Sunday, December 3, 2023
While there are always new shows in December (see December 2023 New York Theater Openings), the heart of theater during the month is in many ways the annual holiday shows " plays, ballets, o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:22PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 2, 2023
Eddie Redmayne, Jessica Lange, Kelli O'Hara with Brian d'Arcy James, Tyne Daly with Liev Schreiber, Jeremy Strong with Michael Imperioli are all performing in shows on Broadway " and Mich…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:18AM[SHARE]Friday, December 1, 2023
Below is a day-by-day calendar of theater opening* in December, a month that features two Broadway openings " a play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins starring Sarah Paulson (see December 18th), and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:21PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 30, 2023
A thick smoke billows over the stage as a character sings Spanish operatically in one of the last scenes of "Spain," a play by Jen Silverman that purports to tell the cloak-and-dagger backst…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:34PM[SHARE]How well were you paying attention to the theater news, views and reviews in November? Take this ten-question quiz and find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Alexis Soloski, a theater critic for the New York Times, has written a novel about a theater critic, but if that's the lure, beware:Â "Here in the Dark" (Flatiron Books, 256 pages) is mor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 28, 2023
On this twelfth annual #GivingTuesday (created in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y), consider donating to theater in New York. Below, an alphabetical list of more than 100 New York theaters a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:02AM[SHARE]Monday, November 27, 2023
Cyber Monday ticket deals in theater still exist in 2023 (see below) although they are harder to find now, in part because of Elon Musk's relentless degradation of the social media platform …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 26, 2023
Theater may be an ephemeral experience on stage, but the ways we have presented and attempted to preserve American musicals everywhere else " the printed page, photographs, the cast album, f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:54AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 25, 2023
My yearly list of New York stage shows for which I'm most grateful, which I started posting every Thanksgiving more than a decade ago, returns more or less to normal this year, as t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:31PM[SHARE]Friday, November 24, 2023
My twelfth annual theater gift guide below features links and information on shopping for theater tickets,theater subscriptions/memberships,cast recordings,play scripts and books about th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 23, 2023
Below are videos from the Broadway casts who performed at the 2023 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade: "& Juliet, "Spamalot," "Shucked" "How To Dance in Ohio," and rehearsal video from "Back…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 22, 2023
Long before Liza Minnelli and Joel Gray sang "The Money Song" in the musical "Cabaret," set in a cabaret in Nazi Germany, a performer sang a similarly satirical song about money in a real ca…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Graciela Daniele, a Broadway luminary for six decades, directs this lovely and peculiar musical written by her good friend Michael John LaChiusa, who uses Daniele's life as the inspiration f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:54PM[SHARE]Monday, November 20, 2023
Of the eight shows I reviewed this past week, I probably reacted to two of them differently than I would have without the rise in antisemitism over the last six weeks.About the Broadway revi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:52AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 19, 2023
Below is the Broadway schedule for Thanksgiving Week 2023, which differs from the usual week's schedule: Only two shows of the 26 currently playing have performances on Thanksgiving Day (Thu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:47PM[SHARE]"Hell's Kitchen," opening tonight at the Public Theater, is not a musical biography of Alicia Keys, nor, despite the title, is it about the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood where she grew up. It'…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:24PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 18, 2023
About halfway through Lameece Issaq's solo show, a younger man named Gabe dressed as an angel, in a wig and women's makeup, arrives at the home of the unnamed woman at the center of the stor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:01PM[SHARE]Friday, November 17, 2023
For only the third time in Broadway history, you can see a play this weekend live as it's being performed on stage even if you live thousands of miles away. "Jaja's African Hair Braiding,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 16, 2023
In its first Broadway revival, "Spamalot" is high-stepping, low-brow and often hilarious. The cast, featuring such comic royalty of the Rialto as Christopher Fitzgerald, Michael Urie and Les…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:53PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 15, 2023
In "Scene Partners," we first see Dianne Wiest in close-up on a screen, as pink and bejeweled as a movie star, though more nervous than one, as she says: "Hello! I'm Meryl Kowalski, comin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:53PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 14, 2023
On this, the seventieth anniversary year of the signature work of Nobel Prize winning author Samuel Beckett, a play in which (as one Beckett scholar famously put it) "nothing happens, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:48PM[SHARE]Monday, November 13, 2023
When Barry Manilow's musical finally debuted in New York last year, I was thrilled. I had just one small reservation. On my second viewing of "Harmony," which opens tonight on Broadway, that…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:53PM[SHARE]Alexandra Tatarsky's solo show should probably come with a warning. This is not because she keeps on taking things out of her crotch, including a Styrofoam head to which she's apparently giv…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:23PM[SHARE]It's been a week of what Broadway-goers might consider alternative theater  " above all, the announcement that "Sleep No More" and "Here Lies Love" are closing, which prompted my look …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:35AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 12, 2023
It came as a shock to lovers of immersive theater, and reportedly even to the people who work on  "Sleep No More," the show by the British theater company Punchdrunk that launched New …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:10PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 11, 2023
The most enduring theater of Western Civilization was created by combat veterans. "Ancient Greek drama was a form of storytelling, communal therapy, and ritual reintegration for combat veter…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:42AM[SHARE]Five albums have been nominated for the best musical theater album, all of them of current or recent Broadway shows (like last year, but unlike the year before.). The 66th annual Grammy Awar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:39AM[SHARE]Friday, November 10, 2023
In the video below, dozens of Broadway performers have recorded the song from "Les Miserables" with a slightly altered title on behalf of the more than two hundred people who were kidnapped …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 9, 2023
Electric Root's version of "The Sound of Music" and BlackBox Ensemble's newly translated version of "Borrowed Landscape"  each separately gave one-night-only performances this week.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:39PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 8, 2023
"Watch Night" is Bill T. Jones and company's response to the mass shootings by white supremacists of nine African Americans at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S…
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