Tuesday, December 26, 2023
The 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 09:43PMIn the videos below, Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff, and Lindsay Mendez record the song “Old Friends” and the title song from “Merrily We Roll Along,” the Stephen Sondheim/ George …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:00PMWednesday, December 13, 2023
In a glitzy silver pantsuit, Rachel Bloom enters on stage and at once introduces us to her dog, who is sitting in the lap of a handler (or is it Bloom’s husband?) in the front row of the O…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:56PMTuesday, December 12, 2023
It wasn’t until Jenn Freeman was thirty-three years old and a well-established dancer and choreographer that her therapist diagnosed her as having Autism Spectrum Disorder. “To arrive at…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:49PMMonday, December 11, 2023
Theater in 2023 was barely surviving but also thriving, depending on which end-of-year assessment you read (see below), but everybody agrees on Stephen Sondheim as the bright spot of the yea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:46PMSunday, December 10, 2023
“How To Dance in Ohio” is a musical adaptation of a 2015 documentary film of the same name about a group of autistic young adults at a counseling center in Columbus, Ohio, who, as part o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PMSaturday, December 9, 2023
What did you think was the best of the thirty-five shows opened on Broadway in 2023? Which was the worst? Take the two polls below. Judge the quality of the show as you see it, not how it di…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:01PMFriday, December 8, 2023
Watch the video below of the cast of the Broadway musical Harmony celebrating the first night of Hanukkah with a special post-matinee menorah lighting outside the Barrymore Theater. �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:49PMThursday, December 7, 2023
The ten videos below were the most viewed in 2023 of those that I’ve posted either on this blog or on my YouTube channel, @NewYorkTheaterme, arranged in order of popularity. I’m not sur…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:18PMWednesday, December 6, 2023
Choose your favorite Broadway cast recording released in 2023* from among the 12 in the poll below, ordered alphabetically. If I’ve somehow missed your favorite, fill in the “Other” sl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:05PMTuesday, December 5, 2023
“Manahatta” dramatizes two pivotal, and shameful, moments in New York City history, occurring four centuries apart — the Dutch West India Company’s “purchase” of the island of Ma…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:50PMMonday, December 4, 2023
There is a stunning kind of poetry in the puppetry employed to dramatize Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee’s forty-year-old novel about a simple man who makes an epic journey through the physica…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:55PMJewish theater artists in the three alternate magazine covers: Clockwise from left: Jesse Eisenberg, Matthew Broderick, Sam Gold, Amy Herzog, Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer and Joel Grey.Ha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AMSunday, December 3, 2023
While there are always new shows in December (see December 2023 New York Theater Openings), the heart of theater during the month is in many ways the annual holiday shows — plays, ballets,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:22PMSaturday, December 2, 2023
Eddie Redmayne, Jessica Lange, Kelli O’Hara with Brian d’Arcy James, Tyne Daly with Liev Schreiber, Jeremy Strong with Michael Imperioli are all performing in shows on Broadway — and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:18AMFriday, December 1, 2023
Below is a day-by-day calendar of theater opening* in December, a month that features two Broadway openings — a play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins starring Sarah Paulson (see December 18th), a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:21PMThursday, November 30, 2023
A thick smoke billows over the stage as a character sings Spanish operatically in one of the last scenes of “Spain,” a play by Jen Silverman that purports to tell the cloak-and-dagger ba…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:34PM 
