A thick smoke billows over the stage as a character sings Spanish operatically in one of the last scenes of “Spain,” a play by Jen Silverman that purports to tell the cloak-and-dagger ba…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:34PMHow well were you paying attention to the theater news, views and reviews in November? Take this ten-question quiz and find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:54PMAlexis Soloski, a theater critic for the New York Times, has written a novel about a theater critic, but if that’s the lure, beware: “Here in the Dark” (Flatiron Books, 256 pages) is…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:12AMOn this twelfth annual #GivingTuesday (created in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y), consider donating to theater in New York. Below, an alphabetical list of more than 100 New York theaters and t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:02AMCyber Monday ticket deals in theater still exist in 2023 (see below) although they are harder to find now, in part because of Elon Musk’s relentless degradation of the social media platfor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:06AMTheater may be an ephemeral experience on stage, but the ways we have presented and attempted to preserve American musicals everywhere else – the printed page, photographs, the cast album,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:54AMMy yearly list of New York stage shows for which I’m most grateful, which I started posting every Thanksgiving more than a decade ago, returns more or less to normal this year, as the t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:31PMMy twelfth annual theater gift guide below features links and information on shopping for theater tickets,theater subscriptions/memberships,cast recordings,play scripts and books about the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:50AMBelow are videos from the Broadway casts who performed at the 2023 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade: “& Juliet, “Spamalot,” “Shucked” “How To Dance in Ohio,” and rehearsal …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:46AMLong before Liza Minnelli and Joel Gray sang “The Money Song” in the musical “Cabaret,” set in a cabaret in Nazi Germany, a performer sang a similarly satirical song about money in a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:21PMGraciela Daniele, a Broadway luminary for six decades, directs this lovely and peculiar musical written by her good friend Michael John LaChiusa, who uses Daniele’s life as the inspiration…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:54PMOf the eight shows I reviewed this past week, I probably reacted to two of them differently than I would have without the rise in antisemitism over the last six weeks.About the Broadway revi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:52AMBelow is the Broadway schedule for Thanksgiving Week 2023, which differs from the usual week’s schedule: Only two shows of the 26 currently playing have performances on Thanksgiving Day (T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:47PM“Hell’s Kitchen,” opening tonight at the Public Theater, is not a musical biography of Alicia Keys, nor, despite the title, is it about the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood where she grew…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:24PMAbout halfway through Lameece Issaq’s solo show, a younger man named Gabe dressed as an angel, in a wig and women’s makeup, arrives at the home of the unnamed woman at the center of the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:01PMFor only the third time in Broadway history, you can see a play this weekend live as it’s being performed on stage even if you live thousands of miles away. “Jaja’s African Hair Braid…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:01PMIn its first Broadway revival, “Spamalot” is high-stepping, low-brow and often hilarious. The cast, featuring such comic royalty of the Rialto as Christopher Fitzgerald, Michael Urie and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:53PMIn “Scene Partners,” we first see Dianne Wiest in close-up on a screen, as pink and bejeweled as a movie star, though more nervous than one, as she says: “Hello! I’m Meryl Kowalski,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:53PMOn this, the seventieth anniversary year of the signature work of Nobel Prize winning author Samuel Beckett, a play in which (as one Beckett scholar famously put it) “nothing happens, tw…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:48PMWhen Barry Manilow’s musical finally debuted in New York last year, I was thrilled. I had just one small reservation. On my second viewing of “Harmony,” which opens tonight on Broadway…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:53PMAlexandra Tatarsky’s solo show should probably come with a warning. This is not because she keeps on taking things out of her crotch, including a Styrofoam head to which she’s apparently…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:23PMIt’s been a week of what Broadway-goers might consider alternative theater — above all, the announcement that “Sleep No More” and “Here Lies Love” are closing, which prompted …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:35AMIt came as a shock to lovers of immersive theater, and reportedly even to the people who work on “Sleep No More,” the show by the British theater company Punchdrunk that launched New …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:10PMThe most enduring theater of Western Civilization was created by combat veterans. “Ancient Greek drama was a form of storytelling, communal therapy, and ritual reintegration for combat vet…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:42AMFive albums have been nominated for the best musical theater album, all of them of current or recent Broadway shows (like last year, but unlike the year before.). The 66th annual Grammy Awar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:39AMIn the video below, dozens of Broadway performers have recorded the song from “Les Miserables” with a slightly altered title on behalf of the more than two hundred people who were kidnap…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:36AMElectric Root’s version of “The Sound of Music” and BlackBox Ensemble’s newly translated version of “Borrowed Landscape” each separately gave one-night-only performances this…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:39PM“Watch Night” is Bill T. Jones and company’s response to the mass shootings by white supremacists of nine African Americans at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charles…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PMWhen we were little, I remember my brother being frightened by the Saber-toothed tiger in our book about prehistoric animals. I wasn’t. I had nightmares about Pinocchio – not the Disney …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:17PMOver the course of her solo show about an Argentinian who moves as a child to New York City, Florencia Iriondo hands out little round chipas, an Argentine cheese bread (savory), and little s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:35PMRaunch, regrets and puppets dominated the New York theater that opened this week, sometimes all three in the same show. Two different plays told the story of an older man’s reaction to l…
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