Friday, September 24, 2021
"Sanctuary City" is full of surprises, rarely happy ones for the boy and girl who have grown up together " or for the audience. Martyna Majok's challenging, intelligent play focuses on two i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:34PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Why are these five women in the same play? A prostitute in Amsterdam; a mother from Guatemala; a sister from the Midwest;Â Â a food vendor in the Central African Republic; an internation…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 21, 2021
"I loathe that word 'nice,'" Hallie says, and so apparently do both her parents; all three could not be more unlikeable in the first 100 minutes of the 110-minute play "The Medievalists," wr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:29PM[SHARE]Monday, September 20, 2021
Over the past week, there has been so much hoopla bout Broadway " reopening nights, festival concerts, TV spots, heartfelt speeches about Broadway being back (Kristin Chenoweth: "There's no …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:19AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 18, 2021
"Repulsing the Monkey," which is set in an old bar in Pittsburgh about to be sold to (and destroyed by) gentrifiers, takes place in an old bar in New York, the White Horse Tavern. This is th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:31PM[SHARE]Friday, September 17, 2021
 "There's no place like home," Kristin Chenoweth said on the reopening night of "Wicked," on September 14, 2021, eighteen years after it opened on Broadway (on October 30, 2003) and 18 mo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 16, 2021
Alan Cumming and Billy Porter have written memoirs that are being published this fall, which will also see biographies of Oscar Wilde and Emily Mann, plus a book "by" Noel Coward. Click on t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:51PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 15, 2021
Thicket & Thistle is the kind of company that anybody serious about theater in America would want to encourage. This is what drew me to "Waterman,"Â Â which turns out to be a Fringe-…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:52PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Below are new production photographs of the 2021 cast of "Hamilton," which is reopening on Broadway tonight, along with "Chicago," "The Lion King" and "Wicked," after eighteen months, the lo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:53PM[SHARE]Monday, September 13, 2021
This week could not be busier. Today,  300,000 employees go back to work for New York City's government, and a million students go back to the city's public schools. Tomorrow, "Chicago…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:48PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 12, 2021
"It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while," Frankie the narrator says at the beginning of  "Angela's Ashes the Musical," just as he did …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:44PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 11, 2021
By the time that Bill Rauch became the artistic director of the performing arts center on the site of the World Trade Center, it had been nearly two decades in the making. On this, the twent…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:14AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 9, 2021
In "What Happened? The Michaels Abroad,"Â Â the dancer Rose Michael, already riddled with cancer, has died of COVID, and her family and friends have gathered around the kitchen table in …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:14PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 8, 2021
If Third Rail Projects' "Return The Moon" " an eerie, airy 75 minutes that is as much secular ritual as work of theater " had been produced by almost any other theater company, I might have …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:29PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 7, 2021
The Fall season means the reopening of some 20 big Broadway musicals, two of which began again last week to much hoopla, but it's the large slate of new work, much of it unusual for Broadway…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:33PM[SHARE]Monday, September 6, 2021
Where are the American plays about unions, or workers, or even just workplaces? I started asking that question several years ago on Labor Day, a legal holiday created by Congress in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15AM[SHARE]Friday, September 3, 2021
Here are shows you can still see either on stage, or online, or both, during Labor Day weekend, with links to my reviews. Of course, there are now four shows running on Broadway " Springstee…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:27PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 2, 2021
"Hadestown" is back from the dead, reopening with most of its original principal Broadway cast intact*. "Has Hell ever sounded so thrilling," I exclaimed in my review of the 2016 Off Broadwa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PM[SHARE]"Waitress," a musical I savored when it opened in 2016, is back on Broadway. Its reopening tonight is unlike many of the other shows returning this season. Its run had ended in January 2020,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 1, 2021
Below is a selection of the abundant New York theater openings in September, organized chronologically by opening date*, which for the first time in eighteen months includes a full schedule …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:19PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 31, 2021
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SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:39PM[SHARE]Monday, August 30, 2021
Today, the Broadway League launches its "This is Broadway" campaign, featuring a new flashy website, a dazzling montage video narrated by Oprah Winfrey (see below), the lighting of the Empir…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:21AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 28, 2021
Bete comes off as such an outrageous Latina diva that she could be a drag queen's campy creation, especially since she's portrayed by a man, Arturo Luis Soria. She compares herself to Madonn…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:58PM[SHARE]Friday, August 27, 2021
"Pass Over" is more than just a foul-mouthed, funny, beautifully acted and blisteringly pointed play about two Black men stuck on a street corner, menaced by white men. It arrives on Broadwa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Lightning cut short the We Love NYC Homecoming concert in Central Park over the weekend,  which one hopes is not a harbinger of the desperately anticipated Fall season. Some culture ha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:26AM[SHARE]Monday, August 23, 2021
"The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano"Â Â revolves around a true incident that occurred around Christmas time 1969: The Young Lords, a group of young activist Puerto Ricans in New York, took…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:57PM[SHARE]By Jonathan Mandell. Jonathan Mandell shares his experience at New York City's first-ever official Puppet Week.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:59PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 21, 2021
"I'm so sick of playing the part of Elizabeth Taylor,"Â Â Kayla Boye says in "Call Me Elizabeth." Of course, Elizabeth Taylor is supposed to be saying this, not Boye, who is portraying t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:07PM[SHARE]Friday, August 20, 2021
"Actor. Humanitarian. Snack." " Those are the first words we see on the screen, and they're obviously meant to describe Jake Gyllenhaal. But filmmaker, writer and actress Melissa Center's ho…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:57PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 19, 2021
What would be the most effective play about climate change?  That's the question that Australian playwright Melissa-Kelly Franklin seems to have asked herself while writing this short …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 18, 2021
Alma and Baya are living in the only home they've ever known, a two-person pod far from Earth, with malfunctioning machines and a dwindling food supply, when an unexpected stranger comes kno…
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