Tuesday, July 4, 2017
As Americans celebrate our 241st Fourth of July, it's bracing to realize that the most patriotic new show on Broadway is "Come From Away," a musical about Canada. But American patriotism on …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:39PM[SHARE]Monday, July 3, 2017
This is an unusual month for New York theater: While there are no shows opening on Broadway, and few Off-Broadway, there is plenty to see " the annual summer theater festivals, such as the N…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:01PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 2, 2017
A ninth century Pope, a 21st century female Buddha, Â Liberace with a notorious gangster, Errol Flynn with Fidel Castro, Matthew McConaughey with the devil, a Conquistador’s daughter…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:40AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 1, 2017
Canada Day, almost always on July 1st, is special this year for two reasons: 2017 marks Canada’s 150th anniversary. And it’s the first day of Soulpepper on 42nd Street. Starting …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:33PM[SHARE]Third Rail Projects, the dazzling experimental and self-described "experiential" company that has created engaging site-specific theater in an old mental institution in Williamsburg ("Then S…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:24PM[SHARE]Friday, June 30, 2017
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news and reviews this month? Answer these 11 questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:13PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 29, 2017
There's a story told in "Marvin's Room" of a young man named Clarence who took a swim during a beachfront picnic, dunking down into the water and popping back up several times, each time lau…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:57PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Near the end of "Seeing You," a dance and theater piece about World War II written and co-directed by Randy Weiner (a producer of both Sleep No More  and Queen of the Night ), I le…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:51PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 25, 2017
Indecent, which announced it would close on Broadway today, suddenly reversed itself this week, and will play on until August 5. It seems a fitting Pride Day gift for this backstage play abo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:34AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 24, 2017
It would seem just the right timing for the first adaptation on a Broadway stage of "1984," George Orwell's chilling 1949 novel of a future totalitarian society. The book long has been so th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:25PM[SHARE]Friday, June 23, 2017
Below is the 2017 Kilroys list of 37 plays by women and trans writers of color most recommended in a survey of “273 influential new play leaders” Â Most of the plays have never…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:55PM[SHARE]Ticket Giveaway: Win two tickets to “The Traveling Lady,” a play by Horton Foote at the Cherry Lane Theater. The play, about a woman who journeys to a small town in 1950’s …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 22, 2017
With the new production of Horton Foote's "The Traveling Lady," we are back on familiar Foote territory. The play, about a woman hoping to reunite with a husband recently released from priso…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Lauren Yee's "in a word" is, on one level, about a married couple whose seven-year-old son has been missing for two years, the mother's grief and guilt causing a breakdown in her relationshi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Performances by Sarah Bernhardt, Martha Graham, and Meryl Streep; meetings about equal rights with Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass  in 1869; a lecture by Helen Keller in 1913. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:22PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 18, 2017
Tony Epilogue Within days of the Tony Awards (List of winners. Best moments) and the triumph of Dear Evan Hansen, three plays announced they were closing in June. Two of them " Indecent and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:25PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 17, 2017
Harry Potter, Olaf the snowman and Spongebob Squarepants all plan to perform on Broadway this season, as will Michael Moore, Mark Rylance and Elizabeth McGovern; new plays by Ayad Akhtar and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15AM[SHARE]Friday, June 16, 2017
For the 17th year in a row, Bryant Park is the site of free lunchtime concerts by cast members of current Broadway (and some Off-Broadway) shows  on Thursdays in July and August be…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 15, 2017
Mira Nair, the filmmaker of such celebrated movies as Salaam Bombay and Mississippi Masala, is directing a musical adaptation of her 2001 film Monsoon Wedding that is currently on stage at t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 14, 2017
"Roman Holiday," a musical running briefly at San Francisco's Golden Theater in a traditional pre-Broadway tryout, grafts more than a dozen songs by Cole Porter onto the 1953 movie that turn…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 13, 2017
The depiction of Julius Caesar as a Trump-like figure in the Public Theater production of “Julius Caesar” has sparked outrage, the removal of sponsorship (funds) by Delta and Ban…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:08PM[SHARE]Monday, June 12, 2017
Many moments in the three hours of the 71st annual Tony Awards (complete list of winners) were worth experiencing just once, if that — Bette Midler NOT singing, yet rambling endlessly …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:45AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 11, 2017
“Oslo” won best play.”Dear Evan Hansen” is having a very good night. Below is the complete list of the winners of the 71st annual Tony Awards, listed in red with an a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:47PM[SHARE]The 71st annual Tony Awards, honoring the shows that opened in the 2016-2017 season in the 41 Broadway theaters of New York, will be presented starting at 8 p.m. tonight, June 11, 2017 at Ne…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:12PM[SHARE]Friday, June 9, 2017
"I just want you to pick the shows for me," an out-of-town friend, planning a visit to New York, said to me recently, exasperated that I was trying to determine his taste in theater before m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 8, 2017
Below are my preferences — not my predictions. See my article in DC Theatre Scene for an explanation of each choice. Best Musical Nominated: Dear Evan Hansen Natasha, Pierre and the Gr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Here are my preferences " not predictions " for the 2017 Tony Awards, in keeping with a tradition I've been maintaining for a decade. I am a critic, not a seer or a bookie. We'll learn the c…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:06PM[SHARE]The 71st Annual Tony Awards will be shown on four continents, though not all will get to see it Sunday evening, June 11th. Will this put extra pressure on Tony voters, whose ballots are due …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:59PM[SHARE]Current and past winners of the Theatre World Awards, given to exceptional performers making their Broadway or New York stage debuts, offer their take on the season just past, sometimes in a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 6, 2017
Current and past winners of the Theatre World Awards, given to exceptional performers making their Broadway or New York stage debuts, offer their take on the season just past, sometimes in a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:18PM[SHARE]Monday, June 5, 2017
"I would rather drink alcohol than do just about anything there is to do on the face of the planet," Matthew Perry as Jack says to a woman he's just met in "The End of Longing," Perry's debu…
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