Monday, January 30, 2023
A year after Eric Adams delivered his first official speech as mayor in Manhattan’s theater district urging New Yorkers to “enjoy a Broadway show,” he made his second State of th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:44AMSunday, January 29, 2023
A Ukrainian play at an Irish theater festival? It was one of the two plays I attended in the final weekend of the annual 1st Irish Festival, which on the surface seemed as opposite as thei…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:26PMSaturday, January 28, 2023
Vivien Leigh said it tipped her over into madness. It left Ann-Margret “twisted and shaking, confused, agitated, and staring ahead in a daze.” For Jessica Lange, “I don’t think ther…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:45AMFriday, January 27, 2023
On this International Holocaust Remembrance Day – designated by the United Nations every January 27th, because that was the date in 1945 when Soviet soldiers liberated the 6,000 remainin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:22PMThursday, January 26, 2023
Ever since newly-elected New York Congressman George Santos was revealed as a liar, and worse, not a day has gone by without something new. It’s embarrassing, of course; much of it is infu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:24PMWednesday, January 25, 2023
“525,600 minutes 525,000 moments so dear 525,600 minutesHow do you measure… half a lifetime? That’s how long it’s been” This is how Anthony Rapp begins “Without You,” h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:04PMTuesday, January 24, 2023
Nine of the 20 Oscar nominees for performance announced this morning are veterans of Broadway. (Full list of nominations) They are: Actor in a Leading RoleAustin Butler (Elvis) made his Broa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:53AMThe full list of nominations for the 95th annual Academy Awards, which will be held on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and will be televised live on ABC. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:05AMMonday, January 23, 2023
“Throughout history weather was the only important subject; everything else was small talk,” Colin Quinn explains; now weather’s the go-to subject for small talk, except for members of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PMSunday, January 22, 2023
Maya Lin was still a college student when her design was selected out of more than 1,400 entries for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C., which resulted in criticism, conflict, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:27PMSaturday, January 21, 2023
Nominations for the 95th annual Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday January 24th, so it seems a good time to test your knowledge of the interplay between Broadway and Hollywood, with…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:14PMFriday, January 20, 2023
Many of the dozen or so theater bloggers below offered end of year assessments for 2022, a less evidently emotional year than the previous two — but that’s just on the surface. “This y…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:26PMThursday, January 19, 2023
Jared Mezzocchi is a pioneer in digital theater, and probably its most quoted evangelist, an Obie winning theater artist who works as a multimedia designer, director, playwright, performer…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:58AMWednesday, January 18, 2023
An 88-year-old white supremacist who claimed “The Diary of Anne Frank” was a hoax shot and killed a 39-year-old African American security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in W…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:21AMTuesday, January 17, 2023
Broadway Week 2-for-1 tickets launches today through February 12, a traditional fallow period in New York theater, but one full of hope this year, judging from the announcements this past we…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:41PMMonday, January 16, 2023
Today, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day — which has been an official federal holiday since 1986 — many people read or listen once again to his most famous speech, delivered August 28, 1963,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:11PMSaturday, January 14, 2023
Brian Stokes Mitchell, Wynton Marsalis, Senators Chuck Schumer and Amy Klobuchar, and Broadway League President Charlotte St. Martin were among those who took to the stage on the first da…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:40PMFriday, January 13, 2023
In 1905, Mark Twain wrote a caustic satire, “King Leopold’s Soliloquy,” in which the Belgian king tries to justify the unspeakable atrocities he committed for his personal enrichment …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:53AMThursday, January 12, 2023
What was most jaw-dropping about “Mothermotherland,” which is being presented for free through January 15 at A.R.T./New York Theatres, was not that Audrey Rose Dégez breastfed her …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:38PMWednesday, January 11, 2023
A middle aged man hires a teenager for sex in a cheap Dublin hotel, but both the older man (Marc Kudisch) and the younger man (Kyle Bielfield) actually want something else. A woman (Na…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:59AMTuesday, January 10, 2023
Tickets are now on sale for Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for performances from January 17 through February 12 of 22 Broadway shows, from “& Juliet…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:14PMMonday, January 9, 2023
The longest battle for Speaker of the House since 1859 was filled with drama last week, but also with theater, enough to inspire observations by at least two theater critics — about Hakeem…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:49PMSunday, January 8, 2023
“That’s the sound of a hit,” Jonathan Groff as Franklin Shepard sings about halfway through the current Off-Broadway production of the Stephen Sondheim/George Furth musical “Merrily…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:56PMI had a whale of a time for much of “The Indigo Room,” which is part of this year’s Under the Radar theater festival, and can certainly count as theater. But it is more than that – m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30AMSaturday, January 7, 2023
Near the end of his inspiring 15-minute address to the 118th Congress before the formal handing-over of the gavel to the newly elected Speaker of the House early Saturday morning, Minority L…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:08AMFriday, January 6, 2023
The title is a palindrome: it reads the same backwards and forwards. The show too goes backward and forward — or actually, forward and then backward. The first entry in the annual Under …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00AMThursday, January 5, 2023
In this first play of the new year, the four statuesque performers are dressed in what at first look like classic robes, but on closer inspection are made up of regular street clothes. This …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:13PMWednesday, January 4, 2023
Below is a calendar of selected theater opening* this month in New York, including Off-Broadway shows written and performed by Anthony Rapp and Colin Quinn, a new play about the architect Ma…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:29PMTuesday, January 3, 2023
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to, among the 13 that have firm opening dates on Broadway between now and April 27, 2023, when the 2022-2023 season ends. They are listed ch…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:41PMMonday, January 2, 2023
Will 2023 be a year of innovation or retrenchment for theater in New York, especially on Broadway? That’s the first of several questions for the year ahead. 7 Major Questions for Theater i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:50AMSunday, January 1, 2023
On January 1, 2020, I explored seven possible major theater trends of the new decade, asking: What will the future of theater turn out to be? I entitled the post “Seeing 2020,” but …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:35PM 
