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 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:25PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 17, 2017
Harry Potter, Olaf the snowman and Spongebob Squarepants all plan to perform on Broadway this season, as will Michael Moore, Mark Rylance and Elizabeth McGovern; new plays by Ayad Akhtar and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15AM[SHARE]Friday, June 16, 2017
For the 17th year in a row, Bryant Park is the site of free lunchtime concerts by cast members of current Broadway (and some Off-Broadway) shows  on Thursdays in July and August be…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 15, 2017
Mira Nair, the filmmaker of such celebrated movies as Salaam Bombay and Mississippi Masala, is directing a musical adaptation of her 2001 film Monsoon Wedding that is currently on stage at t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 14, 2017
"Roman Holiday," a musical running briefly at San Francisco's Golden Theater in a traditional pre-Broadway tryout, grafts more than a dozen songs by Cole Porter onto the 1953 movie that turn…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 13, 2017
The depiction of Julius Caesar as a Trump-like figure in the Public Theater production of “Julius Caesar” has sparked outrage, the removal of sponsorship (funds) by Delta and Ban…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:08PM[SHARE]Monday, June 12, 2017
Many moments in the three hours of the 71st annual Tony Awards (complete list of winners) were worth experiencing just once, if that — Bette Midler NOT singing, yet rambling endlessly …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:45AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 11, 2017
“Oslo” won best play.”Dear Evan Hansen” is having a very good night. Below is the complete list of the winners of the 71st annual Tony Awards, listed in red with an a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:47PM[SHARE]The 71st annual Tony Awards, honoring the shows that opened in the 2016-2017 season in the 41 Broadway theaters of New York, will be presented starting at 8 p.m. tonight, June 11, 2017 at Ne…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:12PM[SHARE]Friday, June 9, 2017
"I just want you to pick the shows for me," an out-of-town friend, planning a visit to New York, said to me recently, exasperated that I was trying to determine his taste in theater before m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 8, 2017
Below are my preferences — not my predictions. See my article in DC Theatre Scene for an explanation of each choice. Best Musical Nominated: Dear Evan Hansen Natasha, Pierre and the Gr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Here are my preferences " not predictions " for the 2017 Tony Awards, in keeping with a tradition I've been maintaining for a decade. I am a critic, not a seer or a bookie. We'll learn the c…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:06PM[SHARE]The 71st Annual Tony Awards will be shown on four continents, though not all will get to see it Sunday evening, June 11th. Will this put extra pressure on Tony voters, whose ballots are due …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:59PM[SHARE]Current and past winners of the Theatre World Awards, given to exceptional performers making their Broadway or New York stage debuts, offer their take on the season just past, sometimes in a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 6, 2017
Current and past winners of the Theatre World Awards, given to exceptional performers making their Broadway or New York stage debuts, offer their take on the season just past, sometimes in a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:18PM[SHARE]Monday, June 5, 2017
"I would rather drink alcohol than do just about anything there is to do on the face of the planet," Matthew Perry as Jack says to a woman he's just met in "The End of Longing," Perry's debu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:10PM[SHARE]"Ernest Shackleton Loves Me" may not be the only musical ever set in Antarctica or the only one that tells the story of a real-life polar explorer; it's surely not the only musical about a s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:07PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 4, 2017
The winners of the 62nd Annual Drama Desks below are in red with an * (Click on titles to get more information about the show.) Those nominees with a heart mark (♥) are ones I voted…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:04PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 3, 2017
Performers from more than 20 current Broadway shows offered a free concert in Shubert Alley this week, to celebrate the Broadway season just past, and whet appetites for the Tony Awards on S…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:35PM[SHARE]Friday, June 2, 2017
Once again, Broadway offered its free two-hour concert in Shubert Alley today, featuring the casts from more than a dozen current musicals. Below, watch Telly Leung of Aladdin, Corey Cott of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:44PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 1, 2017
Below is a preview  of the shows opening on New York stages in June — including the first show of the 2017-2018 Broadway season — organized chronologically by opening date. Ea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 31, 2017
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news and reviews this month? Answer these 10 questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:11PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 30, 2017
The 2016-17 Broadway season's statistics, according to The Broadway League: Shows that opened during season: 45 (eight of them not eligible for Tony Awards) Attendance at all shows: 1…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:34AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 28, 2017
In 2010, an Afghan journalist produced an hour-long documentary for PBS' Frontline entitled The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan , about the illegal revival of an ancient tradition called Bach…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:44PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 27, 2017
Below are the five most popular posts in the five years since I began NewYorkTheater.me in May 2012. (Above are some of the profile portraits I’ve used over the past five years, none o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:28PM[SHARE]Friday, May 26, 2017
"This is the hardest job I've ever had in my whole life. You people on Broadway are nuts,” Bette Midler said at the Outer Critic’s Circle Award reception at Sardi’s for the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 24, 2017
"Building The Wall," Robert Schenkkan's chilling two character play that imagines the consequences of President Donald Trump's anti-immigrant policies, is clearly meant to help rally the res…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 23, 2017
By the end of "Can You Forgive Her?", it's not clear which of the five characters in Gina Gionfriddo's latest comedy is the "You" of the title, and who is the "Her." All the characters in on…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:18PM[SHARE]Monday, May 22, 2017
Oslo and The Band’s Visit got lots of love at the 62nd Annual Obie Awards, as these two shows have gotten throughout the theater award season. But they had lots of company, with Underg…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:02PM[SHARE]Countdown to the Tonys is 20 days, but there is plenty  happening in New York theater right now — other theater awards, news of forthcoming Broadway attractions — and the summ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:16AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 21, 2017
Julie is young, pretty, literate and dying. At its best, "The Whirligig," a new play by Hamish Linklater, explores with humor and bite how her terminal illness affects the seven people aroun…
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