Saturday, January 6, 2018
"How To Be A Rock Critic" is a solo play depicting a day in the life of critic Lester Bangs shortly before he died of an overdose in 1982 at the age of 33. If we are to take the title litera…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:15PM[SHARE]Friday, January 5, 2018
"If all theatres were demolished tomorrow, would anybody miss them, and for how long?" Several characters said that at different times throughout A Room in India, a theatre piece that had a …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 4, 2018
When snow begins to fall, New Yorkers ask one question " how bad will it get? " and New York theatergoers ask three more: Will the shows be canceled? Will shows offer a snow day discount?…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:13AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 3, 2018
The Spring 2018 season Off-Broadway promises some thrilling shows, as the preview guide below should make clear. There are new plays by superstar playwrights — Caryl Churchill (about r…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:39PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 2, 2018
Just one Broadway show is opening this month, Â but January is as usual one of the most robust months for theater in New York, thanks in large part to the January theater festivals. Togeth…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:43PM[SHARE]Choose the show that you are most looking forward to. The list below is for shows that have opening dates on Broadway in the Spring 2018 as of this writing, and they are listed chronological…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:55AM[SHARE]Monday, January 1, 2018
Is Mariah Carey our modern Cassandra, prophesizing the future? At the beginning of 2017, Carey, having blamed technical glitches for her disastrous New Year's Eve performance in Times Square…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 31, 2017
Here again, celebrating the new year by saluting a dozen Broadway veterans, aged 91 to 105. Click on any photograph to see it enlarged and read the caption. Why, you may ask, is Betty White,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:01PM[SHARE]The dozen videos below were the most viewed of those I posted on my YouTube channel, New York Theater, in 2017. Anastasia , Once Upon a December Anastasia highlights Jordan Fisher on making …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:29AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 30, 2017
Who wants to remember 2017, much less answer questions about it? To make this quiz slightly easier to take, references to Donald Trump have been (largely) avoided (and put into a separate qu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:12PM[SHARE]Friday, December 29, 2017
Below is a list of theater books, most of which were published in 2017. Click on the titles to find more information and to purchase these books, grouped under four categories: 1. Scripts, i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:39PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 28, 2017
It might be a stretch to say that the theater community has a special relationship with Donald Trump, or even a special antipathy. But in my looking over the theater news of the past year, i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:55PM[SHARE]There were so many memorable theater-related moments this year that were not part of any scripted show that they threatened to upstage any moments on stage. Even some of the most encouraging…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:24AM[SHARE]There were so many memorable theater-related moments this year that were not part of any scripted show that they threatened to upstage any moments on stage. Even some of the most encouraging…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 27, 2017
Anything about "Hamilton" was still popular on NewYorkTheater.me in 2017, nearly three years after the musical first opened, Off-Broadway. 5 BEST-READ POSTS IN 2017 1. The 50 Best Plays of T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 26, 2017
My annual New Year’s Eve last-minute guide features the Broadway show schedule for New Year's week, and other theater, as well as parties, concerts,intimate dinners, cruises, and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 24, 2017
This seems the right day to feature Ann Harada, in the original cast of Avenue Q, as a character named Christmas Eve. Today, we look back at 2017, with the top New York theater stories of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:55PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 23, 2017
oc It was a year of shocks. In 2017, we got Hurricane Harvey and Harvey Weinstein, indecency in the White House and terror in Times Square. Meryl Streep began the year speaking out against D…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:05PM[SHARE]Friday, December 22, 2017
“Hamilton” opened on the West End Thursday night. If it should come as no surprise that London critics, as much as New York ones, give largely ecstatic reviews of the hip-hop mus…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 21, 2017
Yes, there will be stars on Broadway in the Spring – Denzel Washington, Diana Rigg (after an absence from Broadway of 24 years), Glenda Jackson (after an absence of 30 years), Laurie M…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:13PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 20, 2017
My ten favorite individual performances in New York stage shows that opened in 2017 are listed alphabetically, with explanations for my choices largely excerpted from my reviews, but let's b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:16PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 19, 2017
Some people wonder why the same holiday shows are so popular, year after year. Some people just attend them year after year. Below, see the schedule for Broadway shows both during the week l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:48PM[SHARE]Monday, December 18, 2017
Now seems the right time to start summing up 2017 (though watch for more such looks back in the two weeks remaining of the year.) Top 10 Lists of Top 10 New York Theater 2017 Poll: Worst Bro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:04PM[SHARE]It’s no secret that original cast albums were the gateway drug for many lifelong theater addicts. Just ask Lin-Manuel Miranda or Todrick Hall. Choose your favorite recording from among…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 17, 2017
Billed as the first live TV commercial for a movie, Hugh Jackman leads in this song-and-dance number to promote The Greatest Showman (Starts at the one minute mark) Watch for Zendaya, Zac Ef…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PM[SHARE]Four years after their splendid debut on Broadway, Shakespeare's Globe returns to the beautiful Belasco Theater with a show that in a few glorious ways resembles their spectacular Twelfth Ni…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:36PM[SHARE]Four years after their splendid debut on Broadway, Shakespeare's Globe returns to the beautiful Belasco Theater with a show that in a few glorious ways resembles their spectacular Twelfth Ni…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:20PM[SHARE]When A Christmas Story is being broadcast live tonight on Fox (starting at 7 p.m. ET), a reworked version of the Broadway musical by Pasek and Paul, it'll be the latest example of a trend th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:17PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 16, 2017
“The Band’s Visit” is a favorite of all but one of the drama critics whose top 10 lists for New York theater in 2017 are listed below. (The only critic to omit it this year…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:29AM[SHARE]Friday, December 15, 2017
"The Children" begins as what seems like a small, slow domestic drama about three aged friends in an English seaside cottage, but turns into an unsettling meditation on some very large theme…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:28PM[SHARE]Fiasco Theater offers a Twelfth Night for theatergoers who've never seen Twelfth Night or Fiasco Theater before. Â For almost a decade, the ensemble company has been praised for its bare-b…
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