Wednesday, April 13, 2022
The Comedian Harmonists, the singing group whose story is told in “Harmony,” Barry Manilow’s long-gestating musical, were as popular as the Beatles in their time and place. But their t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:35PMTuesday, April 12, 2022
What’s most cringeworthy about “To My Girls” is not that, in an era of “they/them,” the group of gay men in their late 30s who meet for a weekend in Palm Springs are all “She nee…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:16PMMonday, April 11, 2022
“What is essential is invisible to the eye,” a fox tells the little prince. “It’s only visible to the heart.” The line is from Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s beloved 1943 novella, �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:41PMPositive COVID-19 tests caused the cancellation last week of four Broadway shows, two of them still in previews, presenting a test of the enthusiasm for the April line-up (celebrated by the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:36AMSunday, April 10, 2022
In “Birthday Candles,” opening on Broadway tonight, Debra Messing portrays Ernestine, a woman who we see celebrating her birthdays from age 17 to age 107 by baking a cake. She do…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:38PMSaturday, April 9, 2022
Below is an explanation of the major annual New York theater awards, plus a 2022 calendar of nomination announcements and award ceremonies — which (like most everything in the last two yea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:10AMFriday, April 8, 2022
Theater critics and theatergoers don’t like the same shows, Jan Simpson says in a post in “Broadway & Me,” as explained (and linked) below. What about theater bloggers? Yes, there …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:55AMThursday, April 7, 2022
Below are the nominations for the 37th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. “Kimberly Akimbo” and “Oratorio for Living Things” have the most nom…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:25PMWednesday, April 6, 2022
People thought Mickey Rowe was a weird kid. By the time that weirdness was officially deemed a disability and given a diagnosis, he was a senior in college and had already begun working as a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:44PMMonday, April 4, 2022
In this first Broadway revival of Richard Greenberg’s 2003 Tony-winning comedy, which is a gay man’s love letter to baseball, Jesse Williams portrays Darren Lemming, a star player who is…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:23PMStep aside, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Burt Bacharach, Stephen Schwartz, Bob Dylan, Claude-Michel Schönberg. Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear, aged 23 and 20 respectively, won the Grammy for Best …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:39AMSunday, April 3, 2022
There are pleasures in “Paradise Square.” The terrific dancing tells its own story, a quintessential American (and Broadway) one: How African-American and Irish immigrant dancers lear…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:15PMThe Unofficial Bridgerton Musical has won the 2022 Grammy for the best musical theater album — which is unusual, since it has never been performed on a stage. The six nominees in the categ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:03PMFriday, April 1, 2022
Below is a day-by-day calendar of the FIFTEEN Broadway shows opening (and three reopening) in April, including fan anticipated favorites “Funny Girl” and “A Strange Loop,” plus a sel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:26AMThursday, March 31, 2022
Broadway at the Oscars! A March of Black Women! Neil Simon’s comeback? This has been a month full of theater news – at least enough to fill a quiz, like the one below. Find out your Thea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:31PMWednesday, March 30, 2022
“Oratorio for Living Things” is such a gorgeous, awe-inspiring concert of original music by Heather Christian that it feels like a religious experience. Indeed, the music — inflecte…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:45PMMonday, March 28, 2022
Why would long-married celebrity couple Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker choose “Plaza Suite” as the play to reunite them on stage for the first time since 1996? Neil Simon�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00PMThis is a week for Black women — Ariana DeBose’s Oscar win, and the opening of two plays Off-Broadway: “Confederates” by Dominique Morisseau and “Help” by Claudia Rankine, my rev…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:14AMSunday, March 27, 2022
In “Confederates,” playwright Dominique Morisseau presents in alternating scenes the stories of two Black women in eras 160 years apart — a 19th century slave who becomes a spy f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:45PMToday is World Theatre Day, created in 1961 as an annual celebration on March 27. This year I dedicate it to the theaters, performers, and theater lovers of Ukraine. To the more than 400 leg…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:10PMSaturday, March 26, 2022
Watch below as more than 60 performers are appearing in an 11-hour telethon (from noon to 10 p.m. today) to raise money and awareness for those affected by the ongoing war in Ukraine. Donat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:07PMThursday, March 24, 2022
“Help,” performed at The Shed by April Mathis and 11 white actors in business suits, is in effect an adaptation by the poet, playwright and Yale professor Claudia Rankine, a Black woman…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:43PMTuesday, March 22, 2022
Near the end of Charles J. Shields’ biography of Lorraine Hansberry, the third such book I’ve read in as many years, the author mentions the five-story townhouse near Washington Square P…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:48PMSunday, March 20, 2022
Cesar Chavez was a giant in the American labor and civil rights movements, but right now he’s eight inches tall. “I have to do something for mi gente,” the little cardboard Cesar says�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:11PMFriday, March 18, 2022
Eighteen women have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, from “Miss Lulu Bett,” which Zona Gale adapted from her own novel in 1921, to “The Hot Wing King” by Katori Hall in 2021 –a ce…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:02PMWednesday, March 16, 2022
“Sometimes, Sasha, war is necessary, it’s unavoidable,” the Russian soldier Victor is saying to the Ukrainian woman who has tied him up and is pointing a gun at him. “You can’t b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:52PMTuesday, March 15, 2022
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to, and the one you are least likely to attend. The list below is for shows that have opening dates on Broadway in March and (mostly) April …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:28AMMonday, March 14, 2022
Below are a list with links to the 16 shows opening on Broadway in March and April — starry casts, iconic musicals, theater classics and adventurous new works… the closest to a normal Sp…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:57PMThe Tony Awards’ new dates! Daniel Radcliffe in a Stephen Sondheim musical! Will Swenson in a new Neil Diamond musical! Pamela Anderson in her Broadway debut! The many exciting Broadway an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:47AMSunday, March 13, 2022
A protesting art student who is on a hunger strike faces a soldier who is pointing a gun at him. The student offers the soldier some food. They are in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:18PMFriday, March 11, 2022
Below are the winners of the American Connected Theater Awards* for theatrical storytelling created and presented online during the year between March 2021 and March 2022. Much has happened …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:29PM 
