Friday, September 27, 2024
How well were you paying attention to the theater news and reviews this month? Answer these ten questions, plus a bonus question, to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:07PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 26, 2024
"Fatherland" is an unsettling title, a word that movie-goers associate with Germany under the Nazis, but there are several reasons why it fits this true story of the first man to be put on t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:16PM[SHARE]When I reviewed Eric Adams' book "Healthy At Last," I suggested it might be useful beyond its practical advice for adopting a vegan diet, as a glimpse of the man who was about to become New …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Below is the annual list of the most produced plays and musicals this season, from American Theater Magazine, with links to those shows whose NYC productions I reviewed. This list was culled…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Her life story might have made an engaging show no matter which theater company had staged it: A globe-trotting professional basketball player and Olympian, Katsiaryna Snytsina awok…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00PM[SHARE]Monday, September 23, 2024
As the season has revved up, and a new show is opening nearly every day, they tend to run together, in more ways than one. This is obvious of course in "Forbidden Broadway," which depends on…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:28AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 22, 2024
The confrontation in "The Ask" involves no guns, nor even any shouting. It's not a confrontation at all, by any typical definition these days in either theater or politics. Greta, a long-tim…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:45PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 21, 2024
Pedro Antonio Garcia, who is a criminal defense attorney as well as a playwright, explains in a program note that he wrote "The Witness Room" in "an attempt to explore moral issues within th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:16PM[SHARE]Friday, September 20, 2024
Alvin Ailey was a New York actor " performing, yes, in Broadway musicals with Lena Horne and Pearl Bailey starting in 1954, the very year he arrived in New York at the age of 23. But he was�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:56PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 19, 2024
The parodies in this latest edition of Forbidden Broadway range from hilarious (Cabaret) to clever but not especially funny (Back to the Future) to lame (Wicked.) In other words, it's hit an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 18, 2024
It's been compared to a psychedelic trip, and the latest video game, but Basil Twist's dazzling hour-long abstract journey through mind-bending optical illusions and mythical beasts  "…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 17, 2024
In "Our Class," the classmates whom we have watched grow up together in their small village in Poland " five Jews and five Catholics " attend a wedding together right before intermission. In…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:27PM[SHARE]Monday, September 16, 2024
Alex Edelman was a winner at the 76th annual Emmys for "Just for Us," in Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special, which this year could be considered the 2024 Emmy Awards theater cat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 15, 2024
Among the dozens of categories at the 76th Emmy Awards, which will be broadcast tonight live on ABC, one is virtually a theater award. True, it's virtually, not officially. Three of the n…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:30PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 14, 2024
Counting and Cracking" tells the story of four generations of one family from Sri Lanka "Â Â once called Ceylon, an island nation off the coast of India " whose later generations were fo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:35PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 12, 2024
"The Roommate" is like a female "The Odd Couple" that's more odd and less funny, and worth a Broadway production for two reasons: Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone. The show tacitly acknowledges t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:11PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 11, 2024
The opening of the new performing arts center at the World Trade Center site a year ago has done what the rebuilders had hoped it would, at least for me. On the twenty-third anniversary o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:13AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 10, 2024
A dozen cartoonists offer their take on the Presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, which is happening tonight for 90 minutes starting at …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:59AM[SHARE]Monday, September 9, 2024
James Earl Jones, the shy kid from Arkabutla, Mississippi who grew up to be an commanding actor of the stage and screen for some seven decades " so admired as a stage actor that he had a Bro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:56PM[SHARE]Everything these days is debatable. Politics of course: Tuesday night the Presidential candidates are debating. But theater too. The Broadway Fall season begins two days after the debate, wi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:05PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 8, 2024
About halfway through "Life and Trust,"  a mammoth site-specific show that is set spectacularly in the heart of the Financial District,  I was rewarded with the immersive theate…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:27AM[SHARE]Friday, September 6, 2024
As the Fall season begins, pick your top three choices out of the 16 shows that are currently scheduled to open  on Broadway in September, October, November and December 2024. The show…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:53PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 5, 2024
There was a time when Billy Rose " Broadway producer, impresario, lyricist, columnist, and all-around theatrical showman " was a leading figure on Broadway. Born 125 years ago on September 6…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 4, 2024
Audra McDonald as Madame Rose; Robert Downey Jr's Broadway debut; Elton John's first new Broadway musical in a dozen years. It's hard to resist the lure of the big musicals and starry debuts…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Broadway Week, a two-for-one ticket discount to current Broadway shows, begins today, the start of a busy month and a starry season.  In September alone, three Broadway shows are op…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:18AM[SHARE]Monday, September 2, 2024
Labor Day means something different to Colm Summers, the new artistic director of  Working Theater, a New York company about to launch its fortieth season as (in the words of their mis…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:46PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 1, 2024
Below is a selection of theater opening* in New York in September, Including three new plays on Broadway " featuring the Broadway debut of Robert Downey Jr., and the return of Patti LuPon…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:49PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 31, 2024
How well were you following the theater in August? By theater this month, that includes political theater, as well as the past and future on stage, not just the present. Answer the quiz belo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:50PM[SHARE]Friday, August 30, 2024
 Following up on the recent Broadway revival of his Tony and Pulitzer-winning play "Doubt" and his new Off-Broadway hit "Brooklyn Laundry," John Patrick Shanley has written another new p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 28, 2024
It would be silly to dismiss "Hurricane Season" just because the production has no curtain call, and the cast is made to work during the entire intermission, performing a kind of robotic con…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 27, 2024
"It used to be a time when the movement was spearheaded by young people….putting their lives on the line. Now, they just put their lives online." It's a line in "Good Trouble" by Anthony T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:09AM[SHARE] 
