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“The Harder They Come” is a largely faithful stage adaptation of the 1972 movie starring Jimmy Cliff that is said to have introduced the world to reggae music; its fidelity to the origin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00PMIn 1929, a group of avant-garde artists in Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine, put on a jazz musical revue called “Hello, This Is Radio 477!” celebrating the city’s lone radio…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:20PMConnecting Oscars to theater news: A24, the film company that had the best night — with its seven awards for “Everything All At Once,” including Best Picture and three of the four perf…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:55AMBest PictureEverything Everywhere All At Once Best DirectorDaniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once Best ActressMichelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All at Onc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:19PM“Deeper Closer Warmer,” a fun hour of puppet monster mayhem, is the creation of identical twin brothers Pablo and Efrain Del Hierro from Santurce, Puerto Rico who for more than a decade,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:58PMOn the third anniversary Sunday of the pandemic having shut down in-person theater, even people who welcomed digital theater in 2020 and 2021 surely now — some eighteen months after theate…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:03AMRyan J. Haddad is not going to make disability funny tonight the way he usually does, he tells the audience at the Public Theater near the beginning of this groundbreaking production. “…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:40PMWhen A24 bought the Cherry Lane Theater last week for $10 million, the indie film company acquired a two hundred year old building, with an illustrious hundred year theater history, and not…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:58PMBetty Smith, Oscar Isaac, Rachel Brosnahan, Jessica Hecht, Parker Posey, Eric Bogosian, Lea Michele, Caridad Svich, Michael Heitzman, Will Davis, Lea Salonga, Constantine Maroulis, Andre De …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30AMWhen “Sweeney Todd” was finally released as a movie musical in 2007, twenty-eight years after its debut on Broadway, Stephen Sondheim said “everyone who has attempted to translate a st…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:26PMIn honor of Women’s History Month, here are the women playwrights who have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an annual award given for “a distinguished play by an American author…deali…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:56PMWhat is it about the homeless that inspires such groundbreaking theater? Last year, it was “Addressless,” digital theater with gameplay. Now, “Love,” something completely differen…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:56PMA sleazy photographer convinces a naïve aspiring actress to pose naked for him. Didn’t that happen to Irene Cara in “Fame” more than forty years ago? And even then it felt trite an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:51AMBelow is a calendar of theater opening* in March 2023 in New York, including seven shows on Broadway: a new Andrew Lloyd Webber, revivals of Sondheim, Fosse and Jason Robert Brown, a classic…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:26PMOne scene stands out in Thomas Bradshaw’s adaptation of Chekhov for the wrong reasons. It’s a play-within-the-play, in which the son of a famous actress stages a show that doesn’t go o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:47PMThere is so much love that Sarah Ruhl has put into this play, and into the book from which it’s adapted, and into the letters and poems exchanged between Ruhl and Max Ritvo that make up th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:30PMThere’s something of an inside joke tucked into Lorraine Hansberry’s rarely-produced second Broadway play, which director Anne Kauffman has brought to life in a starry revival at BAM. T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00PMBefore she authored the novel “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” Betty Smith wrote a play about the same character, Francie Nolan. Smith’s novel, which follows Francie from young girlhood to …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:11PMThe 66th Obie Awards, which will be celebrated tonight, were announced over the weekend, Full list of Obie winnersAmong the 37 awards, for shows presented between July 1, 2020, and Aug.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:52AMHow well were you paying attention to New York theater in February? Answer these ten questions, plus a bonus question, to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:14PMToday, the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the national opera theater of Ukraine held a concert called “Ukraine: Free and Unbreakable,” and the theater community in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30AMThe ten most enlightening and entertaining non-fiction books about the American theater that have been published since 2013 have been works of history, criticism, biography and memoir. They …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54PMSome movie critics called “The Whale” stagy , which I consider ironic, since I saw the stage play a decade ago, and, although both the play and the film are written by Samuel D. Hunter, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:30PMWe’re back in Idaho, a place I’ve viewed fondly for a decade, although I’ve never visited the state, because this is where playwright Samuel D. Hunter has set all his quietly amusing a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:13PMBad Behavior by Audiences… and by a Publisher? Are theater audiences behaving badly both on Broadway and in the UK? That’s what the BBC, The Stage, The Guardian and Playbill reported. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:08AMAt least one President is almost always on Broadway, as the photo essay below once again makes clear. Last month there were five, although they looked a bit different than past stage portray…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:02AM“I am the director,” a young man protested to Dame Edith Evans as she was giving instructions to the other cast members of a play in which she starred. “Never mind,” she answered. �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:22AMWhich of the ten movies nominated this year for the Best Picture Oscar would make the best play? The worst play? The best musical? I put this to a poll, below, now that I’ve seen all ten, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:41AM“Between Riverside and Crazy” is being “simulcast” for four more performances, starting tonight, the last chance to see this terrific production, which I loved both staged in perso…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:05AMThat Katie Holmes portrays a movie star in Anna Ziegler’s play about two troubled Jewish marriages somewhat undercuts what’s meant to be a significant moment near the end: Sophie (Sar…
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