Monday, March 24, 2025
Good theater can heal, as proven by the daily dose of theater openings last week – four shows on Broadway, several Off Broadway and beyond – many of them restorative. Ok, some were not. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:19AMSunday, March 23, 2025
Denzel Washington stars in the title role of Othello, and Jake Gyllenhaal as his secret nemesis Iago, in director Kenny Leon’s production of Shakespeare’s tragedy, opening officially ton…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:45PMStephen Sondheim would have turned 95 today. In the three years and four months since his death, attention to the Broadway composer has only grown, with the opening of a new musical, a reviv…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:42AMSaturday, March 22, 2025
Joshua William Gelb writhes nude and mute in a box for forty-five minutes. That’s “[Untitled Miniature]” in a nutshell. It’s my job to put this in context, so I’ll try. I’ll also…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:32AMFriday, March 21, 2025
Greg Kotis, whose “Urinetown” won a Tony shortly after its debut at the New York International Fringe Festival, now offers a new post-apocalyptic musical at a new New York fringe festiva…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:23PMThursday, March 20, 2025
“Operation Mincemeat” is terribly clever and frightfully British, with a strong next-generation Monty Python vibe. If it ultimately feels too clever by half, that may be because this new…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:02PMWednesday, March 19, 2025
As a band and a brand, “Buena Vista Social Club” has been gold from the get-go: It was a hit Grammy-winning album that in 1996 had brought together an impromptu group of old-time Cuban m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:51PMPlaywright Joshua Harmon secretly recorded the last conversation he had with his dying grandmother, during which he told her that his next play was going to be about their family. “Do you …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:51PMTuesday, March 18, 2025
After watching Andrew Scott portray all eight characters by himself in a new version of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya,” which is playing Off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel through May 11, I…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:51PMMonday, March 17, 2025
In “Purpose,” an extraordinary play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Tony winner for last season’s “Appropriate”) opening tonight on Broadway in a terrifically acted, crowd-pleasing prod…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:40PMTickets for “Othello” are selling for $921, even as far back as Row M, which helped the Shakespeare play starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal gross a record-breaking $2.8 milli…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:48AMSunday, March 16, 2025
This is a coffee table book put together by a landlord to promote his property. It’s also a history of a 112-year-old Broadway theater with a glamorous and complicated past, written by a T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:29PMSaturday, March 15, 2025
As Helena Alving in “Ghosts,”, Lily Rabe seems to do the exact inverse of what Jessica Chastain did as Nora Helmer in “A Doll’s House” two years ago. Chastain sat in a chair for th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:31PMFriday, March 14, 2025
Donald Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center mirrors the attack nine decades ago by the House Un-American Activities Committee on the Federal Theater Project in an arresting way: Like the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:02PMThursday, March 13, 2025
Seven plays and 11 musicals are opening on Broadway in March and April, over the final six weeks of the Broadway 2024-2025 season, starting Monday and ending on April 27, the final date of e…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:47PMWednesday, March 12, 2025
Five years ago today, the then-Governor of New York ordered all Broadway theaters closed because of Covid-19, which within days spawned a pioneering era of digital theater. The shut-dow…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:14AMTuesday, March 11, 2025
The current Broadway season is about to rev up, with 18 shows scheduled to open in its final six weeks, but next season is already starting to come into focus: Jean Smart (“Hacks”) retur…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:33AMMonday, March 10, 2025
This may be my final hourThis may be the dying dayAnd though they never taught me why in school,I think I’m learning how to pray Jonathan Larson wrote this song, entitled “SOS,” when h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:50PMSunday, March 2, 2025
Anora, about a sex worker in Brooklyn, dominated the 97th Academy Awards, winning best picture, best director, best actress, best editor and original screenplay. Wicked, a film adaptation of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12PMThe night we learn who wins the Oscars may be a good time to show the results of last month’s poll ranking which of the best picture nominees could be best (and worst) adapted as play or m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:57PMSaturday, March 1, 2025
Below is a calendar of selected theater opening* in March, a month that’s bursting with shows: Six on Broadway alone – Denzel and Jake in Othello, Kieran Culkin in a Mamet revival, Sar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:19AMWednesday, February 26, 2025
How well were you paying attention to theater news, views and reviews this month? Answer these ten questions and see Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:07AMTuesday, February 25, 2025
Cynthia Erivo will serve as host for the first time when the 78th annual Tony Awards is presented at Radio City Music Hall on Sunday June 8, 2025. This will be the 21st time the ceremony has…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:29AMMonday, February 24, 2025
Their mother is dying, which is the only reason why Arnold (Brian J. Smith) has – reluctantly – picked up the phone to answer a call by his half-brother Jerry (Paul Starks.) It’s been …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:45PMSaturday, February 22, 2025
How DO Jake and Alice live? The answer is: lyrically. That, anyway, is how playwright Len Jenkin presents their lives in three extended scenes in his awkwardly titled play — as spikey adol…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:42PMFriday, February 21, 2025
“Anywhere” is an hour-long puppet piece that features a marionette who is made of ice, slowly melts, then turns to mist, and finally disappears completely. It mystified me. There are sev…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:28PMThursday, February 20, 2025
Peter Garside calls himself a demagogue, freely admits he’s in politics to make money, and says “the public likes to be fooled.” It’s a corrupt attitude that, despite his good loo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50PMWednesday, February 19, 2025
The producers of “All in: Comedy about Love,” one of the three shows that ended their Broadway runs last weekend, have announced “All Out: Comedy About Life” for next season (venue…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:29AMMonday, February 17, 2025
Donald Trump took over as chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts – which he told reporters he had never visited – on the birthday last week of Abraham Lincoln, wh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:12PMSaturday, February 15, 2025
When Jeffrey Seller was 18 years old and frustrated at his new job as the drama director at a summer camp for kids, somebody handed him a copy of Moss Hart’s 1959 memoir “Act One,” tou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:44PMFriday, February 14, 2025
Nightly on Broadway nowadays, one title character professes her love to the other title character: “My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:09AM 
