Caitlin Cook has reportedly spent ten years researching graffiti in public bathrooms, and five years turning the graffiti into songs, which she now has put together for an hour-long show bil…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:33PMCharles Busch has always worshipped Leading Ladies, even before he became one. That happened almost four decades ago, thanks to the surprise success of his play “Vampire Lesbians of Sodom.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:13PMBryan is bulimic. Melinda is schizophrenic. Kendra has borderline personality disorder. Newcomer Adam is an addict. They are young patients in group therapy at a rehab ward, presided over…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:56PMSummer officially ended with Lea Michele singing “My Man” at the curtain call for the final performance of “Funny Girl” (see video below), a song introduced by Fanny Brice in the Zie…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:57AMOn a Labor Day when Hollywood writers and actors have been on strike for months now, there is a fitting if startling answer this year to the question I ask every Labor Day, which is a l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:54AMA new Sondheim musical, posthumously produced; a new Annie Baker play; the return to Broadway of Leslie Odom Jr. and Sarah Paulson. Below are ten shows opening in the Fall – three of which…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:55PMFor his ninetieth birthday, Sir Stanley Wells, considered one of the world’s greatest authorities on William Shakespeare, was asked to deliver four lectures to answer the following questio…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54PMBelow is a calendar of theater opening* in New York in September: Leslie Odom Jr is returning to Broadway in a revival of a play by Ossie Davis, and rock star Melissa Etheridge is bringing …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:49AMThe quiz below offers a theatergoer’s perspective on this crazy, busy, unnerving summer, Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:17PMRenée Elise Goldsberry’s star turn as Prospero helps make this entertaining new musical adaptation of “The Tempest” thrilling in some of the same ways as the musical for which she won…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:47PM“How To Steal An Election,” a 1968 musical that offers a cynical history lesson about American presidential politics, is getting a perky revival as part of York Theater Company’s M…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:54PMOn 28 August, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the following speech at the March on Washington: I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demons…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PMThe end of August, traditionally the dog days of summer, this year brings news of a British movie theater chain allowing dogs to accompany humans at select showings. Would this work for le…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:26AMTo author Ethan Mordden, Edward Albee is the “Great American Gay Playwright” — emphasis on gay — even though few of his plays have any gay characters in them at all nor any obviou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:11AM“Rock & Roll Man,” a musical at New World Stages about Alan Freed, a radio disc jockey and concert promoter who championed early rock and roll, had already announced a September 1st …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:29PMWhat turned high school drop-out Frederick August Kittel Jr. into the revered and consequential playwright August Wilson? That’s the question at the heart of “August Wilson: A Life” (S…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:07PMBest to think of a Fall full of theater during these final summer days wracked by climate change disasters, indictments and dubious debates. It’s not too early to get two-for-one tickets t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:30AMThis latest magic show to land fleetingly on Broadway stars Antonio Diaz, a boyishly charming 37-year-old Spaniard who we’re told was “born into a humble family in a small town on the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:52PMPatrick Page is hugging Eva Noblezada on the stage of “Hadestown.” There are two ways to look at this photograph, just as there are two ways to look at the news of the challenges facing …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:20PMThe life of Julia Pastrana was short and ugly; her death long and grotesque. But there was also beauty in her true story, and it’s captured briefly but memorably by a remarkable performer …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:13PMThe creatures created by Ralph Lee (July 9, 1935 – May 12, 2023) come alive even when in an art exhibition rather than on stage, as evident in “Myths, Legends, & Spectacle: Masks and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:10PMThe 76th Edinburgh Festival Fringe is underway, a month-long festival that this year is presenting more than 3,500 shows – which might be intimidating for those theatergoers who have …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:06AMOn their last day of shooting “Jaws,” its three stars sit around the table of a cramped fishing boat, shooting the breeze, as they had done for most of the 95 minutes of “The Shark Is …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:52PMThe puppets at the third International Puppet Fringe Festival measure way smaller than your hand and way taller than Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; they reflect traditions thousands of years old, and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:15PM“What does Barbie and Oppenheimer mean for Broadway?” Ken Davenport asks in his blog post, treating the two movie blockbusters as a singular phenomenon (hence the “does”) — yet fo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:58PM“Back to the Future” opening on Broadway last week seemed well-timed, since theatergoers seem to be time traveling: We’re looking ahead as the Broadway 2023-2024 season unfolds, and at…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:15AM“I can laugh at my own extinction,” says the dinosaur with the face of Theodora Skipitares, in the last and most ironic of the six eerie scenes in her show at La MaMa entitled “Views f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:45PMWhen the Federal Theatre Project was shut down in 1939 after just four years, the government-funded program had presented an astonishing 830 theatrical productions on Broadway and in newly c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:41PMHollywood may be on strike, but movies are ever-present on New York stages. True, it wasn’t until 1970 that a Broadway show based on a movie won the Tony for best musical — fittingly, th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:44PM“Back to the Future,” opening tonight on Broadway, is a nearly scene-by-scene re-creation of the 1985 movie on which it’s based. This is in some ways a lost opportunity to reimagine …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:58PMDeaf Broadway, a theater company founded on Stephen Sondheim’s 90th birthday in 2020, tonight performed the musical “Company” at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park. How? They projected t…
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