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Sunday, February 4, 2024

Some Like It Hot wins Best Musical Theater Album Grammy 2024 by New York Theater

 Some Like It Hot is the winner of the Grammy for Musical Theater Album. “Thank you Broadway first of all. Come to New York City, come to regional theater. Support live theater,” the al…

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Saturday, February 3, 2024

Black Theater IS Black History by New York Theater

Ossie Davis, the author and star of “Purlie Victorious” in 1961; Leslie Odom Jr, the star of the play’s revival in 2024. Rose McClendon, who made her Broadway debut in 1926; Audra McDo…

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Friday, February 2, 2024

Theater Quiz, Winter Awards Up The Wazoo Edition by New York Theater

There seemed more awards than usual this past month, not all of them theater awards, but all with a theater connection or two. Answer these ten questions to see how well you were paying atte…

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Thursday, February 1, 2024

Jonah Review by New York Theater

Jonah is sweet, awkward, inquisitive, respectful and clearly smitten – the sort of boy you might want for a first love if you were Ana, a scholarship student at a boarding school. After he…

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Wednesday, January 31, 2024

February 2024 New York Theater Openings by New York Theater

Below is a calendar of theater opening* in February, including a single Broadway show — a revival of a Tony and Pulitzer winner by John Patrick Shanley opening on Leap Year Day. But a new …

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Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Chita Rivera, 91: A Look Back at Her Career by New York Theater

Chita Rivera died today at the age of 91. Born Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero, she originated roles in “West Side Story,” “Bye Bye Birdie,” “Chicago” and “Kiss of the S…

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Cocktails with George and Martha…the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by New York Theater

What first comes to mind when you think of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” To Philip Gefter, it is not the game-changing play by Edward Albee, but Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burt…

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Monday, January 29, 2024

Awards: Obies, Oscars, OCC, more… #Stageworthy News of the Week by New York Theater

The biggest “award” this past week was for $83.3 million, but, for the end of January, there was a surprising amount of news about entertainment-related awards — including winners (of …

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Sunday, January 28, 2024

Days of Wine and Roses Broadway Review: Kelli O’Hara and Brian d’Arcy James together again by New York Theater

Brian d’Arcy James and Kelli O’Hara return to Broadway for the first time together since 2002 to portray a couple who fall in love with alcohol as much as with one another in this musi…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:09PM
Saturday, January 27, 2024

Obie Awards 2024: Dark Disabled Stories, Downstate, Public Obscenities artists among those honored by New York Theater

The 67th annual Obie Awards, honoring achievement Off and Off Off Broadway, were announced tonight. The 23 winners are listed below, some of them linked to my reviews BEST NEW AMERICAN PLAY …

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Friday, January 26, 2024

Aristotle Thinks Again Review. Dreadful and lovely human nature, then and now. by New York Theater

The first disturbing story that we’re told in this hour-long collage of dancing and diatribes, horror and love, concerns a man named Tantalus, who killed his son and chopped him up with th…

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Thursday, January 25, 2024

Once Upon A Mattress Encores Review by New York Theater

Sutton Foster, trying her hand at goofy physical comedy and affecting a rapid-fire comic patter reminiscent of early Barbra Streisand, is an undeniable draw in the Encores! series revival of…

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Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Broadway at the Oscars Quiz, 2024 by New York Theater

Nominations for the 96th annual Academy Awards were announced yesterday, and theater lovers cheered the latest Broadway connections. The Oscars have always had Broadway connections. Test you…

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Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Oscar Nominations 2024 by New York Theater

The complete list of nominations for the 96th annual Academy Awards, which will be held on Sunday, March 10 at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and televised LIVE on ABC. Watch the…

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Monday, January 22, 2024

Spring Previews. Opening: Patriots, Stereophonic. Closing: Harmony, How to Dance. Stageworthy News of the Week by New York Theater

There are now twenty-one shows scheduled to open on Broadway during the Spring 2024 season, three of them announced just within the past week. As Time Out’s Adam Feldman points out, much o…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:06AM
Sunday, January 21, 2024

Prototype Online: Swann, Vodalities, Whiteness by New York Theater

From the wordless to the wordy, these short worldly works– all three directly or indirectly reflecting the story of race in America; all three intriguing examples of digital theater — we…

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Saturday, January 20, 2024

Pride House Review. How Cherry Grove became a gay mecca by New York Theater

A play called “Pride House,” set in Cherry Grove on Fire Island, and produced by a gay theater company? It’s reasonable to presume it the kind of formulaic gay play that has proliferat…

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Friday, January 19, 2024

The Fire This Time Festival at 15 by New York Theater

The Black couple go overboard in congratulating their daughter for coming out, donning rainbow T-shirts and hanging up a banner, but they learn to their shock that Niani is not coming out as…

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Thursday, January 18, 2024

Prototype Festival: Terce by New York Theater

There are two ways to appreciate this latest work of musical theater by Heather Christian, which is part of the eleventh annual Prototype festival of opera theater and musical theater. One i…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:23PM
Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Spring New York Theater Preview: 10 “Can’t Miss” Shows by New York Theater

Rachel McAdams of Slings and Arrows and Michael Imperioli of The Sopranos making their Broadway debuts; a new quirky musical from the team behind “A Band’s Visit,” a new play by Paula …

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Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Elton John gets an EGOT. Eva Noblezada, Corey Cott, Ramin Karimloo back on Broadway. Broadway Week beings. Stageworthy News by New York Theater

At the 75th annual Primetime Emmy Awards last night, Elton John became the nineteenth person to achieve an EGOT — winner of an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony — when he won  for “…

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Monday, January 15, 2024

Martin Luther King Jr on “history’s scapegoats, the Jews” by New York Theater

“My people were brought to America in chains. Your people were driven here to escape the chains fashioned for them in Europe,” Martin Luther King Jr. said in his address to the American …

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Sunday, January 14, 2024

Best and Worst Hollywood Movie to Broadway Musical to Hollywood Musical? by New York Theater

 “The Color Purple” and “Mean Girls,” were both Hollywood movies adapted from books (Alice Walker’s novel “The Color Purple” and Rosalind Wiseman’s non-fiction  “Queen…

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Saturday, January 13, 2024

10 Mean Girls Movie Musical Reviews, from Meanest to Nicest by New York Theater

“Mean Girls” was Tina Fey’s smart, funny 2004 movie that she turned with her husband into an overlong, ill-timed Broadway musical (as I wrote in my review) in 2018, which has now been …

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Friday, January 12, 2024

PhysFestNYC: Send in the Clowns? by New York Theater

I saw three shows that featured clowns at PhysFestNYC, billed as the first-ever festival in New York City to showcase physical theater, which is wrapping up its ten-day run on Sunday.  P…

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Thursday, January 11, 2024

Prayer for the French Republic Broadway Review by New York Theater

In the two years since I first saw Joshua Harmon’s ambitious, busy play about antisemitism, in which five generations of a single French family in two different eras fear for their safety,…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:43PM
Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Broadway Week 2024: 2 for 1 Tickets. by New York Theater

Tickets are now on sale for Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for performances from January 16 through February 4, 2024 of 23 Broadway shows, from “& Ju…

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Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Theater Blog Roundup: Assessing 2023, Hoping and Fearing for 2024 by New York Theater

“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 04:04PM
Monday, January 8, 2024

Da’Vine is Golden. Kimberly is Closing. Under the Radar is Making Waves. Stageworthy News. by New York Theater

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 …

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Sunday, January 7, 2024

Under the Radar at Lincoln Center: Queens of Sheba, The First Bad Man, Search Party. by New York Theater

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…

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Saturday, January 6, 2024

It’s a Motherf—ing Pleasure Review. Making Fringey-fun of Ableism, and the Disabled. by New York Theater

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…

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards