5,357 stories from New York Theater
Answer the ten questions to find out how well you paid attention to the goings-on in New York theater in the month of January, some of it unprecedented. Loading…
As Faye, Phylicia Rashad has lost her health, her house, her family, and is in danger of losing the job she's held for 29 years. "I'm runnin' on soul now Reggie," she tells her foreman. "…
Below are the videos of five entries in the sixth annual Exponential festival, which has gone completely digital this year and largely loopy.  I've written brief reviews, but I try to …
The current rise of antisemitism is suddenly getting stage time. Last week: "Witness,"Â Â which explored the doomed 1939 voyage of the German Jewish refugees aboard the St. Louis and exp…
In "Addressless,"Â Â the audience helps three characters navigate the tricky path to getting an affordable apartment in New York City. This is a daunting challenge for anyone. But it's a…
In "Reopening: The Broadway Revival," an hour-long documentary on PBS that's a bit painful and embarrassing to watch, actor Andrew Rannells compares the start of the shutdown of Broadw…
Broadway Week launches today, but this has not been Broadway's week.  Two more Broadway shows joined "Mrs. Doubtfire" in announcing a hiatus. "To Kill A Mockingbird" ended its run S…
Below is a recording and the text of a sermon that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered on February 4 1968 at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia exactly two months before h…
The night I saw "Witness," a rabbi and several members of his congregation were being held hostage in a synagogue near Fort Worth, Texas. The live scene of the police gathered on the street …
Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand do Shakespeare….online. Uzo Aduba is villainous simultaneously on Broadway…and online. A celebration of Sondheim; horrid, strange and theatrical m…
Kevin R. Free, who is one of the busiest theater artists I know" actor, playwright, director, producer, mentor, teacher, audiobook narrator " has taken on two new jobs…. both of them artis…
Trudy, a crazy bag lady who is one of the 11 characters that Cecily Strong portrays in this one-woman play originally performed by Lily Tomlin, tells us she brought her "space chums" " alien…
Given all the cancellations and delays caused by the Omicron variant surge (see news below),  digital theater is suddenly looking good again (see reviews below.) If the theater news th…
Sidney Poitier wasn't expected to live long; he was born prematurely in Miami, where his parents, who were tomato farmers from the Bahamas, happened to be visiting in order to sell their pro…
"I haven't done anything wrong," Chris Quinn says again and again in Caitriona Daly's play, which focuses on an accusation of rape. Chris is not the one accused. His friend Davey is, but Chr…
"Sweetheart, I'm fine, and I'm running for my life, I cannot talk to you right now," Rep. Norma Torres (D-Calif) recalls telling her son, when he telephoned her while she was scrambling down…
Immediately after I watched the first-ever "simulcast" of a Broadway play   " the exact same live performance of Lynn Nottage's "Clyde's" on my computer screen that the audience was…
Was 2021 a cause for celebration or for sorrow? Was it a time for gratitude, grief or gall? Yes, say the theater bloggers in the roundup below. The strange mix of emotions might be summed…
The Omicron variant of COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc on Broadway, with "Ain't Too Proud" becoming the fourth Broadway show in little more than a week to announce it was shutting down ear…
Below is a day-by-day selection of theater openings scheduled for January organized by opening date*, featuring a Broadway play, "Skeleton Crew," and several intriguing shows Off and Off-Off…
Reynaldo Piniella made an abrupt Broadway debut portraying a go-getting actor in 2021 under strange and trying circumstances; "It's been such a crazy time," he says. "Within like a 24 hour p…
Let us celebrate surviving to a new and surely better year, by honoring these dozen Broadway veterans aged 90 to 104. Click on any photograph to see it enlarged and read the caption.
How much do you remember of this unusual year in theater? Â Answer these 20 questions to find out. Loading…
Below is a list of theater books to read in 2022, most of which were published in 2021.‡ Click on the titles to find more information and to purchase these books, grouped under four…
Below are some of the year's best reads and the most popular posts of 2021, which, not surprisingly, were largely about the reopening of Broadway, although the number 1 post was about the mo…
