For all the Broadway lore and persistent hope that a show on the Great White Way will make new stars and break new ground, the appeal of Broadway increasingly has become its familiarity – …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:50PMBelow is a selection of New York theater openings in January, organized chronologically by opening date.* Three shows are opening on Broadway this month — Laura Linney in “My Name Is…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:13PMWatch the entire 90-minute concert “Celebrating Sondheim,” performed by the New York Philharmonic live on New Year’s Eve 2020, with host Bernadette Peters and guest vocalist Katrina Le…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:11AMIn the decade just ended, there were unmistakable trends specific to the theater – teen musicals, for example, and celebrity bio jukebox musicals. Which of these trends will continue in 20…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:40PMWe celebrate the new decade by saluting Broadway veterans who are aged 88 to 105, many of them still working. Click on any photograph to see it enlarged and read the caption.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:07PMIt would be hard to have put together these weekly summaries of New York theater news for the entire decade, as I have, without noticing: This has been a weird decade. Even the name of the d…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:21PMBelow are the ten most popular videos posted in 2019 on my New York Theater Youtube channel, in order of popularity. Below that are the top five New York theater videos of the decade Beet…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:13AMRecall what happened in theater in 2019 by answering these 16 questions, many adapted from my monthly quizzes throughout the year.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:09PMHere are the 10 most popular posts of NewYorkTheater.me from 2019, and below that some good reads from the year. Then: the top five posts of the decade! 10 Most Popular Posts From 2019 Poll:…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:43AMBroadway lights will dim on January 7 at 6:45 p.m. for Jerry Herman, who died on Thursday at the age of 88, at the end of a year that saw the death of Carol Channing at its beginning, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:45PMBelow is a list of theater books to read in 2020, most of which were published in 2019*. Click on the titles to find more information and to purchase these books, grouped under four cate…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:28AMMy annual New Year’s Eve last-minute guide to events that are still available to do on New Year’s Eve 2020 (when 2019 turns into 2020) in New York City Below: Times Square. Broadway sho…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:13PMBelow are some of the people from the theater community who died in 2019. Click on any photograph to read the caption.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:37PMCheck out: Favorite stage performances in 2019. Top 10 Lists of Top 10 Theater in 2019. Best Broadway Cast Recording of 2019. Top 10 Theater of the Decade. Worst Theater of the Decade. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:06AMBelow is the Broadway schedule between Monday December 23, 2019 and Sunday, December 29, 2019, with links to my reviews of the shows. Eight shows will be performing on Christmas Eve (Tuesday…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:59AMWelcome to my annual Worst Broadway Show Poll. Pick the show you thought was the worst to open on Broadway between 2010 and 2019. Most of the 20 nominees were the two highest scorers in each…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:16PMIn a year that has ended so dramatically off-stage, and during which so many people talked dismissively about “political theater” — but they didn’t mean anything actually happening i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:48PM“Sing Street” is a stage musical based on the sweet, funny “happy-sad” 2016 Irish movie by writer/director John Carney about a teenager named Conor growing up in Dublin during the ec…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:31PM“Cats” isn’t for everyone – much of it is a cheesy, B-grade affair seemingly crafted solely to take over midnight-movie slots from “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,’ Those with an …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:49AMLuke Kirby, who portrayed a movie star hired to play “Hamlet” in the cult TV comedy “Slings & Arrows” 16 years ago, is now on stage for real, as Thomas Hudetz, a murderer in Ö…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:20PM“WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives on Wednesday impeached President Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, making him the third president in history to be charged …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:08AMThe Sorceress (Di Kishefmakherin), the first work of Yiddish theatre ever presented in America, is back on stage in New York 136 years after its U.S. premiere. In my article for TDF Stages, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:04PMThe NYC premiere of CATS the movie caps a week in which Broadway, with no more openings this year, seems to have migrated to the screen. The first trailer for the “In the Heights” movie …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:46PMMy ten favorite individual performances in New York stage shows that opened in 2019 are listed alphabetically, with explanations for my choices largely excerpted from my reviews. Ian Barford…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:57PMWanda Wheels bristles when Mateo calls her “kind” in this sprawling, funny, foul-mouthed, messy, moving ensemble piece, Stephen Adly Guirgis’s first new play in New York since his Puli…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:51PM“Hadestown” and “Slave Play” were the most popular musicals or plays among critics whose top 10 lists of New York theater for 2019 are featured* below. Following in popularity we…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:48AMThere’s a joke Maggie and her son Joe like to tell on their tours of the local mine in Samuel D. Hunter’s latest play: “Guy falls down into the mine. His boss yells at him, ‘did you …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:29PMThere are several subplots involving Broadway in the third season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the TV series on Amazon Prime. Little of it rings true. Now, much of this is exaggeration fo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:57PM“The Thin Place” is a thin play by Lucas Hnath about a woman named Hilda whose grandmother had believed in being able to communicate with the dead, which sets Hilda on her own psychic jo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:16PMThis holiday season in New York means at least ten A Christmas Carols, including one this year on Broadway, and 15 Nutcracker Suites. Holiday shows in the city range from family fare to offb…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03AM“In The Heights,” Lin-Manuel Miranda’s first breakthrough Broadway musical, has been made into a movie that will be released in June, 2020, 12 years after its debut at the Richar…
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