There was a time when Billy Rose — Broadway producer, impresario, lyricist, columnist, and all-around theatrical showman — was a leading figure on Broadway. Born 125 years ago on Septemb…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:31PMAudra McDonald as Madame Rose; Robert Downey Jr’s Broadway debut; Elton John’s first new Broadway musical in a dozen years. It’s hard to resist the lure of the big musicals and starry …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:45PMBroadway Week, a two-for-one ticket discount to current Broadway shows, begins today, the start of a busy month and a starry season. In September alone, three Broadway shows are opening,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:18AMLabor Day means something different to Colm Summers, the new artistic director of Working Theater, a New York company about to launch its fortieth season as (in the words of their mission…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:46PMBelow is a selection of theater opening* in New York in September, Including three new plays on Broadway — featuring the Broadway debut of Robert Downey Jr., and the return of Patti LuPon…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:49PMHow well were you following the theater in August? By theater this month, that includes political theater, as well as the past and future on stage, not just the present. Answer the quiz belo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:50PMFollowing up on the recent Broadway revival of his Tony and Pulitzer-winning play “Doubt” and his new Off-Broadway hit “Brooklyn Laundry,” John Patrick Shanley has written another…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:50AMIt would be silly to dismiss “Hurricane Season” just because the production has no curtain call, and the cast is made to work during the entire intermission, performing a kind of robotic…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:44PM“It used to be a time when the movement was spearheaded by young people….putting their lives on the line. Now, they just put their lives online.” It’s a line in “Good Trouble” by…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:09AM“Humanity is on the ballot, y’all. Please don’t be complacent, because otherwise we’re cooked,” Billy Porter said to an estimated 3,000 people who attended an hour-long Zoom call o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PMThe most stageworthy news of the past week, let’s face it, were the speeches at the Democratic National Convention. “…the miracles of democracy and community”: AOC at the DNC, vide…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:12AM“ i am calling on all you independents and all you undecideds. ¥ou know this is true. You know I am telling you the truth. That values and character matter most of all. In leadership and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:03AMBefore Doug Emhoff explained the embarrassing moment that led to his first date with Kamala Harris, he began his speech at the 2024 Democratic National Convention by introducing his “big…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:16PM“For years, Donald Trump did everything in his power to try to make people fear us,” Michelle Obama said at Day 2 of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, talking about herself and he…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:47AM“Six years ago, I was taking omelette orders as a waitress in New York City. I didn’t have health insurance. My family was fighting off foreclosure and we were struggling with bills afte…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:11AMHow close has legitimate theater come to capturing the political theater of Presidential campaigns and party conventions, especially the real-life implausible whiplash political dramas of th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:54PMWhat we know about Lot’s wife from the Bible is that she looked back at the city of Sodom, although forbidden to do so, and became a pillar of salt. Lots more happens in Genesis 19 – a m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:41PMMore than 7,000 languages currently exist in the world, of which an astonishing 700 are spoken in New York City — more than anyplace else on earth. “Language and music are portable homel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:57PMHere are some of the stars scheduled to appear on a New York stage in the 2024-2025 season, several for the first time in many years, or ever: Christian Borle, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Burr, M…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:31AM“Once Upon A Mattress” opened tonight for its third turn on Broadway, with Sutton Foster’s performance as Princess Winnifred the Woebegone the same goofy and intense workout that prove…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49PM“Mike was going on again about the perfidious people who keep theatrical diaries,” Eric Idle writes about Mike Nichols in his own theatrical diary, meticulously dated October 20, 2004 at…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:17PMSeven shows currently on Broadway were preceded by a movie with the same name: They are either direct adaptation of the movies (Aladdin, Back to the Future), or inspired by them (Harry Potte…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:18PM“Some of us are old enough to remember when it was Republicans who were talking about freedom. It turns out now, what they meant is the government should be free to invade your doctor’s …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:25PMWhat happened to the dog days of summer? Sure this weekend saw the 26th annual Broadway Barks starry pet adoption event with hosts Bernadette Peters and Sutton Foster. But that’s just one…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:50AMIn June 2016, at the height of the Presidential election, a Russian lawyer named Natalia Veselnitskaya met at Trump Tower with Donald Trump Jr. and six other people, reportedly telling the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49PMThere’s been lots of political drama off-stage over the past month. Oddly, much of it can be connected to what’s been happening in New York theater. Answer these nine questions, plus a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:46PM“Six” Queen Didi Romero served as the host for the final Broadway in Bryant Park lunchtime concert of the year, which featured a lot of hugs — see first video below
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:22PMBelow is a selection of theater opening* in New York in August, including one show on Broadway: “Once Upon A Mattress,” starring Sutton Foster, which originated as an Encores! concert …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:25AM“Loss is loss,” Thom says to the five other members of the weekly grief support group. “Twenty years ago, our dog died. It took me fifteen years to even entertain the thought of gettin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:28PM“Job” is the second 80-minute play this month that has powered onto Broadway after sold-out runs downtown. (The other is“Oh, Mary!” .) That this two-character play about a therapy se…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30PMLuigi Pirandello, the Nobel Prize-winning Italian playwright who wrote “Six Characters in Search of an Author,” was for a time a member of the National Fascist Party and a follower of Be…
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