Friday, February 2, 2024
There seemed more awards than usual this past month, not all of them theater awards, but all with a theater connection or two. Answer these ten questions to see how well you were paying atte…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:34PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 1, 2024
Jonah is sweet, awkward, inquisitive, respectful and clearly smitten " the sort of boy you might want for a first love if you were Ana, a scholarship student at a boarding school. After he w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:19PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in February, including a single Broadway show " a revival of a Tony and Pulitzer winner by John Patrick Shanley opening on Leap Year Day. But a new pl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:23PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Chita Rivera died today at the age of 91. Born Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero, she originated roles in "West Side Story," "Bye Bye Birdie," "Chicago" and "Kiss of the Spider Wom…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:31PM[SHARE]What first comes to mind when you think of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" To Philip Gefter, it is not the game-changing play by Edward Albee, but Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:01AM[SHARE]Monday, January 29, 2024
The biggest "award" this past week was for $83.3 million, but, for the end of January, there was a surprising amount of news about entertainment-related awards " including winners (of Obies,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:58AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 28, 2024
Brian d'Arcy James and Kelli O'Hara return to Broadway for the first time together since 2002 to portray a couple who fall in love with alcohol as much as with one another in this musi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:09PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 27, 2024
The 67th annual Obie Awards, honoring achievement Off and Off Off Broadway, were announced tonight. The 23 winners are listed below, some of them linked to my reviews BEST NEW AMERICAN PLAY …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:25PM[SHARE]Friday, January 26, 2024
The first disturbing story that we're told in this hour-long collage of dancing and diatribes, horror and love, concerns a man named Tantalus, who killed his son and chopped him up with the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 25, 2024
Sutton Foster, trying her hand at goofy physical comedy and affecting a rapid-fire comic patter reminiscent of early Barbra Streisand, is an undeniable draw in the Encores! series revival of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Nominations for the 96th annual Academy Awards were announced yesterday, and theater lovers cheered the latest Broadway connections. The Oscars have always had Broadway connections. Test you…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:17AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 23, 2024
The complete list of nominations for the 96th annual Academy Awards, which will be held on Sunday, March 10 at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and televised LIVE on ABC. Wa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:31AM[SHARE]Monday, January 22, 2024
There are now twenty-one shows scheduled to open on Broadway during the Spring 2024 season, three of them announced just within the past week. As Time Out's Adam Feldman points out, much of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 21, 2024
From the wordless to the wordy, these short worldly works" all three directly or indirectly reflecting the story of race in America; all three intriguing examples of digital theater " were o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:44PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 20, 2024
A play called "Pride House," set in Cherry Grove on Fire Island, and produced by a gay theater company? It's reasonable to presume it the kind of formulaic gay play that has proliferated sin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:53PM[SHARE]Friday, January 19, 2024
The Black couple go overboard in congratulating their daughter for coming out, donning rainbow T-shirts and hanging up a banner, but they learn to their shock that Niani is not coming out as…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 18, 2024
There are two ways to appreciate this latest work of musical theater by Heather Christian, which is part of the eleventh annual Prototype festival of opera theater and musical theater. One i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:23PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Rachel McAdams of Slings and Arrows and Michael Imperioli of The Sopranos making their Broadway debuts; a new quirky musical from the team behind "A Band's Visit," a new play by Paula Vogel …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 16, 2024
At the 75th annual Primetime Emmy Awards last night, Elton John became the nineteenth person to achieve an EGOT " winner of an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony " when he won for "Elto…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:16AM[SHARE]Monday, January 15, 2024
"My people were brought to America in chains. Your people were driven here to escape the chains fashioned for them in Europe," Martin Luther King Jr. said in his address to the American Jewi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 14, 2024
 "The Color Purple" and "Mean Girls," were both Hollywood movies adapted from books (Alice Walker's novel "The Color Purple" and Rosalind Wiseman's non-fiction  "Queen Bees an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:12PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 13, 2024
"Mean Girls" was Tina Fey's smart, funny 2004 movie that she turned with her husband into an overlong, ill-timed Broadway musical (as I wrote in my review) in 2018, which has now been adapte…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:02AM[SHARE]Friday, January 12, 2024
I saw three shows that featured clowns at PhysFestNYC, billed as the first-ever festival in New York City to showcase physical theater, which is wrapping up its ten-day run on Sunday.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:41PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 11, 2024
In the two years since I first saw Joshua Harmon's ambitious, busy play about antisemitism, in which five generations of a single French family in two different eras fear for their safety, t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:43PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Tickets are now on sale for Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for performances from January 16 through February 4, 2024 of 23 Broadway shows, from "& Juli…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:31AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 9, 2024
"For the theatre community, it was a time of tumult, turnover, 'the field is in crisis' essays, show cancellations due to illness, and budgetary shortfalls." But also a response: "If our fie…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:04PM[SHARE]Monday, January 8, 2024
Hollywood and Broadway intertwined in complicated ways once again when Broadway veterans Paul Giamatti and Da'Vine Joy Randolph both won Golden Globe Awards last night for their roles in …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:11PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 7, 2024
I saw these three hour-long shows from the 19th Under the Radar Festival one after the other on the same floor of the Rose building at Lincoln Center Queens of Sheba Muki Zubis stood on stag…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:02PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 6, 2024
Created and performed by a trio who call themselves FlawBored and describe themselves as a "disability-led theater company" " two of the three are legally blind " this export from the Edinbu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:25PM[SHARE]Billed as "an experimental theater piece about the end of an experimental theater," this opening night show in the 19th annual Under the Radar festival turned out to be, as the title promise…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AM[SHARE]Friday, January 5, 2024
Below is a calendar of selected theater opening* this month in New York, including two Broadway shows that are both transfers from Off-Broadway. The bulk of theatrical fare in January…
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