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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:29PM[SHARE]Today is Indigenous People's Day, which since 2021 has been officially recognized as a national holiday " not coincidentally on the same day (the second Monday in October) as Columbus …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:02PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 8, 2023
"We're here to celebrate the body " squirts, blasts, noises and inappropriate acts," proclaimed our host, the performer known as Fantasy Grandma,  introducing "Exposure," a group show …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:35PM[SHARE]Friday, October 6, 2023
Many long-time leaders of New York theaters have been retiring or dying, as Jan Simpson catalogues in a post in her blog Broadway and Me. The questions she ponders: Who will replace them and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 5, 2023
Jocelyn Bioh's inviting workplace comedy, presenting a day in the life of a hair braiding salon in Harlem, would be a shoo-in for two separate Tony Awards, if either existed " one for hair a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 4, 2023
To get the full flavor of what the great exiled Russian director Dmitry Krymov does with (to?) Ernest Hemingway's two short stories, which are hard to see as love stories at all, and to Euge…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:56PM[SHARE]Monday, October 2, 2023
Almost two years after Stephen Sondheim death at the age of 91, October will see the opening at The Shed of what's billed as the composer's "final musical" " "Here We Are" " and the starry r…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:52AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 1, 2023
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in New York in October, with two greatly-anticipated musicals by Stephen Sondheim, one never produced before. The other, "Merrily We Roll Along," was …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:08PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 30, 2023
How well were you paying attention to the theater news, views and reviews in this month that launched the Fall 2023 season? Find out in the quiz below. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:22PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 28, 2023
Melissa Etheridge was so young when she started playing the guitar that her fingers bled, but she kept at it, which seems a fitting start for her rocky road to rock star. On her 17th birthda…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 27, 2023
It's hard to picture a better cast for this first Broadway revival of Ossie Davis's 1961 broad, biting comedy about racism in the Old South. As the title character, Leslie Odom Jr., assuming…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 26, 2023
"The Wiz" announced its opening date in April, starring Nichelle Lewis as Dorothy, Deborah Cox as Glinda and Melody A. Betts (featured in this first photograph above) as Au…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:27PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 24, 2023
The photographs below offer a small sample of the many Jewish characters that have been portrayed in plays and musicals on Broadway, focusing on the most familiar and the most recent. Â Th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:27AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 23, 2023
 In celebration of the International Day of Sign Languages, proclaimed every September 23 by the United Nations since 2018, below is the schedule of ASL-interpreted performances on Bro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50AM[SHARE]Friday, September 22, 2023
The story told in Emma Horwitz's "Mary Gets Hers," about an orphan girl who falls into prostitution, and then is rescued from it,  follows nearly scene by scene a tenth century play wr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 21, 2023
During the second of the five concerts that are launching the new performing arts center at the World Trade Center, the violinist Trina Basu went up to the microphone after her set and said …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:49PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 20, 2023
The soldier is silent. This frustrates the woman who is not exactly his captor but not his keeper either; she works for the motherland, which disapproves of his silence.  If he doesn't…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:13PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Half of what happens in "Prometheus Firebringer" is extraordinary, unprecedented. But you wouldn't know that just by watching what's on stage, which is mostly a series of monologues recited …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:57PM[SHARE]Monday, September 18, 2023
 Broadway favorites  Kelli O'Hara, Brian d'Arcy James, and Heidi Schreck are returning, and Rachel McAdams making her Broadway debut, in two plays and two musicals that were newly a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:03AM[SHARE]Friday, September 15, 2023
"Psychic Self Defense" " gorgeous, impish and enveloping " had long ended before I understood the title, although the show itself remained ineffable. To be clear, I never doubted it was a wo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:05PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 14, 2023
Susan and Bella, two students at UC Berkeley who are twin sisters, keep on getting pregnant " their pregnancy represented by red balloons "Â Â and they keep on popping "M&Ms" " not t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 13, 2023
The Perelman Performing Arts Center, or PAC NYC, held a ribbon connection (rather than ribbon cutting) ceremony today on a stage in the lobby that will offer free entertainment every day fro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 12, 2023
Shortly before I attended Annie Baker's new play about a group of mostly older women spending their vacations at a pain clinic in Northern California, I saw a new musical about a group of yo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:23PM[SHARE]Monday, September 11, 2023
The new performing arts center at the World Trade Center smartly decided to hold its official opening day ceremony on Wednesday,  not today. But if all goes well, the marble cube of th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:23AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 10, 2023
Each of the following movies slated for release in cinemas and/or streaming services before the end of the year may be of interest to legitimate theater fans because it directly adapts a sta…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:18AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 9, 2023
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to, of the ten that have an official opening on Broadway from September to December 2023. They are listed chronologically below by opening d…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:32AM[SHARE]Friday, September 8, 2023
Caitlin Cook has reportedly spent ten years researching graffiti in public bathrooms, and five years turning the graffiti into songs, which she now has put together for an hour-long show bil…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 7, 2023
Charles Busch has always worshipped Leading Ladies, even before he became one. That happened almost four decades ago, thanks to the surprise success of his play "Vampire Lesbians of Sodom."I…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:13PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 6, 2023
Bryan is bulimic.  Melinda is schizophrenic. Kendra has borderline personality disorder. Newcomer Adam is an addict. They are young patients in group therapy at a rehab ward, presided …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:56PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 5, 2023
Summer officially ended with Lea Michele singing "My Man" at the curtain call for the final performance of "Funny Girl" (see video below), a song introduced by Fanny Brice in the Ziegfeld Fo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:57AM[SHARE]Monday, September 4, 2023
On a Labor Day when Hollywood writers and actors have been on strike for months now,  there is a fitting if startling answer this year to the question I ask every Labor Day, which i…
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