Raunch, 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:19AMEphraim Sykes, one of Broadway’s top song-and-dance men, starred as Joey Evans in “Pal Joey,” which ended its half-week run today as part of the New York City Center Encores! Concer…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:38PMWhen last we saw playwright Qui Nguyen’s parents, in “Vietgone,” Nguyen’s acclaimed 2016 play with an unconventional pop culture approach, Quang and Tong had separately escaped…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:35AMIn “Merry Me,” billed as a lesbian sex comedy, a seven-member cast is charming enough to wring laughs out of playwright Hansol Jung’s raunchy effort to queer the canon, in what ofte…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:23AMAt BAM, the waiter offered me the menu, but it only had one sentence written on it: “Say ‘I would like to order the Arctic char.’” “I would like to order the Arctic char,” I comp…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:49PMTheresa Rebeck’s play about a hoarder is the slightest of comedies. Its plot is paltry. Its insights are pat. It promises more laughs than it delivers. It even promises more junk than i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:53PMMickey Sabbath, the 64-year-old self-absorbed, lecherous narrator and protagonist of Philip Roth’s 1995 novel, had a career as a puppeteer until he got arthritis, and there is a moment ear…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:25PMBelow is a calendar of theater opening* in New York in November, featuring the return to the stage of Danny DeVito, Diane Wiest, Priscilla Lopez, James Monroe Iglehart and Christopher Abbott…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:50PMHow well were you paying attention to theater news and reviews in October? Take this quiz and see. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:54PMTimed for Halloween, this latest digital theater, livestreamed from the closet in Joshua William Gelb’s East Village apartment, feels as much of a landmark production as the original “No…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:46PMTwenty new shows will be opening on Broadway (so far) in the remainder of the 2023-2024 season, including two newly announced — as well as a revival next Fall of one of the country’s mos…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:52AM“Stereophonic” chronicles a year of recording studio sessions by the members of a popular 1970s rock band (never named, fictional) as they put together their latest album and have the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00PMThe title character of “King of the Jews” — a Holocaust-set play at HERE that is inventively staged and well-acted, but both intentionally and unintentionally disturbing – is inspire…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:21PMIn “Hummus NYC,” the first of four stories in “The Holylanders,” a play by Moria Zrachia about Israelis living in America, Amir is outraged by what happened to his son Nuri. But the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:48PMFifteen jukebox musicals were featured in last night’s odd concert at Merkin Hall, “Jukebox: The Musical,” part of the Kaufman Music Center’s Broadway Close Up series. The concert …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:32AMSo many of the reviews of “Here We Are” end like eulogies for Stephen Sondheim, or feature at least a line of farewell, that these are the passages I find worth quoting, more than the cr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:13AM“O, isn’t this wonderful?!” Marianne Brink (Rachel Bay Jones) exclaims upon seeing her old friends at her door. It is the first line in Stephen Sondheim’s first new musical in two de…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:32PMLaurie Anderson launched the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s fortieth annual Next Wave Festival Tuesday night with “Let X = X,” an unconventional concert that featured, yes, songs from t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:41AMThere’s a photograph of 23-year-old Stephen Sondheim with Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre and Gina Lollabrigida on the set of director John Huston’s movie “Beat the Devil,” where Son…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:46AMHeidi Schreck’s “What The Constitution Means To Me” is the most produced play in America this season, according to American Theatre Magazine’s latest survey, and Lynn Nottage is the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:49PMHelen of Troy, the beauty whose face launched a thousand ships, the woman whose exploits inspired poets and playwrights from Homer to Euripides to Virgil to Shakespeare and his contemporary …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:59PMIt’s easier to feel that theater is bouncing back during such a busy week on Broadway and beyond (especially for critics trying to catch up on shows that opened earlier whose runs have …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:33AM“Job” begins with a woman in her twenties pointing a gun at a male therapist in his sixties. Why? That’s not fully revealed until the end of the therapy session, a climax that’s so o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:25PMBooks about the Method school of acting and about theater’s long history of “racial impersonation” have been named the best theater books of the year by The Theatre Library Associatio…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:58AMPeg is unhappy, not just because her husband died a year ago, but also because it’s been ages since she’s seen a bat on the prairie that surrounds her house in rural Wisconsin.“You wa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:59PM“Gutenberg! The Musical!” is deliberately bad – that’s the central joke of it – but much of what’s bad about it isn’t deliberate. The score is largely unmemorable. The premise …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:57PMPeople will be watching “Merrily We Roll Along” in 2040, if all goes as planned. That’s the year that director Richard Linklater plans to release a movie adaptation of the Stephen Sond…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:46PM“(pray)” might feel at first like a theatrically heightened version of a traditional gospel church service, with church ladies in their Sunday finest preaching and praying, clapping and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:29PMToday is Indigenous People’s Day, which since 2021 has been officially recognized as a national holiday — not coincidentally on the same day (the second Monday in October) as Columbus …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:02PM“We’re here to celebrate the body – squirts, blasts, noises and inappropriate acts,” proclaimed our host, the performer known as Fantasy Grandma, introducing “Exposure,” a gro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:35PMMany long-time leaders of New York theaters have been retiring or dying, as Jan Simpson catalogues in a post in her blog Broadway and Me. The questions she ponders: Who will replace them and…
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