There are now twenty-one shows scheduled to open on Broadway during the Spring 2024 season, three of them announced just within the past week. As Time Out’s Adam Feldman points out, much o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:06AMFrom the wordless to the wordy, these short worldly works– all three directly or indirectly reflecting the story of race in America; all three intriguing examples of digital theater — we…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:44PMA play called “Pride House,” set in Cherry Grove on Fire Island, and produced by a gay theater company? It’s reasonable to presume it the kind of formulaic gay play that has proliferat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:53PMThe Black couple go overboard in congratulating their daughter for coming out, donning rainbow T-shirts and hanging up a banner, but they learn to their shock that Niani is not coming out as…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:15PMThere are two ways to appreciate this latest work of musical theater by Heather Christian, which is part of the eleventh annual Prototype festival of opera theater and musical theater. One i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:23PMRachel McAdams of Slings and Arrows and Michael Imperioli of The Sopranos making their Broadway debuts; a new quirky musical from the team behind “A Band’s Visit,” a new play by Paula …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:22PMAt the 75th annual Primetime Emmy Awards last night, Elton John became the nineteenth person to achieve an EGOT — winner of an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony — when he won for “…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:16AM“My people were brought to America in chains. Your people were driven here to escape the chains fashioned for them in Europe,” Martin Luther King Jr. said in his address to the American …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00AM“The Color Purple” and “Mean Girls,” were both Hollywood movies adapted from books (Alice Walker’s novel “The Color Purple” and Rosalind Wiseman’s non-fiction “Queen…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:12PM“Mean Girls” was Tina Fey’s smart, funny 2004 movie that she turned with her husband into an overlong, ill-timed Broadway musical (as I wrote in my review) in 2018, which has now been …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:02AMI saw three shows that featured clowns at PhysFestNYC, billed as the first-ever festival in New York City to showcase physical theater, which is wrapping up its ten-day run on Sunday. P…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:41PMIn the two years since I first saw Joshua Harmon’s ambitious, busy play about antisemitism, in which five generations of a single French family in two different eras fear for their safety,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:43PMTickets are now on sale for Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for performances from January 16 through February 4, 2024 of 23 Broadway shows, from “& Ju…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:31AM“For the theatre community, it was a time of tumult, turnover, ‘the field is in crisis’ essays, show cancellations due to illness, and budgetary shortfalls.” But also a response: “…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:04PMHollywood and Broadway intertwined in complicated ways once again when Broadway veterans Paul Giamatti and Da’Vine Joy Randolph both won Golden Globe Awards last night for their roles in …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:11PMI saw these three hour-long shows from the 19th Under the Radar Festival one after the other on the same floor of the Rose building at Lincoln Center Queens of Sheba Muki Zubis stood on stag…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:02PMCreated and performed by a trio who call themselves FlawBored and describe themselves as a “disability-led theater company” – two of the three are legally blind – this export from th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:25PMBilled as “an experimental theater piece about the end of an experimental theater,” this opening night show in the 19th annual Under the Radar festival turned out to be, as the title pro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AMBelow is a calendar of selected theater opening* this month in New York, including two Broadway shows that are both transfers from Off-Broadway. The bulk of theatrical fare in January lon…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:50PMBelow is a preview of the theater festivals in New York City this month, which are presenting more than eighty shows, many of them far from traditional theater — call them experimental, av…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:43PMChoose the show that you are most looking forward to, among the 18 that (so far) have firm opening dates on Broadway between now and April 25, 2024, when the 2023-2024 season ends. They are …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:57AMHow will the “crisis in theater” be addressed? That’s the first of my 5 Major Questions for The Theater in 2024 and Beyond. I also Ring IN The Old in 2024: 16 Broadway veterans in thei…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:39AMWe can’t see the future clearly, of theater or anything else, but we can look at the recent past and wonder how things will play out. My questions about theater in 2024 are prompted by the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:45AMLet us celebrate surviving to a new and hopefully better year, by honoring these sixteen Broadway veterans in their nineties — celebrated performers, playwrights, producers, directors, com…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:51AMHow much do you remember of this year in New York theater? Answer these 16 questions to find out. My most challenging quiz yet, about a most challenging year. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:36PMBelow is a list of theater books to read in 2024, which I divide into three groups: 2. Four books (all but one published in 2023) that I’ve been meaning to read and might actually do so…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:23AMAn 89-year-old Broadway producer complaining about Broadway ticket prices was the most popular post yet again on my NewYorkTheater.me blog in 2023, although the post is from May, 2022. It ju…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:12PMHere are the ten biggest stories about New York theater in 2023, some of them major recurring issues, some of them events, most of them serious, one of them silly, some glimpsing the sublime…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:39PMMy last-minute guide to New Year’s Eve in New York City, when 2023 turns into 2024, features information on: Times Square.Dining OutTheater: Plays as parties, Broadway show schedule, famil…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15PMThe last week of the year is, if not time of reckoning, at least summing up: Top 10 Lists of Top 10 NY Theater in 2023: Merrily, Sweeney, Purlie “Merrily We Roll Along” is the most accla…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:00AMIn this traditional day of moviegoing, here are ten new feature films, most of them only available in cinemas, ranked from those I most enjoyed to those I most regret seeing. American Fictio…
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