Tuesday, August 5, 2025
All three shows are oddly connected, and not just because I saw them on the same day at Summerhall, the former veterinary college that is the venue with the most character at the Edinburgh F…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:14AMMonday, August 4, 2025
I’ll start with the two shows about gay royals, both featuring unmentionable titles and intimate kisses. One, by Jordan Tannahill, ended its run at Playwrights Horizons over the week…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:44PMWhat was Mrs. Lovett’s life like before she met Sweeney Todd? I thought immediately of the moment she decided to start baking her pies using an unprecedented ingredient, thus turning th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:02AMAt the end of this, their latest camp adventure, Linus Karp and Joseph Martin announced that they would be getting married August 16th on stage at one of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival’…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:59AMSunday, August 3, 2025
Abigail and Shaun Bengson got married three weeks after they met, but rather than just feeling joy in finding the love of her life, Abigail felt great anxiety, because she had had a dream wh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:04AMAmid the trans comic, mute comic, pigeon comic, queer ballet, youth theater performing from “A Chorus Line,” political theater and a Broadway choreographer’s new musical about famou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:37AMSaturday, August 2, 2025
Celebrating its fortieth season at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Gilded Balloon, one of the Big Four venue operators, presented previews of a dozen acts – mostly comedians (including the MC, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:55AMFriday, August 1, 2025
How do you follow Elizabeth Taylor? That was the challenge for Kayla Boye, whose solo show at the 2021 Edinburgh Fringe, “Call Me Elizabeth,” nailed Taylor’s appealing if complicate…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:56PMAustralian performer Marcel Cole brings a grace and ingenuity to a story that’s been told often, although not with great success: The 2012 Broadway musical “Chaplin” starring Rob McClu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:17PMThursday, July 31, 2025
Below is a calendar of New York theater opening* in August, including two shows on Broadway, one of them a revival of the long-running “Mamma Mia.” But they are overshadowed by a 400-yea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:38PMGertrude Stein is famous as an early champion of writers like Ernest Hemingway and artists like Picasso (whose “Portrait of Gertrude Stein” is a prized possession of The Metropolitan …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:17AMWednesday, July 30, 2025
Soliana the contortionist performed from one of the nine shows out of 160 that will be presented this year at Underbelly, one of the Big Four venue operators at the Edinburgh Festival Fring…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:26PMTuesday, July 29, 2025
Yes, I can tell you how to Fringe, even though I’ve just arrived in Edinburgh, Scotland for my first-ever visit; it’s the beginning of “Week 0” of the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:50PMMonday, July 28, 2025
Summer is a time for Fall season announcements – Under the Radar, Atlantic, Bushwick Starr, below – and for travel: I went to Malta, and wrote Toward A New Understanding of Immersive…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:39AMSunday, July 27, 2025
Lis Coin’s approach to her first-ever Edinburgh Fringe Festival will be “half spontaneous and half supportive.” She means as a theatergoer. But that’s also not a bad description of �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:40PMSaturday, July 26, 2025
It was past the start time and nothing was happening on stage, when a man in a tracksuit sitting in the front row started applauding rapidly as a show of impatience and protest, leading the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:39PMFriday, July 25, 2025
It was only after I started this novel about an acerbic and soon-to-be reviled theater critic — which its publisher had discouraged me from reading — when I learned that the book is s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:42PMFour won a Tony for Best Musical. A fifth is returning to Broadway a decade after one of the longest runs in Broadway history. The sixth, with an all-female cast, began life at the Edinburgh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:51AMThursday, July 24, 2025
Amid all the to-do surrounding the tenth anniversary of the Broadway musical “Hamilton” — it opened at the Richard Rodgers on August 6, 2015 — five current cast members performed two…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:47PMWednesday, July 23, 2025
Which of the twelve shows scheduled so far to open on Broadway between now and the end of 2025 are you most looking forward to? Which do you want to know more about? Take the poll and let us…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:08PMTuesday, July 22, 2025
As Andrew Lloyd Webber prepares to launch the immersive version of “The Phantom of the Opera” on the last day of this month, for a run that has been extended (for now) through October 19…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:17PMMonday, July 21, 2025
Amid the distressing midsummer news of the defunding of public broadcasting, the suspiciously-timed axing of Stephen Colbert, and the uncertainty behind the arts desk shakeup at the New Y…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:05PMBy Jonathan Mandell. Teatru Malta’s 1881 infused immersive theatre with game design, all in a dark, castle-like setting.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:22AMSunday, July 20, 2025
In one of the several moments throughout “Joy” that felt like being trapped inside an old infomercial, albeit an entertaining one, Joy Mangano (Betsy Wolfe) has just sold her first five …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:50PMSaturday, July 19, 2025
An art photographer, who is as famous as the celebrities he shoots, starts having sex with a girl who is in ninth grade, and takes pictures of her naked while she’s sleeping in his bed, wi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:49PMFriday, July 18, 2025
Broadway’s new Elphaba and Glinda performed at Week 2 of this summer’s series of Broadway in Bryant Park lunchtime concerts, now celebrating its 25th anniversary season — which is olde…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:16PMJames Baldwin met Marlon Brando at an adjacent urinal in the men’s bathroom at the New School for Social Research when they were both 19 years old and dreaming of success as, respectively,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:16AMThursday, July 17, 2025
“Connie Francis said to know her voice is to know her,” Gracie Lawrence told the crowd at Bryant Park this afternoon, the day after the popular singer died at the age of 87. Lawrence, wh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:02PMWednesday, July 16, 2025
Watching Emily Weitzman talk to a couch as if it were her ex-lover brought two names to mind: JD Vance and Andy Kaufman. “You were special…Not just any couch: a pull out couch,” she sa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:50PMTuesday, July 15, 2025
Michael DeBartolo’s path to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival began in a childhood of “profound shame” and a series of unhealthy infatuations with straight boys. Years later, now a New …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:40PMMonday, July 14, 2025
Has a show ever shocked you? Did that make you like it, or dislike it, or was its shock value not the determining factor in your overall reaction? What if a show is deliberately trying to sh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:29AM 
