Monday, 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 09:00PMFriday, November 11, 2022
In honor of Veterans Day, veterans and current active duty service members were given free tickets this week to attend a one-night-only reading just for them of James IJames’ 2022 Pulitzer…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:58AMThursday, November 10, 2022
“Kimberly Akimbo” arrives on Broadway with its terrific cast and quirkiness intact. What’s best about this musical remains – above all, the slowly unfolding oddball relationship b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:58PMWednesday, November 9, 2022
Madeline Sayet begins her enlightening solo show at the Public Theater with an acknowledgement of the original inhabitants of Manhattan, the Lenape, which is as standard an opening messag…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30PM“This campaign has always been about fighting for anybody who’s gotten knocked down that ever got back up,” John Fetterman said in his victory speech early this morning after he was ca…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:04AMTuesday, November 8, 2022
Today is Election Day! If you live in NYC, find your polling site here. If you live anywhere in America, you can go to Vote.org. Learn the location of your polling place and what’s on you…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:07AMMonday, November 7, 2022
“If the British armed forces are not perhaps what they were on the world stage, they’re certainly world beaters in ceremony and ritual and pomp. We’re still good for theater.” — Do…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:43AMSunday, November 6, 2022
In her gorgeously written memoir, which was published last year with the same title as the play that is opening tonight at the Signature Theater, Quiara Alegría Hudes wrote that it was the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:02PMInventive stagecraft, watchable stars, a vague, artsy script: In his New York debut, playwright Noah Diaz arguably has a story he wants to tell about caregiving and the psychological effects…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PMThursday, November 3, 2022
The “world’s greatest rock critic” offers some advice to William Miller, a friendless, precocious 15-year-old who has just lucked into an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to acco…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PMWednesday, November 2, 2022
A sign of the vitality of American theater in the 1960s is how many shows that Al Hirschfeld caricatured at the time are currently on New York stages in revivals: 1776, A Delicate Balance, F…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:20PMTuesday, November 1, 2022
Below is a day-by-day calendar of theater opening* in November, a month that features six new Broadway shows, four of them musicals, as well as some exciting theater-adjacent events, such as…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:19AMMonday, October 31, 2022
Broadway 2023 is shaping up, even as Fall 2022 heats up, with eight Broadway shows having opened in October, six more scheduled to do so in November, and Off Broadway featuring new plays wit…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:51AMSunday, October 30, 2022
How well were you paying attention to New York theater in October — the shows (eight on Broadway alone!), the controversies (many)? Answer these ten questions to find out Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:22PMSaturday, October 29, 2022
“Hound Dog,” a play with music, evokes Elvis, Joni Mitchell and “Ramy” the Hulu series about an Egyptian-American immigrant family in New Jersey (the last unintentionally) — which …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:58PMFriday, October 28, 2022
In 2016, Stephen Sondheim, who was working on a new musical based on two movies by Luis Buñuel, was listed on an internal memo at the New Yorker Magazine as a possible subject for a prof…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:53PMThursday, October 27, 2022
Gabriel Byrne gives four different kinds of curtain calls in the middle of “Walking With Ghosts,” his lovely solo show opening tonight at Broadway’s Music Box Theater. These are hilari…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00PMWednesday, October 26, 2022
Ralph Fiennes nails Robert Moses – the gruff, no-nonsense New York voice, the pugnacious face, the planted stance ready for combat; pelvis thrust forward. Commanding, confident to the poin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:29PMTuesday, October 25, 2022
Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Joe Morton and Sean Combs have all portrayed Walter Lee Younger on Broadway. Given how admired these performers are, it may come as a shock that the cha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:55PMMonday, October 24, 2022
Will a Caesars Palace casino be put above the Minskoff Theater, home to “The Lion King”? Caesars and the landlord of 1515 Broadway, SL Green, have put in a bid with the New York Stat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:37AMSunday, October 23, 2022
Theater heals in grim times, even in grim shows, according to several theater bloggers, who are sounding a surprising note of optimism in recent posts amid the current reports of tension bot…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:55AMSaturday, October 22, 2022
“What Kind of Woman,” playwright Abbe Tanenbaum tells us in a program note, was inspired by a cache of letters from women seeking abortion before Roe vs. Wade, which she discovered at…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:57AMFriday, October 21, 2022
Broadway performers Idina Menzel, Gideon Glick, Andy Mientus, Nancy Olson, directors Jack O’Brien and Sheldon Epps are all new authors — of memoirs, novels, a cookbook, a children’s bo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:31PMThursday, October 20, 2022
Is “Topdog/Underdog” as outdated as the three-card monte that the play revolves around? In Suzan-Lori Parks’ twenty-year-old play, two brothers with the loaded names of Lincoln and Boo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00PMTuesday, October 18, 2022
Emma Rice’s jokey, sprawling musical adaptation of “Wuthering Heights” that opens tonight at St. Ann’s Warehouse might befuddle anyone who associates the title with the 1939 movie. L…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00PMMonday, October 17, 2022
Two Broadway cast members provoked voluble reactions among theater lovers this past week, both of which feel like case studies with surprisingly complex implications. Sara Porkalob, who i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:15PMSunday, October 16, 2022
Sara Porkalob, who is making her Broadway debut portraying Edward Rutledge, the pro-slavery representative from South Carolina, in the gender-reversed Broadway revival of “1776,” gave an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:01PMFriday, October 14, 2022
For Edward Hopper, theater was a passionate pastime, an inspiration, and also, from first to last, a subject of his paintings — enough of them to fill a gallery and then some in “Edward …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:36PMThursday, October 13, 2022
The first Broadway revival of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” is full of stars and ghosts. The ghosts are what make it brilliant. Don’t misunderstand. It’s thrilling that: -Sam…
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