Friday, January 26, 2024
The first disturbing story that we're told in this hour-long collage of dancing and diatribes, horror and love, concerns a man named Tantalus, who killed his son and chopped him up with the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 25, 2024
Sutton Foster, trying her hand at goofy physical comedy and affecting a rapid-fire comic patter reminiscent of early Barbra Streisand, is an undeniable draw in the Encores! series revival of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Nominations for the 96th annual Academy Awards were announced yesterday, and theater lovers cheered the latest Broadway connections. The Oscars have always had Broadway connections. Test you…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:17AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 23, 2024
The complete list of nominations for the 96th annual Academy Awards, which will be held on Sunday, March 10 at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and televised LIVE on ABC. Wa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:31AM[SHARE]Monday, January 22, 2024
There are now twenty-one shows scheduled to open on Broadway during the Spring 2024 season, three of them announced just within the past week. As Time Out's Adam Feldman points out, much of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 21, 2024
From the wordless to the wordy, these short worldly works" all three directly or indirectly reflecting the story of race in America; all three intriguing examples of digital theater " were o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:44PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 20, 2024
A play called "Pride House," set in Cherry Grove on Fire Island, and produced by a gay theater company? It's reasonable to presume it the kind of formulaic gay play that has proliferated sin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:53PM[SHARE]Friday, January 19, 2024
The Black couple go overboard in congratulating their daughter for coming out, donning rainbow T-shirts and hanging up a banner, but they learn to their shock that Niani is not coming out as…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 18, 2024
There are two ways to appreciate this latest work of musical theater by Heather Christian, which is part of the eleventh annual Prototype festival of opera theater and musical theater. One i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:23PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Rachel McAdams of Slings and Arrows and Michael Imperioli of The Sopranos making their Broadway debuts; a new quirky musical from the team behind "A Band's Visit," a new play by Paula Vogel …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 16, 2024
At the 75th annual Primetime Emmy Awards last night, Elton John became the nineteenth person to achieve an EGOT " winner of an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony " when he won for "Elto…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:16AM[SHARE]Monday, January 15, 2024
"My people were brought to America in chains. Your people were driven here to escape the chains fashioned for them in Europe," Martin Luther King Jr. said in his address to the American Jewi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 14, 2024
 "The Color Purple" and "Mean Girls," were both Hollywood movies adapted from books (Alice Walker's novel "The Color Purple" and Rosalind Wiseman's non-fiction  "Queen Bees an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:12PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 13, 2024
"Mean Girls" was Tina Fey's smart, funny 2004 movie that she turned with her husband into an overlong, ill-timed Broadway musical (as I wrote in my review) in 2018, which has now been adapte…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:02AM[SHARE]Friday, January 12, 2024
I saw three shows that featured clowns at PhysFestNYC, billed as the first-ever festival in New York City to showcase physical theater, which is wrapping up its ten-day run on Sunday.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:41PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 11, 2024
In the two years since I first saw Joshua Harmon's ambitious, busy play about antisemitism, in which five generations of a single French family in two different eras fear for their safety, t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:43PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Tickets are now on sale for Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for performances from January 16 through February 4, 2024 of 23 Broadway shows, from "& Juli…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:31AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 9, 2024
"For the theatre community, it was a time of tumult, turnover, 'the field is in crisis' essays, show cancellations due to illness, and budgetary shortfalls." But also a response: "If our fie…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:04PM[SHARE]Monday, January 8, 2024
Hollywood and Broadway intertwined in complicated ways once again when Broadway veterans Paul Giamatti and Da'Vine Joy Randolph both won Golden Globe Awards last night for their roles in …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:11PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 7, 2024
I saw these three hour-long shows from the 19th Under the Radar Festival one after the other on the same floor of the Rose building at Lincoln Center Queens of Sheba Muki Zubis stood on stag…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:02PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 6, 2024
Created and performed by a trio who call themselves FlawBored and describe themselves as a "disability-led theater company" " two of the three are legally blind " this export from the Edinbu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:25PM[SHARE]Billed as "an experimental theater piece about the end of an experimental theater," this opening night show in the 19th annual Under the Radar festival turned out to be, as the title promise…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AM[SHARE]Friday, January 5, 2024
Below is a calendar of selected theater opening* this month in New York, including two Broadway shows that are both transfers from Off-Broadway. The bulk of theatrical fare in January…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:50PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 4, 2024
Below is a preview of the theater festivals in New York City this month, which are presenting more than eighty shows, many of them far from traditional theater " call them experimental, avan…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:43PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 3, 2024
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to, among the 18 that (so far) have firm opening dates on Broadway between now and April 25, 2024, when the 2023-2024 season ends. They are …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:57AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 2, 2024
How will the "crisis in theater" be addressed? That's the first of my 5 Major Questions for The Theater in 2024 and Beyond. I also Ring IN The Old in 2024: 16 Broadway veterans in their 90s.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:39AM[SHARE]Monday, January 1, 2024
We can't see the future clearly, of theater or anything else, but we can look at the recent past and wonder how things will play out. My questions about theater in 2024 are prompted by the m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:45AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 31, 2023
Let us celebrate surviving to a new and hopefully better year, by honoring these sixteen Broadway veterans in their nineties " celebrated performers, playwrights, producers, directors, compo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:51AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 30, 2023
How much do you remember of this year in New York theater? Answer these 16 questions to find out. My most challenging quiz yet, about a most challenging year. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:36PM[SHARE]Friday, December 29, 2023
Below is a list of theater books to read in 2024, which I divide into three groups:  2. Four books (all but one published in 2023) that I've been meaning to read and might actually do …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:23AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 28, 2023
An 89-year-old Broadway producer complaining about Broadway ticket prices was the most popular post yet again on my NewYorkTheater.me blog in 2023, although the post is from May, 2022. It ju…
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