Monday, March 20, 2023
This week felt like a reunion of some of the greatest figures in American musical theater — the Broadway opening of “Bob Fosse’s Dancin’,” the concert version of Jerry Herman’s �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:04AMSunday, March 19, 2023
The sensuous slouch, the bowler hat placed rakishly on the tilted head, the turned-in pigeon toes, undulating abdomen, hands reaching out as if roping in their prey, or palms up in the air s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:03PMSaturday, March 18, 2023
“Dear World” was a vehicle for Angela Lansbury, though one that otherwise crashed when it ran on Broadway for a mere 132 performances in 1969, even as Jerry Herman’s other musicals on …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:01PMFriday, March 17, 2023
Stephen Sondheim was not a cynic; he was a romantic. That in a nutshell is the thesis Ben Francis puts forth in Careful the Spell You Cast: How Stephen Sondheim Extended the Range of the Ame…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:41PMThursday, March 16, 2023
It’s too tempting to mock this austere version of Ibsen’s play as Broadway’s answer to the movie that just swept the Oscars. Call it: Nothing Nowhere With No Intermission! Jessica Cha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:00PMWednesday, March 15, 2023
“The Harder They Come” is a largely faithful stage adaptation of the 1972 movie starring Jimmy Cliff that is said to have introduced the world to reggae music; its fidelity to the origin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00PMTuesday, March 14, 2023
In 1929, a group of avant-garde artists in Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine, put on a jazz musical revue called “Hello, This Is Radio 477!” celebrating the city’s lone radio…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:20PMMonday, March 13, 2023
By Jonathan Mandell. Theatremaker Jonathan Mandell discusses virtual playwriting series Bard at the Gate and looks at the impact and future of digital theatre.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:20PMConnecting Oscars to theater news: A24, the film company that had the best night — with its seven awards for “Everything All At Once,” including Best Picture and three of the four perf…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:55AMSunday, March 12, 2023
Best PictureEverything Everywhere All At Once Best DirectorDaniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once Best ActressMichelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All at Onc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:19PMSaturday, March 11, 2023
“Deeper Closer Warmer,” a fun hour of puppet monster mayhem, is the creation of identical twin brothers Pablo and Efrain Del Hierro from Santurce, Puerto Rico who for more than a decade,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:58PMFriday, March 10, 2023
On the third anniversary Sunday of the pandemic having shut down in-person theater, even people who welcomed digital theater in 2020 and 2021 surely now — some eighteen months after theate…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:03AMThursday, March 9, 2023
Ryan J. Haddad is not going to make disability funny tonight the way he usually does, he tells the audience at the Public Theater near the beginning of this groundbreaking production. “…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:40PMTuesday, March 7, 2023
When A24 bought the Cherry Lane Theater last week for $10 million, the indie film company acquired a two hundred year old building, with an illustrious hundred year theater history, and not…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:58PMMonday, March 6, 2023
Betty Smith, Oscar Isaac, Rachel Brosnahan, Jessica Hecht, Parker Posey, Eric Bogosian, Lea Michele, Caridad Svich, Michael Heitzman, Will Davis, Lea Salonga, Constantine Maroulis, Andre De …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30AMSunday, March 5, 2023
When “Sweeney Todd” was finally released as a movie musical in 2007, twenty-eight years after its debut on Broadway, Stephen Sondheim said “everyone who has attempted to translate a st…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:26PMSaturday, March 4, 2023
In honor of Women’s History Month, here are the women playwrights who have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an annual award given for “a distinguished play by an American author…deali…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:56PMFriday, March 3, 2023
What is it about the homeless that inspires such groundbreaking theater? Last year, it was “Addressless,” digital theater with gameplay. Now, “Love,” something completely differen…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:56PMThursday, March 2, 2023
A sleazy photographer convinces a naïve aspiring actress to pose naked for him. Didn’t that happen to Irene Cara in “Fame” more than forty years ago? And even then it felt trite an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:51AMWednesday, March 1, 2023
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in March 2023 in New York, including seven shows on Broadway: a new Andrew Lloyd Webber, revivals of Sondheim, Fosse and Jason Robert Brown, a classic…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:26PMTuesday, February 28, 2023
One scene stands out in Thomas Bradshaw’s adaptation of Chekhov for the wrong reasons. It’s a play-within-the-play, in which the son of a famous actress stages a show that doesn’t go o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:47PMMonday, February 27, 2023
There is so much love that Sarah Ruhl has put into this play, and into the book from which it’s adapted, and into the letters and poems exchanged between Ruhl and Max Ritvo that make up th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:30PMThere’s something of an inside joke tucked into Lorraine Hansberry’s rarely-produced second Broadway play, which director Anne Kauffman has brought to life in a starry revival at BAM. T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00PMBefore she authored the novel “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” Betty Smith wrote a play about the same character, Francie Nolan. Smith’s novel, which follows Francie from young girlhood to …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:11PMThe 66th Obie Awards, which will be celebrated tonight, were announced over the weekend, Full list of Obie winnersAmong the 37 awards, for shows presented between July 1, 2020, and Aug.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:52AMSaturday, February 25, 2023
How well were you paying attention to New York theater in February? Answer these ten questions, plus a bonus question, to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:14PMFriday, February 24, 2023
Today, the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the national opera theater of Ukraine held a concert called “Ukraine: Free and Unbreakable,” and the theater community in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30AMThursday, February 23, 2023
The ten most enlightening and entertaining non-fiction books about the American theater that have been published since 2013 have been works of history, criticism, biography and memoir. They …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54PMWednesday, February 22, 2023
Some movie critics called “The Whale” stagy , which I consider ironic, since I saw the stage play a decade ago, and, although both the play and the film are written by Samuel D. Hunter, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:30PMTuesday, February 21, 2023
We’re back in Idaho, a place I’ve viewed fondly for a decade, although I’ve never visited the state, because this is where playwright Samuel D. Hunter has set all his quietly amusing a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:13PMBad Behavior by Audiences… and by a Publisher? Are theater audiences behaving badly both on Broadway and in the UK? That’s what the BBC, The Stage, The Guardian and Playbill reported. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:08AM 
