Tuesday, 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“Booster” has taken on a new meaning in the age of COVID, which Broadway has embraced in its own way. Some 250 people have been hired (so far) to serve as safety team members in Broadway…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:59AMMonday, October 11, 2021
Much is improbable about “Is This A Room,” starting with the name of the real-life whistleblower who’s the subject of the play (Reality Winner), and the fact that she received a stupef…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:47PMSunday, October 10, 2021
Beverly Jenkins doesn’t wear black to her father’s funeral. “We already Black! We should be honoring my Daddy in style, COLOR! Hell, canary yellow was his favorite, and he wore it l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:04PMSaturday, October 9, 2021
“Hit Your Mark, Die Beautiful” lured me in because it was being promoted as a “Waiting for Guffman” for Off Off Broadway, which I took to mean a comic but affectionate look at how …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:26AMThursday, October 7, 2021
“Divorced. Beheaded. Died. Divorced. Beheaded. Survived.” The first six words of “Six” sum up the fate of each of King Henry VIII’s six wives. The first six minutes of “Six” (t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:40AMTuesday, October 5, 2021
If you think that reopening has solved the problems of New York’s theaters and theater artists, listen up: “We’re talking about life and death: The life and death of our neighborhoods;…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:23PMMonday, October 4, 2021
In what may be the busiest October for theater in generations, there are fifteen shows scheduled to open on Broadway, more than half of which are new, as well as much Off and Off Off Broadwa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:56AMSunday, October 3, 2021
In “Chasing Jack,” nothing is as it seems. That’s true of Dr. Jack Chase, the heart surgeon who is being sued for malpractice after his patient died on the operating table. And it’s …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:38PMSaturday, October 2, 2021
“The Nosebleed,” Aya Ogawa’s sly, strange and ultimately rewarding autobiographical play that’s at the Japan Society through October 10, focuses on Ogawa’s long-dead father and the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:01PMFriday, October 1, 2021
Below is a day-by-day selection of the theater that is scheduled to open in October, organized by opening date*, including fifteen shows on Broadway, more than half of which are new, as wel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:24PMThursday, September 30, 2021
How well were you paying attention to a very busy theater month? Answer these ten question to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:42PMWednesday, September 29, 2021
Aunt Sonia, who is gathering the whole clan for one last meal before she ends her life, looks different from when I last saw her. She once was just a huge head, with a mouth that seemed per…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:08PMTuesday, September 28, 2021
Bedlam’s return to live in-person theater with its new adaptation of Jane Austen’s romantic final novel — about a woman who meets once again the man whose proposal of marriage she reje…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:19PMMonday, September 27, 2021
In this slight musical comedy with an on-the-nose title, Broadway veteran Bryonha Marie Parham portrays a fading diva named Regina Comet who hires two aspiring jingle writers (Alex Wyse and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PMFour hours full of spectacular musical numbers, ending with three famous musical duets from the past — Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel performing “For Good” from Wicked, Anthony…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:07AMSunday, September 26, 2021
Below are the winners of the much-delayed 74th annual Tony Awards, honoring the much-truncated 2019-2020 Broadway season, selected from 18 eligible shows, which opened between April of 2019…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:10PMThe day of the Tony Awards might seem a strange time to write about an Off-Off Broadway solo play, playing in a theater off Avenue B, with the downbeat title “I Squeezed Really Hard” (a …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:48PMSaturday, September 25, 2021
Watch musical numbers performed by cast members from the new Broadway musicals “Six,” “Diana,” and “Mrs. Doubtfire,” as well as the new revivals of “Company” and “Caroline …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:22PMFriday, September 24, 2021
“Sanctuary City” is full of surprises, rarely happy ones for the boy and girl who have grown up together — or for the audience. Martyna Majok’s challenging, intelligent play focuses …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:34PMWednesday, September 22, 2021
Why are these five women in the same play? A prostitute in Amsterdam; a mother from Guatemala; a sister from the Midwest; a food vendor in the Central African Republic; an international c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:38PMTuesday, September 21, 2021
“I loathe that word ‘nice,’” Hallie says, and so apparently do both her parents; all three could not be more unlikeable in the first 100 minutes of the 110-minute play “The Medieva…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:29PMMonday, September 20, 2021
Over the past week, there has been so much hoopla bout Broadway — reopening nights, festival concerts, TV spots, heartfelt speeches about Broadway being back (Kristin Chenoweth: “There�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:19AMSaturday, September 18, 2021
“Repulsing the Monkey,” which is set in an old bar in Pittsburgh about to be sold to (and destroyed by) gentrifiers, takes place in an old bar in New York, the White Horse Tavern. This i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:31PMFriday, September 17, 2021
“There’s no place like home,” Kristin Chenoweth said on the reopening night of “Wicked,” on September 14, 2021, eighteen years after it opened on Broadway (on October 30, 2003) a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:40PMThursday, September 16, 2021
Alan Cumming and Billy Porter have written memoirs that are being published this fall, which will also see biographies of Oscar Wilde and Emily Mann, plus a book “by” Noel Coward. Click …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:51PMWednesday, September 15, 2021
Thicket & Thistle is the kind of company that anybody serious about theater in America would want to encourage. This is what drew me to “Waterman,” which turns out to be a Fringe-…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:52PMTuesday, September 14, 2021
Below are new production photographs of the 2021 cast of “Hamilton,” which is reopening on Broadway tonight, along with “Chicago,” “The Lion King” and “Wicked,” after eightee…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:53PMMonday, September 13, 2021
This week could not be busier. Today, 300,000 employees go back to work for New York City’s government, and a million students go back to the city’s public schools. Tomorrow, “Chica…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:48PMSunday, September 12, 2021
“It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while,” Frankie the narrator says at the beginning of “Angela’s Ashes the Musical,” just as h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:44PMSaturday, September 11, 2021
By the time that Bill Rauch became the artistic director of the performing arts center on the site of the World Trade Center, it had been nearly two decades in the making. On this, the twent…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:14AM 
