Thursday, 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 12:41PMTuesday, November 29, 2022
On this eleventh annual #GivingTuesday (created in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y and the United Nations Foundation), consider donating to your favorite New York area theaters and theater compa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30AMMonday, November 28, 2022
Here are some theater-related promotional discounts, many of them for today only: Today Tix: Cybersale “Up to 60 percent off” of Broadway tickets From Goldstar, Cybersale “up to 60 p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:14AMSunday, November 27, 2022
“We sing together, we dance together, we look sexy together,” says Timmy X. This may be a succinct description of the Korean popular music phenomenon known as K-pop in general, but in an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:55PMSaturday, November 26, 2022
Stephen Sondheim died a year ago today at the age of 91. If the musical theater composer and lyricist was revered during his lifetime, attention to his work has only accelerated in the year …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:38AMFriday, November 25, 2022
My annual list of my favorite New York stage shows, which I’d posted for a decade, morphed in the last two years into an appreciation of the innovative and impassioned attempts to redefine…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:52PMThursday, November 24, 2022
Below are videos of the musical numbers performed by the casts of Broadway shows at the 96th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, starting with Lea Michele et al from Funny Girl; then �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:05PMWednesday, November 23, 2022
My eleventh annual theater gift guide below features links and information on shopping for theater tickets,theater subscriptions/memberships,cast recordings,play scripts and books about the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:57AMTuesday, November 22, 2022
In a play entitled “Pool, Vol. 1″ — one of the fourteen odd and inventive works by “experience designers” showcased during a day-long event called The New Frame — Megan Livingst…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:15PMMonday, November 21, 2022
Jefferson Mays’ version of “A Christmas Carol,” in which he portrays some fifty characters, struck me as a singular adaptation of Charles Dickens’ story in four distinct and memor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:29PMThirty-three Broadway shows are on offer this Thanksgiving Week (see schedule), and there’ll be eight more Broadway openings before the new year, but the theater industry enters the normal…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:59AMSunday, November 20, 2022
“The Patient Gloria” is inspired (if that’s the right word) by a film that some see as a breakthrough; others as a betrayal. In 1964, a recently divorced woman named Gloria Szymanski …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:07PMBelow is the Broadway schedule for Thanksgiving Week 2022, which differs from the usual week’s schedule: Only two shows of the 33 currently playing have performances on Thanksgiving Day (T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:14PMBelow are the seven longest-running shows currently on Broadway, with descriptions and links. This feels the right time for an update given that the longest one has announced a closing date,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:36PMSaturday, November 19, 2022
In Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 film “North by Northwest,” Cary Grant is mistaken for the spy George Kaplan by villain James Mason and his thugs (possibly Russian.) As we eventually disc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:25AMThursday, November 17, 2022
The Bard takes a back seat to the Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears in “& Juliet,” a jukebox musical that is being billed as a sequel to Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:31PMEarlier this month, Keith Wann, a performance artist and long-time sign language interpreter for the Deaf on Broadway, filed a lawsuit against Theater Development Fund for rescinding its job…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:28PMTuesday, November 15, 2022
At the beginning of “Downstate,” an unsettling play by Bruce Norris, Andy (Tim Hopper) is confronting the man who sexually abused him thirty years earlier, reading with shaky breath fro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:13PMSix albums were nominated for the best musical theater album, all of them of current or recent Broadway shows (unlike last year). The 65th annual Grammy Awards will take place on February 5,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:12PMMonday, November 14, 2022
Theater is fleeting, which is why the new Museum of Broadway feels long overdue. Theater twitter seems to be fleeting too – or fleeing, to be more precise. Playbill’s last Tweet: Twitter…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:23PMIndividual Broadway musicals take pride of place at the Museum of Broadway, opening tomorrow, with literal show rooms: elaborately designed rooms dedicated to such shows as “Oklahoma,” �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:24PMSunday, November 13, 2022
Mike Birbiglia is so popular he can joke about cancer and diabetes and still fill up a Broadway theater. “The Old Man and the Pool,” opening tonight at the Vivian Beaumont, recalls the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PMFriday, November 11, 2022
In honor of Veterans Day, veterans and current active duty service members were given free tickets this week to attend a one-night-only reading just for them of James IJames’ 2022 Pulitzer…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:58AMThursday, November 10, 2022
“Kimberly Akimbo” arrives on Broadway with its terrific cast and quirkiness intact. What’s best about this musical remains – above all, the slowly unfolding oddball relationship b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:58PMWednesday, November 9, 2022
Madeline Sayet begins her enlightening solo show at the Public Theater with an acknowledgement of the original inhabitants of Manhattan, the Lenape, which is as standard an opening messag…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30PM“This campaign has always been about fighting for anybody who’s gotten knocked down that ever got back up,” John Fetterman said in his victory speech early this morning after he was ca…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:04AMTuesday, November 8, 2022
Today is Election Day! If you live in NYC, find your polling site here. If you live anywhere in America, you can go to Vote.org. Learn the location of your polling place and what’s on you…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:07AMMonday, November 7, 2022
“If the British armed forces are not perhaps what they were on the world stage, they’re certainly world beaters in ceremony and ritual and pomp. We’re still good for theater.” — Do…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:43AMSunday, November 6, 2022
In her gorgeously written memoir, which was published last year with the same title as the play that is opening tonight at the Signature Theater, Quiara Alegría Hudes wrote that it was the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:02PMInventive stagecraft, watchable stars, a vague, artsy script: In his New York debut, playwright Noah Diaz arguably has a story he wants to tell about caregiving and the psychological effects…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM 
