Friday, November 5, 2021
Andrew Lloyd Webber is not the only one who will be delivering his keynote address Sunday at the fifth annual Theatermakers Summit. Brandon Kazen-Maddox will be sharing the screen with him, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:40AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 4, 2021
Why did I have a far more muted reaction to "The Visitor," a well-acted, well-meaning new musical at the Public Theater about the friendship between a widowed economics professor and an immi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 3, 2021
I like "Morning Sun," which stars these three amazing actresses Edie Falco, Blair Brown and Marin Ireland, and I also hate it. Maybe that is a metaphorically apt reaction to this latest play…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:11PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 2, 2021
It's Election Night, 1929, and Fiorello H. LaGuardia ("The Little Flower") is thundering against his opponent, the incumbent mayor, Jimmy ("Beau James") Walker, at their final mayoral debate…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:51PM[SHARE]Monday, November 1, 2021
There are at least three startling moments in Signature Theater's revised production of this 29-year-old play that each in a different way bolsters my conviction that Anna Deavere Smith is o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:20PM[SHARE]Another injury has caused another delayed opening. Judith Ivey has had to drop out of the Off-Broadway revival of Paul Osborn's Morning's at Seven because of a torn tendon, and will…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:21AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 31, 2021
Below is a day-by-day selection of New York theater that is scheduled to open in November, organized by opening date.* That includes six more Broadway shows, two of them reopening hits " …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50PM[SHARE]Costumes, masks, makeup, macabre wit: Is there a difference between Halloween and the theater? Answer the ten questions to find out how well you paid attention to the theater on stage and of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:12PM[SHARE]Friday, October 29, 2021
In "Brecht on Brecht," TBTBÂ Â presents a fascinating collage " more like a barrage " of the poems, stories, songs, plays, parables and sayings by the prolific and consequential German t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 28, 2021
If you had just graduated from college and learned for the first time that your mother got her start as a prostitute and made her fortune as the owner of a string of brothels, how would you …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:20AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 27, 2021
As the title character of "Caroline, or Change," Sharon D. Clarke sings a breathtaking 11 o'clock number called "Lot's Wife" that sparks thunderous applause; the audience at Studio 54 is cle…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:02PM[SHARE]Monday, October 25, 2021
Six weeks after the hoopla greeting reopening night of four hit Broadway musicals, the longest-running show in Broadway history returned this week, heralded with a block party, DJ-ed by comp…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:23AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 24, 2021
The recipe for Fairycakes: Start with a cast of beloved New York stage actors known for their comic flair (Julie Halston, Anne Harada, Jackie Hoffman, et al), stick rhyming couplets in their…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:25PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 23, 2021
In "Best Life," two strangers start talking to one another (or at least at each other) while sitting at different tables in a café. Lourdes, a Black woman (Cherrye J. Davis), says: "An …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:38PM[SHARE] 
