Thursday, January 2, 2025
There are almost 100 shows produced by the seven annual theater festivals listed below, all of whom begin in January. Largely experimental, avant-garde, mixed-genre, and at much lower ticket…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:12PMWednesday, January 1, 2025
The year 2025 begins with some short-term questions about theater – the fate of “Warriors,” the effect of “Wicked”?– and more long-term ones – what new leadership will mean to …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:58PMTuesday, December 31, 2024
Let us celebrate the new year by honoring these twenty Broadway veterans — accomplished performers, playwrights, producers, directors, composers (at least one of them all those things tog…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30AMMonday, December 30, 2024
How much do you remember of this year in New York theater? Answer these 10 questions to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:48PMHow DO you measure a year? Yes, in laughter and strife, and also in nightlife. (New Year’s Eve in NYC Last Minute Guide to Greeting 2025) Theater lovers measure the year in shows, sure (se…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:24AMSunday, December 29, 2024
Below is a list of theater books that were published in 2024, most of which I read and enjoyed (with caveats), several I hope to get to in the new year. Beneath that is a list of 10 scripts …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:07AMSaturday, December 28, 2024
When they hug in the rain in “The Notebook.” When they fight in the rain in “The Outsiders.” When the fourth sibling finally arrives in “The Hills of California.” When the fourth…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:46PMFriday, December 27, 2024
The year began with Elton John getting an EGOT and ended with his giving Broadway a flop. It was that kind of year, offering theatergoers reasons to cheer and to jeer. Here are ten of t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:21PMThursday, December 26, 2024
My last-minute guide to New Year’s Eve in New York City, when 2024 turns into 2025, features information on: Times Square.Dining Out,Theater: Plays as parties, Broadway show schedule, fami…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:49PMWednesday, December 25, 2024
On this traditional day of moviegoing, here is my quick take on ten new feature films, most of them only available in cinemas, including “A Complete Unknown,” “The Fire Inside” and �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:11PMPortia, Act 5, Scene 1 of “The Merchant of Venice”
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:02AMTuesday, December 24, 2024
Below are some of the people from the theater community who died in 2024, listed alphabetically. Click on any photograph (and click the ⌽ button) to read the caption. (In a few of these, t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:20AMMonday, December 23, 2024
The final three Broadway shows of 2024 opened last week — a play, a musical and…something else, for a total of 33 shows running on Broadway as we head into Christmukkah (both Christmas a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:11AMSunday, December 22, 2024
“All In: Comedy about Love,” opening on Broadway tonight, is not based on Simon Rich’s humorous stories; it is a selection of those stories, read aloud from hand-held binders by a ro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:36PMBelow is the Broadway schedule between Monday December 23, 2024 and Sunday, December 29, 2024, with links to my reviews of the shows. Eight shows will be performed Christmas Eve (Tuesday), a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:37AMSaturday, December 21, 2024
My guide to the underground immersive hit “Life and Trust” was the best-read post on my NewYorkTheater.me blog in 2024, followed by my comparison of Wicked the movie with the Broadway m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:06PMFriday, December 20, 2024
Cole Escola and Nicole Scherzinger made spectacular Broadway debuts this year, justly acclaimed, but less attention-grabbing performances in less conspicuous productions also impressed, alb…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:39PMThursday, December 19, 2024
The marquee says it all: “AudraGypsy.” With less brass and more heart, Audra McDonald’s distinctive portrayal of Madam Rose, the mother of all stage mothers, is the reason to see this�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:55PMWednesday, December 18, 2024
On this day in 2019, in news reported on front pages around the world the next day, the House of Representatives impeached Donald J Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:04AMTuesday, December 17, 2024
The landscape has changed for theater. The loss of the Connelly Theater, while under unusual circumstances (see Joey Sims’ interview below with its departing director) feels emblematic of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:28PMMonday, December 16, 2024
“Eureka Day” begins as a stock satire of the painstakingly earnest progressives at a small private elementary school in Berkeley, California, leading to one of the most hilarious scenes …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:55PMJustice Ketanji Brown Jackson makes her one-night-only Broadway debut in “& Juliet” (see videos below) What’s most intriguing about the end-of-year assessments, by both professiona…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:02AMSunday, December 15, 2024
“Maybe Happy Ending” is the most acclaimed show among theater critics whose lists of top 10 New York theater for 2024 are featured below; it is also the number one choice by far in a …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30AMSaturday, December 14, 2024
My thirteenth annual theater gift guide below features links and information on shopping for theater tickets,theater subscriptions/memberships,cast recordings,play scripts and books about t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:23AMFriday, December 13, 2024
What did you think was the best of the forty-four shows that opened on Broadway in 2024? Which was the worst? Take the two polls below. Judge the quality of the show as you see it, not how i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:31AMThursday, December 12, 2024
The title makes us wary of all the Christmas cheer at the Dahl family gathering when Leslye Headland’s play begins: Everybody is singing Christmas carols in a home awash in Christmas decor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:26PMThe announcement gave me pause. The Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Guild announced five nominees in the new category of “Broadway and International” for its 12th Annual MUAHS (Makeup A…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:44AMWednesday, December 11, 2024
Watch the ten videos below that were the most viewed in 2024 of those that I’ve posted on my YouTube channel, arranged in order of popularity. Only two were created in 2024 — Sutton Fos…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:59AMTuesday, December 10, 2024
Denzel Washington as Othello, Jonathan Groff as singer Bobby Darin, George Clooney as journalist Edward R. Murrow: The Spring Broadway season promises a starry and vibrant mix: original show…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:43PMMonday, December 9, 2024
Ketanji Brown Jackson will make her Broadway debut, with a one-night-only walk-on role in the Broadway musical “& Juliet“ on December 14, after which she will participate in a talkba…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:04AMSunday, December 8, 2024
As Benji, Kieran Culkin has no sense of boundaries. On a Jewish heritage tour that he takes with his cousin David to Poland, the country where their grandmother survived the Holocaust, Benji…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:34PM 
