Thursday, January 23, 2025
When Sanaz Toossi made her Off-Broadway debut with this play about four adult students in Iran taking a class to learn English, even the many who praised it described “English” as “con…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15PMThe complete list of nominations for the 97th annual Academy Awards, which will be held on Sunday, March 2, 2025 at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and televised live on ABC start…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:42AMWednesday, January 22, 2025
The odd trial between Hollywood star Gwyneth Paltrow and retired optometrist Terry Sanderson over a 2016 skiing accident was so innately campy that it makes a theatrical parody both redundan…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:53PMTuesday, January 21, 2025
Those of us who are shellshocked at the political upheaval are faced with a choice — try to ignore, actively escape, or engage? Can theater help us decide, and then help any of those choic…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:40AMMonday, January 20, 2025
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose birthday we are officially celebrating today as a federal holiday, spoke about what we need in our leaders during a speech entitled “The Birth of a New Ag…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:46AMSunday, January 19, 2025
This wide-ranging anthology begins with an anecdote about the power of the arts to heal political division, and includes a chapter by pioneering theater artist Anna Deavere Smith that, with …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:09PMSaturday, January 18, 2025
Yoko Ono was already the most famous artist in the Fluxus art movement when she met John Lennon at her Fluxus exhibition entitled “Ceiling Painting (Yes).” We were told this by the trio…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:27PMFriday, January 17, 2025
Both shows promised a hip take on dystopia, with alarming content warnings. They were opening on the same night at different times, both part of the Exponential theater festival, presented a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:43PMThursday, January 16, 2025
This 51-minute play starring a chicken may seem a startling evolution for the political playwright Robert Schenkkan, whose Broadway playwriting debut, “The Kentucky Cycle,” was six hours…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:41PMWednesday, January 15, 2025
Why has “Show Boat” been renamed “Show/Boat: A River?” The title change turns out to be typical of what’s being billed as a “daring reimagining” of the 1927 musical. Many of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:55PMTuesday, January 14, 2025
Bob Dylan hovers over this opera, which tells a story about early 1970s radicals who become fugitives for some three decades. The connection is deliberate if indirect, but Dylan also comes t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:49PMMonday, January 13, 2025
“New York City is where you want to be in January,” Pat Kaufman, commissioner of NYC Mayor’s Office of Media & Entertainment, said on the opening night Friday of the Association of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:01AMSunday, January 12, 2025
Wakka Wakka is back with a new puppet musical, about the adventures of a boy and a dodo bird in the underworld. Compared to the 24-year-old company’s past shows, what most stands out ab…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:25PM“KOAL” begins with the sound of a powerful wind and the crackle of an ominous fire. Inspired by the “Black Summer” wildfires in Australia in 2019, Jacinta Yelland’s solo show th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:30AMSaturday, January 11, 2025
“Telekinetik” is about as unconventional an opera as opera can be, and therefore more or less typical of the Prototype festival, which launched its twelfth annual season Thursday with …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:37PMFriday, January 10, 2025
SpaceBridge is a show starring Russian refugee children living in New York City shelters after fleeing Russia because of their families’ opposition to the invasion of Ukraine. It is als…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59AMThursday, January 9, 2025
“For years, I’ve learned that in reaction to all the hardships, I could do only one thing: run. Run instead of talk, run instead of cry, run instead of shout, run instea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:20PMWednesday, January 8, 2025
Joshua William Gelb, an award–winning pioneer in digital theater, has restaged his earliest Internet hit in what some might consider a logical next step – in person. But if I find �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:45PMTuesday, January 7, 2025
Abigail’s mother has just died, but she can’t afford to pay for her funeral, so to raise the needed funds she decides to write a play about the death of her mother and the difficulty of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:59PMMonday, January 6, 2025
2025 begins as the Year of Wicked. Although the movie won only ”best cinematic and box office achievement” at the Golden Globes last night, both it and the stage musical broke box office…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:51AMSunday, January 5, 2025
“Techne,” one of the shows that opened the 20th anniversary “Under the Radar” festival this weekend, reinforces its reputation for theater so experimental it makes you wonder what …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:51PMSaturday, January 4, 2025
Below is a calendar of selected theater opening* this month in New York, including one Broadway show, Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer Prize winning “English,” which is transferring intact fro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:37PMFriday, January 3, 2025
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to, among the 20 that (so far) have firm opening dates on Broadway between now and April 27, 2025, when the 2024-2025 season ends. They are …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:02AMThursday, January 2, 2025
There are almost 100 shows produced by the seven annual theater festivals listed below, all of whom begin in January. Largely experimental, avant-garde, mixed-genre, and at much lower ticket…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:12PMWednesday, January 1, 2025
The year 2025 begins with some short-term questions about theater – the fate of “Warriors,” the effect of “Wicked”?– and more long-term ones – what new leadership will mean to …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:58PMTuesday, December 31, 2024
Let us celebrate the new year by honoring these twenty Broadway veterans — accomplished performers, playwrights, producers, directors, composers (at least one of them all those things tog…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30AMMonday, December 30, 2024
How much do you remember of this year in New York theater? Answer these 10 questions to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:48PMHow DO you measure a year? Yes, in laughter and strife, and also in nightlife. (New Year’s Eve in NYC Last Minute Guide to Greeting 2025) Theater lovers measure the year in shows, sure (se…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:24AMSunday, December 29, 2024
Below is a list of theater books that were published in 2024, most of which I read and enjoyed (with caveats), several I hope to get to in the new year. Beneath that is a list of 10 scripts …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:07AMSaturday, December 28, 2024
When they hug in the rain in “The Notebook.” When they fight in the rain in “The Outsiders.” When the fourth sibling finally arrives in “The Hills of California.” When the fourth…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:46PMFriday, December 27, 2024
The year began with Elton John getting an EGOT and ended with his giving Broadway a flop. It was that kind of year, offering theatergoers reasons to cheer and to jeer. Here are ten of t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:21PM 
