Sunday, November 6, 2022
Inventive 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 07:30PMThursday, November 3, 2022
The “world’s greatest rock critic” offers some advice to William Miller, a friendless, precocious 15-year-old who has just lucked into an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to acco…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PMWednesday, November 2, 2022
A sign of the vitality of American theater in the 1960s is how many shows that Al Hirschfeld caricatured at the time are currently on New York stages in revivals: 1776, A Delicate Balance, F…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:20PMTuesday, November 1, 2022
Below is a day-by-day calendar of theater opening* in November, a month that features six new Broadway shows, four of them musicals, as well as some exciting theater-adjacent events, such as…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:19AMMonday, October 31, 2022
Broadway 2023 is shaping up, even as Fall 2022 heats up, with eight Broadway shows having opened in October, six more scheduled to do so in November, and Off Broadway featuring new plays wit…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:51AMSunday, October 30, 2022
How well were you paying attention to New York theater in October — the shows (eight on Broadway alone!), the controversies (many)? Answer these ten questions to find out Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:22PMSaturday, October 29, 2022
“Hound Dog,” a play with music, evokes Elvis, Joni Mitchell and “Ramy” the Hulu series about an Egyptian-American immigrant family in New Jersey (the last unintentionally) — which …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:58PMFriday, October 28, 2022
In 2016, Stephen Sondheim, who was working on a new musical based on two movies by Luis Buñuel, was listed on an internal memo at the New Yorker Magazine as a possible subject for a prof…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:53PMThursday, October 27, 2022
Gabriel Byrne gives four different kinds of curtain calls in the middle of “Walking With Ghosts,” his lovely solo show opening tonight at Broadway’s Music Box Theater. These are hilari…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00PMWednesday, October 26, 2022
Ralph Fiennes nails Robert Moses – the gruff, no-nonsense New York voice, the pugnacious face, the planted stance ready for combat; pelvis thrust forward. Commanding, confident to the poin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:29PMTuesday, October 25, 2022
Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Joe Morton and Sean Combs have all portrayed Walter Lee Younger on Broadway. Given how admired these performers are, it may come as a shock that the cha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:55PMMonday, October 24, 2022
Will a Caesars Palace casino be put above the Minskoff Theater, home to “The Lion King”? Caesars and the landlord of 1515 Broadway, SL Green, have put in a bid with the New York Stat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:37AMSunday, October 23, 2022
Theater heals in grim times, even in grim shows, according to several theater bloggers, who are sounding a surprising note of optimism in recent posts amid the current reports of tension bot…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:55AMSaturday, October 22, 2022
“What Kind of Woman,” playwright Abbe Tanenbaum tells us in a program note, was inspired by a cache of letters from women seeking abortion before Roe vs. Wade, which she discovered at…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:57AMFriday, October 21, 2022
Broadway performers Idina Menzel, Gideon Glick, Andy Mientus, Nancy Olson, directors Jack O’Brien and Sheldon Epps are all new authors — of memoirs, novels, a cookbook, a children’s bo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:31PMThursday, October 20, 2022
Is “Topdog/Underdog” as outdated as the three-card monte that the play revolves around? In Suzan-Lori Parks’ twenty-year-old play, two brothers with the loaded names of Lincoln and Boo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00PMTuesday, October 18, 2022
Emma Rice’s jokey, sprawling musical adaptation of “Wuthering Heights” that opens tonight at St. Ann’s Warehouse might befuddle anyone who associates the title with the 1939 movie. L…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00PMMonday, October 17, 2022
Two Broadway cast members provoked voluble reactions among theater lovers this past week, both of which feel like case studies with surprisingly complex implications. Sara Porkalob, who i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:15PMSunday, October 16, 2022
Sara Porkalob, who is making her Broadway debut portraying Edward Rutledge, the pro-slavery representative from South Carolina, in the gender-reversed Broadway revival of “1776,” gave an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:01PMFriday, October 14, 2022
For Edward Hopper, theater was a passionate pastime, an inspiration, and also, from first to last, a subject of his paintings — enough of them to fill a gallery and then some in “Edward …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:36PMThursday, October 13, 2022
The first Broadway revival of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” is full of stars and ghosts. The ghosts are what make it brilliant. Don’t misunderstand. It’s thrilling that: -Sam…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:39PMWednesday, October 12, 2022
Angela Lansbury received her first Oscar nomination before World War II was won, and today, there are children who know who she is. It’s hard to imagine anyone matching the historical swee…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:40AMTuesday, October 11, 2022
Angela Lansbury, the English born actress, child star in Hollywood and beloved sleuth of “Murder She Wrote” who conquered Broadway relatively late in life, died today at her home in Los …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:28PMThree more shows opened last week, the latest in the revved-up Broadway season, all three with non-traditional casts, two of them familiar Broadway fare thus made unfamiliar (and, the produc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03AMMonday, October 10, 2022
In honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, which President Joe Biden first formally recognized as a national holiday in 2021, to be celebrated the second Monday of October (today!) – not coin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:21PMSunday, October 9, 2022
The “Death of a Salesman” that opens tonight on Broadway begins and ends with the people around Willy Loman literally singing the blues — the music that turned the bitterness and exhau…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:19PMSaturday, October 8, 2022
A day before opening night of the sixth Broadway production of Arthur Miller’s 1949 plays seems a good time to resurrect my review of the fifth production which opened on March 15th, 2012 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:29PMFriday, October 7, 2022
The long weekend is a good time to catch up on theater that is available online for free. Some of it has been around for a while and may remain so; four of the shows below are planning to go…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50PMThursday, October 6, 2022
The original challenge to the creators of “1776” was how to make a commercial musical comedy out of something as somber and dry as the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Half a …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:42PMTuesday, October 4, 2022
“We are not criminals…” Kristina was saying “We are refugees,” Bohdana added, “seeking asylum.” Kristina Obluchynska and Bohdana Yakobchuk were two of the seven women from Ukra…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:26PMMonday, October 3, 2022
On the same night that I saw the exquisitely acted Broadway production of “Cost of Living” — Martyna Majok’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play that tells the parallel stories of two disabl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:23PM 
