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 11:21PMHer 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 10:00PMAs the season has revved up, and a new show is opening nearly every day, they tend to run together, in more ways than one. This is obvious of course in “Forbidden Broadway,” which depend…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:28AMThe confrontation in “The Ask” involves no guns, nor even any shouting. It’s not a confrontation at all, by any typical definition these days in either theater or politics. Greta, a lo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:45PMPedro Antonio Garcia, who is a criminal defense attorney as well as a playwright, explains in a program note that he wrote “The Witness Room” in “an attempt to explore moral issues wit…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:16PMAlvin Ailey was a New York actor – performing, yes, in Broadway musicals with Lena Horne and Pearl Bailey starting in 1954, the very year he arrived in New York at the age of 23. But he wa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:56PMThe parodies in this latest edition of Forbidden Broadway range from hilarious (Cabaret) to clever but not especially funny (Back to the Future) to lame (Wicked.) In other words, it’s hit …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:20PMIt’s been compared to a psychedelic trip, and the latest video game, but Basil Twist’s dazzling hour-long abstract journey through mind-bending optical illusions and mythical beasts �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:15PMIn “Our Class,” the classmates whom we have watched grow up together in their small village in Poland – five Jews and five Catholics – attend a wedding together right before intermis…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:27PMAlex Edelman was a winner at the 76th annual Emmys for “Just for Us,” in Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special, which this year could be considered the 2024 Emmy Awards theater cat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15AMAmong the dozens of categories at the 76th Emmy Awards, which will be broadcast tonight live on ABC, one is virtually a theater award. True, it’s virtually, not officially. Three of the n…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:30PMCounting and Cracking” tells the story of four generations of one family from Sri Lanka – once called Ceylon, an island nation off the coast of India – whose later generations were …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:35PM“The Roommate” is like a female “The Odd Couple” that’s more odd and less funny, and worth a Broadway production for two reasons: Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone. The show tacitly ackn…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:11PMThe opening of the new performing arts center at the World Trade Center site a year ago has done what the rebuilders had hoped it would, at least for me. On the twenty-third anniversary of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:13AMA dozen cartoonists offer their take on the Presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, which is happening tonight for 90 minutes starting at …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:59AMJames Earl Jones, the shy kid from Arkabutla, Mississippi who grew up to be an commanding actor of the stage and screen for some seven decades — so admired as a stage actor that he had a B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:56PMEverything these days is debatable. Politics of course: Tuesday night the Presidential candidates are debating. But theater too. The Broadway Fall season begins two days after the debate, wi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:05PMAbout halfway through “Life and Trust,” a mammoth site-specific show that is set spectacularly in the heart of the Financial District, I was rewarded with the immersive theatergoe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:27AMAs the Fall season begins, pick your top three choices out of the 16 shows that are currently scheduled to open on Broadway in September, October, November and December 2024. The shows ar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:53PMThere was a time when Billy Rose — Broadway producer, impresario, lyricist, columnist, and all-around theatrical showman — was a leading figure on Broadway. Born 125 years ago on Septemb…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:31PMAudra McDonald as Madame Rose; Robert Downey Jr’s Broadway debut; Elton John’s first new Broadway musical in a dozen years. It’s hard to resist the lure of the big musicals and starry …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:45PMBroadway Week, a two-for-one ticket discount to current Broadway shows, begins today, the start of a busy month and a starry season. In September alone, three Broadway shows are opening,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:18AMLabor Day means something different to Colm Summers, the new artistic director of Working Theater, a New York company about to launch its fortieth season as (in the words of their mission…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:46PMBelow is a selection of theater opening* in New York in September, Including three new plays on Broadway — featuring the Broadway debut of Robert Downey Jr., and the return of Patti LuPon…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:49PMHow well were you following the theater in August? By theater this month, that includes political theater, as well as the past and future on stage, not just the present. Answer the quiz belo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:50PMFollowing up on the recent Broadway revival of his Tony and Pulitzer-winning play “Doubt” and his new Off-Broadway hit “Brooklyn Laundry,” John Patrick Shanley has written another…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:50AMIt would be silly to dismiss “Hurricane Season” just because the production has no curtain call, and the cast is made to work during the entire intermission, performing a kind of robotic…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:44PM“It used to be a time when the movement was spearheaded by young people….putting their lives on the line. Now, they just put their lives online.” It’s a line in “Good Trouble” by…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:09AM“Humanity is on the ballot, y’all. Please don’t be complacent, because otherwise we’re cooked,” Billy Porter said to an estimated 3,000 people who attended an hour-long Zoom call o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PMThe most stageworthy news of the past week, let’s face it, were the speeches at the Democratic National Convention. “…the miracles of democracy and community”: AOC at the DNC, vide…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:12AM“ i am calling on all you independents and all you undecideds. ¥ou know this is true. You know I am telling you the truth. That values and character matter most of all. In leadership and …
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