5,357 stories from New York Theater
There were good things that happened in 2021 " in general (vaccines became widely available, Britney was freed, the coup failed, Derek Chauvin was convicted, Juneteenth was made …
A positive test in the company canceled what was supposed to be opening night. A torrential thunderstorm had canceled the first preview. "It's been harrowing, harrowing, harrowing, the w…
Below are some of the people from the theater community who died in 2021, listed alphabetically. Click on any photograph to read the caption, most of which link to an obituary.
Three of the most memorable moments on a New York stage in 2021 were of characters getting high; can you blame them, given the year we've had? Among the moments represented in the photo gall…
In "Theater of Lockdown: Digital and Distanced Performance in a Time of Pandemic"Â (Methuen Drama, 247 pages), Barbara Fuchs attempts to chronicle what she calls "the fundamental transfor…
The Broadway debut of "Trouble in Mind" some three decades after playwright Alice Childress' death is the most popular choice among critics whose lists of top 10 New York theater for 2021…
A third of all Broadway shows were canceled on Sunday because members of the company or crew tested positive for Covid, the latest in "a raft of cancellations unlike any in history," evidenc…
While others were busy assessing the trends in New York theater of the decade that had just ended, on January 1, 2020, I asked: What will be the trends of the future? I had a list of seven q…
It shouldn't surprise anybody who followed the race for New York City mayor that Eric Adams, who won and will take office on January 1, 2022, has a book out called Healthy at Last: A Plant-B…
This year's holiday season in New York is meant as a return to the annual tradition of live in-person Christmas Carols and Nutcracker Suites, as well as the usual mix of family fare, offb…
It's been 40 years since sex therapist Ruth Westheimer became a celebrity. The 4'7" "Grandma Freud," aka Dr. Ruth, who gave advice on her radio and TV shows in a sing-song European accent ab…
Deirdre O'Connell gave one of my favorite performances on a New York stage in 2016, and she returns in this latest of my annual lists of favorite theatrical performances  (not all o…
This past week, the last Broadway shows of 2021 opened (Flying Over Sunset) and reopened (Dear Evan Hansen, the last of the reopening shows that were shut down by the pandemic.) For all the …
When he takes LSD, the movie star Cary Grant turns into a spectacular tap-dancer, in a duet with a boy in a dress " who turns out to be his younger self, Archie Leach. The novelist and futur…
Kimberly Levaco is a 16-year-old girl with a rare, terminal disease that accelerates the aging process, and makes her look as if she's in her 70s. Seth Weetis is her nerdy, smiling classmate…
The remake of "West Side Story," the tragic story of lovers from rival New York street gangs, which opens in movie theaters today, is director Steven Spielberg's first movie musical. Spielbe…
 "Company" is perfectly timed, sadly. Opening less than two weeks after the death of Stephen Sondheim at the age of 91, in a season delayed by more than a year and a half by the worldwide…
Alex Edelman read a Tweet from somebody he knew to be antisemitic " the man had previously attacked him online for being Jewish "Â Â inviting people to go to an address in Astoria, Queen…
"Selling Kabul," a play by Sylvia Khoury at Playwrights Horizons through December 23, tells a small, claustrophobic story about Taroon, an Afghani man who is holed up in his sister Afiya's a…
The President of the United States attended the 44th Kennedy Center Honors, in a return to tradition, and paid tribute not just to the honorees " opera singer Justino DÃaz, Motown foun…
"Mrs. Doubtfire," a musical adaptation of the 1993 Robin Williams movie about a divorced man who disguises himself as a woman so that he can spend time with his children as their nanny, has …
There are so many shows currently on Broadway either based on a movie, or the inspiration for a movie " and so many more scheduled for the season ahead " that I thought an apt follow-up to y…
This year, when we've spent so much time looking at screens, was a banner year for movie adaptations of shows that originated on stage: "In The Heights," "The Humans," "Dear Evan Hansen," mo…
In his new Off-Off Broadway play, John Patrick Shanley " Oscar-winner for "Moonstruck," Tony and Pulitzer winner for "Doubt" " imagines what it would be like if Romeo and Juliet were both…
Below is a day-by-day selection of New York theater that is scheduled to open in December, organized by opening date.* That includes the gender-bending revival of "Company," by Stephen Sondh…
