Tuesday, October 22, 2024
“Smash,” a backstage musical about the making of a Marilyn Monroe musical called “Bombshell,” will open at Broadway’s Imperial Theater on April 10, its producers announced today, a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:18AMMonday, October 21, 2024
Arthur Miller was in the spotlight this week, because of the announcement of a Broadway run this season for “John Proctor Was the Villain,” a riff on “The Crucible,” one of Miller’…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:57AMSunday, October 20, 2024
“Warriors,” a newly released concept album by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis adapted from the 1965 novel by Sol Yurick and the 1979 film directed by Walter Hill, features twenty-six…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:44AMSaturday, October 19, 2024
Arthur Miller’s first Broadway hit, “All My Sons,” was inspired by a newspaper account of a young woman in Ohio who had informed on her father for having defrauded the military duri…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:53PMFriday, October 18, 2024
“Show Boat” gets a radical remake. Theater in Quarantine’s Joshua William Gelb comes out of his (8’ by 4’) closet. Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Robert Schenkkan takes a br…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:53PMThursday, October 17, 2024
What most surprised me about director Kenny Leon’s production of “Out Town” were not his distinctive touches. What most surprised me is how emotionally I reacted to this “Our Tow…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:42PMWednesday, October 16, 2024
Adam Driver as superstar Strings McCrane seems to loom over the cramped set in a black ten-gallon hat, as he screams at a personal assistant who is about half his size, smashes his guitar, s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:55PMTuesday, October 15, 2024
“Vladimir” is the second play in New York this year set in Russia decades ago at the beginning of the reign of Vladimir Putin. Opening tonight Off-Broadway, Erika Sheffer’s new play is…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PMMonday, October 14, 2024
Suffs will play its final Broadway performance on January 5, 2025 following 24 previews and 301 regular performances, according to an announcement late Friday night. A national tour will …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:53AMSunday, October 13, 2024
Composer Stephen Sondheim’s greatness lies “beyond the clever lyrics, beyond the complex music.” Sondheim can make you a better person: “The ambitions, dreams, disasters, and fix…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:29PMFriday, October 11, 2024
The twentieth anniversary of the La MaMa Puppet Festival starts its three-week run on all four stages of La MaMa ETC later this month, but the festival is just the largest offering in two mo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:38PMThursday, October 10, 2024
Most of us think about climate change in the wrong way, David Finnigan tells us. It is not “this apocalyptic event that’s on its way, and we need to prevent it from hitting,” Rather, �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00PMWednesday, October 9, 2024
Early every morning, Paul buys a cup of coffee and jokes around with Katie, the waitress in the otherwise empty local diner in the kind of small town in Upstate New York where the townsfolk …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PMTuesday, October 8, 2024
Adam Szymkowicz, the author of this book offering advice about how to be a playwright, has been a student of such well-known playwrights (and teachers) as Christopher Durang, Marsha Norman, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:42PMMonday, October 7, 2024
In the swirl of the new theater season, with three shows opening on Broadway last week and another this week, and daily announcements of the season ahead (of Broadway debuts, for example, fo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:24AMSaturday, October 5, 2024
Election Day is in one month from today, November 5, 2024. Here’s what you need to know in order to vote in the General Election in New York City. Registration In order to vote in New York…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:03PMFriday, October 4, 2024
Just about a month before the election, one can hardly expect every theater blogger — or podcaster or substacker – to ignore politics: So this roundup begins with three examples, then go…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:26PMThursday, October 3, 2024
A look back at Black vaudeville, an anthology of dramatic criticism by women writers, and the 600-year history of Latinx performing arts in America have been named the best theater books of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:37PMWednesday, October 2, 2024
“What do the following have in common: Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, the list goes on and on…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:10PMTuesday, October 1, 2024
David Henry Hwang wrote “Yellow Face” almost two decades ago, comically rendering three deflating or enraging real-life events in which he was involved up to three decades ago. And yet a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30PM“Good Bones,” by James Ljames, the Pulitzer-winning author of “Fat Ham,” is essentially a debate about gentrification, with sharply different views expressed by the characters, and a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:10PMGavin Creel died yesterday at the age of 48, from a rare form of cancer, after an acclaimed career on Broadway of more than two decades, mostly in starring roles. Herewith some samples from …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:43AMMonday, September 30, 2024
“McNeal” is a great showcase for Robert Downey Jr., making his Broadway debut as the novelist Jacob McNeal, who is unraveling just at the moment of his greatest acclaim. But Downey a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:05PMThe latest new artistic director of many announced this year: Christopher Ashley has been named the new artistic director of Roundabout Theater Company. The Tony winning director of Come Fro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:01AMSunday, September 29, 2024
“The Hills of California,” about four sisters in their thirties called back to their childhood home, to attend to their dying mother, and relive their traumatic childhood brush with fame…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30PMSaturday, September 28, 2024
Below is a selection of theater opening* in New York in October, including five shows on Broadway, four of them revivals (or classics), with starry casts, many of whom are making their debu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54AMFriday, September 27, 2024
How well were you paying attention to the theater news and reviews this month? Answer these ten questions, plus a bonus question, to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:07PMThursday, September 26, 2024
“Fatherland” is an unsettling title, a word that movie-goers associate with Germany under the Nazis, but there are several reasons why it fits this true story of the first man to be put …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:16PMWhen I reviewed Eric Adams’ book “Healthy At Last,” I suggested it might be useful beyond its practical advice for adopting a vegan diet, as a glimpse of the man who was about to becom…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:09PMWednesday, September 25, 2024
Below is the annual list of the most produced plays and musicals this season, from American Theater Magazine, with links to those shows whose NYC productions I reviewed. This list was culled…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:21PMTuesday, September 24, 2024
Her life story might have made an engaging show no matter which theater company had staged it: A globe-trotting professional basketball player and Olympian, Katsiaryna Snytsina awoke to t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00PM 
