Saturday, October 29, 2022
"Hound Dog," a play with music, evokes Elvis, Joni Mitchell and "Ramy" the Hulu series about an Egyptian-American immigrant family in New Jersey (the last unintentionally) " which provide th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:58PM[SHARE]Friday, October 28, 2022
In 2016, Stephen Sondheim, who was working on a new musical based on two movies by Luis Buñuel,  was listed on an internal memo at the New Yorker Magazine as a possible subject for …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:53PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 27, 2022
Gabriel Byrne gives four different kinds of curtain calls in the middle of "Walking With Ghosts," his lovely solo show opening tonight at Broadway's Music Box Theater. These are hilarious im…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Ralph Fiennes nails Robert Moses " the gruff, no-nonsense New York voice, the pugnacious face, the planted stance ready for combat; pelvis thrust forward. Commanding, confident to the point …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:29PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Joe Morton and Sean Combs have all portrayed Walter Lee Younger on Broadway. Given how admired these performers are,  it may come as a shock that the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:55PM[SHARE]Monday, October 24, 2022
Will a Caesars Palace casino be put above the Minskoff Theater,  home to "The Lion King"? Caesars and the landlord of 1515 Broadway, SL Green, have put in a bid with the New York St…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:37AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 23, 2022
Theater heals in grim times, even in grim shows, according to several theater bloggers, who are sounding a surprising note of optimism in recent posts amid the current reports of tension bot…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:55AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 22, 2022
"What Kind of Woman," playwright Abbe Tanenbaum tells us in a program note, was inspired by a cache of letters from women seeking abortion before Roe vs. Wade, which she discovered …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:57AM[SHARE]Friday, October 21, 2022
Broadway performers Idina Menzel, Gideon Glick, Andy Mientus, Nancy Olson, directors Jack O'Brien and Sheldon Epps are all new authors " of memoirs, novels, a cookbook, a children's book; no…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:31PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 20, 2022
Is "Topdog/Underdog" as outdated as the three-card monte that the play revolves around? In Suzan-Lori Parks' twenty-year-old play, two brothers with the loaded names of Lincoln and Booth spe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Emma Rice's jokey, sprawling musical adaptation of "Wuthering Heights" that opens tonight at St. Ann's Warehouse might befuddle anyone who associates the title with the 1939 movie. Laurence …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00PM[SHARE]Monday, October 17, 2022
Two Broadway cast members provoked voluble reactions among theater lovers this past week,  both of which feel like case studies with surprisingly complex implications. Sara Porkalob, w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:15PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 16, 2022
Sara Porkalob, who is making her Broadway debut portraying Edward Rutledge, the pro-slavery representative from South Carolina, in the gender-reversed Broadway revival of "1776," gave an …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:01PM[SHARE]Friday, October 14, 2022
For Edward Hopper, theater was a passionate pastime, an inspiration, and also, from first to last, a subject of his paintings " enough of them to fill a gallery and then some in "Edward Hopp…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 13, 2022
The first Broadway revival of August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson"Â is full of stars and ghosts. The ghosts are what make it brilliant. Don't misunderstand. It's thrilling that: -Samuel L. J…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:39PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 12, 2022
Angela Lansbury received her first Oscar nomination before World War II was won, and today, there are children who know who she is. It's hard to imagine anyone matching the historical sweep …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:40AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 11, 2022
Angela Lansbury, the English born actress, child star in Hollywood and beloved sleuth of "Murder She Wrote" who conquered Broadway relatively late in life, died today at her home in Los Ange…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:28PM[SHARE]Three more shows opened last week, the latest in the revved-up Broadway season, all three with non-traditional casts, two of them familiar Broadway fare thus made unfamiliar (and, the produc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03AM[SHARE]Monday, October 10, 2022
In honor of Indigenous Peoples' Day, which President Joe Biden first formally recognized as a national holiday in 2021, to be celebrated the second Monday of October (today!) " not coinci…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:21PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 9, 2022
The "Death of a Salesman" that opens tonight on Broadway begins and ends with the people around Willy Loman literally singing the blues " the music that turned the bitterness and exhaustion …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:19PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 8, 2022
A day before opening night of the sixth Broadway production of Arthur Miller's 1949 plays seems a good time to resurrect my review of the fifth production which opened on March 15th, 2012 st…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:29PM[SHARE]Friday, October 7, 2022
The long weekend is a good time to catch up on theater that is available online for free. Some of it has been around for a while and may remain so; four of the shows below are planning to go…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 6, 2022
The original challenge to the creators of "1776" was how to make a commercial musical comedy out of something as somber and dry as the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Half a cent…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 4, 2022
"We are not criminals…" Kristina was saying "We are refugees," Bohdana added, "seeking asylum." Kristina Obluchynska and Bohdana Yakobchuk were two of the seven women from Ukraine who were…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:26PM[SHARE]Monday, October 3, 2022
On the same night that I saw the exquisitely acted Broadway production of "Cost of Living" " Martyna Majok's Pulitzer Prize-winning play that tells the parallel stories of two disabled peopl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:23PM[SHARE]Tom Stoppard's nineteenth play to open on Broadway, and the Fall 2022 season's first, launches a busy and exciting theatrical month in New York " eight shows just on Broadway, including two …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:46AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 2, 2022
"Leopoldstadt," a play by Tom Stoppard inspired by the death of his own extended family in the Holocaust, begins with a family tree projected onto the scrim of the stage at Broadway's Longac…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:44PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 1, 2022
Below is a day-by-day calendar of theater opening* in October, a thrilling selection featuring eight Broadway shows (four of them Pulitzer winners, a fifth the nineteenth Broadway play in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30AM[SHARE]Friday, September 30, 2022
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SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:14PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 29, 2022
Before the curtain rises at BAM's Harvey Theater on this wordless, whimsical and haunting hour-long theater piece cryptically entitled "300 el x 50 el x 30 el,"  a huge screen proje…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:19PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 28, 2022
In MarÃa Irene Fornés' 1984 musical "Sarita" " presented in a rare staged reading free online through October 16th as part of Roundabout's Refocus Project " we first meet the title chara…
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