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Below is a list of movies opening from September to December, organized chronologically by release date. Among the movies featuring theater veterans: Oscar Isaac  in “Operation Fina…
"Remnant," according to Theater Mitu's director Ruben Polendo, is a meditation on war, death and loss. It is Mitu's first piece in the first building that the 20-year-old company can call it…
Buzz Aldrin was the second man to walk on the moon (nine minutes after the first, Neil Armstrong), 50 years ago next summer. "No one will think of them as 'the first men on the moon.'Neil wi…
Playwright Neil Simon, who dominated Broadway with his many comedies for more than two decades, died on Sunday at the age of 91. His is the latest death of a theater artist in a week full of…
Lillian Hellman herself described "Days to Come," her 1936 play about labor strife and family conflict, as "an absolute horror of a failure." She wrote it two years after her first Broadway …
Leonard Bernstein, who was born on August 25, 1918, was “the greatest pianist among the conductors, the greatest conductor among composers, the greatest composer among pianists,”…
Charlie Copeland is a Broadway fixer, who's worked on everything from "The Phantom of the Opera" to "Frozen," tangibly changing the experience for a generation of theatergoers. Copeland is n…
Philip Santos Schaffer pulls back the curtain and introduces himself as “your server and savior” to me and the only other member of the audience. After chatting idly for a while,…
The National Asian American Theatre Company's production of Shakespeare's Henry VI trilogy is unlike any you've seen in New York before. This is true largely because you are unlikely ever to…
For 20 years, August was the month when New Yorkers who hated the beach and couldn't afford to travel could have a "staycation" sampling some 200 shows at the New York International Fringe F…
From its first moments, Gettin' The Band Back Together feels like the tackiest show on Broadway, an impression advanced by its lazy plot, uninspired garage rock score, dopey jokes, and clich…
From its first moments, Gettin' The Band Back Together feels like the tackiest show  on Broadway, an impression advanced by its lazy plot,  uninspired garage rock score, dopey jokes, a…
Vivian (Samantha Banks) is a hooker, Edward (Andy Karl) is a killer corporate raider who meets her on Hollywood Boulevard, and if the ensuing romance is no less a fable than it was in the hi…
Vivian (Samantha Banks) is a hooker, Edward (Andy Karl) is a killer corporate raider who meets her on Hollywood Boulevard, and if the ensuing romance is no less a fable than it was in the hi…
With two Broadway shows opening this week — “Gettin The Band Back Together” and “Pretty Woman” — it’s hard to say we’re in the Dog Days of Aug…
"Shakespeare in the Theater" is the not-quite-clever title of a festival at the Brick Theater that presents itself as an alternative to New York summer staples, Shakespeare in the Park and S…
To outsiders, Be More Chill is a hyper-energetic pop-rock musical opening tonight Off-Broadway, starring Will Roland (Dear Evan Hansen) as a high school student named Jeremy Heere who sees h…
To outsiders, “Be More Chill” is a hyper-energetic pop-rock musical opening tonight Off-Broadway, starring Will Roland (“Dear Evan Hansen”) as a high school student n…
For the 42nd summer in a row, the Theater for the New City’s touring Street Theater Company is presenting an original show for free in the streets and parks throughout New York City. (…
Alzheimer's, homophobia, transphobia, immigration, the 1960s, and emojis: These were some of the subjects in the 15th annual New York Musical Festival, or NYMF, which presented 30 musica…
Wearing t-shirts that said “Now showing: Truth,” Rosie O’Donnell and dozens of other performers who had traveled from New York for the day participated in the 22nd day of p…
Ruthie Anne Miles performed for the first time after her terrible loss, Julia Roberts visited the musical adaptation of the movie that made her a star, Rosie O’Donnell is leading a bus…
Four musicals in the 2018 New York Musical Festival tied for the most awards, five apiece: Between the Sea and the Sky, Emojiland, Interstate and Pedro Pan. Below the list of winners and …
Margaret, a widow and well-meaning mother, is dressed in pearls while making her special buttermilk biscuits for her daughter Laura, who's back home listless with severe memory loss after he…
"I am tall when I'm young but short when I'm old. What am I?" That's the first of the three riddles that Sam (short for Samantha) poses to the mysterious woman in white in order to free her …
