Monday, January 1, 2018
Is Mariah Carey our modern Cassandra, prophesizing the future? At the beginning of 2017, Carey, having blamed technical glitches for her disastrous New Year’s Eve performance in Times Squa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:54PMSunday, December 31, 2017
Here again, celebrating the new year by saluting a dozen Broadway veterans, aged 91 to 105. Click on any photograph to see it enlarged and read the caption. Why, you may ask, is Betty White,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:01PMThe dozen videos below were the most viewed of those I posted on my YouTube channel, New York Theater, in 2017. Anastasia , Once Upon a December Anastasia highlights Jordan Fisher on making …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:29AMSaturday, December 30, 2017
Who wants to remember 2017, much less answer questions about it? To make this quiz slightly easier to take, references to Donald Trump have been (largely) avoided (and put into a separate qu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:12PMFriday, December 29, 2017
Below is a list of theater books, most of which were published in 2017. Click on the titles to find more information and to purchase these books, grouped under four categories: 1. Scripts, i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:39PMThursday, December 28, 2017
It might be a stretch to say that the theater community has a special relationship with Donald Trump, or even a special antipathy. But in my looking over the theater news of the past year, i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:55PMThere were so many memorable theater-related moments this year that were not part of any scripted show that they threatened to upstage any moments on stage. Even some of the most encouraging…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:24AMThere were so many memorable theater-related moments this year that were not part of any scripted show that they threatened to upstage any moments on stage. Even some of the most encouraging…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:18AMWednesday, December 27, 2017
Anything about “Hamilton” was still popular on NewYorkTheater.me in 2017, nearly three years after the musical first opened, Off-Broadway. 5 BEST-READ POSTS IN 2017 1. The 50 Best Plays …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:01AMTuesday, December 26, 2017
My annual New Year’s Eve last-minute guide features the Broadway show schedule for New Year’s week, and other theater, as well as parties, concerts,intimate dinners, cruises, and q…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30AMSunday, December 24, 2017
This seems the right day to feature Ann Harada, in the original cast of Avenue Q, as a character named Christmas Eve. Today, we look back at 2017, with the top New York theater stories of 2…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:55PMSaturday, December 23, 2017
oc It was a year of shocks. In 2017, we got Hurricane Harvey and Harvey Weinstein, indecency in the White House and terror in Times Square. Meryl Streep began the year speaking out against D…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:05PMFriday, December 22, 2017
“Hamilton” opened on the West End Thursday night. If it should come as no surprise that London critics, as much as New York ones, give largely ecstatic reviews of the hip-hop mus…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:03AMThursday, December 21, 2017
Yes, there will be stars on Broadway in the Spring – Denzel Washington, Diana Rigg (after an absence from Broadway of 24 years), Glenda Jackson (after an absence of 30 years), Laurie M…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:13PMWednesday, December 20, 2017
My ten favorite individual performances in New York stage shows that opened in 2017 are listed alphabetically, with explanations for my choices largely excerpted from my reviews, but let’s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:16PMTuesday, December 19, 2017
Some people wonder why the same holiday shows are so popular, year after year. Some people just attend them year after year. Below, see the schedule for Broadway shows both during the week l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:48PMMonday, December 18, 2017
Now seems the right time to start summing up 2017 (though watch for more such looks back in the two weeks remaining of the year.) Top 10 Lists of Top 10 New York Theater 2017 Poll: Worst Bro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:04PMIt’s no secret that original cast albums were the gateway drug for many lifelong theater addicts. Just ask Lin-Manuel Miranda or Todrick Hall. Choose your favorite recording from among…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30AMSunday, December 17, 2017
Billed as the first live TV commercial for a movie, Hugh Jackman leads in this song-and-dance number to promote The Greatest Showman (Starts at the one minute mark) Watch for Zendaya, Zac Ef…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PMFour years after their splendid debut on Broadway, Shakespeare’s Globe returns to the beautiful Belasco Theater with a show that in a few glorious ways resembles their spectacular Twelfth …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:36PMFour years after their splendid debut on Broadway, Shakespeare’s Globe returns to the beautiful Belasco Theater with a show that in a few glorious ways resembles their spectacular Twelfth …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:20PMWhen A Christmas Story is being broadcast live tonight on Fox (starting at 7 p.m. ET), a reworked version of the Broadway musical by Pasek and Paul, it’ll be the latest example of a trend …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:17PMSaturday, December 16, 2017
“The Band’s Visit” is a favorite of all but one of the drama critics whose top 10 lists for New York theater in 2017 are listed below. (The only critic to omit it this year…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:29AMFriday, December 15, 2017
“The Children” begins as what seems like a small, slow domestic drama about three aged friends in an English seaside cottage, but turns into an unsettling meditation on some very large t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:28PMFiasco Theater offers a Twelfth Night for theatergoers who’ve never seen Twelfth Night or Fiasco Theater before. For almost a decade, the ensemble company has been praised for its bare-b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AMFiasco Theater offers a Twelfth Night for theatergoers who’ve never seen Twelfth Night or Fiasco Theater before. For almost a decade, the ensemble company has been praised for its bare-bon…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:19AMThursday, December 14, 2017
For all the Broadway box office records set in 2017, the year in New York theater felt tentative, in transition, as if both theater artists and audiences were trying to figure out how to dea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:49PMWednesday, December 13, 2017
Welcome to my sixth annual Worst Broadway Show poll. Pick the show you thought was the worst to open on Broadway in 2017. I chose these ten nominees; this is my Bottom 10 list this year (a c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:46PMFrom December 13 to 15th, get free tickets to live theater, and other live events — dance, comedy, opera — through Goldstar’s Comp Train promotion. You pay a small service …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:16AMTuesday, December 12, 2017
To outsiders, a rock musical that presents a long-dead public official as a tragic villain, and a disagreement over public policy as high drama, might sound ludicrous from the get-go. But th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:11PMIn “Hundred Days,” a musically engaging autobiographical concert by The Bengsons, Abigail and Shaun Bengson tell us they met one another at “the first rehearsal of a massive anti-folk …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:28AM 
