Sunday, July 4, 2021
Some of the best-known plays or musicals about American history actually depict the Fourth of July; one of them, “1776,” is entirely about the events leading up to it. But most of the th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:50AMSaturday, July 3, 2021
“Enemy of the People” at the Park Avenue Armory remakes Ibsen’s drama into a striking one-woman show starring Ann Dowd that forces us to realize our complicity in the lead poisoning of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:06PMFriday, July 2, 2021
Below is an alphabetical list of ten shows you can catch up on over the July 4th weekend, about half of them live in person.* I’ve put a √ next to those I’ve seen and especially recom…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:45PMThursday, July 1, 2021
“The Watering Hole,” an art installation that takes over nearly every nook and cranny of The Pershing Square Signature Center, is meant to be healing and calming…like water. That’s t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:28PMWednesday, June 30, 2021
How well were you paying attention to the theatrical doings in June? Answer the dozen quiz questions below to find out. (Clockwise from top left: Scenes from “In The Heights,” “Hot Win…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:26PMTuesday, June 29, 2021
Lust was the best. Everybody seemed to agree, and it wasn’t just because Cynthia Nixon was in the cast. But, in truth, none of the eight short plays by some of America’s most original p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:09PMMonday, June 28, 2021
“It’s great to see everybody unmasked sitting next to each other in one room,” Bruce Springsteen said on opening night Saturday of the first Broadway show in 15 months … speaking on…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:34PM“Four Chords and a Gun” is John Ross Bowie’s version of a legendary (or at least deeply weird) moment in rock n roll history – the making of “End of the Century,” the 1980 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:32AMSunday, June 27, 2021
“Happy Pride!” shouted the stage full of Tina Landau’s friends, capping the free two-hour concert that featured Bill Irwin rapping and Tony Yazbeck tapping with Jared Grimes, to lot…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:15PMSaturday, June 26, 2021
Below is an attempt to answer the question: What’s coming up Off-Broadway? Long-running favorites are reopening, there is exciting new work by a slew of much-heralded American playwrights …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:37PMFriday, June 25, 2021
As Off Broadway reopens, “Off Broadway,” a play by Torrey Townsend, is streaming free online through Sunday to warn people away from Off Broadway. It’s hard to conclude otherwise,�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:29PMThursday, June 24, 2021
In “Ghosting,” Síle is a young woman from Waterford, Ireland who has exiled herself to the anonymity of London after her boyfriend Mark — “first person I kissed, I slept with, I nee…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:29AMWednesday, June 23, 2021
Special Tony Awards will be given to the Broadway Advocacy Organization, and the Broadway shows “David Byrne’s American Utopia” and “Freestyle Love Supreme,” as part of the 74th an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:54AMTuesday, June 22, 2021
See a one-minute video of “June Rites!!” below.It sounded enticing, a great way to celebrate the beginning of summer, the lifting of pandemic-era restrictions and the start of a new e…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:59PMMonday, June 21, 2021
I went island hopping this past week, without ever leaving New York City, all to see theatrical productions – Roosevelt Island, Governors Island, Little Island. These outdoor shows, along …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:36PMSunday, June 20, 2021
The Magis Theater Company’s staging of “The Alcestiad” beneath the dramatic sky on Roosevelt Island is a spectacular resurrection in several ways. The play by Thornton Wilder features …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:44PMSaturday, June 19, 2021
“This hood isn’t anything like how it used to be,” Officer Garcia is telling me and a teenage girl named Sam, as I watch the two of them play basketball in the gym of the Police Athlet…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:25PMFriday, June 18, 2021
President Joe Biden signed into a law yesterday a bill establishing Juneteenth as a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, and the online celebrations dur…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15AMThursday, June 17, 2021
Outdoor theater is exploding this summer, with the continuation of New York State’s NYPopsUp and New York City’s Open Culture street performances, with the opening of Little Island park …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:46PMWednesday, June 16, 2021
This George Street Playhouse production of Terrence McNally’s 35-year-old bitchy, witty backstage comedy about the opening night party of a Broadway flop comes almost seven years after its…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:20AMTuesday, June 15, 2021
After working for some 16 hours on the hottest day of the year singing and dancing in take after take on the uneven concrete floor of a courtyard between two old brick apartment buildings…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:36AMMonday, June 14, 2021
It’s been three whole years since Lin-Manuel Miranda completely dominated the week’s news – and now he’s back doing it again (almost) with the opening simultaneously of the “In The…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:57AMSunday, June 13, 2021
I had one question above all others when I visited the reopened Drama Book Shop over the weekend in its new location at 266 West 39th Street, a very long 28 months after a rent hike chased …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:30PMSaturday, June 12, 2021
Thirteen years after Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical about the Latino community of Washington Heights opened on Broadway, “In The Heights” is now an exuberant, sentimental movie musical d…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49PMFriday, June 11, 2021
The Hot Wing King by Katori Hall wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Finalists: “Circle Jerk” by Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley — exclusively digital theater! — and “Stew” by Z…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:20PMThursday, June 10, 2021
Theater bloggers have “reasons to celebrate,” as Jan Simpson put it in her most recent post in Broadway & Me, which she wrote before the dozens of announcements over the past month s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:05AMWednesday, June 9, 2021
Watch the six minute video below of Lin-Manuel Miranda celebrating the return of Broadway in September, managing quick-hit homages to some dozen Broadway musicals, from “Six” to “Hamil…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:54AMTuesday, June 8, 2021
What I can say about “What If If Only?” In short: It’s a new play by Caryl Churchill, 82, who some consider the world’s greatest living playwright, and among the most elusive, whose …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:44PMMonday, June 7, 2021
The opening date of four new Broadway productions were announced this week, bringing the number to 32. See details in my Broadway 2021-2021 Season Preview Guide, organized chronologically by…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:26AMThe day before I was scheduled to view “chekhovOS” (OS as in operating system) — featuring a literally game cast including Mikhail Baryshnikov as Anton Chekhov, as well as his da…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:55AMSunday, June 6, 2021
Performers from India and Iran, Colombia and Cuba, Beirut and Johannesburg told tales, played music and danced on Saturday afternoon in Prospect Park, in a grassy sun-baked field called t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:48PM 
