In the summer of 1932, some 17,000 veterans and their families descended on Washington D.C. to demand the pay that Congress had promised them years earlier as a bonus for their service durin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:56PMMaría Irene Fornés was a thirty-year-old aspiring New York painter visiting relatives in her native Cuba with her then-lover Susan Sontag, when she stumbled upon a cache of old letters. Th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PMThe 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, as compiled by the New York Times, includes no plays, nor any non-fiction books about the theater. I might have featured at least two of the dozen gre…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:26PMBroadway shows have lower attendance than they did before the pandemic, and make less money, but “we are no longer in recovery,” Broadway producer Ken Davenport says. “This is the new …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:55PMSummer for theater folk is usually a time to savor the past season, as illustrator Ray Kampf did in his clever rendition of “Stereophonic” as an Archie comic book. (The play didn’t wi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:29PM“Oh, Mary,” which opened on Broadway this past week, is meant to be funny and deliberately tasteless; one scene in it, reimagining the first American presidential assassination, turns ou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:14AMIn “Ain’t Done Bad,” a gay boy who feels like a misfit in his hometown leaves to find love in the big city. Although there are 17 songs over the ninety minutes of the show, it could n…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:09PMBelow are video snippets of the performances by the casts of five Broadway shows — The Who’s Tommy, Water for Elephants, The Wiz, Back to the Future, and Hell’s Kitchen — in the firs…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:33PMThere was a thrilling dance number in last year’s Kander, Ebb and Miranda musical “New York, New York,” in which iron workers dance in mid-air on a beam of a skyscraper under constr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:47AMThe opening of “Oh, Mary!” tonight at the Lyceum marks the Broadway debut of Cole Escola as both playwright and performer, but the Off-Broadway run earlier this year of this campy comedy…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:27PMThe League of Independent Theater has announced the half dozen recipients of the 2024 New York independent Theater Awards, honoring “outstanding leadership, service, artistry and commitmen…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:05PMLet’s show our PresidentWe’re glad he’s the White House resident. Step on the gasAnd dance to a rhythm that’s class-A,Hey, hey,This is the wayWe’re keepin’ cool with Coolidge. Th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:29PMThese ten titles are newly available to watch for free at the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive (TOFT), in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, which since 1…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:29PMA friend writes about the final performance of Merrily We Roll Along on Sunday: “The Merrily performance was so moving. Worth every penny. The crowd was high energy Saw some people with…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:29AMLaura Benanti’s autobiographical show is far from the first live performance that Audible has produced at the Minetta Lane Theater in order to turn it into an audiobook; the company has be…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:21PMMy latest patriotic poll: Rank these ten Broadway musicals that take actual American history as their subject, from most to least favorite. Two are currently on Broadway; one is scheduled …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:02AM“Because our Constitution does not shield a former President from answering for criminal and treasonous acts, I dissent,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in her dissent of Trump v. United …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:38AMOnly “Merrily We Roll Along” is performing on the 4th of July itself; its acclaimed run ends on Sunday! But more than a dozen of the 27 currently running Broadway shows have added perfor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:23AMBelow is a calendar of New York theater opening* in July,, including two Broadway plays, “Oh,Mary” and “Job,” both of which are transferring from sold-out runs Off Broadway; t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:33AMThe patriotic fireworks arguably started early this year, with the fallout from the Presidential debate, which arguably was the very definition of “political theater” – something that …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:04AMHow well were you paying attention to theater news this past month? Answer these ten questions (plus a bonus question) to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:01PMFifty-five years to the day after the riot that launched the modern gay rights movement, a group called Pride Live celebrated the official opening of a visitor center in the room where it ha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:05PMOne debater vigorously delivered one lie after another, but the other spoke with a raspy voice and a tentative manner. (debate transcript.) So Republicans gloat and Democrats panic. It�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:54AMHolland Taylor and Ana Villafañe are perfectly cast in this intelligent and illuminating comedy about the relationship between the first woman Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, and the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:24PMWhen he first met Lucille Ball, his future mother-in-law, Laurence Luckinbill accidentally set his apartment on fire. He had been preparing a meal for her, and left the eggplant sizzli…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:42PMBroadway in Bryant Park has announced the lineup for this summer’s four free Thursday lunchtime concerts, performed by the casts from current Broadway shows, which will begin on July 11. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:39AMIn “Relics and Their Humans,” we learn that Josh Quillen’s father Jerry was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease: “…you will eventually lose all muscle control and then you will …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:38PMAmong the free cultural events happening across all five boroughs this summer, there are many over the next week celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride, leading to the NYC Pride March on June 30, marking…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:40AMAt the beginning of “The Survival,” as she’s about to go on her third date with a man she met in a bar, Achan (Janet Kilonzo) tells her best friend that she thinks she’s found the on…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:51PMTo say that I found this clever, fun-filled queering of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s idiosyncratic 1982 musical at times confusing and even annoying is only to say that it’s still “Cats” �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:32PM“Titanic” turns out to be the ideal musical for an Encores! concert, focused on the music. The original 1997 Broadway production about the most famous maritime disaster in history was an…
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