Tuesday, February 20, 2024
The first meeting between Kenyatta and Nina is tense, as it surely would be for any father and daughter who have not seen each other for many years. But their encounter in this revival of Do…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PMFebruary is always a month for love, presidents, and Oscar anticipation: What Broadway says about love on Valentine’s Day 2024(See also a video below of Jordan Fisher and Lola Tung as the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:26AMMonday, February 19, 2024
It did seem like a clever idea, for at least five seconds: Use the Broadway musical “Six” — the Broadway rock musical in which the six wives of Henry VIII compete to determine whom …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:23PMSunday, February 18, 2024
Which of the ten movies nominated this year for the Best Picture Oscar would make the best play? The worst play? The best musical? Take the poll below. With so many movies, even blockbusters…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:10AMSaturday, February 17, 2024
Now that women’s bodies have become a political and legal battleground, it seems a good time to revisit Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Puritan tale of the shunned and shamed Hester Prynne. Rework…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:28PMFriday, February 16, 2024
Santino Fontana, Sarah Miles, and Julie Halston are each familiar to both theater lovers and filmgoers, so it feels fitting that they would be performing together in one of the thirty-four e…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:10PMThursday, February 15, 2024
The first play in New York written by Tina Howe, which was entitled The Nest, “must be on any reasonable short list of the worst plays I have ever seen,” New York Times critic Clive Barn…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:34PMWednesday, February 14, 2024
Shows currently on Broadway are full of love and kisses — some sweet, sexy, some with a decidedly dark edge — as these scenes and shots attest: From & Juliet: Francois: I just propos…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:22AMTuesday, February 13, 2024
It’s not exactly inaccurate to describe “Between Two Knees” as a play about American Indian history told through the experience of one indigenous family over several generations, from …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PMMonday, February 12, 2024
Off Broadway Week begins today All five shows that I reviewed this past week (see below) could be described as avant-garde theater. But what does avant-garde even mean in 2024? It’s a p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:29AMSunday, February 11, 2024
A commercial for the forthcoming movie musical “Wicked” during the Super Bowl came closest to Broadway fare, but it isn’t a complete stretch to offer a few other moments that were of i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:31PMTickets are on sale for Off-Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for 31 different Off-Broadway productions, for performances from February 12 to March 3. Click h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:13AMSaturday, February 10, 2024
After Russia invades her native Ukraine, Olga Ivanovna, 82 years old, calls Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to strategize; admonishes both Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:30PMFriday, February 9, 2024
In this experiment in storytelling, Mona Pirnot spends just over an hour with her back to the audience, intermittently picking up an acoustic guitar and singing a song (she does this five …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:06AMThursday, February 8, 2024
Much has changed – and nowhere near enough has changed – since I first saw “Russian Troll Farm: A Workplace Comedy,” a play by Sarah Gancher based on a frightening true story: How th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PMWednesday, February 7, 2024
“Bark of Millions” is a concert of fifty-five original songs, each inspired by a queer figure in history, put together by the same team that produced the once-in-a-generation “A 24-Dec…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:28PMTuesday, February 6, 2024
When they started making theater together fifty years ago – at the same time that they started making love together, and making a life together – they’d already been eating cheap food,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:01PMMonday, February 5, 2024
“Some Like It Hot” won best musical theater album at the 66th Grammy Awards, among the 85 trophies handed out online in the afternoon, before the nine major Grammy categories were spotl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:38AMSunday, February 4, 2024
Some Like It Hot is the winner of the Grammy for Musical Theater Album. “Thank you Broadway first of all. Come to New York City, come to regional theater. Support live theater,” the al…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:29PMSaturday, February 3, 2024
Ossie Davis, the author and star of “Purlie Victorious” in 1961; Leslie Odom Jr, the star of the play’s revival in 2024. Rose McClendon, who made her Broadway debut in 1926; Audra McDo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:49AMFriday, February 2, 2024
There seemed more awards than usual this past month, not all of them theater awards, but all with a theater connection or two. Answer these ten questions to see how well you were paying atte…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:34PMThursday, February 1, 2024
Jonah is sweet, awkward, inquisitive, respectful and clearly smitten – the sort of boy you might want for a first love if you were Ana, a scholarship student at a boarding school. After he…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:19PMWednesday, January 31, 2024
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in February, including a single Broadway show — a revival of a Tony and Pulitzer winner by John Patrick Shanley opening on Leap Year Day. But a new …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:23PMTuesday, January 30, 2024
Chita Rivera died today at the age of 91. Born Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero, she originated roles in “West Side Story,” “Bye Bye Birdie,” “Chicago” and “Kiss of the S…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:31PMWhat first comes to mind when you think of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” To Philip Gefter, it is not the game-changing play by Edward Albee, but Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burt…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:01AMMonday, January 29, 2024
The biggest “award” this past week was for $83.3 million, but, for the end of January, there was a surprising amount of news about entertainment-related awards — including winners (of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:58AMSunday, January 28, 2024
Brian d’Arcy James and Kelli O’Hara return to Broadway for the first time together since 2002 to portray a couple who fall in love with alcohol as much as with one another in this musi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:09PMSaturday, January 27, 2024
The 67th annual Obie Awards, honoring achievement Off and Off Off Broadway, were announced tonight. The 23 winners are listed below, some of them linked to my reviews BEST NEW AMERICAN PLAY …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:25PMFriday, January 26, 2024
The first disturbing story that we’re told in this hour-long collage of dancing and diatribes, horror and love, concerns a man named Tantalus, who killed his son and chopped him up with th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:30PMThursday, January 25, 2024
Sutton Foster, trying her hand at goofy physical comedy and affecting a rapid-fire comic patter reminiscent of early Barbra Streisand, is an undeniable draw in the Encores! series revival of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:26PMWednesday, January 24, 2024
Nominations for the 96th annual Academy Awards were announced yesterday, and theater lovers cheered the latest Broadway connections. The Oscars have always had Broadway connections. Test you…
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