Wednesday, November 15, 2023
In “Scene Partners,” we first see Dianne Wiest in close-up on a screen, as pink and bejeweled as a movie star, though more nervous than one, as she says: “Hello! I’m Meryl Kowalski,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:53PMTuesday, November 14, 2023
On this, the seventieth anniversary year of the signature work of Nobel Prize winning author Samuel Beckett, a play in which (as one Beckett scholar famously put it) “nothing happens, tw…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:48PMMonday, November 13, 2023
When Barry Manilow’s musical finally debuted in New York last year, I was thrilled. I had just one small reservation. On my second viewing of “Harmony,” which opens tonight on Broadway…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:53PMAlexandra Tatarsky’s solo show should probably come with a warning. This is not because she keeps on taking things out of her crotch, including a Styrofoam head to which she’s apparently…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:23PMIt’s been a week of what Broadway-goers might consider alternative theater — above all, the announcement that “Sleep No More” and “Here Lies Love” are closing, which prompted …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:35AMSunday, November 12, 2023
It came as a shock to lovers of immersive theater, and reportedly even to the people who work on “Sleep No More,” the show by the British theater company Punchdrunk that launched New …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:10PMSaturday, November 11, 2023
The most enduring theater of Western Civilization was created by combat veterans. “Ancient Greek drama was a form of storytelling, communal therapy, and ritual reintegration for combat vet…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:42AMFive albums have been nominated for the best musical theater album, all of them of current or recent Broadway shows (like last year, but unlike the year before.). The 66th annual Grammy Awar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:39AMFriday, November 10, 2023
In the video below, dozens of Broadway performers have recorded the song from “Les Miserables” with a slightly altered title on behalf of the more than two hundred people who were kidnap…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:36AMThursday, November 9, 2023
Electric Root’s version of “The Sound of Music” and BlackBox Ensemble’s newly translated version of “Borrowed Landscape” each separately gave one-night-only performances this…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:39PMWednesday, November 8, 2023
“Watch Night” is Bill T. Jones and company’s response to the mass shootings by white supremacists of nine African Americans at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charles…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PMTuesday, November 7, 2023
When we were little, I remember my brother being frightened by the Saber-toothed tiger in our book about prehistoric animals. I wasn’t. I had nightmares about Pinocchio – not the Disney …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:17PMOver the course of her solo show about an Argentinian who moves as a child to New York City, Florencia Iriondo hands out little round chipas, an Argentine cheese bread (savory), and little s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:35PMMonday, November 6, 2023
Raunch, regrets and puppets dominated the New York theater that opened this week, sometimes all three in the same show. Two different plays told the story of an older man’s reaction to l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:19AMSunday, November 5, 2023
Ephraim Sykes, one of Broadway’s top song-and-dance men, starred as Joey Evans in “Pal Joey,” which ended its half-week run today as part of the New York City Center Encores! Concer…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:38PMWhen last we saw playwright Qui Nguyen’s parents, in “Vietgone,” Nguyen’s acclaimed 2016 play with an unconventional pop culture approach, Quang and Tong had separately escaped…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:35AMSaturday, November 4, 2023
In “Merry Me,” billed as a lesbian sex comedy, a seven-member cast is charming enough to wring laughs out of playwright Hansol Jung’s raunchy effort to queer the canon, in what ofte…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:23AMFriday, November 3, 2023
At BAM, the waiter offered me the menu, but it only had one sentence written on it: “Say ‘I would like to order the Arctic char.’” “I would like to order the Arctic char,” I comp…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:49PMThursday, November 2, 2023
Theresa Rebeck’s play about a hoarder is the slightest of comedies. Its plot is paltry. Its insights are pat. It promises more laughs than it delivers. It even promises more junk than i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:53PMMickey Sabbath, the 64-year-old self-absorbed, lecherous narrator and protagonist of Philip Roth’s 1995 novel, had a career as a puppeteer until he got arthritis, and there is a moment ear…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:25PMWednesday, November 1, 2023
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in New York in November, featuring the return to the stage of Danny DeVito, Diane Wiest, Priscilla Lopez, James Monroe Iglehart and Christopher Abbott…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:50PMTuesday, October 31, 2023
How well were you paying attention to theater news and reviews in October? Take this quiz and see. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:54PMTimed for Halloween, this latest digital theater, livestreamed from the closet in Joshua William Gelb’s East Village apartment, feels as much of a landmark production as the original “No…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:46PMMonday, October 30, 2023
Twenty new shows will be opening on Broadway (so far) in the remainder of the 2023-2024 season, including two newly announced — as well as a revival next Fall of one of the country’s mos…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:52AMSunday, October 29, 2023
“Stereophonic” chronicles a year of recording studio sessions by the members of a popular 1970s rock band (never named, fictional) as they put together their latest album and have the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00PMThe title character of “King of the Jews” — a Holocaust-set play at HERE that is inventively staged and well-acted, but both intentionally and unintentionally disturbing – is inspire…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:21PMFriday, October 27, 2023
In “Hummus NYC,” the first of four stories in “The Holylanders,” a play by Moria Zrachia about Israelis living in America, Amir is outraged by what happened to his son Nuri. But the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:48PMTuesday, October 24, 2023
Fifteen jukebox musicals were featured in last night’s odd concert at Merkin Hall, “Jukebox: The Musical,” part of the Kaufman Music Center’s Broadway Close Up series. The concert …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:32AMMonday, October 23, 2023
So many of the reviews of “Here We Are” end like eulogies for Stephen Sondheim, or feature at least a line of farewell, that these are the passages I find worth quoting, more than the cr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:13AMSunday, October 22, 2023
“O, isn’t this wonderful?!” Marianne Brink (Rachel Bay Jones) exclaims upon seeing her old friends at her door. It is the first line in Stephen Sondheim’s first new musical in two de…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:32PMSaturday, October 21, 2023
Laurie Anderson launched the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s fortieth annual Next Wave Festival Tuesday night with “Let X = X,” an unconventional concert that featured, yes, songs from t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:41AM 
