Wednesday, December 28, 2022
An 88-year-old producer complaining about Broadway ticket prices was the most popular post by far on this blog in 2022 — and that in an odd way speaks to the enthusiasm of New York Theater…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:37PMTuesday, December 27, 2022
Below is a list of theater books to read in 2023, most of which were published in 2022.‡ Click on the titles to find more information and to purchase these books, grouped under five categ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:06PMMonday, December 26, 2022
My annual New Year’s Eve last-minute guide to events that are still available to do on New Year’s Eve 2023 (when 2022 turns into 2023) in New York City: Times Square.Broadway show sched…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:39PM“on hiatus”→closed. (e.g.) mask mandatory→mask optional. Brooks Atkinson→Lena Horne; Cort→James Earl Jones. Beanie→Julie→Lea. Sara Porkalob vs. 1776. Lillias White vs. disabl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30AMSunday, December 25, 2022
Saturday, December 24, 2022
Below are some of the people from the theater community who died in 2022, listed alphabetically. Click on any photograph (and click the ⌽ button) to read the caption, most of which link to…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:40AMThursday, December 22, 2022
It was the kind of year when the audience gave a standing ovation for a regular line in the script of a play one particular night, because of a Supreme Court decision announced during that d…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:04PMWednesday, December 21, 2022
“A Strange Loop,’ is the most acclaimed show among theater critics whose lists of top 10 New York theater for 2022 are featured below. Following close behind is “Oratorio for Living T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:46PMTuesday, December 20, 2022
“We’re very different,” Andy Warhol (Paul Bettany) says to Jean-Michel Basquiat (Jeremy Pope) when they first meet to collaborate on making a painting. “You’re all spontaneous and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PMMonday, December 19, 2022
It’s hard not to fall instantly in love with Pops at the beginning of this must-see Broadway production of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize winning play by Stephen Adly Guirgis, the playwright laur…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:14PMA first for the Tony Awards: United Palace, a grand old theater in Washington Heights, will be the site of the 76th annual awards ceremony, which is now scheduled to take place on June 11, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:29AMSunday, December 18, 2022
Below is the Broadway schedule for the last two weeks of 2022 — Monday, Dec. 19 up to New Year’s Day 2023 — with links to my reviews of the shows (which contain links to their websites…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00AMSaturday, December 17, 2022
Nathan Lane, Jessica Chastain, Josh Groban, Laura Linney and Phillipa Soo are all returning to Broadway in what promises to be the first normal Spring season in four years (or at least we’…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:31AMFriday, December 16, 2022
“Ain’t No’ Mo” playwright Jordan E. Cooper announced on stage last night that thanks to his campaign his play is not closing this Sunday as had been announced; it’s been extended t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:36PMThursday, December 15, 2022
‘MJ’ musical numbers from opening night, Neil Diamond himself singing opening night at “A Beautiful Noise,” two different numbers from “Funny Girl,” the debate over Jewish assimi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:00PMWednesday, December 14, 2022
Victoria Clark gave one of my favorite performances last year, for “Kimberly Akimbo” Off-Broadway, and she appears again in this latest of my annual lists of favorite theatrical perform…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:51PMTuesday, December 13, 2022
Cara De Silva, journalist, author, scholar, lecturer and friend, died last week — which I just found out on Facebook. This is probably fitting, since she was an avid conversationalist on t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:28PMMonday, December 12, 2022
The holiday theater season hit some snags this week, with two Broadway shows set to close just weeks after opening, Stomp, an Off-Broadway staple closing after twenty-nine years, and comedy …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:37PMSunday, December 11, 2022
“Some Like It Hot” is glitzy, excessive, frenetic and funny, with hyperactive choreography, a game, talented cast, and a jazzy score with multiple 11 o’clock numbers. Much of this…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:01PMSaturday, December 10, 2022
Two recently opened Broadway shows abruptly announced their closing this week. Producers of “KPOP” announced on Tuesday that the musical composed by Helen Park would close this Sunday De…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:08PMThursday, December 8, 2022
At the curtain call, Audra McDonald and the rest of the cast pointed to a huge photograph on stage of Adrienne Kennedy, the playwright of “Ohio State Murders,” who is making her Broadway…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:29PMWednesday, December 7, 2022
I am Georgia. I am an example and an iteration of its history. Of its pain, and its promise, and the brutality and the possibility. But because this is America, because we always have a path…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:19PMAfter 29 years and 11,472 Performances, “Stomp” will play its final performance on January 8, 2023. The show, ensconced at the Orpheum Theater in the East Village since Feb. 27, 1994, cr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:59AMTuesday, December 6, 2022
This holiday season in New York means more than a dozen Nutcracker Suites, at least a half A Christmas Carols, including one on Broadway, and other annual traditions in the city that range f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:21AMMonday, December 5, 2022
Happy days are not quite here again, but news this week softened some recent blows: “The Phantom of the Opera” is still closing, but recent weeks have been the highest-grossing in the sh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:43AMSunday, December 4, 2022
“A Beautiful Noise” is certainly an efficient delivery system for twenty-nine of Neil Diamond’s most popular songs – some of them just snippets in medleys, but “Sweet Caroline”…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:44PM“Ain’t No Mo’,” an over-the-top satire that aims to tickle, shock and draw blood, imagines an America in which all Black people are being flown to Africa. But it’s not a direct fli…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:03PMSaturday, December 3, 2022
The first Broadway musical made out of a movie was probably the 1942 film “My Sister Eileen” with Rosalind Russell, which became the 1953 Broadway musical ‘Wonderful Town.” Other vin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:56AMFriday, December 2, 2022
There were arguably more challenges than cheers in New York theater over the previous month, as the following ten-question quiz attests. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:59PMThursday, December 1, 2022
Erik Jensen is making his Broadway debut the same year he suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm that almost killed him. The two are not unrelated, as he explains in the interview below. In �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:54PMWednesday, November 30, 2022
Below is a day-by-day calendar of theater opening* in December, a month that features six new Broadway shows, including two by Black playwrights making their Broadway debuts — one at age 2…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:41PM 
