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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:37AMTheater 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:55AM“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 09:57AMBroadway 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:31PMIs “Topdog/Underdog” as outdated as the three-card monte that the play revolves around?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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00PMEmma 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 10:00PMTwo 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 02:15PMSara 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 12:01PMFor 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 06:36PMThe 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 09:39PMAngela 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 06:40AMAngela 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 04:28PMThree 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 11:03AMIn 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 02:21PMThe “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 08:19PMA 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 11:29PMThe 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50PMThe 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“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 06:26PMOn 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:23PMTom 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“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 06:44PMBelow 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30AMHow well were you paying attention to New York theater in September? Answer these dozen questions to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:14PMBefore 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 05:19PMIn 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:12PMWith 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“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 11:56PMIn 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 01:29PMChoose 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 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:14PMThe 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…
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