Monday, November 4, 2024
George and Ira Gershwin wrote the songs for a trio of political satires in the 1930s,  the last of which, "Let 'Em Eat Cake," was about a president who loses his bid for re-election an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:03AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 2, 2024
See the Broadway performance schedule for the week of November 4 below. All but a half dozen Broadway shows are canceling their performances on Tuesday, November 5 " Election Day " whi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:13PM[SHARE]Friday, November 1, 2024
Below is a selection of theater opening* in New York in November, including six shows on Broadway, all of them musicals " two of them about the well-known real-life Americans Tammy Faye B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 31, 2024
How well were you paying attention to the theater news and reviews during last full month before Election 2024? Answer these ten quiz questions and find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:37PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 30, 2024
"Nearly 250 years ago, America was born when we wrested freedom from a petty tyrant. Across the generations, Americans have preserved that freedom, expanded it, and in so doing, proved to th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:21AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 29, 2024
In Sarah Mantell's play, a group of itinerant Amazon warehouse workers spend their days moving packages from conveyor belts to utility carts, and their nights in what could be called a marri…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:10PM[SHARE]Monday, October 28, 2024
Every item handmade by a Haitian has to tell a story of hardship, a businessman named Thomas tells Gigi, who is hoping he will connect his international customers to the luxury goods she …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:08PM[SHARE]The uncertainty of the presidential election next week, far scarier than Halloween, has colored many events this week  " certainly the  "appalling" decision by two major newsp…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:25AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 27, 2024
The Arab Spring, a wave of demonstrations by citizens demanding democracy in some dozen countries in the Middle East and North Africa, now seems like distant history. But the uprisings were …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:04PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 26, 2024
All eyes in "Sunset Blvd" have been focused on the fierce, full-throated and humongously-photographed performance by Nicole Scherzinger as Norma Desmond, the once-reigning silent movie queen…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:23PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 24, 2024
  This is a Romeo and Juliet aimed unapologetically at Gen Z: Its two stars, fan-magnets Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler, are both under 25. They lead a young cast, all but two of whom ar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 23, 2024
"Left on Tenth," which Delia Ephron has adapted for the stage from her best-selling memoir about death, second love, and survival, stars beloved TV star Julianna Margulies; it's put together…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 22, 2024
There are several things Benjamin Franklin says or does in Lloyd Suh's play "Franklinland" that I knew to be true; or at least that I had read about previously: He invented the lightning rod…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:28PM[SHARE]"Smash," a backstage musical about the making of a Marilyn Monroe musical called "Bombshell," will open at Broadway's Imperial Theater on April 10, its producers announced today, a long-teas…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:18AM[SHARE]Monday, October 21, 2024
Arthur Miller was in the spotlight this week, because of the announcement of a Broadway run this season for "John Proctor Was the Villain," a riff on "The Crucible," one of Miller's most pop…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:57AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 20, 2024
"Warriors," a newly released concept album by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis  adapted from the 1965 novel by Sol Yurick and the 1979 film directed by Walter Hill, features twenty-six s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:44AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 19, 2024
Arthur Miller's first Broadway hit, "All My Sons," was inspired by a newspaper account of  a young woman in Ohio who had informed on her father for having defrauded the military during…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:53PM[SHARE]Friday, October 18, 2024
"Show Boat" gets a radical remake. Theater in Quarantine's Joshua William Gelb comes out of his (8' by 4') closet. Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Robert Schenkkan takes a brea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:53PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 17, 2024
What most surprised me about director Kenny Leon's production of "Out Town" were not his distinctive touches.  What most surprised me is how emotionally I reacted to this "Our Town" "…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Adam Driver as superstar Strings McCrane seems to loom over the cramped set in a black ten-gallon hat, as he screams at a personal assistant who is about half his size, smashes his guitar, s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:55PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 15, 2024
"Vladimir" is the second play in New York this year set in Russia decades ago at the beginning of the reign of Vladimir Putin. Opening tonight Off-Broadway, Erika Sheffer's new play is simil…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PM[SHARE]Monday, October 14, 2024
Suffs will play its final Broadway performance on January 5, 2025 following 24 previews and 301 regular performances, according to an announcement late Friday night. A national tour…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:53AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 13, 2024
Composer Stephen Sondheim's greatness lies "beyond the clever lyrics, beyond the complex music." Sondheim can make you a better person:Â Â "The ambitions, dreams, disasters, and fixatio…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:29PM[SHARE]Friday, October 11, 2024
The twentieth anniversary of the La MaMa Puppet Festival starts its three-week run on all four stages of La MaMa ETC later this month, but the festival is just the largest offering in two mo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:38PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 10, 2024
Most of us think about climate change in the wrong way, David Finnigan tells us. It is not "this apocalyptic event that's on its way, and we need to prevent it from hitting," Rather, "it's h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Early every morning, Paul buys a cup of coffee and jokes around with Katie, the waitress in the otherwise empty local diner in the kind of small town in Upstate New York where the townsfolk …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Adam Szymkowicz, the author of this book offering advice about how to be a playwright, has been a student of such well-known playwrights (and teachers) as Christopher Durang, Marsha Norman, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:42PM[SHARE]Monday, October 7, 2024
In the swirl of the new theater season, with three shows opening on Broadway last week and another this week, and daily announcements of the season ahead (of Broadway debuts, for example, fo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:24AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 5, 2024
Election Day is in one month from today, November 5, 2024. Here's what you need to know in order to vote in the General Election in New York City. Registration In order to vote in New York, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:03PM[SHARE]Friday, October 4, 2024
Just about a month before the election, one can hardly expect every theater blogger " or podcaster or substacker " to ignore politics: So this roundup begins with three examples, then goes i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:26PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 3, 2024
A look back at Black vaudeville, an anthology of dramatic criticism by women writers, and the 600-year history of Latinx performing arts in America have been named the best theater books of …
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