Wednesday, July 20, 2022
Theater has always involved risk, and pain, and they are often still viewed as necessary and good: “If you’re just doing what you know works you can be great, but you won’t get to the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:23AMTuesday, July 19, 2022
Why has there been so much conflict and conversation over a cast change on Broadway, a personnel decision in a Chicago theater, and a producer’s late payroll for a musical that’s just cl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:10PMMonday, July 18, 2022
After skipping two summers because of the pandemics *, Broadway in Bryant Park, the free weekly lunchtime concerts by the casts from current Broadway shows, will return to Bryant Park with a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:22AMSunday, July 17, 2022
Twenty-five women have portrayed Fanny Brice on Broadway* – a 26th, Lea Michele, takes over the role on September 6 — but, half a century before she became a character in the Jule Style …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:55PMSaturday, July 16, 2022
Everybody seemed to have a colorful anecdote about Tallulah Bankhead. She was said to have inspired the characters of Margo Channing in the film “All About Eve,” Blanche DuBois in Ten…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:49PMFriday, July 15, 2022
Paul McCartney’s planned new musical wouldn’t be the first time an actual Beatle created something original for Broadway. But it would be wonderful. Three years ago, McCartney announced …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:27PMMonday, July 11, 2022
Two new plays and a new musical announced for Broadway this past week, and a fourth firmed up dates and theater, bringing the number of confirmed shows in the Broadway 2022-2023 season to 17…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:08PMFriday, July 8, 2022
Theater as we know it began outdoors, in amphitheaters such as the 2,500-year-old theater at Epidaurus, Greece, which was designed by the architect Polykleitos the Younger, and is still bein…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:58PMTuesday, July 5, 2022
As a new season begins, the big questions posed in the best theater co-exist with a more immediate question: Are theatergoers safe? Starting last Friday, Broadway attendance requires neither…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:58AMMonday, July 4, 2022
“You don’t own me,” Lesley Gore sings, in one of the videos below of anthems, pop ballads and raps sung by women that have taken on a new, urgent meaning this Fourth of July, a holiday…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:28PMSunday, July 3, 2022
How well were you paying attention to the news and its impact on theater this past month? Answer these dozen questions on abortion and masks and the Tonys, plus a bonus question on hybrid th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:39PMFriday, July 1, 2022
Below is a selection of theater opening in New York in July, featuring two Broadway shows, a revival of Sondheim and Lapine’s “Into the Woods” and a stage adaptation of “The Kite Ru…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:42PMThursday, June 30, 2022
Below is a list of theater books — recently published, soon-to-be published, or newly relevant — in four categories: Scripts and Play AnthologiesBiographies and MemoirsTheater History, C…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:29AMWednesday, June 29, 2022
Below is my annual preview guide of Broadway openings in the 2022-2023 season, which features starry revivals of some of America’s most acclaimed plays and musicals, new adaptations of bel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:52AMMonday, June 27, 2022
The Broadway League will no longer require Broadway theatergoers to wear masks starting this Friday – not the most shocking decision announced last week, but like the Supreme Court rulin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:02PMWednesday, June 22, 2022
Lot bristles at the label “special needs.” He is a recluse and a self-trained artist who composed a song called “Weird” and collects trash to turn into sculpture. Yes, he says, he…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:27PMTuesday, June 21, 2022
The theater award season continues with nominations announced today by Broadway Black for its second Antonyo Awards, intended to honor extraordinary achievements in the Black theater communi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:59PMMonday, June 20, 2022
Myles Frost of “MJ The Musical” AND Jared Grimes of “Funny Girl” both won the Chita Rivera Awards for outstanding male dancer in a Broadway show, one of two ties in the annual award …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:05PMThe words “weird” or “weirdo” appear some two dozen times in “Corsicana,” a play by Will Arbery which opens on Wednesday, and which co-stars Dierdre O’Connell, who last week (c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:08PMSunday, June 19, 2022
“God’s Fool,” the 70-minute theater piece about St. Francis of Assisi conceived and directed by Martha Clarke that’s at LaMaMa through July 2, would probably be best appreciated by t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:47PM“Lessons in Survival 1971,” running at the Vineyard Theater through June 30, is based on then-28-year-old poet Nikki Giovanni’s interview-turned-conversation with the famous writer Ja…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:40PMOn the 100th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s monumental modernist novel “Ulysses,” Symphony Space gave over its annual Bloomsday celebration to a new theater piece, als…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:59PMThursday, June 16, 2022
The moments in “The Orchard” that suggest the current Russian invasion of Ukraine would surely get the most attention in a more conventionally focused adaptation of “The Cherry Orchard…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:20PMTuesday, June 14, 2022
In the prologue of “Circle Jerk” — a funny, campy, discombobulating hybrid theater piece that’s a spoof of both gay and digital culture (and also an example of each) — the Troll, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:23PMMonday, June 13, 2022
There were delightful surprises and predictable disappointments during the 75th Tony Awards, honoring the first full season since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down theaters in March 2020 and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:18AMSunday, June 12, 2022
Below the winners of the 75th annual Tony Awards (Here’s a guide to the full 2021-2022 Broadway season, including those not nominated, and those that reopened.)(Here is the list of the nom…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:09PMSaturday, June 11, 2022
Years before the end of her long illustrious life, Lena Horne, singer, actor, dancer, elegant beauty, fierce civil rights activist, pioneering movie star — the first Black performer to …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:58PMThursday, June 9, 2022
In this most trying of seasons, the theater community has been attempting to redefine what Broadway means, and that includes producing work that surely would not have made it to Broadway bef…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:13PMWednesday, June 8, 2022
(Full list of nominees here) (Don’t know the difference between the Drama Desk and the Drama League and the Drama Critics Circle and the Outer Critics Circle awards? Check out my New York…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:13PMA dozen luminous first-time New York stage performers, plus Harvey Fierstein, and 21 members of the ensemble of The Music Man, were honored at the 76th annual Theatre World Awards — the fi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:41AMMonday, June 6, 2022
The 75th Annual Tony Awards will be presented next Sunday at Radio City Music Hall and live on your TV or (more likely) computer, celebrating the strangest of Broadway seasons, which officia…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:21AM 
