Friday, September 23, 2022
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 01:29PMThursday, September 22, 2022
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 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:14PMTuesday, September 20, 2022
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 01:08PMMonday, September 19, 2022
At “Sesame Street the Musical,” an hour-long show in which nine puppeteers portray 11 familiar Sesame Street characters who each get a familiar Sesame Street song to sing, there was one …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:28PMTheater is evanescent; that’s part of its appeal. The one exception seemed to be “The Phantom of the Opera.” But this week the musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and directed by H…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:19AMSunday, September 18, 2022
Sometimes the set design is the best thing about a Broadway show. I thought that about “Moulin Rouge,” which won Derek McLane his second Tony Award for set design. Sometimes the sets are…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:27AMSaturday, September 17, 2022
It’s a shock, but it probably shouldn’t be. “The Phantom of the Opera,” the longest-running show in Broadway history, will close on February 18th, shortly after commemorating its 35T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:03AMFriday, September 16, 2022
On the third day of her three-week trip to New York City, the ten-year-old Syrian refugee, and 12-foot-tall puppet, visits Father Duffy Square in Times Square, where she looks over the TKTS …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:54PMThursday, September 15, 2022
FDR knew. In 1943, Jan Karski told President Roosevelt firsthand about the Holocaust, after Karski, a Polish diplomat turned Resistance fighter had been smuggled into both the Warsaw Ghetto …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PMWednesday, September 14, 2022
Little Amal, a ten-year-old Syrian refugee and a 12-foot-tall puppet, has traveled 6,000 miles since July 2021, arriving today in New York City, first at JFK Airport, for 55 events over seve…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:52PMTuesday, September 13, 2022
Sheryl Lee Ralph gave an acceptance speech for the ages when she won the Emmy award last night for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as the veteran kindergarten …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:22AMMonday, September 12, 2022
The first four new Broadway shows of the Fall season begin performances this week, although they won’t officially open until next month. Two more shows were added to the Broadway 2022-2…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:36AMSunday, September 11, 2022
Machine Dazzle walks with me through some 80 of his fabulously intricate costumes on display at the opening day of his solo exhibition at the Museum of Art and Design, to one of some two doz…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:47PMSaturday, September 10, 2022
Walt Disney is pissed. “Why the hell would anybody need to unionize at a place like this? We got volleyball!“ “Burbank,” a play by Cameron Darwin Bossert at The Wild Project throug…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:41PMFriday, September 9, 2022
Queen Elizabeth II, who died yesterday at the age of 96, commanded the world stage during her 70-year reign. She was also a character on theatrical stages — in Great Britain of course, but…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:28PMThursday, September 8, 2022
In 1999, three physicists took a train from Cambridge to London, and in their discussion on that hour-long trip came up with a new theory about the origin of the universe, an alternate view…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PMWednesday, September 7, 2022
“My Onliness” is billed as “a fable/cabaret/circus entertainment about a mad king’s desperate attempt to impress a mysterious petitioner” – a description that doesn’t completel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PMTuesday, September 6, 2022
Adele and Paul McCartney were among the winners of the Creative Arts Emmys announced over the weekend, which means, for an EGOT (Emmy Grammy Oscar Tony), they only now need…a Tony. McCa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:28AMMonday, September 5, 2022
Where are the American plays about labor? About unions, or workers, or workplaces? I’ve been asking that question every Labor Day, a legal holiday created by Congress in 1884 to celeb…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:26AMSunday, September 4, 2022
A theater quiz that marks the end of summer, a relatively fallow period that gives theatergoers time to look back at the season just passed, and forward to the season ahead. Half of the ten …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:33PMFriday, September 2, 2022
Below is a selection of theater opening in New York in September, when Elmo won’t just be on the streets of Times Square, but on an Off-Broadway stage, while the twelve-foot tall puppet L…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:36PMThursday, September 1, 2022
“Too much of what is happening in our country today is not normal. Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,” Presiden…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:50PMWednesday, August 31, 2022
In the Korean version of Cinderella, the evil stepmother kills Cinderella and throws her into the river. But that’s not the end: Cinderella magically comes back to life and, with the help …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PMTuesday, August 30, 2022
“All the world’s a stage, and everybody’s in the show, nobody’s a pro,” Shaina Taub, dressed in patch-quilt overalls, sings in the first moments of her spirited and enchanting musi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:10PMMonday, August 29, 2022
The news of a new Kander and Ebb musical with Lin-Manuel Miranda added to a thrilling Broadway 2022-2023 still in formation. But equally tantalizing were the full season announcements last …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:25AMSunday, August 28, 2022
” Robot Infidèle” is a nearly-wordless, hour-long show that’s being presented for just three nights (ending tonight), at Little Island, the odd new pier and public park with two…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:30AMSaturday, August 27, 2022
Below are videos of some of the performances in the last Broadway in Bryant Park lunchtime concert of Summer 2022. The hour-long concert began with an acrobatic and musical “pre-show” pe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:27PMFriday, August 26, 2022
The cast of “A Strange Loop” performed four songs from the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning musical at the final Broadway in Bryant Park lunchtime concert of Summer 2022. Below are …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:50PMThursday, August 25, 2022
The Off-Broadway revival of “Kinky Boots,” which opens tonight at Stage 42, comes just 40 months after the end of the show’s run on Broadway, and is so little changed from the origi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:01PMWednesday, August 24, 2022
In the dog days of summer, those few bloggers not on vacation are depicting the theater as dog eat dog – an arena for classic class struggle, workers vs. owners. Or at least that might be …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:05PM 
