Monday, October 7, 2024
In the swirl of the new theater season, with three shows opening on Broadway last week and another this week, and daily announcements of the season ahead (of Broadway debuts, for example, fo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:24AMSaturday, October 5, 2024
Election Day is in one month from today, November 5, 2024. Here’s what you need to know in order to vote in the General Election in New York City. Registration In order to vote in New York…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:03PMFriday, October 4, 2024
Just about a month before the election, one can hardly expect every theater blogger — or podcaster or substacker – to ignore politics: So this roundup begins with three examples, then go…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:26PMThursday, October 3, 2024
A look back at Black vaudeville, an anthology of dramatic criticism by women writers, and the 600-year history of Latinx performing arts in America have been named the best theater books of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:37PMWednesday, October 2, 2024
“What do the following have in common: Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, the list goes on and on…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:10PMTuesday, October 1, 2024
David Henry Hwang wrote “Yellow Face” almost two decades ago, comically rendering three deflating or enraging real-life events in which he was involved up to three decades ago. And yet a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30PM“Good Bones,” by James Ljames, the Pulitzer-winning author of “Fat Ham,” is essentially a debate about gentrification, with sharply different views expressed by the characters, and a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:10PMGavin Creel died yesterday at the age of 48, from a rare form of cancer, after an acclaimed career on Broadway of more than two decades, mostly in starring roles. Herewith some samples from …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:43AMMonday, September 30, 2024
“McNeal” is a great showcase for Robert Downey Jr., making his Broadway debut as the novelist Jacob McNeal, who is unraveling just at the moment of his greatest acclaim. But Downey a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:05PMThe latest new artistic director of many announced this year: Christopher Ashley has been named the new artistic director of Roundabout Theater Company. The Tony winning director of Come Fro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:01AMSunday, September 29, 2024
“The Hills of California,” about four sisters in their thirties called back to their childhood home, to attend to their dying mother, and relive their traumatic childhood brush with fame…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30PMSaturday, September 28, 2024
Below is a selection of theater opening* in New York in October, including five shows on Broadway, four of them revivals (or classics), with starry casts, many of whom are making their debu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54AMFriday, September 27, 2024
How well were you paying attention to the theater news and reviews this month? Answer these ten questions, plus a bonus question, to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:07PMThursday, September 26, 2024
“Fatherland” is an unsettling title, a word that movie-goers associate with Germany under the Nazis, but there are several reasons why it fits this true story of the first man to be put …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:16PMWhen I reviewed Eric Adams’ book “Healthy At Last,” I suggested it might be useful beyond its practical advice for adopting a vegan diet, as a glimpse of the man who was about to becom…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:09PMWednesday, September 25, 2024
Below is the annual list of the most produced plays and musicals this season, from American Theater Magazine, with links to those shows whose NYC productions I reviewed. This list was culled…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:21PMTuesday, September 24, 2024
Her life story might have made an engaging show no matter which theater company had staged it: A globe-trotting professional basketball player and Olympian, Katsiaryna Snytsina awoke to t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00PMMonday, September 23, 2024
As the season has revved up, and a new show is opening nearly every day, they tend to run together, in more ways than one. This is obvious of course in “Forbidden Broadway,” which depend…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:28AMSunday, September 22, 2024
The confrontation in “The Ask” involves no guns, nor even any shouting. It’s not a confrontation at all, by any typical definition these days in either theater or politics. Greta, a lo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:45PMSaturday, September 21, 2024
Pedro Antonio Garcia, who is a criminal defense attorney as well as a playwright, explains in a program note that he wrote “The Witness Room” in “an attempt to explore moral issues wit…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:16PMFriday, September 20, 2024
Alvin Ailey was a New York actor – performing, yes, in Broadway musicals with Lena Horne and Pearl Bailey starting in 1954, the very year he arrived in New York at the age of 23. But he wa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:56PMThursday, September 19, 2024
The parodies in this latest edition of Forbidden Broadway range from hilarious (Cabaret) to clever but not especially funny (Back to the Future) to lame (Wicked.) In other words, it’s hit …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:20PMWednesday, September 18, 2024
It’s been compared to a psychedelic trip, and the latest video game, but Basil Twist’s dazzling hour-long abstract journey through mind-bending optical illusions and mythical beasts �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:15PMTuesday, September 17, 2024
In “Our Class,” the classmates whom we have watched grow up together in their small village in Poland – five Jews and five Catholics – attend a wedding together right before intermis…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:27PMMonday, September 16, 2024
Alex Edelman was a winner at the 76th annual Emmys for “Just for Us,” in Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special, which this year could be considered the 2024 Emmy Awards theater cat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15AMSunday, September 15, 2024
Among the dozens of categories at the 76th Emmy Awards, which will be broadcast tonight live on ABC, one is virtually a theater award. True, it’s virtually, not officially. Three of the n…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:30PMSaturday, September 14, 2024
Counting and Cracking” tells the story of four generations of one family from Sri Lanka – once called Ceylon, an island nation off the coast of India – whose later generations were …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:35PMThursday, September 12, 2024
“The Roommate” is like a female “The Odd Couple” that’s more odd and less funny, and worth a Broadway production for two reasons: Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone. The show tacitly ackn…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:11PMWednesday, September 11, 2024
The opening of the new performing arts center at the World Trade Center site a year ago has done what the rebuilders had hoped it would, at least for me. On the twenty-third anniversary of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:13AMTuesday, September 10, 2024
A dozen cartoonists offer their take on the Presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, which is happening tonight for 90 minutes starting at …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:59AMMonday, September 9, 2024
James Earl Jones, the shy kid from Arkabutla, Mississippi who grew up to be an commanding actor of the stage and screen for some seven decades — so admired as a stage actor that he had a B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:56PM 
