My last-minute guide to New Year’s Eve in New York City, when 2024 turns into 2025, features information on: Times Square.Dining Out,Theater: Plays as parties, Broadway show schedule, fami…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:49PMOn this traditional day of moviegoing, here is my quick take on ten new feature films, most of them only available in cinemas, including “A Complete Unknown,” “The Fire Inside” and �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:11PMPortia, Act 5, Scene 1 of “The Merchant of Venice”
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:02AMBelow are some of the people from the theater community who died in 2024, listed alphabetically. Click on any photograph (and click the ⌽ button) to read the caption. (In a few of these, t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:20AMThe final three Broadway shows of 2024 opened last week — a play, a musical and…something else, for a total of 33 shows running on Broadway as we head into Christmukkah (both Christmas a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:11AM“All In: Comedy about Love,” opening on Broadway tonight, is not based on Simon Rich’s humorous stories; it is a selection of those stories, read aloud from hand-held binders by a ro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:36PMBelow is the Broadway schedule between Monday December 23, 2024 and Sunday, December 29, 2024, with links to my reviews of the shows. Eight shows will be performed Christmas Eve (Tuesday), a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:37AMMy guide to the underground immersive hit “Life and Trust” was the best-read post on my NewYorkTheater.me blog in 2024, followed by my comparison of Wicked the movie with the Broadway m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:06PMCole Escola and Nicole Scherzinger made spectacular Broadway debuts this year, justly acclaimed, but less attention-grabbing performances in less conspicuous productions also impressed, alb…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:39PMThe marquee says it all: “AudraGypsy.” With less brass and more heart, Audra McDonald’s distinctive portrayal of Madam Rose, the mother of all stage mothers, is the reason to see this�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:55PMOn this day in 2019, in news reported on front pages around the world the next day, the House of Representatives impeached Donald J Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:04AMThe landscape has changed for theater. The loss of the Connelly Theater, while under unusual circumstances (see Joey Sims’ interview below with its departing director) feels emblematic of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:28PM“Eureka Day” begins as a stock satire of the painstakingly earnest progressives at a small private elementary school in Berkeley, California, leading to one of the most hilarious scenes …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:55PMJustice Ketanji Brown Jackson makes her one-night-only Broadway debut in “& Juliet” (see videos below) What’s most intriguing about the end-of-year assessments, by both professiona…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:02AM“Maybe Happy Ending” is the most acclaimed show among theater critics whose lists of top 10 New York theater for 2024 are featured below; it is also the number one choice by far in a …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30AMMy thirteenth annual theater gift guide below features links and information on shopping for theater tickets,theater subscriptions/memberships,cast recordings,play scripts and books about t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:23AMWhat did you think was the best of the forty-four shows that opened on Broadway in 2024? Which was the worst? Take the two polls below. Judge the quality of the show as you see it, not how i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:31AMThe title makes us wary of all the Christmas cheer at the Dahl family gathering when Leslye Headland’s play begins: Everybody is singing Christmas carols in a home awash in Christmas decor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:26PMThe announcement gave me pause. The Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Guild announced five nominees in the new category of “Broadway and International” for its 12th Annual MUAHS (Makeup A…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:44AMWatch the ten videos below that were the most viewed in 2024 of those that I’ve posted on my YouTube channel, arranged in order of popularity. Only two were created in 2024 — Sutton Fos…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:59AMDenzel Washington as Othello, Jonathan Groff as singer Bobby Darin, George Clooney as journalist Edward R. Murrow: The Spring Broadway season promises a starry and vibrant mix: original show…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:43PMKetanji Brown Jackson will make her Broadway debut, with a one-night-only walk-on role in the Broadway musical “& Juliet“ on December 14, after which she will participate in a talkba…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:04AMAs Benji, Kieran Culkin has no sense of boundaries. On a Jewish heritage tour that he takes with his cousin David to Poland, the country where their grandmother survived the Holocaust, Benji…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:34PM“The Books of Jacob” is a work of theater unlike any I’ve ever attended, a production more ambitious than any I can remember, one that is almost too complicated to explain. The perform…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:46PM“Sleep No More” is closing after almost 14 years, “Blue Man Group” after almost 34 years and more than 17,000 performances. The longevity of these shows strikes me as reason enough t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:31PMChoose your favorite Broadway cast recording of 2024* from among the 16 in the poll below, listed alphabetically. More on each album in links at bottom. Loading… *Two of the albums are not…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:03PMAnnie Baker is making her feature film debut as a writer and director some fifteen years after making her New York stage debut as a playwright, and I almost laughed at the déjà vu of it. �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:50PMOn this thirteenth annual #GivingTuesday (created in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y), consider donating to a theater company or theater organization in New York City. Below, a sample, listed a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:15AM“Wicked,” a mission for marketers, has become a darling of pundits as well. During the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC, after interviews with Cynthia Erivo (No, she doesn’t min…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:14PMBelow is a selection of theater opening* in New York in December, including four shows on Broadway, one starring Audra McDonald (Gypsy), two more with love in the title (The Cult of Love; A…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:28PMHoliday shows take center stage between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve each year. Some of the plays, ballets, operas, concerts, musicals, burlesques, and hybrid entertainments have reappe…
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