Thursday, August 28, 2025
In the year 2051, a bilingual robot named Bob has disguised himself as a human being (a species not yet extinct) and descended twenty levels underground to the Gold Vault of the Federal Bank…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:46PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 27, 2025
The end of summer finds some theater bloggers (Ken Davenport , Broadway & Me's Jan Simpson and the staff of Theatrely) coming up with lists, while others (Broadway Journal's Philip Borof…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:26PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 26, 2025
What at first seems to be a novel about a 1960s experimental theater troupe turns out to be genre fiction that uses theater as a backdrop for a plot involving murder and menace. Â This is …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:55PM[SHARE]Monday, August 25, 2025
The last week of summer is a time to relax " or to get busy figuring out your Fall New York theater season before tickets run out, and how to avoid paying too much for them. (And the lott…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:25PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 24, 2025
Keanu Reeves (his Broadway debut!) in a Waiting for Godot revival, Neil Patrick Harris, Bobby Cannavale, James Corden in an Art revival, Lea Michele and Aaron Tveit in a CH…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:44PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 23, 2025
A dystopian legal drama starring Elizabeth Marvel; avant-garde takes on Dostoevsky, Dante and the Biggest Loser TV show, a puppet ballet, Palestinian folk dancing, a Russia-to-Oklahoma Jewis…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:32PM[SHARE]Friday, August 22, 2025
Xhloe Rice and Natasha Roland have spent the month of August as a pair of aspiring rodeo cowboys faced with a bull suffering an existential crisis; as rapidly-deranging 1950s suburban housew…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:11PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 21, 2025
My take on this starry "Twelfth Night" beneath the stars was much like my reaction to the renovations at the Delacorte, where it is opening tonight. They both occurred in stages. I was thril…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 20, 2025
By the end of this masterfully constructed and impeccably acted drama, we have observed an exceptional study of grief, pieced together a portrait of both a good person and a complicated comm…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:35PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Tickets are on sale now for Broadway Week, which runs from September 8 to 21. The deal: Buy two tickets for the price of one to your choice of 24 Broadway shows, using the code NYCBW400 " or…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:10PM[SHARE]Monday, August 18, 2025
After his mother died when he was just 14 years old, as Jeff Ross tells us from the stage of Broadway's Nederlander Theater, "I remember sitting in my room thinking, 'Is this what life is? Y…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:45PM[SHARE]"Gypsy" closed last night, "Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride" is opening tonight. Two more shows will close on Broadway by the end of the month, and no more will open until September 16…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:34AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 17, 2025
"Sea Glass" is billed as a contemporary feminist retelling of Cain and Abel, so I knew how it would end. Oddly, the ending felt tacked on " one of the reasons why Olivia Dennehy-Basile's scr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:32PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 16, 2025
Although Eddie Redmayne was nominated for an Academy Award for "The Danish Girl," he regretted taking on the role of Lili Elbe,  as he  told an interviewer several years later, b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54AM[SHARE]Friday, August 15, 2025
Below is Atlantic Records' newly released cast album of the Broadway musical "Just in Time," which stars Jonathan Groff as 60s crooner Bobby Darin " and below that two videos of Groff's sing…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:35AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 14, 2025
"Mamma Mia," reopening today on Broadway after a ten-year absence, is much the same confection: same silly plot, same disco-era earworms by the Swedish pop group ABBA, same high-energy chore…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 13, 2025
I started feeling complicit in the exploitation of Ava Gardner by even attending "Ava: The Secret Conversations," a play that Elizabeth McGovern has adapted from a book of the same name by c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:04PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 12, 2025
While the real Zohran Mamdani began a "Five Boroughs Against Trump tour" this week,  the children's book character does the same thing, although not explicitly against Trump. In Zoh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:34AM[SHARE]Monday, August 11, 2025
Ariana DeBose to star in Stephen Schwartz musical. Rosie O'Donnell has her say far away. A Chorus Line at 50. Ephraim Sykes at #Hamilten block party Stars are what sell shows in New York, mo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 10, 2025
Miles Davis comes back to life through an encounter with current trumpeter Jay Phelps in this play that inventively mixes live music, biography, history, even musicology, to illuminate the s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:06PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 9, 2025
Will "Hot Mess" be the first climate-crisis musical to make it to Broadway " and the second Broadway musical, after "Six," to have originated at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival?   The…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:25PM[SHARE]Friday, August 8, 2025
The Royal Mile, the wide cobbled road between the Edinburgh Castle and the Holyrood Palace, is lined with Parliament, Cathedrals, pubs, and, every August since the launch of Fringe Street Ev…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:32AM[SHARE]I was ultimately so thrilled and so moved by "Down to Chance" that, right after leaving the show, when I saw two strangers who happened to be holding a flyer for it, I described the play wit…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:11AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 7, 2025
Rosie O'Donnell does eventually talk about her longtime feud with "Mango Mussolini"; she also makes a brief and self-effacing reference to her film career; she is of course often laugh-out-l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 6, 2025
The 20 venues operated by TheSpaceUK are presenting 479 shows at this month's Edinburgh Fringe Festival " as Xhloe and Natasha put it, "comedy, music, theater, musicals or some terrifying fr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:21AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 5, 2025
All three shows are oddly connected, and not just because I saw them on the same day at Summerhall, the former veterinary college that is the venue with the most character at the Edinburgh F…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:14AM[SHARE]Monday, August 4, 2025
I'll start with the two shows about gay royals, both featuring unmentionable titles and intimate kisses. One,  by Jordan Tannahill, ended its run at Playwrights Horizons over …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:44PM[SHARE]What was Mrs. Lovett's life like before she met Sweeney Todd?  I thought immediately of the moment she decided to start baking her pies using an unprecedented ingredient, thus turning …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:02AM[SHARE]At the end of this, their latest camp adventure,  Linus Karp and Joseph Martin announced that they would be getting married August 16th on stage at one of the Edinburgh Fringe Festi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:59AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 3, 2025
Abigail and Shaun Bengson got married three weeks after they met, but rather than just feeling joy in finding the love of her life, Abigail felt great anxiety, because she had had a dream wh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:04AM[SHARE]Amid the trans comic,  mute comic, pigeon comic, queer ballet, youth theater performing from "A Chorus Line," political theater and a Broadway choreographer's new musical about famous …
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