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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 7, 2023
When we were little, I remember my brother being frightened by the Saber-toothed tiger in our book about prehistoric animals. I wasn't. I had nightmares about Pinocchio " not the Disney cart…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:17PM[SHARE]Over the course of her solo show about an Argentinian who moves as a child to New York City, Florencia Iriondo hands out little round chipas, an Argentine cheese bread (savory), and little s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:35PM[SHARE]Monday, November 6, 2023
Raunch, regrets and puppets dominated the New York theater that opened this week, sometimes all three in the same show. Two different plays told the story of an older man's reaction to l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:19AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 5, 2023
Ephraim Sykes, one of Broadway's top song-and-dance men, starred as Joey Evans in  "Pal Joey," which ended its half-week run today as part of the New York City Center Encores! Concert …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:38PM[SHARE]When last we saw playwright Qui Nguyen's parents,  in "Vietgone," Nguyen's acclaimed 2016 play with an unconventional pop culture approach,  Quang and Tong had separately escaped…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:35AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 4, 2023
In "Merry Me," billed as a lesbian sex comedy,  a seven-member cast is charming enough to wring laughs out of playwright Hansol Jung's raunchy effort to queer the canon, in what often …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:23AM[SHARE]Friday, November 3, 2023
At BAM, the waiter offered me the menu, but it only had one sentence written on it: "Say 'I would like to order the Arctic char.'" "I would like to order the Arctic char," I complied."How wo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 2, 2023
Theresa Rebeck's play about a hoarder is the slightest of comedies. Its plot is paltry. Its insights are pat. It promises more laughs than it delivers.  It even promises more junk than…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:53PM[SHARE]Mickey Sabbath, the 64-year-old self-absorbed, lecherous narrator and protagonist of Philip Roth's 1995 novel, had a career as a puppeteer until he got arthritis, and there is a moment early…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in New York in November, featuring the return to the stage of Danny DeVito, Diane Wiest, Priscilla Lopez, James Monroe Iglehart and Christopher Abbott…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:50PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 31, 2023
How well were you paying attention to theater news and reviews in October? Take this quiz and see. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:54PM[SHARE]Timed for Halloween, this latest digital theater, livestreamed from the closet in Joshua William Gelb's East Village apartment, feels as much of a landmark production as the original "Nosfer…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:46PM[SHARE]Monday, October 30, 2023
Twenty new shows will be opening on Broadway (so far) in the remainder of the 2023-2024 season, including two newly announced " as well as a revival next Fall of one of the country's most pe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:52AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 29, 2023
"Stereophonic"Â Â chronicles a year of recording studio sessions by the members of a popular 1970s rock band (never named, fictional) as they put together their latest album and have the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00PM[SHARE]The title character of "King of the Jews" " a Holocaust-set play at HERE that is inventively staged and well-acted, but both intentionally and unintentionally disturbing " is inspired by the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:21PM[SHARE]Friday, October 27, 2023
In "Hummus NYC," the first of four stories in "The Holylanders," a play by Moria Zrachia about Israelis living in America, Amir is outraged by what happened to his son Nuri. But the story…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Fifteen jukebox musicals were featured in last night's odd concert at Merkin Hall, "Jukebox: The Musical," part of the Kaufman Music Center's Broadway Close Up series. The concert feat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:32AM[SHARE]Monday, October 23, 2023
So many of the reviews of "Here We Are" end like eulogies for Stephen Sondheim, or feature at least a line of farewell, that these are the passages I find worth quoting, more than the critic…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:13AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 22, 2023
"O, isn't this wonderful?!" Marianne Brink (Rachel Bay Jones) exclaims upon seeing her old friends at her door. It is the first line in Stephen Sondheim's first new musical in two decades, p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:32PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 21, 2023
 Laurie Anderson launched the Brooklyn Academy of Music's fortieth annual Next Wave Festival Tuesday night with "Let X = X," an unconventional concert that featured, yes, songs from throu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:41AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 19, 2023
There's a photograph of 23-year-old Stephen Sondheim with Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre and Gina Lollabrigida on the set of director John Huston's movie "Beat the Devil," where  Sondhei…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Heidi Schreck's "What The Constitution Means To Me" is the most produced play in America this season, according to American Theatre Magazine's latest survey, and Lynn Nottage is the most pro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:49PM[SHARE]Monday, October 16, 2023
Helen of Troy, the beauty whose face launched a thousand ships, the woman whose exploits inspired poets and playwrights from Homer to Euripides to Virgil to Shakespeare and his contemporary …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:59PM[SHARE]It's easier to feel that theater is bouncing back during such a busy week on Broadway and beyond  (especially for critics trying to catch up on shows that opened earlier whose runs hav…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:33AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 15, 2023
"Job" begins with a woman in her twenties pointing a gun at a male therapist in his sixties. Why? That's not fully revealed until the end of the therapy session, a climax that's so odious an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:25PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 14, 2023
Books about the Method school of acting and about theater's long history of "racial impersonation" have been named the best theater books of the year by The Theatre Library Association, w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:58AM[SHARE]Friday, October 13, 2023
Peg is unhappy, not just because her husband died a year ago, but also because it's been ages since she's seen a bat on the prairie that surrounds her house in rural Wisconsin."You want…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:59PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 12, 2023
"Gutenberg! The Musical!" is deliberately bad " that's the central joke of it " but much of what's bad about it isn't deliberate. The score is largely unmemorable. The premise makes little s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:57PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 11, 2023
People will be watching "Merrily We Roll Along" in 2040, if all goes as planned. That's the year that director Richard Linklater plans to release a movie adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:46PM[SHARE]Monday, October 9, 2023
"(pray)" might feel at first like a theatrically heightened version of a traditional gospel church service, with church ladies in their Sunday finest preaching and praying, clapping and sway…
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