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Thursday, March 16, 2023

A Doll’s House Review: Jessica Chastain Escapes Her Chair! by New York Theater

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…

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Wednesday, March 15, 2023

The Harder They Come Review. Suzan-Lori Parks Adapts Jimmy Cliff’s Reggae Movie by New York Theater

“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…

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Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Radio 477! review. Ukraine then and now: jazz, destruction and defiance. by New York Theater

In 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…

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Monday, March 13, 2023

#Oscars Hidden Theater Connections. New Michael Jackson in MJ. #Stageworthy News of the Week by New York Theater

Connecting 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…

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Sunday, March 12, 2023

Oscar Winners 2023: Everything Everywhere All At Once Best Picture, Best Actress, five more by New York Theater

Best 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…

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Saturday, March 11, 2023

Puppetopia Festival: Deeper Closer Warmer by New York Theater

“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 03:58PM
Friday, March 10, 2023

Digital theater is still here! 6 Innovators Who Persist. by New York Theater

On 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…

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Thursday, March 9, 2023

Dark Disabled Stories Review by New York Theater

Ryan 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 08:40PM
Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Cherry Lane Theater History and Hollywood Connection (before A24) by New York Theater

When 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 09:58PM
Monday, March 6, 2023

West Village Theaters On The Rise. So many names, so much #Stageworthy News of the Week by New York Theater

Betty 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 …

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Sunday, March 5, 2023

A Fine Romance: Adapting Broadway to Hollywood in the Studio System Era by New York Theater

When “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…

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Saturday, March 4, 2023

The 18 Women Playwrights Who Won The Pulitzer Prize by New York Theater

In 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…

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Friday, March 3, 2023

Love Review by New York Theater

What is it about the homeless that inspires such  groundbreaking theater? Last year, it was “Addressless,” digital theater with gameplay. Now, “Love,” something completely differen…

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Thursday, March 2, 2023

Eric Bogosian’s 1+1 Review by New York Theater

A 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…

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Wednesday, March 1, 2023

March 2023 New York Theater Openings by New York Theater

Below 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…

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Tuesday, February 28, 2023

The Seagull/Woodstock NY Review by New York Theater

One 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…

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Monday, February 27, 2023

Letters From Max, A Ritual: Theater review by New York Theater

There 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 11:30PM

The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window Review. Lorraine Hansberry’s Greenwich Village by New York Theater

There’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…

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Becomes A Woman Review by New York Theater

Before 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 …

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Obie Winners: English, Martyna Majok, Ping Chong, Anne Bogart, Ralph Lee, etc. Confronting Antisemitism on Broadway. #Stageworthy News of the Week by New York Theater

The 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.…

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Saturday, February 25, 2023

Theater Quiz for February 2023 by New York Theater

How well were you paying attention to New York theater in February? Answer these ten questions, plus a bonus question, to find out. Loading…

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Friday, February 24, 2023

Ukraine and Theater One Year Later by New York Theater

Today, 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…

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Thursday, February 23, 2023

10 Best Theater Books in the Past 10 Years by New York Theater

The 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 …

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Wednesday, February 22, 2023

The Whale: Screen vs. Stage by New York Theater

Some 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, …

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Tuesday, February 21, 2023

A Bright New Boise Review. Samuel D. Hunter on religious extremism. by New York Theater

We’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…

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Broadway Summer Avalanche: Britney, David Byrne, Jason Alexander! The End of Jujamcyn and New Ohio (and “Actors Equity”?!) #Stageworthy News of th by New York Theater

Bad 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. …

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Monday, February 20, 2023

Presidents Day is Every Day on Broadway and Beyond by New York Theater

At 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…

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Jack in the Box: Or, How to Goddamn Direct by Jack O’Brien by New York Theater

“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. �…

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Saturday, February 18, 2023

Poll: Which Best Picture Oscar Nominee Would Be Best and Worst On Broadway? by New York Theater

Which 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, …

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Friday, February 17, 2023

Digital Theater Watch: 20 Simulcast Shows This Holiday Weekend, From Broadway to Frigid Fringe by New York Theater

“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…

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Thursday, February 16, 2023

The Wanderers Review: Two Jewish Couples and a Movie Star by New York Theater

That 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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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic