Wednesday, 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 01:01PMTuesday, December 28, 2021
Below are some of the year’s best reads and the most popular posts of 2021, which, not surprisingly, were largely about the reopening of Broadway, although the number 1 post was about the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:53PMMonday, December 27, 2021
There were good things that happened in 2021 – in general (vaccines became widely available, Britney was freed, the coup failed, Derek Chauvin was convicted, Juneteenth was made a nati…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:28PMSunday, December 26, 2021
A positive test in the company canceled what was supposed to be opening night. A torrential thunderstorm had canceled the first preview. “It’s been harrowing, harrowing, harrowing, the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:53PMSaturday, December 25, 2021
Below are some of the people from the theater community who died in 2021, listed alphabetically. Click on any photograph to read the caption, most of which link to an obituary.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:26PMFriday, December 24, 2021
Three of the most memorable moments on a New York stage in 2021 were of characters getting high; can you blame them, given the year we’ve had? Among the moments represented in the photo ga…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:19PMThursday, December 23, 2021
In “Theater of Lockdown: Digital and Distanced Performance in a Time of Pandemic” (Methuen Drama, 247 pages), Barbara Fuchs attempts to chronicle what she calls “the fundamental tran…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:27PMTuesday, December 21, 2021
The Broadway debut of “Trouble in Mind” some three decades after playwright Alice Childress’ death is the most popular choice among critics whose lists of top 10 New York theater for …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:34AMMonday, December 20, 2021
A third of all Broadway shows were canceled on Sunday because members of the company or crew tested positive for Covid, the latest in “a raft of cancellations unlike any in history,” evi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:21AMSunday, December 19, 2021
While others were busy assessing the trends in New York theater of the decade that had just ended, on January 1, 2020, I asked: What will be the trends of the future? I had a list of seven q…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:01PMSaturday, December 18, 2021
It shouldn’t surprise anybody who followed the race for New York City mayor that Eric Adams, who won and will take office on January 1, 2022, has a book out called Healthy at Last: A Plant…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:45PMFriday, December 17, 2021
This year’s holiday season in New York is meant as a return to the annual tradition of live in-person Christmas Carols and Nutcracker Suites, as well as the usual mix of family fare, offb…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:40PMThursday, December 16, 2021
It’s been 40 years since sex therapist Ruth Westheimer became a celebrity. The 4’7” “Grandma Freud,” aka Dr. Ruth, who gave advice on her radio and TV shows in a sing-song European…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:44PMWednesday, December 15, 2021
Deirdre O’Connell gave one of my favorite performances on a New York stage in 2016, and she returns in this latest of my annual lists of favorite theatrical performances (not all of th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:56AMTuesday, December 14, 2021
This past week, the last Broadway shows of 2021 opened (Flying Over Sunset) and reopened (Dear Evan Hansen, the last of the reopening shows that were shut down by the pandemic.) For all the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:01PMMonday, December 13, 2021
When he takes LSD, the movie star Cary Grant turns into a spectacular tap-dancer, in a duet with a boy in a dress – who turns out to be his younger self, Archie Leach. The novelist and fut…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:01PMSunday, December 12, 2021
Kimberly Levaco is a 16-year-old girl with a rare, terminal disease that accelerates the aging process, and makes her look as if she’s in her 70s. Seth Weetis is her nerdy, smiling classma…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:28AMFriday, December 10, 2021
The remake of “West Side Story,” the tragic story of lovers from rival New York street gangs, which opens in movie theaters today, is director Steven Spielberg’s first movie musical. S…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:38PMThursday, December 9, 2021
“Company” is perfectly timed, sadly. Opening less than two weeks after the death of Stephen Sondheim at the age of 91, in a season delayed by more than a year and a half by the worldwi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:03PMWednesday, December 8, 2021
Alex Edelman read a Tweet from somebody he knew to be antisemitic – the man had previously attacked him online for being Jewish — inviting people to go to an address in Astoria, Queen…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:41PMMonday, December 6, 2021
“Selling Kabul,” a play by Sylvia Khoury at Playwrights Horizons through December 23, tells a small, claustrophobic story about Taroon, an Afghani man who is holed up in his sister Afiya…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:50PMThe President of the United States attended the 44th Kennedy Center Honors, in a return to tradition, and paid tribute not just to the honorees — opera singer Justino Díaz, Motown founde…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:01AMFriday, October 22, 2021
The Vineyard Theater has launched its Fall Forward Festival with the first two of the five planned “new works of alternative theater,” according to its website, works that promise to …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:21PMThursday, October 21, 2021
After my tickets to “Lackawanna Blues” were canceled twice because Ruben Santiago-Hudson, the author, director and star of this autobiographical solo show, had injured his back, I search…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:02PMWednesday, October 20, 2021
Do chimpanzees fall in love? Can human couples really stay madly in love after many years, and can a brain scan prove it? Will theatergoers still love digital theater now that in-person t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:45PMTuesday, October 19, 2021
“”You’re a singular talent, Billy. Nobody knows what to do with you.’“And there it is again—the smoke up my ass…Singular talent without a gig don’t pay the rent, and a bitch …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:40PMMonday, October 18, 2021
There were five Broadway openings (and reopenings) this week, in what promises to be the oddest and busiest Broadway season in memory. There are now 51 shows on the Broadway 2021-2022 season…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:36AMSunday, October 17, 2021
“Dana H.” is unlike any play you’ve ever seen on Broadway. It’s 75 minutes of an actress sitting on a chair, lip-syncing to a tape of a woman recounting the horrific story of a deran…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:48PMThursday, October 14, 2021
The country has changed in the two and a half years since The Lehman Trilogy came to America, wowing audiences at the Park Avenue Armory with a theatrical epic, inventively staged and extra…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:24PMWednesday, October 13, 2021
“Thoughts of a Colored Man,” Keenan Scott II’s often powerful, often entertaining debut Broadway play about a day in the life of seven Black men in Brooklyn, is performed by a te…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:52PMTuesday, October 12, 2021
Rajiv Joseph’s epistolary play begins with some meager clues to the mysteries at its heart – a stack of letters from a man named Suresh, and an origami sculpture of a bird – before it …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:02PM 
