Many 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:45AMJocelyn Bioh’s inviting workplace comedy, presenting a day in the life of a hair braiding salon in Harlem, would be a shoo-in for two separate Tony Awards, if either existed – one for ha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:05PMTo get the full flavor of what the great exiled Russian director Dmitry Krymov does with (to?) Ernest Hemingway’s two short stories, which are hard to see as love stories at all, and to Eu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:56PMAlmost two years after Stephen Sondheim death at the age of 91, October will see the opening at The Shed of what’s billed as the composer’s “final musical” – “Here We Are” – …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:52AMBelow is a calendar of theater opening* in New York in October, with two greatly-anticipated musicals by Stephen Sondheim, one never produced before. The other, “Merrily We Roll Along,” …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:08PMHow well were you paying attention to the theater news, views and reviews in this month that launched the Fall 2023 season? Find out in the quiz below. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:22PMMelissa Etheridge was so young when she started playing the guitar that her fingers bled, but she kept at it, which seems a fitting start for her rocky road to rock star. On her 17th birthda…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:01PMIt’s hard to picture a better cast for this first Broadway revival of Ossie Davis’s 1961 broad, biting comedy about racism in the Old South. As the title character, Leslie Odom Jr., assu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00PM“The Wiz” announced its opening date in April, starring Nichelle Lewis as Dorothy, Deborah Cox as Glinda and Melody A. Betts (featured in this first photograph above) as Aunt Em an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:27PMThe photographs below offer a small sample of the many Jewish characters that have been portrayed in plays and musicals on Broadway, focusing on the most familiar and the most recent. The …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:27AMIn celebration of the International Day of Sign Languages, proclaimed every September 23 by the United Nations since 2018, below is the schedule of ASL-interpreted performances on Broadwa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50AMThe story told in Emma Horwitz’s “Mary Gets Hers,” about an orphan girl who falls into prostitution, and then is rescued from it, follows nearly scene by scene a tenth century play …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:25PMDuring the second of the five concerts that are launching the new performing arts center at the World Trade Center, the violinist Trina Basu went up to the microphone after her set and said …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:49PMThe soldier is silent. This frustrates the woman who is not exactly his captor but not his keeper either; she works for the motherland, which disapproves of his silence. If he doesn’t b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:13PMHalf of what happens in “Prometheus Firebringer” is extraordinary, unprecedented. But you wouldn’t know that just by watching what’s on stage, which is mostly a series of monologues …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:57PMBroadway favorites Kelli O’Hara, Brian d’Arcy James, and Heidi Schreck are returning, and Rachel McAdams making her Broadway debut, in two plays and two musicals that were newly ann…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:03AM“Psychic Self Defense” – gorgeous, impish and enveloping — had long ended before I understood the title, although the show itself remained ineffable. To be clear, I never doubted it …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:05PMSusan and Bella, two students at UC Berkeley who are twin sisters, keep on getting pregnant – their pregnancy represented by red balloons — and they keep on popping “M&Ms” –…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50PMThe Perelman Performing Arts Center, or PAC NYC, held a ribbon connection (rather than ribbon cutting) ceremony today on a stage in the lobby that will offer free entertainment every day fro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:25PMShortly before I attended Annie Baker’s new play about a group of mostly older women spending their vacations at a pain clinic in Northern California, I saw a new musical about a group of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:23PMThe new performing arts center at the World Trade Center smartly decided to hold its official opening day ceremony on Wednesday, not today. But if all goes well, the marble cube of the Pe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:23AMEach of the following movies slated for release in cinemas and/or streaming services before the end of the year may be of interest to legitimate theater fans because it directly adapts a sta…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:18AMChoose the show that you are most looking forward to, of the ten that have an official opening on Broadway from September to December 2023. They are listed chronologically below by opening d…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:32AMCaitlin Cook has reportedly spent ten years researching graffiti in public bathrooms, and five years turning the graffiti into songs, which she now has put together for an hour-long show bil…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:33PMCharles Busch has always worshipped Leading Ladies, even before he became one. That happened almost four decades ago, thanks to the surprise success of his play “Vampire Lesbians of Sodom.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:13PMBryan is bulimic. Melinda is schizophrenic. Kendra has borderline personality disorder. Newcomer Adam is an addict. They are young patients in group therapy at a rehab ward, presided over…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:56PMSummer officially ended with Lea Michele singing “My Man” at the curtain call for the final performance of “Funny Girl” (see video below), a song introduced by Fanny Brice in the Zie…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:57AMOn a Labor Day when Hollywood writers and actors have been on strike for months now, there is a fitting if startling answer this year to the question I ask every Labor Day, which is a l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:54AMA new Sondheim musical, posthumously produced; a new Annie Baker play; the return to Broadway of Leslie Odom Jr. and Sarah Paulson. Below are ten shows opening in the Fall – three of which…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:55PMFor his ninetieth birthday, Sir Stanley Wells, considered one of the world’s greatest authorities on William Shakespeare, was asked to deliver four lectures to answer the following questio…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54PMBelow is a calendar of theater opening* in New York in September: Leslie Odom Jr is returning to Broadway in a revival of a play by Ossie Davis, and rock star Melissa Etheridge is bringing …
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