Tuesday, January 14, 2020
This 15 minutes of Virtual Reality offering the sensation of looking at, walking on and flying over the moon " created by performance artist Laurie Anderson and new media artist Hsin-Chien H…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:06PM[SHARE]Monday, January 13, 2020
The typical Broadway theatergoer is still a well-to-do , middle-aged woman from out-of-town, according to statistics presented in The Demographics of the Broadway Audience 2018"2019, the 22n…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:54PM[SHARE]Below are the nominations in 24 categories for the 92nd Academy Awards, Joker" led all films with 11 nominations, including for Best Actor Joaquin Phoenix and Best Director Todd Phillips, fo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 12, 2020
Nominations for the 92nd annual Academy Awards will be announced tomorrow January 13, so it seems a good time to test your knowledge of the history of Broadway at the Oscars. (The 92nd Oscar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:25PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 11, 2020
Tickets are now on sale for Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for performances from January 21 through February 9 of 21 Broadway shows, from "Ain't Too Proud"…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:35AM[SHARE]Friday, January 10, 2020
There was a time when people made a living by starving themselves in front of a paying audience " an art form that lasted for centuries, but one that was on the wane when Franz Kafka wrote o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 9, 2020
The long arty title and the vague, grand description of the show in the Under the Radar festival listing are both misleading. "The Shadow" etc. has a straightforward subject and a clear poin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:13PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 8, 2020
"Wild Dogs Under My Skirt," a rhythmic, exuberant and startling work of theater that is the first of three New Zealand plays at Soho Playhouse this month, resembles Ntozake Shange's choreopo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Two Broadway veterans " Taylor Mac, Tony-nominated playwright of "Gary" and Greg Kotis, the Tony-winning co-author of "Urinetown" " are back Off-Off Broadway this season, and why would that …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:44PM[SHARE]Monday, January 6, 2020
Broadway and Off-Broadway were represented at the 77th annual Golden Globes; click on photographs for details. (Full list of 2020 Golden Globe winners and nominees.) Theater is an art form t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:20AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 5, 2020
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to. The list below is for shows that have opening dates on Broadway from January through April 2020 as of this writing, and they are listed …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:48AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 4, 2020
Genocide, suicide, murder, deportation, terror, kidnapping, mass explosion " those are some of the bleak subjects of the Off-Broadway shows I'm most looking forward to this season, listed be…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:49PM[SHARE]Friday, January 3, 2020
For all the Broadway lore and persistent hope that a show on the Great White Way will make new stars and break new ground, the appeal of Broadway increasingly has become its familiarity " fa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:50PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 2, 2020
Below is a selection of New York theater openings in January, organized chronologically by opening date.* Three shows are opening on Broadway this month " Laura Linney in "My Name Is…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:13PM[SHARE]Watch the entire 90-minute concert "Celebrating Sondheim," performed by the New York Philharmonic live on New Year's Eve 2020, with host Bernadette Peters and guest vocalist Katrina Lenk sin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:11AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 1, 2020
In the decade just ended, there were unmistakable trends specific to the theater " teen musicals, for example, and celebrity bio jukebox musicals. Which of these trends will continue in 2020…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:40PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 31, 2019
We celebrate the new decade by saluting  Broadway veterans who are aged 88 to 105, many of them still working. Click on any photograph to see it enlarged and read the caption.  Â
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:07PM[SHARE]Monday, December 30, 2019
It would be hard to have put together these weekly summaries of New York theater news for the entire decade, as I have, without noticing: This has been a weird decade. Even the name of the d…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:21PM[SHARE]Â Below are the ten most popular videos posted in 2019 on my New York Theater Youtube channel, in order of popularity. Below that are the top five New York theater videos of the decade Be…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:13AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 29, 2019
Recall what happened in theater in 2019 by answering these 16 questions, many adapted from my monthly quizzes throughout the year.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:09PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 28, 2019
Here are the 10 most popular posts of NewYorkTheater.me from 2019, and below that some good reads from the year. Then: the top five posts of the decade! 10 Most Popular Posts From 2019 Poll:…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:43AM[SHARE]Friday, December 27, 2019
 Broadway lights will dim on January 7 at 6:45 p.m. for Jerry Herman, who died on Thursday at the age of  88, at the end of a year that saw the death of Carol Channing at its beginnin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:45PM[SHARE]Below is a list of theater books to read in 2020, most of which were  published in 2019*.  Click on the titles to find more information and to purchase these books, grouped under four …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:28AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 26, 2019
My annual New Year's Eve last-minute guide to events that are still available to do on New Year's Eve 2020 (when 2019 turns into 2020) in New York City Below: Times Square. Broadway show …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:13PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 25, 2019
Below are some of the people from the theater community who died in 2019. Click on any photograph to read the caption.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:37PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 24, 2019
 Check out: Favorite stage performances in 2019. Top 10 Lists of Top 10 Theater in 2019. Best Broadway Cast Recording of 2019. Top 10 Theater of the Decade. Worst Theater of the Decade. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:06AM[SHARE]Monday, December 23, 2019
Below is the Broadway schedule between Monday December 23, 2019 and Sunday, December 29, 2019, with links to my reviews of the shows. Eight shows will be performing on Christmas Eve (Tuesday…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:59AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 22, 2019
Welcome to my annual Worst Broadway Show Poll. Pick the show you thought was the worst to open on Broadway between 2010 and 2019. Most of the 20 nominees were the two highest scorers in each…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:16PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 21, 2019
In a year that has ended so dramatically off-stage, and during which so many people talked dismissively about "political theater" " when they didn't mean anything actually happening in a …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:36PM[SHARE]In a year that has ended so dramatically off-stage, and during which so many people talked dismissively about "political theater" " but they didn't mean anything actually happening in a work…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:48PM[SHARE]Friday, December 20, 2019
"Sing Street" is a stage musical based on the sweet, funny "happy-sad" 2016 Irish movie by writer/director John Carney about a teenager named Conor growing up in Dublin during the economical…
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