Thursday, April 18, 2024
Inez Milholland, glamorous bohemian and radical lawyer, rode atop a white steed to lead the unprecedented 1913 March on Washington for women’s suffrage down Pennsylvania Avenue the day b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15PMWednesday, April 17, 2024
In “The Wiz,” the all-Black version of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” that debuted on Broadway in the 1970s, Dorothy never sang “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” nor wore ruby red s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:38PMTuesday, April 16, 2024
Thomas Jefferson was in his forties when he began having sex with one of his slaves, Sally Hemings, who was 14. Had they fallen in love? The question is absurd. But did they eventually fal…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:16PMMonday, April 15, 2024
With twelve shows opening on Broadway in the next ten days– and several Off Broadway – it’s a taxing time (yes, a pun) for theater award voters and critics, and a busy one for theater …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:48AMSunday, April 14, 2024
A woman is pictured as a machine several times in “Lempicka,” a musical about Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980), an artist whose heyday was in the 1930s, painting Art Deco-style portraits o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:39PMSaturday, April 13, 2024
With Tax Day approaching, here are seven times that characters have sung or talked about taxes in Broadway musicals, from “I’ll Put a Tax on That” in Casino Girl 1910 to “My Shot” …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:26PMFriday, April 12, 2024
In the middle of the busiest theater month in memory, the theater company Playco held a group nap today. It was the first of its slate of free events during its “Month of Rest” �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:00PMThursday, April 11, 2024
In “The Outsiders,” opening on Broadway tonight, an exciting cast of gifted young performers, a lovely if little-varied folk and country score, and some thrillingly muscular, almost cine…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:40PMWednesday, April 10, 2024
Since the publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel of the Jazz Age – on April 10, 1925, 99 years ago today — “The Great Gatsby” has been turned into an opera, a ballet, seve…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:29PMTuesday, April 9, 2024
By the end of “Oh, Mary!,” we have learned that First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln was a homicidally bitter alcoholic and frustrated cabaret singer married to a vicious closet homosexual whose…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:47PMMonday, April 8, 2024
Nature’s getting dramatic, taking center stage, with the earthquake last week and the eclipse today. (New York City is expected to see a partial solar eclipse, with the moon covering about…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:15AMSunday, April 7, 2024
Zombie fungi – the same parasites that wipe out civilization in the sci-fi thriller “The Last of Us” — are real; fruit flies grieve; a group of five towns in 17th century Italy f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:27PMSaturday, April 6, 2024
The Great American Eclipse of 2024 is happening in North America on Monday, with the moon completely blocking the light of the sun in cities from Mazatlan, Mexico to Montreal, Canada, inc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:01PMFriday, April 5, 2024
There is an arresting tidbit about Leonard Bernstein and “West Side Story” near the beginning of “Broadway Melody” (Benzinger and Frank, 492 pages), written by Jack Viertel, whose il…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:56PMThursday, April 4, 2024
“Wet Brain,” “Buena Vista Social Club” and “Stereophonic” received the most nominations for the 39th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:16PMWednesday, April 3, 2024
Below is a calendar of dates in 2024 when nominations and awards are announced, and ceremonies take place, for the major New York theater awards (and a few others), followed by an opinionate…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:47PMTuesday, April 2, 2024
Once again, the voices of the original Broadway cast of “Rent” rang out from a New York stage — this time at Lincoln Center. But as Idina Menzel sang “Over the Moon,” Sandra Mae Fr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:35PMMonday, April 1, 2024
Ariana DeBose will once again be the face of Broadway, when she returns for the third time as host of the Tony Awards. The Oscar-winning actress of “West Side Story” and six-time Broadwa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:42AMSunday, March 31, 2024
Below is a selection of theater opening* in April. It’s an overwhelming number of shows — fourteen just on Broadway, twelve of them in the week leading up to the April 25th cut-off date…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:38AMSaturday, March 30, 2024
Elmer J. McCurdy was killed in a shoot-out with sheriff’s deputies in Oklahoma in 1911, but took 66 years to be buried, his mummified remains having been exhibited all that time by a seri…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:29PMFriday, March 29, 2024
How well were you paying attention to the theater news and reviews in March? Answer these ten questions — plus a bonus question — to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:01PMThursday, March 28, 2024
There is a core of irresistibly tuneful songs in “The Who’s Tommy” that have drawn in fans for more than half a century, first with the rock band’s pioneering 1969 double album, th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:45PMWednesday, March 27, 2024
In honor of World Theater Day, celebrated internationally every March 27th since 1962, here are 10 beautiful theaters from around the world, and 10 great books about New York theater. But …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:39AMTuesday, March 26, 2024
John Patrick Shanley’s latest play begins with a tentative connection between two lonely middle-aged people, Fran (Cecily Strong), who brings her latest bag of dirty laundry to the neighbo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:28PMMonday, March 25, 2024
I reviewed seven shows this past week – two on Broadway, two Off-Broadway, two Off-Off Broadway, and one in Kentucky. A mad busy theatergoing week, prelude to an even more insane month, wi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:07AMSunday, March 24, 2024
We’re in the parking lot of the New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church on a hot Good Friday afternoon in Dallas, Texas. We’re also on stage in the Pamela Brown Auditorium of the Acto…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:03PMSaturday, March 23, 2024
Bathhouse.pptx, “a mess” of a play about gay bathhouses that is “a symptom of loneliness and longing” (in the words of its playwright Jesús I. Valles), won the 2023 Yale Drama Se…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:10PMFriday, March 22, 2024
Laurence Fishburne is an award-winning actor who’s been in the business for more than half a century, debuting on TV at age 10, in the movies at age 12, and in a major motion picture, �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:53AMThursday, March 21, 2024
When at the start of “Water for Elephants,” Jacob jumps a train during the Depression, he lucks out – and so do we.“You didn’t jump just any old train, son,” a character named Ca…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:47PMWednesday, March 20, 2024
Described below are forty-seven shows opening over nineteen days in April. That beats even the Broadway schedule for the month. And tickets are a lot cheaper — no more than $35, and as lit…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:00PMTuesday, March 19, 2024
There are elements of a smart and campy popular entertainment, comparable to “Little Shop of Horrors,” in this latest musical from Michael R. Jackson ( “A Strange Loop,” “White Gir…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:36PM 
