Monday, November 11, 2024
The news zipper at One Times Square proclaimed “Trump’s Win Brings New Era of Uncertainty,” and Saturday Night Live cast member Kate McKinnon solemnly performed the song “Halleluj…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:32AMSunday, November 10, 2024
Long before he became a Tony-winning playwright, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins enrolled at NYU in hopes of becoming a downtown performance artist, and took a course taught by Carmelita Tropicana, w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:47PMFriday, November 8, 2024
So much in “Ragtime” played out differently for me because I saw it a week into its twelve-day run at New York City Center — after, rather than before, the results of the 2024 Presiden…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:02PMSix albums have been nominated for the best musical theater album Grammy Award, all of them of current or recent Broadway shows (the third consecutive year that only Broadway cast recordings…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:16PMThursday, November 7, 2024
“I will do my best to serve ALL citizens of Oz,” His Majesty the Scarecrow tells his subjects, having been appointed by the Wizard of Oz and Glinda the Good Witch to rule over Emerald Ci…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:10PMWednesday, November 6, 2024
“A fundamental principle of American democracy is that when we lose an election, we accept the results. ,” Kamala Harris said at Howard University this afternoon, conceding the president…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:42PMTuesday, November 5, 2024
Today is Election Day. You can vote until 9 pm. (Find Your Pollsite and View Your Sample Ballot) And until 6 p.m. you can watch Lin-Manuel Miranda, Martin Short, Judy Kuhn, Rosie Perez and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:22PMMonday, November 4, 2024
More than a million New Yorkers voted during the nine days of early voting, which ended Sunday afternoon after a campaign season filled with more drama than any in memory. How will future dr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:50AMGeorge 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 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:03AMSaturday, 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 01:13PMFriday, 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 05:32PMThursday, 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 10:37PMWednesday, 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 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:21AMTuesday, 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 mar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:10PMMonday, 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 se…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:08PMThe uncertainty of the presidential election next week, far scarier than Halloween, has colored many events this week – certainly the “appalling” decision by two major newspaper…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:25AMSunday, 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 10:04PMSaturday, 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 q…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:23PMThursday, 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 are ma…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:48PMWednesday, 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 to…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:32PMTuesday, 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 lightni…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:28PM“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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:18AMMonday, 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’…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:57AMSunday, 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:44AMSaturday, 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 duri…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:53PMFriday, 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 br…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:53PMThursday, 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 Tow…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:42PMWednesday, 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 09:55PMTuesday, 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PMMonday, 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 will …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:53AMSunday, October 13, 2024
Composer Stephen Sondheim’s greatness lies “beyond the clever lyrics, beyond the complex music.” Sondheim can make you a better person: “The ambitions, dreams, disasters, and fix…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:29PM 
