Thursday, February 3, 2022
In “The Tap Dance Kid,” a young Black girl named Emma wants to be a lawyer – prescient for a Broadway musical that debuted in 1983; that would make the character just about the righ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:59PM“The Hang” is terrific entertainment. It is a jazz opera, performed by a wondrous nine-member ensemble and versatile eight-piece band, with an intensely sensual score by Matt Ray t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:13PMTuesday, February 1, 2022
“With respect, I wanna keep this about my music,” Michael Jackson (Myles Frost) says near the start of “MJ The Musical.” And that’s what this show, opening tonight on Broadway, ce…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:20PMThe best thing to be said about these two new theatrical works is also the worst thing – that their exploration of antisemitism is well-timed and necessary. If they have little else in com…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:26PMMonday, January 31, 2022
Only once does anyone call anything “disgusting” in “Shhhh,” a play written, directed and starring Clare Barron that seems designed to make theatergoers uncomfortable*. Kyle (Greg…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:01PM“The Gilded Age,” the HBO series that began last week, employs an army of Broadway veterans to make a 19th century New York City version of “Downton Abbey” (both series were created …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:49AMSunday, January 30, 2022
Below is a day-by-day selection of theater openings scheduled for February organized by opening date*, featuring two big Broadway musicals – MJ the Musical and The Music Man – and a bu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:27PMSaturday, January 29, 2022
Answer the ten questions to find out how well you paid attention to the goings-on in New York theater in the month of January, some of it unprecedented. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:10PMWednesday, January 26, 2022
As Faye, Phylicia Rashad has lost her health, her house, her family, and is in danger of losing the job she’s held for 29 years. “I’m runnin’ on soul now Reggie,” she tells her fo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:40PMTuesday, January 25, 2022
Below are the videos of five entries in the sixth annual Exponential festival, which has gone completely digital this year and largely loopy. I’ve written brief reviews, but I try to be…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:55PMMonday, January 24, 2022
The current rise of antisemitism is suddenly getting stage time. Last week: “Witness,” which explored the doomed 1939 voyage of the German Jewish refugees aboard the St. Louis and exp…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:58PMThursday, January 20, 2022
In “Addressless,” the audience helps three characters navigate the tricky path to getting an affordable apartment in New York City. This is a daunting challenge for anyone. But it’s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:48PMWednesday, January 19, 2022
In “Reopening: The Broadway Revival,” an hour-long documentary on PBS that’s a bit painful and embarrassing to watch, actor Andrew Rannells compares the start of the shutdown of Broa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:52AMTuesday, January 18, 2022
Broadway Week launches today, but this has not been Broadway’s week. Two more Broadway shows joined “Mrs. Doubtfire” in announcing a hiatus. “To Kill A Mockingbird” ended its r…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:15PMMonday, January 17, 2022
Below is a recording and the text of a sermon that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered on February 4 1968 at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia exactly two months before h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:22AMSunday, January 16, 2022
The night I saw “Witness,” a rabbi and several members of his congregation were being held hostage in a synagogue near Fort Worth, Texas. The live scene of the police gathered on the str…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:43PMFriday, January 14, 2022
Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand do Shakespeare….online. Uzo Aduba is villainous simultaneously on Broadway…and online. A celebration of Sondheim; horrid, strange and theatrical m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:17PMWednesday, January 12, 2022
Kevin R. Free, who is one of the busiest theater artists I know– actor, playwright, director, producer, mentor, teacher, audiobook narrator – has taken on two new jobs…. both of them a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03PMTuesday, January 11, 2022
Trudy, a crazy bag lady who is one of the 11 characters that Cecily Strong portrays in this one-woman play originally performed by Lily Tomlin, tells us she brought her “space chums” —…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:55PMMonday, January 10, 2022
Given all the cancellations and delays caused by the Omicron variant surge (see news below), digital theater is suddenly looking good again (see reviews below.) If the theater news this w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:12PMSunday, January 9, 2022
Sidney Poitier wasn’t expected to live long; he was born prematurely in Miami, where his parents, who were tomato farmers from the Bahamas, happened to be visiting in order to sell their p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:18PMSaturday, January 8, 2022
“I haven’t done anything wrong,” Chris Quinn says again and again in Caitriona Daly’s play, which focuses on an accusation of rape. Chris is not the one accused. His friend Davey is,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:02AMThursday, January 6, 2022
“Sweetheart, I’m fine, and I’m running for my life, I cannot talk to you right now,” Rep. Norma Torres (D-Calif) recalls telling her son, when he telephoned her while she was scrambl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:02AMWednesday, January 5, 2022
Immediately after I watched the first-ever “simulcast” of a Broadway play — the exact same live performance of Lynn Nottage’s “Clyde’s” on my computer screen that the audi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:14PMTuesday, January 4, 2022
Was 2021 a cause for celebration or for sorrow? Was it a time for gratitude, grief or gall? Yes, say the theater bloggers in the roundup below. The strange mix of emotions might be summed u…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:42PMMonday, January 3, 2022
The Omicron variant of COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc on Broadway, with “Ain’t Too Proud” becoming the fourth Broadway show in little more than a week to announce it was shutting do…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:37AMSunday, January 2, 2022
Below is a day-by-day selection of theater openings scheduled for January organized by opening date*, featuring a Broadway play, “Skeleton Crew,” and several intriguing shows Off and Off…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:20PMSaturday, January 1, 2022
Reynaldo Piniella made an abrupt Broadway debut portraying a go-getting actor in 2021 under strange and trying circumstances; “It’s been such a crazy time,” he says. “Within like a 2…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:13PMFriday, December 31, 2021
Let us celebrate surviving to a new and surely better year, by honoring these dozen Broadway veterans aged 90 to 104. Click on any photograph to see it enlarged and read the caption.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:09PMThursday, December 30, 2021
How much do you remember of this unusual year in theater? Answer these 20 questions to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:17PMWednesday, December 29, 2021
Below is a list of theater books to read in 2022, most of which were published in 2021.‡ Click on the titles to find more information and to purchase these books, grouped under four categ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:01PM 
