Friday, 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 08:29PMThursday, March 10, 2022
Like a classic folk ballad, full of understated outrage and exquisite down-home music, “Coal Country,” in an encore presentation at the Cherry Lane, tells the devastating true stor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:31PMWednesday, March 9, 2022
“I can’t watch MSNBC and do nothing anymore,” says Jamie in “This Space Between Us.” Many of us surely have been feeling that way lately, especially in the past two weeks. Ja…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:34PMTuesday, March 8, 2022
In “The Chinese Lady,” playwright Lloyd Suh has created a gently amusing, lyrical, yet sharply pointed play based on the true story of the first known Chinese woman in the United State…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:28PMMonday, March 7, 2022
Starting today, New York City Mayor Eric Adams will no longer require indoor venues, including “entertainment spaces” to check for proof of vaccination. But Broadway theaters will still …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:35AMFriday, March 4, 2022
Among his many other talents, Harvey Fierstein is an experienced talk show guest. In his entertaining memoir, “I Was Better Last Night” (Knopf, 400 pages), he devotes one of his 59 short…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:01PMWednesday, March 2, 2022
The 110-year-old Cort Theater on Broadway will be renamed after the 91-year-old actor James Earl Jones, the Shubert organization announced today.“That James deserves to have his name immor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:29PMBelow is a day-by-day selection of theater openings scheduled for March organized by opening date*, featuring a single Broadway show (“Plaza Suite”) at the end of the month – a spar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:43AMTuesday, March 1, 2022
In the first and best in this uneven evening of five long monologues, all of them written by Asian-American playwrights and all of them featuring characters who are over the age of 60, a wom…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:43PMMonday, February 28, 2022
Below are six books that shed light on the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a shocking event, which may seem inexplicable, but only to those of us who don’t know the context. The title…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:09PMMany are speaking out against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, an independent nation of 44 million people with its own language, history and culture, including more than 400 theaters. Over t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:42AMSunday, February 27, 2022
“Sandblasted” begins with a woman buried in the sand, and you immediately think: Beckett’s “Happy Days.” She doesn’t remain buried, though, and another woman pops up out of th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:35PMAnswer the ten questions below to find out how well you paid attention to New York theater in the month of February. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:28PMSaturday, February 26, 2022
Broadway figures in the fourth season of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” as it did in the third season in 2019, when I wrote about all the things that this TV series on Amazon Prime got wr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:06PMThursday, February 24, 2022
There are more than 400 theaters in Ukraine, a nation of 44 million people with its own language, history and culture — which is currently under attack by the Russian military. The Odessa …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:07PMWednesday, February 23, 2022
While D.H. Lawrence was working on “Sons and Lovers,” his most popular novel, he wrote “The Daughter-in-Law,” the first of his eight plays, which (unlike his novels) was neither publ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:14PMTuesday, February 22, 2022
“What is wrong with you?” a theatergoer commented on my review of The Music Man. The show, she said, “is just what the doctor ordered…Listen, we’ve been cooped up for close to two…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:46PMMonday, February 21, 2022
How will Joe Biden be depicted on a Broadway stage? All we know is that it’s likely to happen sooner or later. Nearly every past president has made it to Broadway over the last century, as…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:11AMSunday, February 20, 2022
Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became a famous writer, orator and crusader, was reportedly the most photographed man in the 19th century. So it probably shouldn’t be surpris…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:15PMFriday, February 18, 2022
It’s no mystery why Meredith Willson’s 1957 musical is so beloved: The songs are terrifically tuneful, the lyrics terribly clever. But the story of a con artist who in 1912 seduces a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:06PMThursday, February 17, 2022
Bert Williams was, according to his friend W.C. Fields, “the funniest man I ever saw and the saddest man I ever knew.” Williams was probably the most popular African-American entertainer…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:30PMTuesday, February 15, 2022
Everything about “Black No More” sounded promising – a new musical inspired by a 1931 satiric novel of the same name that imagines what America would be like if there were a machine …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:08PMMonday, February 14, 2022
On Valentine’s Day, when thoughts (at least) turn to kissing, it’s a good time to note the return of the stage kiss. There may not be as much kissing at all in new in-person shows, and k…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:29PMFriday, February 11, 2022
“This place is fraught,” Niegel Smith, the artistic director of The Flea, was saying at the beginning of “Arden,” the first production by the Off-Off Broadway theater company after a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:03PMThursday, February 10, 2022
James Tyrone (Bill Camp) is wearing a face mask and shorts, and bringing home Starbucks takeout, while Mary Tyrone (Elizabeth Marvel), in sweatpants, is doing yoga, near a pile of Amazon…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:15AMTuesday, February 8, 2022
BEST PICTUREBelfastCODADon’t Look UpDrive My CarDuneKing RichardLicorice PizzaNightmare AlleyThe Power of the DogWest Side Story BEST DIRECTORPaul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza)Kenneth B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:17AMMonday, February 7, 2022
Both Tambo and Bones are dressed in the clownish rags of minstrel show performers, while Tambo is explaining to Bones how to get white people to give up their quarters: “You gotta deliver …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:24PMIt’s been a busy week for New York theater. See the seven reviews below, from “MJ” on Broadway and “The Tap Dance Kid” to “Shhhh” and “The Hang” downtown; and not one but t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:03PMSaturday, February 5, 2022
When the publicists for the Broadway revival of “The Music Man” starring Hugh Jackman announced that theater critics had to see the show on opening night, the pushback might have baffled…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:31PMFriday, February 4, 2022
There are two heartbreaking moments in “Intimate Apparel,” one exquisite, the other devastating, that eventually won me over to this production at Lincoln Center. But much earlier I s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:34PMThursday, February 3, 2022
In “The Tap Dance Kid,” a young Black girl named Emma wants to be a lawyer – prescient for a Broadway musical that debuted in 1983; that would make the character just about the righ…
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