Monday, April 24, 2023
Three shows opened on Broadway within the last four days, four more will officially open within the next four days, and then the Broadway 2022-2023 season will officially end, and the theate…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:22AMSunday, April 23, 2023
Almost immediately after she is raped, Tessa Ensler starts imagining the questions a defense attorney would ask her, and the witnesses he would call, to get the rapist off. “Legal instinct…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:56PMSaturday, April 22, 2023
In celebration of the 53rd annual Earth Day today, thirty blocks of Broadway between Union Square and Times Square will be closed to vehicular traffic, and alive with pop-up performances al…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:32AMFriday, April 21, 2023
Sure I laughed. I laughed when Tinker Bell is electrocuted, and when Neil Patrick Harris’s Masterpiece Theater-like chair somehow attacks him. But, after two hours watching an implausible …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:37PMThursday, April 20, 2023
Larissa FastHorse, whose often hilarious play is reportedly the first on Broadway by a Native American woman, sends up well-meaning white liberals, mocks the vanities and pretensions of thes…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:20PMTuesday, April 18, 2023
It’s a “banquet of the unbearable,” one character calls the show he’s in — a chronological account of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, as captured in the short plays and so…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:53PMMonday, April 17, 2023
The Phantom of the Opera took a final Majestic bow last night after a record-breaking thirty-five years on Broadway. Its 13,981th performance played out before a red-carpeted crowd in white …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:38AMSunday, April 16, 2023
There are bright shining moments aplenty in the latest Broadway revival of “Camelot,” the 1960 Lerner and Loewe musical about the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:30PMThursday, April 13, 2023
“Don’t worry; I hear it’s easy to understand,” a Bengali-American in my row at Soho Rep reassured me, before “Public Obscenities” began. For him, I thought. As it turns out, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:51PMWednesday, April 12, 2023
Sure, his uncle killed his father and is about to marry his mother, but Juicy, the big Black queer Southerner at the center of “Fat Ham,” would prefer to forget about the revenge his…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:58PMMonday, April 10, 2023
If “White Girl in Danger” were an actual soap opera, it would unfold over several years, which would give us time to savor Michael R. Jackson’s febrile intelligence and his subversive …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:45PMApril is the kindest month; at least that’s what Playbill president Philip S. Birsh is requesting in a full-page letter in the April edition of Playbill, in which he gently reminds audienc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:36AMSaturday, April 8, 2023
Philip Glass fell asleep in the middle of the pitch that actor and director Phelim McDermott was making for a theater piece the two could create together. “I’ve bored Philip Glass McDer…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:52PMFriday, April 7, 2023
Below is an explanation of the major annual New York theater awards, plus a 2023 calendar of nomination announcements and award ceremonies Why was Sarah Bernhardt — one of the world’s gr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:09AMThursday, April 6, 2023
Theatergoers wearing “I ❤️ My Josh” t-shirts filled a row of the Lunt-Fontanne the night I attended the fourth Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s darkly c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:44PMWednesday, April 5, 2023
Below are the nominations for the 38th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. Winners will be presented at the annual ceremony on Sunday, May 7, 2023, a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:39PMOscar Isaac is making his Broadway debut in a last-minute addition to the Broadway season: Lorraine Hansberry’s “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window,” also starring Rachel Brosnahan…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:26AMTuesday, April 4, 2023
“Shucked” is corny. Corn is what the corn-growing townsfolk of Cob County sing about from the opening number of this new country-flavored Broadway musical; it’s the subject of the “f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:40PMSunday, April 2, 2023
How well were you paying attention to the theater in March? Take this quiz to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:29PMSaturday, April 1, 2023
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in April 2023 in New York, including nine shows on Broadway featuring (sometimes radically) reworked versions of a Golden Age musical, a 1970s romanti…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:22PMThursday, March 30, 2023
Whether or not his fantastical tale of sharing a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger for 227 days on the open seas will “make you believe in God,” as the 17-year-old shipwreck survivor named P…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49PMWednesday, March 29, 2023
“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” won an Oscar for Best Animated Feature this month, not the first movie with puppets to win an Oscar – “The Sound of Music” and “The Godfathe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:16PMTuesday, March 28, 2023
“This book is dedicated to anyone who has ever been told they were too fat,too short, too gay, too disabled, and otherwise too much or not enough to be in a musical,” Ryan Donovan writes…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:56PMMonday, March 27, 2023
In honor of World Theater Day, celebrated internationally every March 27th since 1962, here are some beautiful theaters from around the world: Theater isn’t just the buildings in which it …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:08AMSunday, March 26, 2023
What’s so bad about “Bad Cinderella”? Sure, it takes great liberties with the fairy tale, sexing it up, setting it to loud pop music, replacing the familiar story with a berserk comic …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:51PMThursday, March 23, 2023
Two years after a jury convicted Leo Frank of murdering a 13-year-old girl and condemned him to death, a prison guard enters his jail cell with a message from his wife Lucille: Georgia Go…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:36PMMonday, March 20, 2023
This week felt like a reunion of some of the greatest figures in American musical theater — the Broadway opening of “Bob Fosse’s Dancin’,” the concert version of Jerry Herman’s �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:04AMSunday, March 19, 2023
The sensuous slouch, the bowler hat placed rakishly on the tilted head, the turned-in pigeon toes, undulating abdomen, hands reaching out as if roping in their prey, or palms up in the air s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:03PMSaturday, March 18, 2023
“Dear World” was a vehicle for Angela Lansbury, though one that otherwise crashed when it ran on Broadway for a mere 132 performances in 1969, even as Jerry Herman’s other musicals on …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:01PMFriday, March 17, 2023
Stephen Sondheim was not a cynic; he was a romantic. That in a nutshell is the thesis Ben Francis puts forth in Careful the Spell You Cast: How Stephen Sondheim Extended the Range of the Ame…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:41PMThursday, March 16, 2023
It’s too tempting to mock this austere version of Ibsen’s play as Broadway’s answer to the movie that just swept the Oscars. Call it: Nothing Nowhere With No Intermission! Jessica Cha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:00PM 
