Monday, August 18, 2025
After his mother died when he was just 14 years old, as Jeff Ross tells us from the stage of Broadway's Nederlander Theater, "I remember sitting in my room thinking, 'Is this what life is? Y…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:45PM[SHARE]"Gypsy" closed last night, "Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride" is opening tonight. Two more shows will close on Broadway by the end of the month, and no more will open until September 16…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:34AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 17, 2025
"Sea Glass" is billed as a contemporary feminist retelling of Cain and Abel, so I knew how it would end. Oddly, the ending felt tacked on " one of the reasons why Olivia Dennehy-Basile's scr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:32PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 16, 2025
Although Eddie Redmayne was nominated for an Academy Award for "The Danish Girl," he regretted taking on the role of Lili Elbe,  as he  told an interviewer several years later, b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54AM[SHARE]Friday, August 15, 2025
Below is Atlantic Records' newly released cast album of the Broadway musical "Just in Time," which stars Jonathan Groff as 60s crooner Bobby Darin " and below that two videos of Groff's sing…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:35AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 14, 2025
"Mamma Mia," reopening today on Broadway after a ten-year absence, is much the same confection: same silly plot, same disco-era earworms by the Swedish pop group ABBA, same high-energy chore…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 13, 2025
I started feeling complicit in the exploitation of Ava Gardner by even attending "Ava: The Secret Conversations," a play that Elizabeth McGovern has adapted from a book of the same name by c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:04PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 12, 2025
While the real Zohran Mamdani began a "Five Boroughs Against Trump tour" this week,  the children's book character does the same thing, although not explicitly against Trump. In Zoh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:34AM[SHARE]Monday, August 11, 2025
Ariana DeBose to star in Stephen Schwartz musical. Rosie O'Donnell has her say far away. A Chorus Line at 50. Ephraim Sykes at #Hamilten block party Stars are what sell shows in New York, mo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 10, 2025
Miles Davis comes back to life through an encounter with current trumpeter Jay Phelps in this play that inventively mixes live music, biography, history, even musicology, to illuminate the s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:06PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 9, 2025
Will "Hot Mess" be the first climate-crisis musical to make it to Broadway " and the second Broadway musical, after "Six," to have originated at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival?   The…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:25PM[SHARE]Friday, August 8, 2025
The Royal Mile, the wide cobbled road between the Edinburgh Castle and the Holyrood Palace, is lined with Parliament, Cathedrals, pubs, and, every August since the launch of Fringe Street Ev…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:32AM[SHARE]I was ultimately so thrilled and so moved by "Down to Chance" that, right after leaving the show, when I saw two strangers who happened to be holding a flyer for it, I described the play wit…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:11AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 7, 2025
Rosie O'Donnell does eventually talk about her longtime feud with "Mango Mussolini"; she also makes a brief and self-effacing reference to her film career; she is of course often laugh-out-l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 6, 2025
The 20 venues operated by TheSpaceUK are presenting 479 shows at this month's Edinburgh Fringe Festival " as Xhloe and Natasha put it, "comedy, music, theater, musicals or some terrifying fr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:21AM[SHARE]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 07:14AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:44PM[SHARE]What 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 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:02AM[SHARE]At 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 Festi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:59AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 07:04AM[SHARE]Amid 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 famous …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:37AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 04:55AM[SHARE]Friday, 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,"Â Â nailed Taylor's appealing if complicated …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:56PM[SHARE]Australian 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 McClure (fe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:17PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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-year-ol…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:38PM[SHARE]Gertrude 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 08:17AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 Fri…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:26PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:50PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 Immersi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:39AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 "Lizzy Su…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:40PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 10:39PM[SHARE] 
