theater couples from th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:26PMOn Memorial Day, we remember and honor the approximately 1.1. million Americans who have been killed in U.S. Wars Memorial Day has its origins in the Civil War, which incurred the grea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:09AMWe first said goodbye to Avenue Q in 2009 when the surprise Tony-winning hit musical announced it was about to close on Broadway after six years. But it got an immediate reprieve, moving to …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50PMTwo things distinguish Loveville High, a new musical that takes place on prom night in a high school in Loveville, Ohio. First: The cast of 13 is comprised of some of the most talented young…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:52AMBelow are the seven most popular posts in the seven years since I began NewYorkTheater.me in May 2012. Below that are the seven most popular reviews, and below that 10 of the profile portr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03AMSean O’Casey was 43 years old and had worked his whole life as a laborer, when he finally had a play accepted in 1922 by the founders of Dublin’s famed Abbey Theater, the dramatist Lady…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:13PMIn the first play of Clubbed Thumb’s 24thannual Summerworks festival at the Wild Project – the first summer theater festival of the season — the cast faces us a la A Chorus Line, ex…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:29AMThe Ferryman, a feast of Irish storytelling in a breathtaking mix of genres, opened on Broadway seven months ago, and since then it’s gotten nine Tony nominations, best play awards from th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:12PMThe Ferryman, a feast of Irish storytelling in a breathtaking mix of genres, opened on Broadway seven months ago, and since then it’s gotten nine Tony nominations, best play awards from th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:33PMIn Episode 7 of Fosse Verdon, Gwen fights to assert her own creative vision on Chicago, challenging Bob’s increasingly dark approach to the musical. Just one more episode to go! More ab…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:33PMThe 64th Annual Obie Awards, celebrating Off and Off-Off-Broadway Theater We’re live at the 2019 #ObieAwards hosted by @Racheldoesstuff https://t.co/CHOOYEdiLX — Obie Awards (@obieawards…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:14PMFans can add another reason to be disappointed with Game of Thrones. NBC executives are now claiming they killed Hair Live, which they had planned to broadcast yesterday, when HBO announced …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:31AMHadestown won best Broadway choreography and Alice By Heart best Off-Broadway choreography in the third annual Chita Rivera Awards honoring excellence in dance and choregraphy. Complete list…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:36PMAt the end of “Mac Beth,” Macduff severs Macbeth’s head and then she takes a selfie of it, posing with two of her fellow murderous teenage girls, all dressed in parochial school unifor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:12PMDid George Harrison steal from The Chiffons? A judge ruled that his 1970 hit, “My Sweet Lord” was “virtually identical” to The Chiffons’ 1962 hit “He’s So Fine.” But, though …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:08PMSo many theater companies label their shows “immersive” these days that the term can feel like little more than a synonym for “hip.” But five adventurous and meticulous companies …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:39AMBryan Cranston won the distinguished performance award at the 85th annual Drama League Awards for his performance in Network, while Hadestown won best musical, and The Ferryman best play. Di…
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