Saturday, August 27, 2022
Below are videos of some of the performances in the last Broadway in Bryant Park lunchtime concert of Summer 2022. The hour-long concert began with an acrobatic and musical "pre-show" perfor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:27PM[SHARE]Friday, August 26, 2022
The cast of "A Strange Loop" performed four songs from the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning musical at the final Broadway in Bryant Park lunchtime concert of Summer 2022. Below are vide…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:50PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 25, 2022
The Off-Broadway revival of "Kinky Boots," which opens tonight  at Stage 42, comes just 40 months after the end of the show's run on Broadway, and is so little changed from the origina…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 24, 2022
In the dog days of summer, those few bloggers not on vacation are depicting the theater as dog eat dog " an arena for classic class struggle, workers vs. owners. Or at least that might be ho…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:05PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 23, 2022
Jim McCarthy was as charmed and cheered as everybody else by the online shows in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Like many, he soon tired of the spontaneous, slapdash productions, m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:26AM[SHARE]Monday, August 22, 2022
Broadway Week will return September 6-25 after a three-year hiatus, offering 2-for-1 tickets. Such efforts to return to 2019 normal have not yet succeeded, as the New York Times report…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:10AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 21, 2022
For her 101st birthday, Muriel Mandell visited the Whitney Museum of American Art to catch the Whitney Biennial before it closes September 5th. "The Whitney Biennial," we read, "is the longe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:08AM[SHARE]Friday, August 19, 2022
Below are videos from musical numbers sung by casts of two shows opening on Broadway in the fall, as part of the Broadway in Bryant Park lunchtime concert on August 18: "1776" and "A Beautif…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:39AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 18, 2022
Julie Benko, who went from standby to star of the first-ever Broadway revival of "Funny Girl," sang "I'm The Greatest Star" at the Broadway in Bryant Park lunchtime concert August 18, 2022. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 17, 2022
Sondheim enthusiasts might know Mary Rodgers primarily as the married friend he consulted to learn about marriage so that he could write the musical "Company." Knowledgeable fans of Rodgers …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:07PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Daniel is the world professional champion of Solitaire, which feels apt, because "I only feel like myself when I'm alone," as he admits to Jordan, his fiancé. Daniel wants to end his solitu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PM[SHARE]Monday, August 15, 2022
At age 91, Adrienne Kennedy will be making her Broadway debut, when Audra McDonald stars in "Ohio Murders," directed by Kenny Leon, opening December 8th at the newly renamed James Earl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:14AM[SHARE]Friday, August 12, 2022
Watch video excerpts of performances from the casts of four Broadway shows, and one Off-Broadway, presented at the Broadway in Bryant Park lunchtime concert this week. "Chicago." Lana Gordon…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:39AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 11, 2022
Principal cast members of "Hadestown" escaped from the dark Underworld to the bright midday sun of a Broadway in Bryant Park lunchtime concert to perform four of the numbers from the 2019 To…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:44PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Gavin Creel, currently portraying both a big bad wolf and Cinderella's charming Prince in the Broadway revival of "Into The Woods," has played just such varied roles from his Broadway debut …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 9, 2022
Emilio Sosa, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic who grew up in the South Bronx, has been a costume designer for the theater for more than two decades " and, since July of 2021, the cha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:30PM[SHARE]Monday, August 8, 2022
Broadway Alphabet Series, Round 2: The Week in New York Theater Reviews The Nosebleed at Lincoln Center "Who here loves their father? Who here hates their father?" Aya asks  the au…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:27AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 7, 2022
Once again, Theater for a New City is touring a free, original hour-long musical through New York City streets, playgrounds and parks, as it has nearly every summer for almost half a century…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:49PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 6, 2022
"If I only did Shakespeare and August Wilson for the rest of my life, I'd be happy," Denzel Washington said at the red carpet before the Oscars broadcast this year Of course, he was at the c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00PM[SHARE]Friday, August 5, 2022
With characters named Boq and Og, Igor and Ogie, nine-time Broadway veteran Christopher Fitzgerald has played some of the freshest and funniest roles on Broadway, many of which he originated…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:34PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 4, 2022
Billy Porter is busy promoting his debut as a film director, for the movie "Anything's Possible" a romcom on Amazon Prime with a twist " one of the young lovers is trans. But for all his var…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:28PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 3, 2022
Ariana DeBose became a familiar face this year, after winning the Academy Award for her performance as Anita in Steven Spielberg's revival of "West Side Story," which was a couple of months …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:46PM[SHARE]Monday, August 1, 2022
"Who here loves their father? Who here hates their father?" Aya asks  the audience each time for a show of hands, and then volunteers: "I hated my father."  Aya Ogawa's "The Noseble…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:58PM[SHARE]Â "High Noon" is aiming for Broadway, an announcement last week that felt aptly timed, considering all the showdowns. (see The Week in New York Theater News) Theater Quiz for July 2022: Di…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 31, 2022
Below is a selection of theater opening in New York in August, with many of the most intriguing plays this month by and about first generation Americans. It's summer, so a lot of the thea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:13AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 30, 2022
How well were you paying attention to theater in July? Answer these ten questions " plus two bonus questions about "Into the Woods" Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:13PM[SHARE]Friday, July 29, 2022
Is the theater worth the trouble? That's the question I've been asking myself lately, and it turns out I'm not alone.  "In the fall of 2019, in the wake of a disastrous workshop of a n…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 28, 2022
"I want you to close your eyes and remember your first puff puff pass," Baba Israel raps near the beginning of "Cannabis: A Viper Vaudeville," which is a fast-paced flashy rap concert and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 27, 2022
Judging from Robert Icke's adaptation, Aeschylus took the easy way out. In the Greek playwright's version of The Oresteia written 2,500 years ago " telling the story of the cycle of murder a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 26, 2022
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to, and the one you are least likely to attend. The list below is for shows that have opening dates on Broadway in October, November and Dec…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:42AM[SHARE]Monday, July 25, 2022
Like the magnets I collect from each show for my refrigerator, Broadway exerts a pull, but I also felt a push upon my return this past week to see  "Into The Woods" and "The Kite Runne…
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