Four years ago today – the ides of March, 2020 – the COVID-19 pandemic forced the then-mayor of New York City to shut down the smaller In-person theaters that had remained open after t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:04AMThey’re selling a little box of tissues branded with the logo of “The Notebook: The Musical” at Broadway’sGerald Schoenfeld Theater, where it’s opening tonight – perhaps the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:33PMIn “The Effect,” two researchers are conducting clinical trials of a new antidepressant, but their experiment stumbles and crashes after two volunteers undergoing the drug tests fall for…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:50PMDuring the Golden Age of Broadway, theater photographer Leo Friedman used his specialized still camera to capture image after image of show after show. The action on stage was rarely still, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:31PMAs he did more successfully with “Oslo” and “Blood and Gifts,” playwright J. T. Rogers dramatizes a complicated moment in history with sophistication, humor, some clarity, even some …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12PMBroadway at the Oscars 2024, clockwise from top left: New Academy Award winners and Broadway veterans Da’Vine Joy Randolph (who was nominated for a Tony in 2012 for Ghost the Musical…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:26AMBest Picture Oppenheimer Best Director Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer Best Actor Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer Best Actress Emma Stone, Poor Things Best Supporting Actor Robert Downey Jr., Opp…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:21PM“I”m worried about the future of our children, and this is why I invite you into this strange, empty kitchen, because Republicans want me to appeal to women voters. And women love kitche…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:13AM“No carnival without cruelty,” a man dressed much like the horror movie character Freddy Krueger screams desperately in Spanish, trapped in a glass cube crowded with others who are grote…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:36PMIn honor of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, here are the women playwrights who have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an annual award given for “a distinguished pl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:26PMThe nun is certain, or says she is, that the priest is molesting one of the students in her school, but we never are so sure, thanks to John Patrick Shanley’s exquisitely well-crafted pla…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:54PMFor all the high-powered theatrical talent involved, this stage interpretation of Sufjan Stevens’ acclaimed 2005 album “Illinois” could probably use a warning label. It’s extraordina…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:11PMChoose the shows that you are most looking forward to, in the four categories into which I’ve divided the 18 play and musicals that are opening on Broadway in March and April, 2024. These …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59AMWhether offering a Spring Review, or praising a Broadway run, or welcoming the news that the Washington Post will indeed be hiring a new theater critic after all, the theater bloggers below …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:12PM“With all the activity on Broadway, there will be plenty of good targets,” says Gerard Alessandrini, the wit behind the satirical revue “Forbidden Broadway,” which after more than …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:59AMEighteen shows are opening in the final eight weeks of the 2023-2024 Broadway season, each of which offers discounts of one kind or another — rush, lottery, digital rush, digital lottery. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:23AMHow well were you paying attention to New York theater in the month of February? Answer these ten questions to find out, plus an extra question to match the extra day because it’s a Leap Y…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:11PMBelow is a calendar of theater opening* in March, including five shows opening on Broadway, two of them new musical adaptations of popular novels. Jeremy Strong returns to Broadway after 16…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:31AMThe Adventures of Curious Ganz I could tell you about the fascinating life of Joachim Ganz, who was the first Jew to settle in the first English colony in America in the late 1500s. He was a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:49PM“You might have seen me in the official revival of “1776” playing Edward Rutledge, aka the villain,” Sara Porkalob begins. And indeed we did – although many New York theatergoers m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:40PMWith “The Ally,” playwright Itamar Moses clarifies with laser precision the dilemma facing liberal American Jews largely because of Israel. But the play takes wider aim as well, explorin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:53PMIt’s been seven years since Cynthia Nixon has appeared on a New York stage (when she won a Tony for “The Little Foxes”), but that’s not what Jordan Seavey’s new play is about, desp…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:48PMThere will be 18 shows opening on Broadway in March and April, starting next week! Sure, that might feel overwhelming. But in his article on the “Crazily Crowded Broadway Spring Season”…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:01AMIn “The Hunt,” Tobias Menzies portrays a preschool teacher whose community turns against him after a false accusation by one of his five-year-old students. The play is an English-lan…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:55PMI didn’t know what a bunny hug is, nor its place in musical theater history, and I couldn’t precisely describe a surrey, before I browsed Thomas S. Hischak’s “Broadway Decoded: Music…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:24PMPuppets are in the spotlight this weekend and over the next couple of weeks, most prominently at the third annual Puppetopia Festival: Puppetopia 2024 HERE Arts Center, February 27 to March …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:10AM“Jelly’s Last Jam” offers a starry showcase of exquisite blues singing, lively jazz playing and energetic tap dancing to tell the fascinating story of an important figure in the histor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:00PMUnlike past years, none of the ten best picture Oscar nominees in 2024 were adapted from a play or musical. But could any of them be adapted into one? Answering this question, which I…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:03PMThe first meeting between Kenyatta and Nina is tense, as it surely would be for any father and daughter who have not seen each other for many years. But their encounter in this revival of Do…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PMFebruary is always a month for love, presidents, and Oscar anticipation: What Broadway says about love on Valentine’s Day 2024(See also a video below of Jordan Fisher and Lola Tung as the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:26AMIt did seem like a clever idea, for at least five seconds: Use the Broadway musical “Six” — the Broadway rock musical in which the six wives of Henry VIII compete to determine whom …
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