Tuesday, July 18, 2017
"We're the kind of people that Trump wants to keep out of the U.S.," John Leguizamo says in the video below, about his family, who immigrated to New York from Colombia ("the country, not the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:57AM[SHARE]Monday, July 17, 2017
Ticket Givewaway: Win two tickets to see Indecent for free. I loved this show, a fascinating backstage tale written by Paula Vogel and wondrously staged by  Rebecca Taichman (who won a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:43PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 16, 2017
“I am a foolish man…I am crushed, I have been crushed by fate,” cried out Reg E. Cathey as King Creon, at a climactic moment in  the free Saturday performance of “…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:03PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 15, 2017
As "Pipeline" begins, we learn that a black teenager has gotten into a physical scuffle with his teacher and is in danger of being expelled, and arrested. But playwright Dominique Morisseau …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:27PM[SHARE]Friday, July 14, 2017
The actor Matthew McConaughey sells his soul to the devil, and then tries to get it back, in this musical that opened the 2017 New York Musical Festival, which describes the show in its prog…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:38PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 13, 2017
As you might have heard, Oscar Isaac walks around in his underpants in the Public Theater production of "Hamlet." But the most startling visual occurs much later. There's a sudden, striking …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 12, 2017
There are two kinds of questions posed by the Improbable Theater Company's production of "Opening Skinner's Box," a stage adaptation of the 2004 book by Lauren Slater that describes ten famo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Near the end of this musical revue surveying 50 years in song of Jewish immigration to New York, one of the talented performers, Daniel Kahn, delivers an astounding rendition of "Roumania, R…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:08AM[SHARE]Monday, July 10, 2017
"Who will want a play by William Shakespeare?" his wife Ann asks him, unkindly, in their home in the hick town of Stratford-Upon-Avon, as he is about to depart for London in 1589 to become a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:45PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 9, 2017
Summer means outdoor entertainment, much of it free– like the Broadway in Bryant Park lunchtime concerts… Watch Groundhog Day at Bryant Park – three songs …and Broadw…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:34PM[SHARE]Actors don’t realize how hard it is to work with animals, observes animal trainer William Berloni in the video below, during the 2017 Broadway Barks animal adoption event at Shubert Al…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:18AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 8, 2017
In "To T or Not To T," a fascinating and funny autobiographical monologue, the performer known as D'Lo impersonates his father giving a speech at D'Lo's wedding ceremony: "Even though I was …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:23PM[SHARE]Friday, July 7, 2017
In "Cost of Living," an eye-opening play featuring a quartet of extraordinary performances, playwright Martina Martok offers a tart retort to that sappy Barbra Streisand song about the luck …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 6, 2017
Andy Karl, Barrett Doss and more than a dozen other cast members of the Broadway musical “Groundhog Day” performed three songs at the Broadway at Bryant Park lunchtime concert to…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 5, 2017
Before the start of "Kim's Convenience," Soulpepper artistic director Arthur Schultz introduced it to the New York audience as "the most successful new Canadian play of the last decade." The…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:52PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 4, 2017
As Americans celebrate our 241st Fourth of July, it's bracing to realize that the most patriotic new show on Broadway is "Come From Away," a musical about Canada. But American patriotism on …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:39PM[SHARE]Monday, July 3, 2017
This is an unusual month for New York theater: While there are no shows opening on Broadway, and few Off-Broadway, there is plenty to see " the annual summer theater festivals, such as the N…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:01PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 2, 2017
A ninth century Pope, a 21st century female Buddha, Â Liberace with a notorious gangster, Errol Flynn with Fidel Castro, Matthew McConaughey with the devil, a Conquistador’s daughter…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:40AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 1, 2017
Canada Day, almost always on July 1st, is special this year for two reasons: 2017 marks Canada’s 150th anniversary. And it’s the first day of Soulpepper on 42nd Street. Starting …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:33PM[SHARE]Third Rail Projects, the dazzling experimental and self-described "experiential" company that has created engaging site-specific theater in an old mental institution in Williamsburg ("Then S…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:24PM[SHARE]Friday, June 30, 2017
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news and reviews this month? Answer these 11 questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:13PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 29, 2017
There's a story told in "Marvin's Room" of a young man named Clarence who took a swim during a beachfront picnic, dunking down into the water and popping back up several times, each time lau…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:57PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Near the end of "Seeing You," a dance and theater piece about World War II written and co-directed by Randy Weiner (a producer of both Sleep No More  and Queen of the Night ), I le…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:51PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 25, 2017
Indecent, which announced it would close on Broadway today, suddenly reversed itself this week, and will play on until August 5. It seems a fitting Pride Day gift for this backstage play abo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:34AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 24, 2017
It would seem just the right timing for the first adaptation on a Broadway stage of "1984," George Orwell's chilling 1949 novel of a future totalitarian society. The book long has been so th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:25PM[SHARE]Friday, June 23, 2017
Below is the 2017 Kilroys list of 37 plays by women and trans writers of color most recommended in a survey of “273 influential new play leaders” Â Most of the plays have never…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:55PM[SHARE]Ticket Giveaway: Win two tickets to “The Traveling Lady,” a play by Horton Foote at the Cherry Lane Theater. The play, about a woman who journeys to a small town in 1950’s …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 22, 2017
With the new production of Horton Foote's "The Traveling Lady," we are back on familiar Foote territory. The play, about a woman hoping to reunite with a husband recently released from priso…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Lauren Yee's "in a word" is, on one level, about a married couple whose seven-year-old son has been missing for two years, the mother's grief and guilt causing a breakdown in her relationshi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Performances by Sarah Bernhardt, Martha Graham, and Meryl Streep; meetings about equal rights with Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass  in 1869; a lecture by Helen Keller in 1913. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:22PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 18, 2017
Tony Epilogue Within days of the Tony Awards (List of winners. Best moments) and the triumph of Dear Evan Hansen, three plays announced they were closing in June. Two of them " Indecent and …
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