Monday, March 18, 2024
Jeremy Strong as a righteous scientist? Michael Imperioli as his pompous, persnickety brother? One might initially question this casting. Strong is best known for his recent role as Kendall …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49PMThe Dred Scott decision, widely considered the worst ruling in the history of the United States Supreme Court, inspired “American Rot,” which should have been a better play. It certainly…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:03PMNew York theater revs up for its final stretch, with 16 of the 38 shows of the Broadway 2023-2024 season opening up over the next six weeks. I’m not even halfway through the 10 “can’t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:49AMSunday, March 17, 2024
A look at the final stretch of the Broadway 2023-2024 season:: The sixteen Broadway shows opening over the next six weeks, starting tomorrow and ending April 25th, the cut-off date for Tony …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:41PMSaturday, March 16, 2024
Marlon Brando singing “Luck Be A Lady” in rehearsal with “Guys and Dolls” composer Frank Loesser. Fifteen pairs of Liza Minnelli’s false eyelashes. A first edition of “West Side …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:37AMFriday, March 15, 2024
Four years ago today – the ides of March, 2020 – the COVID-19 pandemic forced the then-mayor of New York City to shut down the smaller In-person theaters that had remained open after t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:04AMThursday, March 14, 2024
They’re selling a little box of tissues branded with the logo of “The Notebook: The Musical” at Broadway’sGerald Schoenfeld Theater, where it’s opening tonight – perhaps the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:33PMWednesday, March 13, 2024
In “The Effect,” two researchers are conducting clinical trials of a new antidepressant, but their experiment stumbles and crashes after two volunteers undergoing the drug tests fall for…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:50PMTuesday, March 12, 2024
During the Golden Age of Broadway, theater photographer Leo Friedman used his specialized still camera to capture image after image of show after show. The action on stage was rarely still, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:31PMMonday, March 11, 2024
As he did more successfully with “Oslo” and “Blood and Gifts,” playwright J. T. Rogers dramatizes a complicated moment in history with sophistication, humor, some clarity, even some …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12PMBroadway at the Oscars 2024, clockwise from top left: New Academy Award winners and Broadway veterans Da’Vine Joy Randolph (who was nominated for a Tony in 2012 for Ghost the Musical…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:26AMSunday, March 10, 2024
Best Picture Oppenheimer Best Director Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer Best Actor Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer Best Actress Emma Stone, Poor Things Best Supporting Actor Robert Downey Jr., Opp…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:21PM“I”m worried about the future of our children, and this is why I invite you into this strange, empty kitchen, because Republicans want me to appeal to women voters. And women love kitche…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:13AMSaturday, March 9, 2024
“No carnival without cruelty,” a man dressed much like the horror movie character Freddy Krueger screams desperately in Spanish, trapped in a glass cube crowded with others who are grote…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:36PMFriday, March 8, 2024
In honor of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, here are the women playwrights who have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an annual award given for “a distinguished pl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:26PMThursday, March 7, 2024
The nun is certain, or says she is, that the priest is molesting one of the students in her school, but we never are so sure, thanks to John Patrick Shanley’s exquisitely well-crafted pla…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:54PMFor all the high-powered theatrical talent involved, this stage interpretation of Sufjan Stevens’ acclaimed 2005 album “Illinois” could probably use a warning label. It’s extraordina…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:11PMWednesday, March 6, 2024
Choose the shows that you are most looking forward to, in the four categories into which I’ve divided the 18 play and musicals that are opening on Broadway in March and April, 2024. These …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59AMTuesday, March 5, 2024
Whether offering a Spring Review, or praising a Broadway run, or welcoming the news that the Washington Post will indeed be hiring a new theater critic after all, the theater bloggers below …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:12PMMonday, March 4, 2024
“With all the activity on Broadway, there will be plenty of good targets,” says Gerard Alessandrini, the wit behind the satirical revue “Forbidden Broadway,” which after more than …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:59AMSunday, March 3, 2024
Eighteen shows are opening in the final eight weeks of the 2023-2024 Broadway season, each of which offers discounts of one kind or another — rush, lottery, digital rush, digital lottery. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:23AMSaturday, March 2, 2024
How well were you paying attention to New York theater in the month of February? Answer these ten questions to find out, plus an extra question to match the extra day because it’s a Leap Y…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:11PMFriday, March 1, 2024
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in March, including five shows opening on Broadway, two of them new musical adaptations of popular novels. Jeremy Strong returns to Broadway after 16…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:31AMThursday, February 29, 2024
The Adventures of Curious Ganz I could tell you about the fascinating life of Joachim Ganz, who was the first Jew to settle in the first English colony in America in the late 1500s. He was a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:49PMWednesday, February 28, 2024
“You might have seen me in the official revival of “1776” playing Edward Rutledge, aka the villain,” Sara Porkalob begins. And indeed we did – although many New York theatergoers m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:40PMTuesday, February 27, 2024
With “The Ally,” playwright Itamar Moses clarifies with laser precision the dilemma facing liberal American Jews largely because of Israel. But the play takes wider aim as well, explorin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:53PMMonday, February 26, 2024
It’s been seven years since Cynthia Nixon has appeared on a New York stage (when she won a Tony for “The Little Foxes”), but that’s not what Jordan Seavey’s new play is about, desp…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:48PMThere will be 18 shows opening on Broadway in March and April, starting next week! Sure, that might feel overwhelming. But in his article on the “Crazily Crowded Broadway Spring Season”…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:01AMSunday, February 25, 2024
In “The Hunt,” Tobias Menzies portrays a preschool teacher whose community turns against him after a false accusation by one of his five-year-old students. The play is an English-lan…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:55PMSaturday, February 24, 2024
I didn’t know what a bunny hug is, nor its place in musical theater history, and I couldn’t precisely describe a surrey, before I browsed Thomas S. Hischak’s “Broadway Decoded: Music…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:24PMFriday, February 23, 2024
Puppets are in the spotlight this weekend and over the next couple of weeks, most prominently at the third annual Puppetopia Festival: Puppetopia 2024 HERE Arts Center, February 27 to March …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:10AM 
