A Crisis in America’s Theaters made the front page this week: “There is less theater in America these days. Fewer venues. Fewer productions. Fewer performances,” Michael Paulson wrote…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:39AMThere is a lesson that seems aimed squarely at the Governor of Florida in this lively musical for young children, which features cheeky, wacky songs about spider-bitten butts, earth-destroyi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:02PMI laughed at the very first of the many silly sight gags in “The Cottage,” as performed by the delightful Laura Bell Bundy, and was surprised and amused by the initial twist in this twis…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:16PM“Here Lies Love” can be viewed in distinctly different ways. That’s literally true – one can see the show while standing on the main floor in the midst of the action or seated …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:51PM“Lightweight” is a sly and somewhat misleading title for Amie Enriquez’s solo show about her year-long stay at an addiction treatment center: Sly because the play is about her eating d…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:42PMFirst, the good news: The musical features music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim with a book by David Ives (whose best-known work of theater is probably the Tony-nominated play Venus in F…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:46AMIf the average theatergoer were asked about “deaf plays,” they might think of William Gibson’s “The Miracle Worker” or Mark Medoff’s “Children of a Lesser God,” both Tony-win…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:37PMThey all look pregnant, their bellies as big as the basketball they’re dribbling and shooting at the beginning ofCandrice Jones’s play “Flex.” But four of these five high school …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:16PMLady Torrance and Valentine Xavier, two would-be innocents who feel corrupted and brutalized by circumstance, meet on his thirtieth birthday, after he’s spent his youth as a drifter and a …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:18PMSAG-AFTRA, the union representing more than 160,000 film and television actors, last Friday joined the picket lines with the 11,000 members of the Writers Guild, who have been on strike fo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:49AMIn “Theater Camp,” Ben Platt and Mary Gordon as camp counselors Amos and Rebecca-Diane confront a 12-year-old camper who’s just delivered an intense emotional performance during a rehe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:05PMBelow is a selection of New York theater opening* in July, presented in a day-by-day calendar, including two Broadway shows, David Byrne and Fatboy Slim’s “Here Lies Love” arguably…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:58PMHow well were you paying attention to theater news this past month? Answer these ten questions to find out. Plus: An impossibly challenging bonus question. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:39PMIt’s evident as soon as John Douglas Thompson opens his mouth as King Claudius that director Kenny Leon’s production of “Hamlet,” running for free at the Delacorte Theater in Centra…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:24PMGeorge Salazar, who sang the show-stopper “Michael in the Bathroom” in “Be More Chill” on Broadway, was one of more than two dozen performers to join the Tony-nominated composer of �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:20AMBelow is a manageable list of theater books — recently published or soon to be– that look to be good summer reads. These are mostly memoirs and biographies of fascinating playwrights and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30AMWhen I first saw Yeshiva-educated stand-up comic Alex Edelman’s solo show about his attendance at a meeting of white supremacist antisemites, it didn’t occur to me to compare him to Dani…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:12PMThree Broadway plays are closing next Sunday, July 2: Fat HamPrima FacieThe Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window – and four more Broadway shows are closing during the summer: Life of Pi an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:43AMBelow is an alphabetical listing of the 8 Broadway plays or musicals currently running (two of them only until next week!) that feature LGBTQ+ characters — some centrally, some peripherall…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:09AMSheldon Harnick, who died this morning at the age of 99, was a lyricist best-known for “Fiddler on the Roof,” but it was just one of the musicals he wrote with Jerry Bock. In the first v…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:53PMOne more time indeed! Like “& Juliet,” this jukebox musical features songs made popular by Britney Spears; like “Bad Cinderella,” its central character is a rebellious vers…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:54PMBroadway in Bryant Park, the free weekly lunchtime concerts performed by the casts from current Broadway shows, has announced its schedule for Thursdays in July. Below the schedule are vide…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:12PMJohn Rubinstein, a Tony-winning theater veteran who made his Broadway debut 51 years ago originating the role of Pippin, a cheerful curly-haired young prince looking forward to a life of adv…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:57PMFifteen years after Mike Daisey created a show called “How Theater Failed America” he provides a blunt update in the essay below: Nothing has changed and, after COVID, former theatergoer…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:28AM“Raisin in the Sun” was the first play that Kenny Leon directed on Broadway and it offered plenty of parallels with his own childhood in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he was met with ho…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:15PMThere have been no shortage of fathers on Broadway. “Life with Father,” Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse’s adaptation of the stories by Clarence Day Jr., which ran from 1939 to 194…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:51AMThe dramatic incident that propels “The Doctor” is clear: A Jewish physician refuses to allow a Catholic priest to administer last rites to a 14-year-old girl who is dying from sepsis af…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:31PMWatch the short video below of the world celebrating Bloomsday once again today, June 16th — the (very long) day in 1904 that James Joyce’s novel Ulysses chronicles in the life of the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:59PMThe breathtaking performances by Brian d’Arcy James and Kelli O’Hara in “The Days of Wine and Roses” are enough justification for this stage adaptation of the sad, dark story about a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:37AMMore than two decades in the making, PAC NYC, the performing arts center at the World Trade Center site, which will have an official ribbon-cutting September 13, today announced its inaugura…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:59PMYou saw the musical numbers on the Tonys Sunday and thought: That looks great, maybe I should get a ticket. But what of the straight plays that (as usual) didn’t get showcased? That’s wh…
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