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Monday, October 24, 2022

Betting on Broadway? #Stageworthy News of the Week by New York Theater

Will a Caesars Palace casino be put above the Minskoff Theater,  home to “The Lion King”? Caesars and the landlord of 1515 Broadway, SL Green, have put in a bid with the New York Stat…

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Sunday, October 23, 2022

Theater Blog Roundup: Theater Heals When Things are Grim by New York Theater

Theater heals in grim times, even in grim shows, according to several theater bloggers, who are sounding a surprising note of optimism in recent posts amid the current reports of tension bot…

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Saturday, October 22, 2022

What Kind of Woman Review: For Abortion, Against Clutter. by New York Theater

“What Kind of Woman,” playwright Abbe Tanenbaum tells us in a program note, was inspired by a cache of letters from women seeking abortion before Roe vs. Wade, which she discovered at…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:57AM
Friday, October 21, 2022

12 New Books* by Broadway Stars by New York Theater

Broadway performers Idina Menzel, Gideon Glick, Andy Mientus, Nancy Olson, directors Jack O’Brien and Sheldon Epps are all new authors — of memoirs, novels, a cookbook, a children’s bo…

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Thursday, October 20, 2022

Topdog/Underdog Broadway Review by New York Theater

Is “Topdog/Underdog” as outdated as the three-card monte that the play revolves around? In Suzan-Lori Parks’ twenty-year-old play, two brothers with the loaded names of Lincoln and Boo…

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Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Wuthering Heights Review. Emily Bronte to a Rock Beat by New York Theater

Emma Rice’s jokey, sprawling musical adaptation of “Wuthering Heights” that opens tonight at St. Ann’s Warehouse might befuddle anyone who associates the title with the 1939 movie. L…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00PM
Monday, October 17, 2022

Actor Action, Audience Anger: Sara Porkalob and Lillias White. (LuPone reacts) #Stageworthy News of the Week by New York Theater

Two Broadway cast members provoked voluble reactions among theater lovers this past week,  both of which feel like case studies with surprisingly complex implications. Sara Porkalob, who i…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:15PM
Sunday, October 16, 2022

Sara Porkalob vs 1776: Is it ok to criticize the show you’re in? by New York Theater

Sara Porkalob, who is making her Broadway debut portraying Edward Rutledge, the pro-slavery representative from South Carolina, in the gender-reversed Broadway revival of “1776,” gave an…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:01PM
Friday, October 14, 2022

Edward Hopper and New York Theater by New York Theater

For Edward Hopper, theater was a passionate pastime, an inspiration, and also, from first to last, a subject of his paintings — enough of them to fill a gallery and then some in “Edward …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:36PM
Thursday, October 13, 2022

The Piano Lesson Broadway Review. August Wilson revival full of stars and ghosts. by New York Theater

The first Broadway revival of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” is full of stars and ghosts. The ghosts are what make it brilliant. Don’t misunderstand. It’s thrilling that: -Sam…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:39PM
Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Outpouring for Angela. Watch her in Sweeney Todd, Beauty and the Beast, Tony Awards. by New York Theater

Angela Lansbury received her first Oscar nomination before World War II was won, and today, there are children who know who she is. It’s hard to imagine anyone matching the historical swee…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:40AM
Tuesday, October 11, 2022

RIP Angela Lansbury, 96: “Curtain opens, out you go, and New York is yours.” by New York Theater

Angela Lansbury, the English born actress, child star in Hollywood and beloved sleuth of “Murder She Wrote” who conquered Broadway relatively late in life, died today at her home in Los …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:28PM

Broadway Reviews: Death of a Salesman. 1776. Cost of Living. Broadway Goes Hybrid, Again! #Stageworthy News of the Week by New York Theater

Three more shows opened last week, the latest in the revved-up Broadway season, all three with non-traditional casts, two of them familiar Broadway fare thus made unfamiliar (and, the produc…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03AM
Monday, October 10, 2022

The Tribal Nations of New York, and Native American Theater in NYC by New York Theater

In honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, which President Joe Biden first formally recognized as a national holiday in 2021, to be celebrated the second Monday of October (today!) – not coin…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:21PM
Sunday, October 9, 2022

Death of a Salesman Broadway Review. Black and Feeling Beat. by New York Theater

The “Death of a Salesman” that opens tonight on Broadway begins and ends with the people around Willy Loman literally singing the blues — the music that turned the bitterness and exhau…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:19PM
Saturday, October 8, 2022

Death of A Salesman versus Mad Men, 2012 by New York Theater

A day before opening night of the sixth Broadway production of Arthur Miller’s 1949 plays seems a good time to resurrect my review of the fifth production which opened on March 15th, 2012 …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:29PM
Friday, October 7, 2022

Digital Theater To Watch for Free This Holiday Weekend by New York Theater

The long weekend is a good time to catch up on theater that is available online for free. Some of it has been around for a while and may remain so; four of the shows below are planning to go…

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Thursday, October 6, 2022

1776 Broadway Review. Founding Sisters Doing It for Themselves by New York Theater

The original challenge to the creators of “1776” was how to make a commercial musical comedy out of something as somber and dry as the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Half a …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:42PM
Tuesday, October 4, 2022

The Suppliants Project Ukraine. Aeschylus and refugees on a football field by New York Theater

“We are not criminals…” Kristina was saying “We are refugees,” Bohdana added, “seeking asylum.” Kristina Obluchynska and Bohdana Yakobchuk were two of the seven women from Ukra…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:26PM
Monday, October 3, 2022

Cost of Living Broadway Review by New York Theater

On the same night that I saw the exquisitely acted Broadway production of “Cost of Living” — Martyna Majok’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play that tells the parallel stories of two disabl…

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Leopoldstadt on Broadway. Lloyd Webber’s Bad Cinderella. Lea Michele Sings People. #Stageworthy News of the Week by New York Theater

Tom Stoppard’s nineteenth play to open on Broadway, and the Fall 2022 season’s first, launches a busy and exciting theatrical month in New York — eight shows just on Broadway, includin…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:46AM
Sunday, October 2, 2022

Leopoldstadt Review. Tom Stoppard on the Jews of Vienna by New York Theater

“Leopoldstadt,” a play by Tom Stoppard inspired by the death of his own extended family in the Holocaust, begins with a family tree projected onto the scrim of the stage at Broadway’s …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:44PM
Saturday, October 1, 2022

October 2022 New York Theater Openings: A Month of Abundance on Broadway and Beyond by New York Theater

Below is a day-by-day calendar of theater opening* in October, a thrilling selection featuring eight Broadway shows (four of them Pulitzer winners, a fifth the nineteenth Broadway play in a…

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Friday, September 30, 2022

Theater Quiz for September 2022 by New York Theater

How well were you paying attention to New York theater in September? Answer these dozen questions to find out. Loading…

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Thursday, September 29, 2022

Next Wave Festival Review: 300 el x 50 el x 30 el by New York Theater

Before the curtain rises at BAM’s Harvey Theater on this wordless, whimsical and haunting hour-long theater piece cryptically entitled “300 el x 50 el x 30 el,”  a huge screen proje…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:19PM
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Refocus Project Year 2: Sarita by María Irene Fornés by New York Theater

In María Irene Fornés’ 1984 musical “Sarita” — presented in a rare staged reading free online through October 16th as part of Roundabout’s Refocus Project — we first meet the t…

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Monday, September 26, 2022

Broadway 25 in 2022-23. The Broadway Body and Why It’s Bad. #Stageworthy News of the Week by New York Theater

With the announcement this week that Mike Birbiglia is returning to Broadway for his latest solo show about his life, “The Old Man and the Pool,” (opening at the Vivian Beaumont Novembe…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:47AM
Saturday, September 24, 2022

Cheek to Cheek: Irving Berlin in Hollywood by New York Theater

“Cheek to Cheek,” an intelligent, entertaining musical revue that showcases two dozen of the songs that Irving Berlin wrote for movie musicals, makes no claims that his work in Hollywood…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:56PM
Friday, September 23, 2022

ASL-Interpreted Broadway and Off-Broadway performances Fall 2022. Watch Encanto in ASL by New York Theater

In the music video below, Deaf West Theater interprets Lin-Manuel Miranda’s song “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” into American Sign Language in a music video from the animated film “En…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:29PM
Thursday, September 22, 2022

Broadway Poll: The Fall 2022 Show You Most Want To See by New York Theater

Choose the show that you are most looking forward to, of the twenty that have an official opening on Broadway in October, November or December 2022. They are listed chronologically below by …

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Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Four Saints in Three Acts Review. David Greenspan Does Gertrude Stein Solo by New York Theater

The 1934 Broadway debut of “Four Saints in Three Acts,” a then-shocking and much celebrated avant-garde opera with a libretto by Gertrude Stein and a score by Virgil Thomson, featured an…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:08PM

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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