“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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:35AMGet free tickets to live theater, and other live events — dance, comedy, opera — through Goldstar’s three day Comptrain promotion — today through December 13. You pay just a small …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:23PMTheatergoers are a loyal lot even when they’re not at the theater: We listen to Broadway albums (vote for your favorite in 2019 below), we look for the theater content in movies (such as �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:37PMChoose your favorite 2019 Broadway cast recording from among the 11 in the poll below, ordered alphabetically. If I’ve somehow missed your favorite, fill in the “Other” slot. (If enoug…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:34PMIn “Marriage Story,” a movie on Netflix about a couple getting divorced, stars Adam Driver as a New York theater director named Charlie, and Scarlett Johansson as his wife Nicole, an act…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:44PMAs heartfelt a musical about a troubled family as “Next To Normal,” as full of jaunty and jumpy rock rebellion as “Rent,” it’s hard to dismiss “Jagged Little Pill” as just anot…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:17PMFrench is Myriam Phiro’s first language, and Edith Piaf her first love. But it wasn’t until she moved to New York from her hometown in a rural area of Quebec a decade ago that Phiro star…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:54PMIn its effort to sum up the decade culturally (33 Ways to Remember the 2010s), the New York Times gives a nod to the return of theater in the cultural conversation — not always directly. M…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:01PMOn this eighth annual #GivingTuesday (created in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y and the United Nations Foundation), consider donating to your favorite New York area theaters, theater companies…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:41AMCyber Monday deals in New York theater tickets and more. (Come back as more deals are announced during the day) Ticket Liquidator: HUGE CYBER MONDAY SALE! Get 10% Off All Orders With Code CY…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:12AMToday is World AIDS Day. AIDS has been around so long that there’s a new wave of plays about the epidemic. This is not nostalgia. There were 1.7 million people newly diagnosed with HIV in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:26PMBelow is a selection of New York theater opening in December, organized chronologically by opening date, including the one Broadway musical, “Jagged Little Pill,” with songs by Alanis Mo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:38PMHow well were you paying attention to New York theater news, views and reviews in November? Answer these ten questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:21PM“The Young Man from Atlanta,” about an aging couple whose only son has died young, is the wrong play by Horton Foote to revive –- it’s dated, and overrated — but one can guess …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:09PMClick on the link to get ten percent off on any available Broadway show, using the code provided, and then below that, find Black Friday discount deals through Amazon, as well as free trials…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:11AMAt 93rd annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, the casts of Hadestown, Ain’t Too Proud, Tina The Tina Turner Musical, Beetlejuice and the Radio City Rockettes performed live, as did L…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:55PMMy eighth annual Broadway (and small theater) gift guide below includes links and information on shopping for theater tickets, theater subscriptions, cast recordings, play scripts, librettos…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:09PMAs 2019 is coming to an end, leaving many of us worn down , it might be more rewarding to express gratitude for favorite New York shows that opened not just this year but for the decade as a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03AMTony Kushner has taken the first play he wrote, which traced the rise of Nazism in Germany as a cri de coeur and a call to arms against what was happening to America during the Reagan era, a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:43PM“Small theaters” play a large role in making New York City the world’s cultural capital, according to “All New York’s a Stage,” a report issued this week by the Mayor’s Offic…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:20AMFefu picks up a double-barrel shotgun and shoots at her husband near the beginning of “Fefu and Her Friends,” billed as a modern classic and written by the beloved avant-garde playwright…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:44PMBroadway is always big on Thanksgiving. If Olaf the snowman isn’t on stage in “Frozen” at the St. James on Thanksgiving Day, he IS in the air as a balloon in the Thanksgiving Day parad…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:14PMMarie Curie won the Nobel Prize twice, but she was also a woman; so the Nobel committee asked her not to show up at the ceremony. We learn the specific reason why early on in this well-inten…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:25PM“The Inheritance,” a long, ambitious play about three generations of gay men in New York, pays homage to two masterpieces, without being one itself. Yet the play by Matthew Lopez, making…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:37PMWho knew that “A Christmas Carol” could be so dangerous! The assaults begin even before the first line of dialogue in the new, charming if overlong, and extraordinarily well-designed Bro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:46PMIt’s surely pointless, four decades and two billion dollars after its debut, to rant about Evita, and silly to blame Andrew Lloyd Webber’s theatrical canonization of the amoral historica…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:48PMThe same gay character who is bullied in one play is nearly murdered in another play in a theater some two miles away. In an unusual collaboration, two Brooklyn theaters are simultaneously p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:39PMSo many people (and journalists!) complained that the public impeachment hearings made for dull theater that others angrily denounced the “theater critic school of journali…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:30AMElaine Stritch kicked Rick Borutta in the stomach every day. That, anyway, is how he says it felt at the beginning. “Other than that, she was rather likable,” says Borutta, who worked as…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:22AMIt would be hard to overstate the city-wide trauma that occurred in Crown Heights, Brooklyn in August, 1991, nor the power of “Fires in the Mirror,” the groundbreaking documentary play a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:27PMThe thrilling final minutes of “Tina” are all that a rock concert should be, and the main reason to see this jukebox biomusical about one of the world’s most electric performers, po…
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