Wednesday, January 18, 2023
An 88-year-old white supremacist who claimed “The Diary of Anne Frank” was a hoax shot and killed a 39-year-old African American security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in W…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:21AMTuesday, January 17, 2023
Broadway Week 2-for-1 tickets launches today through February 12, a traditional fallow period in New York theater, but one full of hope this year, judging from the announcements this past we…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:41PMMonday, January 16, 2023
Today, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day — which has been an official federal holiday since 1986 — many people read or listen once again to his most famous speech, delivered August 28, 1963,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:11PMSaturday, January 14, 2023
Brian Stokes Mitchell, Wynton Marsalis, Senators Chuck Schumer and Amy Klobuchar, and Broadway League President Charlotte St. Martin were among those who took to the stage on the first da…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:40PMFriday, January 13, 2023
In 1905, Mark Twain wrote a caustic satire, “King Leopold’s Soliloquy,” in which the Belgian king tries to justify the unspeakable atrocities he committed for his personal enrichment …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:53AMThursday, January 12, 2023
What was most jaw-dropping about “Mothermotherland,” which is being presented for free through January 15 at A.R.T./New York Theatres, was not that Audrey Rose Dégez breastfed her …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:38PMWednesday, January 11, 2023
A middle aged man hires a teenager for sex in a cheap Dublin hotel, but both the older man (Marc Kudisch) and the younger man (Kyle Bielfield) actually want something else. A woman (Na…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:59AMTuesday, January 10, 2023
Tickets are now on sale for Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for performances from January 17 through February 12 of 22 Broadway shows, from “& Juliet�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:14PMMonday, January 9, 2023
The longest battle for Speaker of the House since 1859 was filled with drama last week, but also with theater, enough to inspire observations by at least two theater critics — about Hakeem…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:49PMSunday, January 8, 2023
“That’s the sound of a hit,” Jonathan Groff as Franklin Shepard sings about halfway through the current Off-Broadway production of the Stephen Sondheim/George Furth musical “Merrily…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:56PMI had a whale of a time for much of “The Indigo Room,” which is part of this year’s Under the Radar theater festival, and can certainly count as theater. But it is more than that – m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30AMSaturday, January 7, 2023
Near the end of his inspiring 15-minute address to the 118th Congress before the formal handing-over of the gavel to the newly elected Speaker of the House early Saturday morning, Minority L…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:08AMFriday, January 6, 2023
The title is a palindrome: it reads the same backwards and forwards. The show too goes backward and forward — or actually, forward and then backward. The first entry in the annual Under …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00AMThursday, January 5, 2023
In this first play of the new year, the four statuesque performers are dressed in what at first look like classic robes, but on closer inspection are made up of regular street clothes. This …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:13PMWednesday, January 4, 2023
Below is a calendar of selected theater opening* this month in New York, including Off-Broadway shows written and performed by Anthony Rapp and Colin Quinn, a new play about the architect Ma…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:29PMTuesday, January 3, 2023
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to, among the 13 that have firm opening dates on Broadway between now and April 27, 2023, when the 2022-2023 season ends. They are listed ch…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:41PMMonday, January 2, 2023
Will 2023 be a year of innovation or retrenchment for theater in New York, especially on Broadway? That’s the first of several questions for the year ahead. 7 Major Questions for Theater i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:50AMSunday, January 1, 2023
On January 1, 2020, I explored seven possible major theater trends of the new decade, asking: What will the future of theater turn out to be? I entitled the post “Seeing 2020,” but …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:35PMSaturday, December 31, 2022
Let us celebrate surviving to a new and hopefully better year, by honoring these dozen Broadway veterans in their nineties . Click on any photograph to see it enlarged and read the caption. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:47PMThursday, December 29, 2022
How much do you remember of this unusual year in theater? Answer these 20 questions to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:14PMWednesday, December 28, 2022
An 88-year-old producer complaining about Broadway ticket prices was the most popular post by far on this blog in 2022 — and that in an odd way speaks to the enthusiasm of New York Theater…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:37PMTuesday, December 27, 2022
Below is a list of theater books to read in 2023, most of which were published in 2022.‡ Click on the titles to find more information and to purchase these books, grouped under five categ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:06PMMonday, December 26, 2022
My annual New Year’s Eve last-minute guide to events that are still available to do on New Year’s Eve 2023 (when 2022 turns into 2023) in New York City: Times Square.Broadway show sched…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:39PM“on hiatus”→closed. (e.g.) mask mandatory→mask optional. Brooks Atkinson→Lena Horne; Cort→James Earl Jones. Beanie→Julie→Lea. Sara Porkalob vs. 1776. Lillias White vs. disabl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30AMSunday, December 25, 2022
Saturday, December 24, 2022
Below are some of the people from the theater community who died in 2022, listed alphabetically. Click on any photograph (and click the ⌽ button) to read the caption, most of which link to…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:40AMThursday, December 22, 2022
It was the kind of year when the audience gave a standing ovation for a regular line in the script of a play one particular night, because of a Supreme Court decision announced during that d…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:04PMWednesday, December 21, 2022
“A Strange Loop,’ is the most acclaimed show among theater critics whose lists of top 10 New York theater for 2022 are featured below. Following close behind is “Oratorio for Living T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:46PMTuesday, December 20, 2022
“We’re very different,” Andy Warhol (Paul Bettany) says to Jean-Michel Basquiat (Jeremy Pope) when they first meet to collaborate on making a painting. “You’re all spontaneous and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PMMonday, December 19, 2022
It’s hard not to fall instantly in love with Pops at the beginning of this must-see Broadway production of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize winning play by Stephen Adly Guirgis, the playwright laur…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:14PMA first for the Tony Awards: United Palace, a grand old theater in Washington Heights, will be the site of the 76th annual awards ceremony, which is now scheduled to take place on June 11, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:29AM 
