Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Leo (Daveed Diggs) makes an outrageous request of his best friend Ralph (Thomas Sadoski) in Suzan-Lori Parks’ bizarre, disturbing and in some ways brilliant new play, “White Noise,” at…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:25PMRaja Feather Kelly is one of the busiest choreographers Off-Broadway, with a half dozen shows currently or soon to be on stage. All but one of them are straight plays. As I detail in my prof…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:26AMMonday, March 18, 2019
A dozen shows will be opening on Broadway over the next six weeks, ending the 2018-2019 season. Two-thirds of them have already announced their policies for official discounted tickets — r…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:56PMSunday, March 17, 2019
Near the end of “The Mother,” her son strangles the title character to death. But not really. The mother (Isabelle Huppert) is imagining it, or dreaming it. There is a change of lighting…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:57AMSaturday, March 16, 2019
By the end of “Holy Day,” two hours without intermission or let-up of gothic horror set in 19th century Australia, the audience has been made witness to a missing child, an abduction, bo…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:59PMFriday, March 15, 2019
On the Ides of March, exactly 2,063 years ago, Julius Caesar was smug, at least according to Shakespeare. “The ides of March are come,” he tells a soothsayer in Act III. “Ay, Caesar,…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 04:36PMThursday, March 14, 2019
Playwright Matt Williams, who is credited with creating, producing and/or writing such once-popular TV series as Home Improvement, The Cosby Show, and Roseanne (tells us in the program that …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:43PMWednesday, March 13, 2019
Hugh Jackman will star as Harold Hill in “The Music Man.” Directed by Jerry Zaks, with choreography by Warren Carlyle, the fourth Broadway production of Meredith Wilson’s musical about…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:48AMTuesday, March 12, 2019
“I’m not obsessed with sex; I just can’t stop thinking about it,” says Phoebe Waller-Bridge in “Fleabag” — both the “Fleabag” that’s a funny and sad BBC TV series, curren…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:48PM“I’m not a girl, not yet a woman…I’m in between,” Britney Spears sang some two decades ago, and it could almost be the new anthem (gender-adjusted) for Broadway. The opening of Be …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:23PMSunday, March 10, 2019
Somebody wrote “NYC Loves BMC” in chalk on the sidewalk outside Broadway’s Lyceum Theater, the new home of Be More Chill, the high energy, high decibel pop-rock musical that stars Will…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:30PMSaturday, March 9, 2019
In “The Cake,” Debra Jo Rupp (the mother on “That 70s Show”) portrays Della, a Christian baker in North Carolina who refuses to bake a cake for a lesbian wedding. If the story is ins…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:28AMFriday, March 8, 2019
I recently saw Hamilton again on Broadway, during a rare open captioned performance, and it was a revelation in several ways. When I had last seen Hamilton, about two years ago, the last …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:11PMThursday, March 7, 2019
In “The B-Side,” three men sing along with an album on a record-player — or, as people prefer to say these days, a vinyl on the turntable. But there’s a reason why the Wooster Grou…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:11AMWednesday, March 6, 2019
March is designated Women’s History Month and there is no better example of a theater woman on the march this March than Dominique Morisseau, who is 1. curating “50 in 50: Letters to Ou…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:27AMTuesday, March 5, 2019
“Daddy,” a play by Jeremy O. Harris, who made his Off-Broadway debut a few months ago with his controversial “Slave Play,” could be accurately described as a porn melodrama about a l…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:32PMMonday, March 4, 2019
Simon, 15 years old and an aspiring comic book creator, is disappointed. His neighbor Jim in Apartment 4-B can’t walk through walls, and has no secret cave; he doesn’t even drive a “su…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:44PMSunday, March 3, 2019
Near the beginning of “Good Friday,” a play by Kristiana Rae Colon produced at The Flea with an all-female cast, crew and creative team, there’s something I’ve never seen on stage be…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:02PMSaturday, March 2, 2019
The actors portraying Boesman and Lena move slowly through the audience, carrying their life’s possession on their heads and shoulders, looking around in fear and fatigue, until they make …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:03PMFriday, March 1, 2019
Four shows are opening on Broadway in March. Two of them are transfers from Off-Broadway that thrilled audiences in very different ways: “Be More Chill” and “What The Constitution Mean…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 04:10PMThursday, February 28, 2019
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news and reviews in February? How about Broadway’s presence at the Oscars? At the Grammys? Answer these 13 questions and find out.
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:34PMWednesday, February 27, 2019
In Madeleine George’s often hilarious, ultimately pointed comedy, the Greek god of agricultural and theater has decided to save the planet, after retreating for several centuries from th…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:16PMTuesday, February 26, 2019
In this latest musical inspired by Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” Alice (Molly Gordon) is a British teenager in 1941 who takes shelter in the Underground wi…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:01PMThe launching of The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space, with the opening tonight of “Alice By Heart,” is the latest “new, state-of-the-art complex” (as MCC is calling it) — with…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:35PMMonday, February 25, 2019
Mary Seacole, though little known in the United States, was almost as celebrated in her time as Florence Nightingale, and for much the same reason – for nursing the sick and wounded during…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:38PMSunday, February 24, 2019
Green Book won best picture, Rami Malek of “Bohemian Rhapsody” lead actor and Olivia Colman of “The Favourite” lead actress at the 91st annual Academy Awards. Ruth E. Carter and Hann…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:13PMIt takes Henry Higgins six months to transform Eliza Doolittle from a “draggle-tailed guttersnipe” in “My Fair Lady” to a lady who can pass as a duchess at the Embassy Ball. Now, ten…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 03:09PMSaturday, February 23, 2019
Bill Rauch, who last February was appointed the first artistic director of the performing arts center at the World Trade Center in New York, was sitting in a theater near his home some 3,000…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:09AMFriday, February 22, 2019
With what’s billed as its re-imagined production of “Merrily We Roll Along,” Fiasco Theater Company has taken on their second Sondheim in four years. Fiasco, a ten-year-old ensemble th…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 04:39PMThursday, February 21, 2019
There’s one way that the Yiddish language “Fiddler On The Roof” directed by Joel Gray and starring Steven Skybell is strikingly different now that it’s moved uptown to the Shubert’…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:38PMWednesday, February 20, 2019
“The Price of Thomas Scott,” Elizabeth Baker’s play about a small shop owner struggling with his conscience, marks the launching of the Mint Theater’s ambitious “Meet Miss Baker”…
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