Wednesday, December 7, 2022
I am Georgia. I am an example and an iteration of its history. Of its pain, and its promise, and the brutality and the possibility. But because this is America, because we always have a path…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:19PMAfter 29 years and 11,472 Performances, “Stomp” will play its final performance on January 8, 2023. The show, ensconced at the Orpheum Theater in the East Village since Feb. 27, 1994, cr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:59AMTuesday, December 6, 2022
This holiday season in New York means more than a dozen Nutcracker Suites, at least a half A Christmas Carols, including one on Broadway, and other annual traditions in the city that range f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:21AMMonday, December 5, 2022
Happy days are not quite here again, but news this week softened some recent blows: “The Phantom of the Opera” is still closing, but recent weeks have been the highest-grossing in the sh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:43AMSunday, December 4, 2022
“A Beautiful Noise” is certainly an efficient delivery system for twenty-nine of Neil Diamond’s most popular songs – some of them just snippets in medleys, but “Sweet Caroline”…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:44PM“Ain’t No Mo’,” an over-the-top satire that aims to tickle, shock and draw blood, imagines an America in which all Black people are being flown to Africa. But it’s not a direct fli…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:03PMSaturday, December 3, 2022
The first Broadway musical made out of a movie was probably the 1942 film “My Sister Eileen” with Rosalind Russell, which became the 1953 Broadway musical ‘Wonderful Town.” Other vin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:56AMFriday, December 2, 2022
There were arguably more challenges than cheers in New York theater over the previous month, as the following ten-question quiz attests. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:59PMThursday, December 1, 2022
Erik Jensen is making his Broadway debut the same year he suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm that almost killed him. The two are not unrelated, as he explains in the interview below. In �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:54PMWednesday, November 30, 2022
Below is a day-by-day calendar of theater opening* in December, a month that features six new Broadway shows, including two by Black playwrights making their Broadway debuts — one at age 2…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:41PMTuesday, November 29, 2022
On this eleventh annual #GivingTuesday (created in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y and the United Nations Foundation), consider donating to your favorite New York area theaters and theater compa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30AMMonday, November 28, 2022
Here are some theater-related promotional discounts, many of them for today only: Today Tix: Cybersale “Up to 60 percent off” of Broadway tickets From Goldstar, Cybersale “up to 60 p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:14AMSunday, November 27, 2022
“We sing together, we dance together, we look sexy together,” says Timmy X. This may be a succinct description of the Korean popular music phenomenon known as K-pop in general, but in an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:55PMSaturday, November 26, 2022
Stephen Sondheim died a year ago today at the age of 91. If the musical theater composer and lyricist was revered during his lifetime, attention to his work has only accelerated in the year …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:38AMFriday, November 25, 2022
My annual list of my favorite New York stage shows, which I’d posted for a decade, morphed in the last two years into an appreciation of the innovative and impassioned attempts to redefine…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:52PMThursday, November 24, 2022
Below are videos of the musical numbers performed by the casts of Broadway shows at the 96th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, starting with Lea Michele et al from Funny Girl; then �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:05PMWednesday, November 23, 2022
My eleventh annual theater gift guide below features links and information on shopping for theater tickets,theater subscriptions/memberships,cast recordings,play scripts and books about the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:57AMTuesday, November 22, 2022
In a play entitled “Pool, Vol. 1″ — one of the fourteen odd and inventive works by “experience designers” showcased during a day-long event called The New Frame — Megan Livingst…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:15PMMonday, November 21, 2022
Jefferson Mays’ version of “A Christmas Carol,” in which he portrays some fifty characters, struck me as a singular adaptation of Charles Dickens’ story in four distinct and memor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:29PMThirty-three Broadway shows are on offer this Thanksgiving Week (see schedule), and there’ll be eight more Broadway openings before the new year, but the theater industry enters the normal…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:59AMSunday, November 20, 2022
“The Patient Gloria” is inspired (if that’s the right word) by a film that some see as a breakthrough; others as a betrayal. In 1964, a recently divorced woman named Gloria Szymanski …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:07PMBelow is the Broadway schedule for Thanksgiving Week 2022, which differs from the usual week’s schedule: Only two shows of the 33 currently playing have performances on Thanksgiving Day (T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:14PMBelow are the seven longest-running shows currently on Broadway, with descriptions and links. This feels the right time for an update given that the longest one has announced a closing date,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:36PMSaturday, November 19, 2022
In Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 film “North by Northwest,” Cary Grant is mistaken for the spy George Kaplan by villain James Mason and his thugs (possibly Russian.) As we eventually disc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:25AMThursday, November 17, 2022
The Bard takes a back seat to the Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears in “& Juliet,” a jukebox musical that is being billed as a sequel to Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:31PMEarlier this month, Keith Wann, a performance artist and long-time sign language interpreter for the Deaf on Broadway, filed a lawsuit against Theater Development Fund for rescinding its job…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:28PMTuesday, November 15, 2022
At the beginning of “Downstate,” an unsettling play by Bruce Norris, Andy (Tim Hopper) is confronting the man who sexually abused him thirty years earlier, reading with shaky breath fro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:13PMSix albums were nominated for the best musical theater album, all of them of current or recent Broadway shows (unlike last year). The 65th annual Grammy Awards will take place on February 5,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:12PMMonday, November 14, 2022
Theater is fleeting, which is why the new Museum of Broadway feels long overdue. Theater twitter seems to be fleeting too – or fleeing, to be more precise. Playbill’s last Tweet: Twitter…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:23PMIndividual Broadway musicals take pride of place at the Museum of Broadway, opening tomorrow, with literal show rooms: elaborately designed rooms dedicated to such shows as “Oklahoma,” �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:24PMSunday, November 13, 2022
Mike Birbiglia is so popular he can joke about cancer and diabetes and still fill up a Broadway theater. “The Old Man and the Pool,” opening tonight at the Vivian Beaumont, recalls the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PM 
