Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Michael DeBartolo's path to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival began in a childhood of "profound shame" and a series of unhealthy infatuations with straight boys.  Years later, now a New Yo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:40PM[SHARE]Monday, July 14, 2025
Has a show ever shocked you? Did that make you like it, or dislike it, or was its shock value not the determining factor in your overall reaction? What if a show is deliberately trying to sh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:29AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 13, 2025
It is a glorious gospel concert beneath the darkening skies along the Hudson River, and that's all one needs to know to thrill at "Gospel at Colonus." But the experience is deepened by its h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:06PM[SHARE]Cole Escola, Orville Peck, Kecia Lewis, Jak Malone and Sadie Sink were among the performers pushing their puppies at the 27th annual Broadway Barks, the odd and adorable animal adoption even…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:35PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 12, 2025
They met by Magic. Actually,  the section at the Strand bookstore where they first met is labeled Occult, but that's where the store keeps its books on magic.  Kristen and Jenny'…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Friday, July 11, 2025
The free lunchtime concert series Broadway in Bryant Park launched its twenty-fifth season on Thursday with performances by the casts from six Broadway shows " one of which, "Boop the Musica…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:07AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 10, 2025
So much ugliness takes place at Westerberg High " homicide and homophobia, attempted suicide and sexual assault " that there's an extensive "content advisory" in front of Stage 1 at New Worl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Summer is normally a time for R&R " which for theater lovers can mean reading theater books and attending regional theater festivals. But the mood is more complicated these days, more te…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:45AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 8, 2025
I wasn't sure I wanted to see this play, which imagines a grownup Prince George of England (currently 11 years old) as an out gay man. I was put off by the offensive title, and by what it se…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:53PM[SHARE]Monday, July 7, 2025
The season for free, outdoor theater is well underway, both throughout the country and here in New York: A new epic "Memnon" began over the weekend (see below.) This coming week, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:23AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 6, 2025
Centuries before Othello, and millennia before Black Panther, there was Memnon, the king of the Ethiopians, who came to the defense of Troy during the Trojan War.  Homer mentions Memno…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:12PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 5, 2025
John Krasinski's character Roger seems as affable and appealing as Krasinski himself at the start of  Penelope Skinner's superficially entertaining play, but Roger quickly descends int…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:18PM[SHARE]Friday, July 4, 2025
Dissent is as American as the Fourth of July, and in honor of both, and as a way to offer solace in the face of a relentless assault on our democratic and Constitutional rights, below are ex…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:16AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 3, 2025
The songs below recall the original spirit of the Fourth of July, when 249 years ago Americans engaged in an act of protest against tyranny. Some of the songs have become such popular anthem…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:45PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Only "Purpose" is performing on the Fourth of July itself, But eighteen of the 30 Broadway shows currently running have added performances either within the two days before or the two days a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:28AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Below is a calendar of New York theater opening* in July, all of it beyond Broadway, featuring some familiar crowdpleasers, such as a unique "Waitress," and a starry "Heathers," with Back to…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:12PM[SHARE]Monday, June 30, 2025
Sure, five more Broadway shows closed over the weekend, but not everything has come and gone (30 still running), and there are several exciting new announcements: Taraji P. Henson will make …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:07PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 29, 2025
Jeff Hiller has written a celebrity memoir to end all celebrity memoirs. Each of his twenty-four chapters is given the title of an actual celebrity memoir, and the age at which the author of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:47PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 28, 2025
How well were you paying attention to the theater over the past month? Answer these ten questions, plus a bonus question, and find out. Â Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:59PM[SHARE]Friday, June 27, 2025
This sweet, lively and original musical deserves a wider audience, or maybe just a much longer run where it is, since the production works so wonderfully well in the intimate Off-Off Broadwa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:55PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 26, 2025
Today, the tenth anniversary of the Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationally, seems an apt day for my annual census of gay characters on Broadway. At a time when LGBTQ …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:19PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 25, 2025
As "Lowcountry" begins, David, who just recently was permitted to remove his ankle bracelet, is about to go on a first date with Tally, whom he met on a dating app. Eventually, we learn what…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:56PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 24, 2025
"Do you realize that the U.S. has only spent under 20 years when we are NOT involvednin war?" the rap star Duke (Jay Ellis) tells an unseen interviewer. "When will that end?" Duke is being a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PM[SHARE]Monday, June 23, 2025
New Yorkers have a busy week ahead: the Jimmy Awards tonight; tomorrow Primary Election Day; all week, Pride events " including the last of three plays of the Criminal Queerness theate…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:03PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 22, 2025
"The Gilded Age"Â Â had a remarkable number of Broadway veterans in its cast over its first two seasons, and many of them are returning for Season 3, which launches tonight " just the fi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:14PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 21, 2025
The circus performers in "Passengers" are both powerful athletes and graceful artists, achieving awe-inspiring feats of physical prowess. They are also travelers, and storytellers, in ways t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:57PM[SHARE]Friday, June 20, 2025
"Bear Grease" is billed as a reimagining of the musical Grease, "told through an Indigenous lens" by a husband-wife duo who call themselves LightningCloud. But this proudly amateurish produc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 19, 2025
"We can't let Martin Luther King Jr's dream become a nightmare because of the current administration," André De Shields said in a speech accepting the 2025 Legacy Award at the Broadway Cele…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 18, 2025
The eleven finalists for this year's Outstanding Book Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education are a highly eclectic mix of academic theater books, some of which don't seem…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:47AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 17, 2025
After two hours satirizing an arts fundraising gala with barbed caricatures, loopy shtick and shameless slapstick, Taylor Mac takes the stage alone in a fool's cap to deliver a coda in rhyme…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:37PM[SHARE]Monday, June 16, 2025
At the opening performance of "Les Misérables" at the Kennedy Center, during the same week that pro-democracy protestors rallied throughout the country, as Donald Trump ordered the U.…
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