Tuesday, January 9, 2024
“For the theatre community, it was a time of tumult, turnover, ‘the field is in crisis’ essays, show cancellations due to illness, and budgetary shortfalls.” But also a response: “…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:04PMMonday, January 8, 2024
Hollywood and Broadway intertwined in complicated ways once again when Broadway veterans Paul Giamatti and Da’Vine Joy Randolph both won Golden Globe Awards last night for their roles in …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:11PMSunday, January 7, 2024
I saw these three hour-long shows from the 19th Under the Radar Festival one after the other on the same floor of the Rose building at Lincoln Center Queens of Sheba Muki Zubis stood on stag…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:02PMSaturday, January 6, 2024
Created and performed by a trio who call themselves FlawBored and describe themselves as a “disability-led theater company” – two of the three are legally blind – this export from th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:25PMBilled as “an experimental theater piece about the end of an experimental theater,” this opening night show in the 19th annual Under the Radar festival turned out to be, as the title pro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AMFriday, January 5, 2024
Below is a calendar of selected theater opening* this month in New York, including two Broadway shows that are both transfers from Off-Broadway. The bulk of theatrical fare in January lon…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:50PMThursday, January 4, 2024
Below is a preview of the theater festivals in New York City this month, which are presenting more than eighty shows, many of them far from traditional theater — call them experimental, av…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:43PMWednesday, January 3, 2024
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to, among the 18 that (so far) have firm opening dates on Broadway between now and April 25, 2024, when the 2023-2024 season ends. They are …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:57AMTuesday, January 2, 2024
How will the “crisis in theater” be addressed? That’s the first of my 5 Major Questions for The Theater in 2024 and Beyond. I also Ring IN The Old in 2024: 16 Broadway veterans in thei…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:39AMMonday, January 1, 2024
We can’t see the future clearly, of theater or anything else, but we can look at the recent past and wonder how things will play out. My questions about theater in 2024 are prompted by the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:45AMSunday, December 31, 2023
Let us celebrate surviving to a new and hopefully better year, by honoring these sixteen Broadway veterans in their nineties — celebrated performers, playwrights, producers, directors, com…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:51AMSaturday, December 30, 2023
How much do you remember of this year in New York theater? Answer these 16 questions to find out. My most challenging quiz yet, about a most challenging year. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:36PMFriday, December 29, 2023
Below is a list of theater books to read in 2024, which I divide into three groups: 2. Four books (all but one published in 2023) that I’ve been meaning to read and might actually do so…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:23AMThursday, December 28, 2023
An 89-year-old Broadway producer complaining about Broadway ticket prices was the most popular post yet again on my NewYorkTheater.me blog in 2023, although the post is from May, 2022. It ju…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:12PMWednesday, December 27, 2023
Here are the ten biggest stories about New York theater in 2023, some of them major recurring issues, some of them events, most of them serious, one of them silly, some glimpsing the sublime…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:39PMTuesday, December 26, 2023
My last-minute guide to New Year’s Eve in New York City, when 2023 turns into 2024, features information on: Times Square.Dining OutTheater: Plays as parties, Broadway show schedule, famil…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15PMThe last week of the year is, if not time of reckoning, at least summing up: Top 10 Lists of Top 10 NY Theater in 2023: Merrily, Sweeney, Purlie “Merrily We Roll Along” is the most accla…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:00AMMonday, December 25, 2023
In this traditional day of moviegoing, here are ten new feature films, most of them only available in cinemas, ranked from those I most enjoyed to those I most regret seeing. American Fictio…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:31PMSunday, December 24, 2023
When, near the end of the new movie musical “The Color Purple,” Fantasia Barrino as Celie sings “I don’t need you to love me….I’m beautiful, yes I’m beautiful, and I’m h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50AMSaturday, December 23, 2023
Below are some of the people from the theater community who died in 2023, listed alphabetically. Click on any photograph (and click the ⌽ button) to read the caption, most of which link to…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:37PMFriday, December 22, 2023
“Merrily We Roll Along” is the most acclaimed show among theater critics whose lists of top 10 New York theater for 2023 are featured below, and in a poll I took of some 250 theatergoer…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:57AMThursday, December 21, 2023
From the Ukrainian infant-actress breastfed on stage at the beginning of the year, to the four old bums who collapse on top of one another at the end, 2023 has been full of memorable moments…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:14PMWednesday, December 20, 2023
Below are my favorite stage performances from 2023, listed (more or less) alphabetically — first by 20 outstanding individual human beings (some of them in pairs or trios), then four ensem…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:38PMTuesday, December 19, 2023
Below is a list of worthwhile shows I saw in 2023 that are still running, but closing within the next month. Some I liked better than others; a few I loved. I list them according to their s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:40AMMonday, December 18, 2023
“Appropriate,” the last play to open on Broadway in 2023 and one of the best-acted productions of the year, tells the story of a dysfunctional family who reunite after the death of th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:29PMI asked Charles Dickens yesterday why “A Christmas Carol” has been adapted for the stage more often, and on more stages, than any other novella in history. “I believe it is because …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:48PMSunday, December 17, 2023
“Buena Vista Social Club” is electrifying as a concert of fifteen classic Cuban songs performed in Spanish by multitalented singers, dancers and musicians who are easily as vibrant as th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:34PMSaturday, December 16, 2023
American Fiction” is both a smart, funny satire of the way the white establishment pigeonholes Black artists, and a warmhearted if cool-eyed family drama. No small reason for its appeal …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:35PMFriday, December 15, 2023
Below is the schedule of Broadway shows for Christmas Week. Only three shows have performances on Christmas Day, which falls on a Monday this year, the traditional day off for most of Broadw…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:10PMThursday, December 14, 2023
It’s refreshing to come across a theater book entitled “Crisis” that’s not about the crisis in theater, but about every other crisis in the world – a book that makes the case that …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:43PM 
