Midway through “Masquerade,” the Phantom of the Opera himself suddenly grabbed hold of me, his touch light and electric, and pushed me aside. The masked musician and magician had crept u…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:11PMHow do you respond to a creeping authoritarian takeover? Resistance takes many forms. This coming Saturday, people will take to the streets throughout the country for “No Kings” protests…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:48PMWhat’s surprising about the fight over Christopher Columbus is not that this year’s official White House proclamation about Columbus Day crudely attacks “left-wing arsonists” for t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:40AMElection Day in New York is Tuesday, November 4, 2025, for mayor of New York and other city-wide and local offices, as well as six ballot proposals. Here is what you need to know in order to…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:59PMDiane Keaton, who died today at the age of 79, made her Broadway debut in the original company of “Hair” (above is a publicity photograph of her for the musical.) But the actress who wen…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:22PMWhat goes into the making of a musical theater production? The process, from audition to curtain call, is presented in verse and illustrations about the people involved, from director to ac…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:39PMAfter an alarming vacation in Germany, British writer Sally Carson wrote “Crooked Cross” about the rise of Nazism as told through its effect on one ordinary German family. It was publ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:59PM“Art” is not about art, and it’s not really about friendship. If it’s about anything at all, the Broadway revival of Yasmina Reza’s 30-year-old play is about the celebrity of Bobby…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:59PMDylan Mulvaney has chosen an obviously ironic title for her extravagantly staged solo show about her viral life story as a targeted trans social media celebrity. But she also exudes an innat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:05PMLast week, four new Broadway shows announced their dates and venues for Spring 2026: Dog Day Afternoon, opening March 30. Fallen Angels, April 19. Schmigadoon, April 20. The Rocky Horror Sh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AMIn her hour-long solo show, Abby Wambaugh both spoofs and nails a wide variety of comedy styles, from standup to slapstick to Moth-style storytelling to musical comedy. At various times, she…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:26PMIn its thrilling opening rap, “Mexodus” gives an overview of the little-known history of Mexico as a refuge for thousands of escaping American slaves before the Civil War. Rhythmic, unco…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30PMElizabeth Marvel has been summoned to an ominous-looking room by a uniformed official; she doesn’t know why, and the chatty official keeps her (and us) in suspense. She is the lawyer wh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:29PMBelow is a calendar of New York theater opening* in October, including three opening on Broadway. “Ragtime” originated at the Encores concert series, “Liberation” had a brief run Of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:58PMThe first month of the Fall theater season is coming to an end with disparate worries – that “the Broadway musical is in trouble” and that there’s a “fascist takeover of the Americ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:25AMIn one of the most moving scenes that I’ve ever witnessed in a theater, Jacob finally meets the parents of the young man whom he killed. Making an extraordinary Broadway debut, Will Har…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:32PM“Back to back like in the good old days,” Keanu Reeves as Estragon says to Alex Winter as Vladimir; then they shout something together that makes the audience explode in cheers and laugh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:40PMIn the first play officially opened to the public at the Cherry Lane under the ownership of movie studio A24, Natalie Palamides portrays a man and a woman simultaneously, an exercise in g…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:21PMHow well were you paying attention to the theater in September? Answer these ten questions, plus a bonus question, to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:22AM“Sixties Surreal,” a just-opened exhibition at the Whitney Museum, offers some 150 works (paintings, sculptures, photographs, illustrations, films, collages, assemblages, an album cover,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:30PMJohn Leguizamo’s new play is a sober family drama inspired by some of the same people and places from Leguizamo’s past that powered “Freak” and the five other solo stage comedies he …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:40PM“This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this,” Jimmy Kimmel said in his opening monologue below, when his la…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:33AMBy Jonathan Mandell. Xhloe and Natasha made Edinburgh Festival Fringe history with three consecutive award-winning shows, but even the most successful Fringe acts struggle to break even.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:38PM“You’ll Be Back” from “Hamilton” with Yiddish lyrics!? That’s one of the songs in the 90-minute concert below sung by four cantors and nine Broadway veterans, including Julie Ben…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54AMNo, theatergoers do not have the Constitutional right to shout “Fire” in a crowded theater. But theater artists can still present queer characters on stage without losing their governmen…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:14AM“Weather Girl,” a solo play about the California climate apocalypse, was a hit at last year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe that Netflix is said to be developing into a series. “Fleabag…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:39PM“Saturday Church,” an amped-up Off-Broadway musical adaptation of a 2017 indie movie of the same name, screams Broadway-level ambition; the screaming is sometimes literal. The movie w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:18AM“Come from Away” is the most-produced work of theater in the United States this season, according to American Theatre Magazine — the first time the magazine’s annual list has include…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:32AMHolly Doubet was vacationing in Hawaii in 2018 at a time of tensions between the US and North Korea when an emergency alert warned everybody in the state of an incoming missile attack. “Se…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00PM“Galas,” a play with music that tells the story of soprano Maria Callas, is surprisingly straightforward if not entirely straight. The current revival is a fun and affordable night ou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:08PMThe verdict on the Broadway revival of “Art” starring Neil Patrick Harris, Bobby Cannvale and James Corden as three friends who argue about art ranges from “clever and engaging” to �…
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