Thursday, February 23, 2023
The ten most enlightening and entertaining non-fiction books about the American theater that have been published since 2013 have been works of history, criticism, biography and memoir. They …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54PMWednesday, February 22, 2023
Some movie critics called “The Whale” stagy , which I consider ironic, since I saw the stage play a decade ago, and, although both the play and the film are written by Samuel D. Hunter, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:30PMTuesday, February 21, 2023
We’re back in Idaho, a place I’ve viewed fondly for a decade, although I’ve never visited the state, because this is where playwright Samuel D. Hunter has set all his quietly amusing a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:13PMBad Behavior by Audiences… and by a Publisher? Are theater audiences behaving badly both on Broadway and in the UK? That’s what the BBC, The Stage, The Guardian and Playbill reported. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:08AMMonday, February 20, 2023
At least one President is almost always on Broadway, as the photo essay below once again makes clear. Last month there were five, although they looked a bit different than past stage portray…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:02AM“I am the director,” a young man protested to Dame Edith Evans as she was giving instructions to the other cast members of a play in which she starred. “Never mind,” she answered. �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:22AMSaturday, February 18, 2023
Which of the ten movies nominated this year for the Best Picture Oscar would make the best play? The worst play? The best musical? I put this to a poll, below, now that I’ve seen all ten, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:41AMFriday, February 17, 2023
“Between Riverside and Crazy” is being “simulcast” for four more performances, starting tonight, the last chance to see this terrific production, which I loved both staged in perso…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:05AMThursday, February 16, 2023
That Katie Holmes portrays a movie star in Anna Ziegler’s play about two troubled Jewish marriages somewhat undercuts what’s meant to be a significant moment near the end: Sophie (Sar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:06PMWednesday, February 15, 2023
There is a spectacular other-wordly train crash in “Avatar” that recalls the one in “The Fabelmans,” which in turn explicitly mimics the one in Cecil B. DeMille’s film “The Great…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:50PMTuesday, February 14, 2023
Shows currently on Broadway are full of romantic or at least sexy moments, as these scenes and shots from a dozen of them attest: click on any photograph to read the caption. From Funny Girl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:20AMMonday, February 13, 2023
“Americans are tired of being played for suckers,” President Joe Biden said at the State of the Union Address last week, asking Congress to “pass the Junk Fee Prevention Act so compani…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:04AMSaturday, February 11, 2023
From the moment Mary hires Ashling to be the nanny for her children, “things start to feel just a little….off,” according to the promotion for “Lucy.” But for the entire two hours …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:46PMFriday, February 10, 2023
It was the sort of remark that might have shocked people at any other ribbon-cutting ceremony, but this was the reopening yesterday of La MaMa Experimental Theater Club’s first home, a fou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:42AMThursday, February 9, 2023
In 1992, photographer Larry Sultan published an unusual book about his parents Irv and Jean entitled “Pictures From Home,” a combination of staged photographs of them, stills from the fa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:27PMWednesday, February 8, 2023
The parents of police victim Tyre Nichols, the ambassador from Ukraine, a man who disarmed a killer, the father of a young woman who died from an overdose – these are among the nine indivi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:47AMTuesday, February 7, 2023
It was as if John Guare had come to his own memorial service, he joked at the end of last night’s two-hour celebration of his work at the 92nd Street Y. “But I’m so happy to be alive.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:38PMMonday, February 6, 2023
“In the Woods” won the Grammy for best musical theater album, producer Sean Patrick Flahaven accepting the award as a tribute to the memory of Stephen Sondheim (who during his lifetime…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:06AMSunday, February 5, 2023
Into The Woods is the winner of the Grammy for Musical Theater Album. “This album is a tribute to Stephen Sondheim. We lost him a little more than a year ago.” The six nominees in the ca…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:44PMSaturday, February 4, 2023
Theater created by Black New Yorkers goes back two centuries, as chronicled in the collections of the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress, some items from which are posted be…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:10PMFriday, February 3, 2023
Each of the following ten recording artists has been nominated for Album of the Year, the most coveted of the 91 categories in the 65th annual Grammy Awards, which will be held this Sunday. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:17AMThursday, February 2, 2023
When I saw “Between Riverside and Crazy” on stage at Broadway’s Hayes Theater in December, I called it a “must-see” production of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s 2015 Pulitzer Prize win…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:54AMWednesday, February 1, 2023
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in February 2023 in New York, including one play on Broadway, starring Nathan Lane, Danny Burstein and Zoe Wanamaker, and much exciting Off-Broadway…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:29PMTuesday, January 31, 2023
Tickets are now on sale for Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for performances from February 13 through March 5 to 23 Off-Broadway shows, including such fan f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:44PMHow well were you paying attention to New York theater in January? Answer these ten questions to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:28AMMonday, January 30, 2023
A year after Eric Adams delivered his first official speech as mayor in Manhattan’s theater district urging New Yorkers to “enjoy a Broadway show,” he made his second State of th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:44AMSunday, January 29, 2023
A Ukrainian play at an Irish theater festival? It was one of the two plays I attended in the final weekend of the annual 1st Irish Festival, which on the surface seemed as opposite as thei…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:26PMSaturday, January 28, 2023
Vivien Leigh said it tipped her over into madness. It left Ann-Margret “twisted and shaking, confused, agitated, and staring ahead in a daze.” For Jessica Lange, “I don’t think ther…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:45AMFriday, January 27, 2023
On this International Holocaust Remembrance Day – designated by the United Nations every January 27th, because that was the date in 1945 when Soviet soldiers liberated the 6,000 remainin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:22PMThursday, January 26, 2023
Ever since newly-elected New York Congressman George Santos was revealed as a liar, and worse, not a day has gone by without something new. It’s embarrassing, of course; much of it is infu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:24PMWednesday, January 25, 2023
“525,600 minutes 525,000 moments so dear 525,600 minutesHow do you measure… half a lifetime? That’s how long it’s been” This is how Anthony Rapp begins “Without You,” h…
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