Monday, November 21, 2022
In the case of Disney’s “The Lion King,” designer/director Julie Taymor’s revolutionary stage production continues to have a life of its own across a twenty-five-year existence.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, November 16, 2022
A clever and whimsical take on the story of a Crusades-era count, who uses the opening of men off to war to woo a countess. The disguises and means to which he will go and the hijinks that e…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, November 14, 2022
Lyric Opera is performing Verdi’s longest and most complex opera.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, November 7, 2022
What happens when you present “Rent” as a standard piece of musical theater rather than the “rock opera” its late creator Jonathan Larson intended?
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, October 7, 2022
A best-selling 1996 Nicholas Sparks novel and a popular 2004 film with a cult following, “The Notebook” has finally been unveiled as a long-anticipated Broadway-bound musical.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:04AMMonday, October 3, 2022
“Wicked” is above all, an experience, and most that have it want to repeat it.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, September 23, 2022
The real magic of this show are the songs by composer Stephen Flaherty and lyricist Lynn Ahrens. Terrence McNally (book), Flaherty and Ahrens are the same triptych that gave us “Ragtime,�…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, September 13, 2022
Homemade soup is given to ailing neighbors. And homemade poisoned wine is given to elderly gentlemen with no families who come looking for a room.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, July 26, 2022
The fiftieth anniversary tour of “Jesus Christ Superstar” takes very seriously the notion that the work belongs to the Passion genre.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, July 19, 2022
“It’s been really moving and important and central to all of us that at the heart of ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ is a young person trying to figure out how to live."
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, July 5, 2022
In this Lincoln Center production making its long-awaited national tour stopover at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, Eliza is in as much control as Higgins.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, June 8, 2022
The current Music Theater Works’ production offers a rare opportunity to see the show professionally staged.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, June 1, 2022
There are over thirty songs here that include anthems, arias, dances, choruses, duets and trios. The variety is eclectic and run the gamut with a well-assembled and powerful cast and ensembl…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, May 20, 2022
When Israeli actor Yehezkel Lazarov as Tevye intones the iconic line about villagers “trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune” without breaking one’s neck, our gaze takes in the …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, May 13, 2022
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
This one-act opera highlights a remarkable and largely-forgotten chapter of history: Blacks fighting in the Revolutionary War in exchange for their freedom.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, April 25, 2022
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
The six wives of Henry VIII all performing together in a song and dance line on one stage and competing against one another.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, April 13, 2022
Mary Rodgers, late daughter of composer Richard Rodgers, thought “The King and I” was the best of the Rodgers and Hammerstein collaborations.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, April 12, 2022
Former nun Mrs. Mary Margaret O’Brien is hosting bingo and quizzing and informing us about Easter traditions and trivia along the way.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, April 6, 2022
The grand journey of the musical “Paradise Square” reached its culminating destination of a full-scale Broadway opening Sunday night.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, March 17, 2022
This is an enjoyable production with a good cast of show voices.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, March 15, 2022
This is a sumptuous and traditional production of “Tosca” visually with every inch of the cavernous stage filled with a three-dimensional, captivating set.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, March 10, 2022
“Fire Shut Up in My Bones” is a multi-genre work and the first opera in the Metropolitan Opera in New York’s history written by an African-American composer, jazz trumpeter and compose…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, March 7, 2022
What Anaïs Mitchell has concocted is something quite remarkable.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, February 8, 2022
Its diverse audience knows exactly what “Hairspray” is and savors every familiar spritz.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, January 27, 2022
Much of what has been said about Sondheim seems to only scratch the surface.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, January 14, 2022
It's been eighty years since Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!” first came sweepin’ down the plain, but this staging sweeps those plains clean and restores a sense of the innovati…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, January 4, 2022
The 2014 musical “Holiday Inn” offers a stage version of the 1942 film, deleting some numbers and adding other better-known Irving Berlin songs.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, December 15, 2021
The kingdom where “Becoming Santa Claus” is set is far north. TThe sumptuous orchestral score is unabashed romanticism.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, December 2, 2021
We watch Scrooge go through his familiar redemptive and restorative ritual with renewed interest.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM 
