Monday, March 25, 2024
I reviewed seven shows this past week " two on Broadway, two Off-Broadway, two Off-Off Broadway, and one in Kentucky. A mad busy theatergoing week, prelude to an even more insane month, with…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:07AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 24, 2024
 We're in the parking lot of the New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church on a hot Good Friday afternoon in Dallas, Texas. We're also on stage in the Pamela Brown Auditorium of the Actors…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:03PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 23, 2024
Bathhouse.pptx,  "a mess" of a play about gay bathhouses that is "a symptom of loneliness and longing" (in the words of its playwright Jesús I. Valles), won the 2023 Yale Drama Seri…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:10PM[SHARE]Friday, March 22, 2024
Laurence Fishburne is an award-winning actor who's been in the business for more than half a century, debuting on TV at age 10, in the movies at age 12, and in a major motion picture, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:53AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 21, 2024
When at the start of "Water for Elephants," Jacob jumps a train during the Depression, he lucks out " and so do we."You didn't jump just any old train, son," a character named Camel tells hi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:47PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Described below are forty-seven shows opening over nineteen days in April. That beats even the Broadway schedule for the month. And tickets are a lot cheaper " no more than $35, and as littl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 19, 2024
There are elements of a smart and campy popular entertainment, comparable to "Little Shop of Horrors," in this latest musical from Michael R. Jackson ( "A Strange Loop," "White Girl in Dange…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:36PM[SHARE]Monday, March 18, 2024
Jeremy Strong as a righteous scientist? Michael Imperioli as his pompous, persnickety brother? One might initially question this casting. Strong is best known for his recent role as Kendall …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49PM[SHARE]The Dred Scott decision, widely considered the worst ruling in the history of the United States Supreme Court, inspired "American Rot," which should have been a better play. It certainly has…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:03PM[SHARE]New York theater revs up for its final stretch, with 16 of the 38 shows of the Broadway 2023-2024 season opening up over the next six weeks. I'm not even halfway through the 10 "can't mis…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:49AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 17, 2024
A look at the final stretch of the Broadway 2023-2024 season:: The sixteen Broadway shows opening over the next six weeks, starting tomorrow and ending April 25th, the cut-off date for Tony …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:41PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 16, 2024
Marlon Brando singing "Luck Be A Lady" in rehearsal with "Guys and Dolls" composer Frank Loesser. Fifteen pairs of Liza Minnelli's false eyelashes. A first edition of "West Side Story" signe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:37AM[SHARE]Friday, March 15, 2024
Four years ago today " the ides of March, 2020 " the COVID-19 pandemic forced the then-mayor of New York City to shut down the smaller In-person theaters that had remained open after t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 14, 2024
They're selling a little box of tissues branded with the logo of "The Notebook: The Musical" at  Broadway'sGerald Schoenfeld Theater, where it's opening tonight " perhaps the produc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:33PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 13, 2024
In "The Effect," two researchers are conducting clinical trials of a new antidepressant, but their experiment stumbles and crashes after two volunteers undergoing the drug tests fall for one…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:50PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 12, 2024
During the Golden Age of Broadway, theater photographer Leo Friedman used his specialized still camera to capture image after image of show after show. The action on stage was rarely still, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:31PM[SHARE]Monday, March 11, 2024
As he did more successfully with "Oslo" and "Blood and Gifts," playwright J. T. Rogers dramatizes a complicated moment in history with sophistication, humor, some clarity, even some suspense…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12PM[SHARE]Broadway at the Oscars 2024, clockwise from top left: New Academy Award winners and Broadway veterans Da'Vine Joy Randolph (who was nominated for  a Tony  in 2012 for Ghost the M…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:26AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 10, 2024
Best Picture Oppenheimer Best Director Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer Best Actor Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer Best Actress Emma Stone, Poor Things Best Supporting Actor Robert Downey Jr., Opp…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:21PM[SHARE]"I"m worried about the future of our children, and this is why I invite you into this strange, empty kitchen, because Republicans want me to appeal to women voters. And women love kitchens."…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:13AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 9, 2024
"No carnival without cruelty," a man dressed much like the horror movie character Freddy Krueger screams desperately in Spanish, trapped in a glass cube crowded with others who are grotesque…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:36PM[SHARE]Friday, March 8, 2024
In honor of International Women's Day and Women's History Month, here are the women playwrights who have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an annual award given for "a distinguished play by …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:26PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 7, 2024
The nun is certain, or says she is, that the priest is molesting one of the students in her school, but we never are so sure, thanks to John Patrick Shanley's exquisitely well-crafted pla…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:54PM[SHARE]For all the high-powered theatrical talent involved, this stage interpretation of Sufjan Stevens' acclaimed 2005 album "Illinois" could probably use a warning label. It's extraordinary, it's…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:11PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Choose the shows that you are most looking forward to, in the four categories into which I've divided the 18 play and musicals that are opening on Broadway in March and April, 2024. These ar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Whether offering a Spring Review, or praising a Broadway run, or welcoming the news that the Washington Post will indeed be hiring a new theater critic after all, the theater bloggers below …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:12PM[SHARE]Monday, March 4, 2024
"With all the activity on Broadway, there will be plenty of good targets," says Gerard Alessandrini, the wit behind the satirical revue "Forbidden Broadway," which after more than fort…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:59AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 3, 2024
Eighteen shows are opening in the final eight weeks of the 2023-2024 Broadway season, each of which offers discounts of one kind or another " rush, lottery, digital rush, digital lottery. He…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:23AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 2, 2024
How well were you paying attention to New York theater in the month of February? Answer these ten questions to find out, plus an extra question to match the extra day because it's a Leap Yea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:11PM[SHARE]Friday, March 1, 2024
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in March, including five shows opening on Broadway, two of them new musical adaptations of popular novels. Jeremy Strong returns to Broadway after …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 29, 2024
The Adventures of Curious Ganz I could tell you about the fascinating life of Joachim Ganz, who was the first Jew to settle in the first English colony in America in the late 1500s. He was a…
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