Thursday, August 11, 2022
Principal cast members of “Hadestown” escaped from the dark Underworld to the bright midday sun of a Broadway in Bryant Park lunchtime concert to perform four of the numbers from the 201…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:44PMWednesday, August 10, 2022
Gavin Creel, currently portraying both a big bad wolf and Cinderella’s charming Prince in the Broadway revival of “Into The Woods,” has played just such varied roles from his Broadway …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50PMTuesday, August 9, 2022
Emilio Sosa, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic who grew up in the South Bronx, has been a costume designer for the theater for more than two decades — and, since July of 2021, the c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:30PMMonday, August 8, 2022
Broadway Alphabet Series, Round 2: The Week in New York Theater Reviews The Nosebleed at Lincoln Center “Who here loves their father? Who here hates their father?” Aya asks the audi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:27AMSunday, August 7, 2022
Once again, Theater for a New City is touring a free, original hour-long musical through New York City streets, playgrounds and parks, as it has nearly every summer for almost half a century…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:49PMSaturday, August 6, 2022
“If I only did Shakespeare and August Wilson for the rest of my life, I’d be happy,” Denzel Washington said at the red carpet before the Oscars broadcast this year Of course, he was at…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00PMFriday, August 5, 2022
With characters named Boq and Og, Igor and Ogie, nine-time Broadway veteran Christopher Fitzgerald has played some of the freshest and funniest roles on Broadway, many of which he originated…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:34PMThursday, August 4, 2022
Billy Porter is busy promoting his debut as a film director, for the movie “Anything’s Possible” a romcom on Amazon Prime with a twist — one of the young lovers is trans. But for all…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:28PMWednesday, August 3, 2022
Ariana DeBose became a familiar face this year, after winning the Academy Award for her performance as Anita in Steven Spielberg’s revival of “West Side Story,” which was a couple of m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:46PMMonday, August 1, 2022
“Who here loves their father? Who here hates their father?” Aya asks the audience each time for a show of hands, and then volunteers: “I hated my father.” Aya Ogawa’s “The N…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:58PM “High Noon” is aiming for Broadway, an announcement last week that felt aptly timed, considering all the showdowns. (see The Week in New York Theater News) Theater Quiz for July 2022: …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:36AMSunday, July 31, 2022
Below is a selection of theater opening in New York in August, with many of the most intriguing plays this month by and about first generation Americans. It’s summer, so a lot of the thea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:13AMSaturday, July 30, 2022
How well were you paying attention to theater in July? Answer these ten questions — plus two bonus questions about “Into the Woods” Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:13PMFriday, July 29, 2022
Is the theater worth the trouble? That’s the question I’ve been asking myself lately, and it turns out I’m not alone. “In the fall of 2019, in the wake of a disastrous workshop of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:36PMThursday, July 28, 2022
“I want you to close your eyes and remember your first puff puff pass,” Baba Israel raps near the beginning of “Cannabis: A Viper Vaudeville,” which is a fast-paced flashy rap conce…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:50PMWednesday, July 27, 2022
Judging from Robert Icke’s adaptation, Aeschylus took the easy way out. In the Greek playwright’s version of The Oresteia written 2,500 years ago — telling the story of the cycle of mu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:18PMTuesday, July 26, 2022
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to, and the one you are least likely to attend. The list below is for shows that have opening dates on Broadway in October, November and Dec…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:42AMMonday, July 25, 2022
Like the magnets I collect from each show for my refrigerator, Broadway exerts a pull, but I also felt a push upon my return this past week to see “Into The Woods” and “The Kite Run…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:12PMSunday, July 24, 2022
There’s an early sweet and funny scene in “The Kite Runner” that feels like a subconscious warning about how misbegotten this stage adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s 2003 best-selling…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:42AMFriday, July 22, 2022
“Into The Woods,” the musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine currently back on Broadway in a wonderfully cast concert staging directed by Lear deBessonet, has always reminded me of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:51PMWednesday, July 20, 2022
Theater has always involved risk, and pain, and they are often still viewed as necessary and good: “If you’re just doing what you know works you can be great, but you won’t get to the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:23AMTuesday, July 19, 2022
Why has there been so much conflict and conversation over a cast change on Broadway, a personnel decision in a Chicago theater, and a producer’s late payroll for a musical that’s just cl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:10PMMonday, July 18, 2022
After skipping two summers because of the pandemics *, Broadway in Bryant Park, the free weekly lunchtime concerts by the casts from current Broadway shows, will return to Bryant Park with a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:22AMSunday, July 17, 2022
Twenty-five women have portrayed Fanny Brice on Broadway* – a 26th, Lea Michele, takes over the role on September 6 — but, half a century before she became a character in the Jule Style …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:55PMSaturday, July 16, 2022
Everybody seemed to have a colorful anecdote about Tallulah Bankhead. She was said to have inspired the characters of Margo Channing in the film “All About Eve,” Blanche DuBois in Ten…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:49PMFriday, July 15, 2022
Paul McCartney’s planned new musical wouldn’t be the first time an actual Beatle created something original for Broadway. But it would be wonderful. Three years ago, McCartney announced …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:27PMMonday, July 11, 2022
Two new plays and a new musical announced for Broadway this past week, and a fourth firmed up dates and theater, bringing the number of confirmed shows in the Broadway 2022-2023 season to 17…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:08PMFriday, July 8, 2022
Theater as we know it began outdoors, in amphitheaters such as the 2,500-year-old theater at Epidaurus, Greece, which was designed by the architect Polykleitos the Younger, and is still bein…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:58PMTuesday, July 5, 2022
As a new season begins, the big questions posed in the best theater co-exist with a more immediate question: Are theatergoers safe? Starting last Friday, Broadway attendance requires neither…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:58AMMonday, July 4, 2022
“You don’t own me,” Lesley Gore sings, in one of the videos below of anthems, pop ballads and raps sung by women that have taken on a new, urgent meaning this Fourth of July, a holiday…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:28PMSunday, July 3, 2022
How well were you paying attention to the news and its impact on theater this past month? Answer these dozen questions on abortion and masks and the Tonys, plus a bonus question on hybrid th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:39PM 
