Tuesday, December 14, 2021
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 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:01PM[SHARE]Monday, December 13, 2021
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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:01PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 12, 2021
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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:28AM[SHARE]Friday, December 10, 2021
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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:38PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 9, 2021
 "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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 8, 2021
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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:41PM[SHARE]Monday, December 6, 2021
"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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:50PM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:01AM[SHARE]Friday, October 22, 2021
The Vineyard Theater has launched its Fall Forward Festival with the first two of the five planned  "new works of alternative theater," according to its website, works that promise to …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:21PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 21, 2021
After my tickets to "Lackawanna Blues" were canceled twice because Ruben Santiago-Hudson, the author, director and star of this autobiographical solo show, had injured his back, I searched f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 20, 2021
Do chimpanzees fall in love? Can human couples really stay madly in love after many years, and can a brain scan prove it?  Will theatergoers still love digital theater now that in-pers…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 19, 2021
""You're a singular talent, Billy. Nobody knows what to do with you.'"And there it is again"the smoke up my ass…Singular talent without a gig don't pay the rent, and a bitch needs to eat."…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:40PM[SHARE]Monday, October 18, 2021
There were five Broadway openings (and reopenings) this week, in what promises to be the oddest and busiest Broadway season in memory. There are now 51 shows on the Broadway 2021-2022 season…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 17, 2021
"Dana H." is unlike any play you've ever seen on Broadway. It's 75 minutes of an actress sitting on a chair, lip-syncing to a tape of a woman recounting the horrific story of a deranged crim…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 14, 2021
The country has changed in the two and a half years since The Lehman Trilogy came to America, wowing audiences at the Park Avenue Armory with a theatrical epic, inventively staged and ext…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 13, 2021
"Thoughts of a Colored Man,"  Keenan Scott II's often powerful, often entertaining debut Broadway play about a day in the life of seven Black men in Brooklyn,  is performed by a …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:52PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Rajiv Joseph's epistolary play begins with some meager clues to the mysteries at its heart " a stack of letters from a man named Suresh, and an origami sculpture of a bird " before it slowly…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:02PM[SHARE]"Booster" has taken on a new meaning in the age of COVID, which Broadway has embraced in its own way. Some 250 people have been hired (so far) to serve as safety team members in Broadway the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:59AM[SHARE]Monday, October 11, 2021
Much is improbable about "Is This A Room," starting with the name of the real-life whistleblower who's the subject of the play (Reality Winner), and the fact that she received a stupefyingly…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:47PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 10, 2021
Beverly Jenkins doesn't wear black to her father's funeral. "We already Black! We should be honoring my Daddy in style, COLOR! Hell, canary yellow was his favorite, and he wore it l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:04PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 9, 2021
 "Hit Your Mark, Die Beautiful" lured me in because it was being promoted as a "Waiting for Guffman" for Off Off Broadway, which I took to mean a comic but affectionate look at how bad Ne…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:26AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 7, 2021
"Divorced. Beheaded. Died. Divorced. Beheaded. Survived." The first six words of "Six" sum up the fate of each of King Henry VIII's six wives. The first six minutes of "Six" (the length of t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:40AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 5, 2021
If you think that reopening has solved the problems of New York's theaters and theater artists, listen up: "We're talking about life and death: The life and death of our neighborhoods; the l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:23PM[SHARE]Monday, October 4, 2021
In what may be the busiest October for theater in generations, there are fifteen shows scheduled to open on Broadway, more than half of which are new, as well as much Off and Off Off Broadwa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:56AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 3, 2021
In "Chasing Jack," nothing is as it seems. That's true of Dr. Jack Chase, the heart surgeon who is being sued for malpractice after his patient died on the operating table. And it's true of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:38PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 2, 2021
"The Nosebleed," Aya Ogawa's sly, strange and ultimately rewarding autobiographical play that's at the Japan Society through October 10, focuses on Ogawa's long-dead father and their failed …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:01PM[SHARE]Friday, October 1, 2021
Below is a day-by-day selection of the theater that is scheduled to open in October, organized by opening date*, including fifteen shows on Broadway, more than half of which are new, as w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 30, 2021
How well were you paying attention to a very busy theater month? Answer these ten question to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Aunt Sonia, who is gathering the whole clan for one last meal before she ends her life, looks different from when I last saw her. She once was just a huge head, with a mouth that seemed p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Bedlam's return to live in-person theater with its new adaptation of Jane Austen's romantic final novel " about a woman who meets once again the man whose proposal of marriage she rejected e…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:19PM[SHARE]Monday, September 27, 2021
In this slight musical comedy with an on-the-nose title, Broadway veteran Bryonha Marie Parham portrays a fading diva named Regina Comet who hires two aspiring jingle writers (Alex Wyse and …
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