Thursday, February 20, 2025
Peter Garside calls himself a demagogue, freely admits he's in politics to make money, and says "the public likes to be fooled."Â Â It's a corrupt attitude that, despite his good looks a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 19, 2025
 The producers of "All in: Comedy about Love," one of the three shows that ended their Broadway runs last weekend, have announced "All Out: Comedy About Life" for next season (venue and c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:29AM[SHARE]Monday, February 17, 2025
Donald Trump took over as chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts " which he told reporters he had never visited " on the birthday last week of Abraham Lincoln, who wa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:12PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 15, 2025
When Jeffrey Seller was 18 years old and frustrated at his new job as the drama director at a summer camp for kids, somebody handed him a copy of Moss Hart's 1959 memoir "Act One," touting i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:44PM[SHARE]Friday, February 14, 2025
Nightly on Broadway nowadays, one title character professes her love to the other title character: "My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:09AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 13, 2025
Idina Menzel returns to Broadway as Jesse, a New York gallery owner who, out of grief for the death of her son, leaves her wife and her life, drives cross country, and winds up spending seve…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:58PM[SHARE]Monday, February 10, 2025
We already know that "Wicked" would make a good Broadway musical because it IS one. But what about the other nine movies nominated this year for the Best Picture Oscar? Which would make the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:33PM[SHARE]The average Broadway theatergoer is a 42-year-old white woman from out of town whose family income exceeds $275,000. That's one way to summarize The Demographics of the Broadway Audience …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 9, 2025
My favorite celebrity commercial during the 2025 Super Bowl weren't selling a product, but promoting an ideal. The others were hawking liquor and condiments.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 8, 2025
When Denzel Washington starts performing as Othello later this month on Broadway, he'll be following by exactly two centuries the debut portrayal of "the Moor of Venice" by Ira Aldridge, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:26PM[SHARE]Friday, February 7, 2025
Samantha Sehter is the brains " or the nose? " behind "Scents of the Stage," a brand new company that makes candles that smell like specific Broadway shows " or more precisely, create a scen…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 6, 2025
They meet for drinks after an absence of thirty years, still loving one another, and still sharing a secret.  "Still," starring Melissa Gilbert (from Little House on the Prairie) and M…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 5, 2025
 In "Mrs. Loman," a misfire of a play that attempts a sequel to Arthur Miller's "Death of A Salesman,"  Willy Loman's widow Linda experiences a somewhat anachronistic awakening, wh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:04PM[SHARE]Tickets are on sale for Off-Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for 29 Off-Broadway productions (18 of them newly offered), for performances from February 17 th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:53AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 4, 2025
In "The Antiquities," playwright Jordan Harrison offers a dozen stories about the downside of technology through the ages, each from a distinctive year, from 1816 to 2240. If the play can fe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:08PM[SHARE]Monday, February 3, 2025
"Yes, the darkness is loud, but the light is brighter y'all," Brandon Victor Dixon shouted while accepting the Grammy for Best Musical Theater album for "Hells Kitchen," That's somewhat of a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 2, 2025
Hells Kitchen has won the 2025 best musical theater album at the 67th annual Grammy Awards, beating out five other nominees, all current or recent Broadway shows (the third consecutive year …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:16PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 1, 2025
The 68th annual Obie Awards, honoring achievement Off and Off Off Broadway, were announced tonight. Below is the complete list, which includes Lifetime achievement awards for Charles Busch, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:50PM[SHARE]Below is a calendar of selected theater opening* in February, including a single Broadway show, "Redwood," starring Idina Menzel, and plenty of star power Off Broadway: Rainn Wilson, Jordan …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:30AM[SHARE]Friday, January 31, 2025
"Wicked" and "Hamilton" are back in the news, as is a certain former reality show host; some once little-known stage actors are now….nominees; and there was plenty new and strange on stage…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:07PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 30, 2025
Sadie is an actress who so hates motherhood that she put together a one-woman show about how her daughter ruined her life; it is one of the reasons her daughter Jude feels Sadie ruined hers.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:51PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Some theater bloggers are responding bluntly to the alarming political moment. Don Shewey lists sources of news that haven't been corrupted by billionaire owners, George Hunka poste…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 28, 2025
RFK Jr "lacks any relevant government, financial, management or medical experience. His views on vaccines are dangerous and willfully misinformed. These facts alone should be disqualifying, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:19PM[SHARE]Monday, January 27, 2025
Not everything is offensively fabricated in "Kowalski," an account of the first time Marlon Brando ever met Tennessee Williams, to audition for "A Streetcar Named Desire," the play that woul…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:07PM[SHARE]Has it been just a week? It doesn't feel like such a wonderful world right now. So perhaps it's fitting that the Louis Armstrong musical on Broadway with that title announced its closing dat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 26, 2025
This season, there will be two shows starring corpses, two reimagined classics performed by a single actor portraying dozens of characters, two new plays by MacArthur Geniuses, three s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:42PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 25, 2025
Hagar is fed up with the state of Black playwriting. "These kids aren't writing anything new. They all keep circling August Wilson. Family dramas are important…but if you've seen one, you'…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:22PM[SHARE]Friday, January 24, 2025
"Famehungry" is Louise Orwin's attempt to explain TikTok and demonstrate its appeal " the former intriguing, the latter excruciating.  The 75-minute show is on stage at SoHo Playhou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 23, 2025
When Sanaz Toossi made her Off-Broadway debut with this play about four adult students in Iran taking a class to learn English, even the many who praised it described "English" as "contempla…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15PM[SHARE]The complete list of nominations for the 97th annual Academy Awards, which will be held on Sunday, March 2, 2025 at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and televised live on AB…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 22, 2025
The odd trial between Hollywood star Gwyneth Paltrow and retired optometrist Terry Sanderson over a 2016 skiing accident was so innately campy that it makes a theatrical parody both redundan…
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