Wednesday, August 7, 2024
Seven shows currently on Broadway were preceded by a movie with the same name: They are either direct adaptation of the movies (Aladdin, Back to the Future), or inspired by them (Harry Potte…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:18PMTuesday, August 6, 2024
“Some of us are old enough to remember when it was Republicans who were talking about freedom. It turns out now, what they meant is the government should be free to invade your doctor’s …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:25PMMonday, August 5, 2024
What happened to the dog days of summer? Sure this weekend saw the 26th annual Broadway Barks starry pet adoption event with hosts Bernadette Peters and Sutton Foster. But that’s just one…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:50AMSunday, August 4, 2024
In June 2016, at the height of the Presidential election, a Russian lawyer named Natalia Veselnitskaya met at Trump Tower with Donald Trump Jr. and six other people, reportedly telling the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49PMThere’s been lots of political drama off-stage over the past month. Oddly, much of it can be connected to what’s been happening in New York theater. Answer these nine questions, plus a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:46PMFriday, August 2, 2024
“Six” Queen Didi Romero served as the host for the final Broadway in Bryant Park lunchtime concert of the year, which featured a lot of hugs — see first video below
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:22PMThursday, August 1, 2024
Below is a selection of theater opening* in New York in August, including one show on Broadway: “Once Upon A Mattress,” starring Sutton Foster, which originated as an Encores! concert …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:25AMWednesday, July 31, 2024
“Loss is loss,” Thom says to the five other members of the weekly grief support group. “Twenty years ago, our dog died. It took me fifteen years to even entertain the thought of gettin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:28PMTuesday, July 30, 2024
“Job” is the second 80-minute play this month that has powered onto Broadway after sold-out runs downtown. (The other is“Oh, Mary!” .) That this two-character play about a therapy se…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30PMMonday, July 29, 2024
Luigi Pirandello, the Nobel Prize-winning Italian playwright who wrote “Six Characters in Search of an Author,” was for a time a member of the National Fascist Party and a follower of Be…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:04PM“I look at the world for what I hope it’s going to be, a wonderful world – especially with what’s happened this week,” That was James Monroe Iglehart at this weekend’s BroadwayCo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:31AMSunday, July 28, 2024
In “Sing Sing,” a movie that has opened in New York cinemas to universal critical acclaim and goes nationwide next week, Colman Domingo portrays an inmate at Sing Sing named John “Divi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:26PMSaturday, July 27, 2024
Below are videos of the four shows that were presented at the “First Look” concert at the ninth annual BroadwayCon: “Suffs,” “The Outsiders,” “A Wonderful World: The Lo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:12PMFriday, July 26, 2024
Watch the current casts of three long-running musicals — Chicago (on Broadway since 1996), The Book of Mormon (2011), Moulin Rouge (2019) – perform favorites at the Broadway in Bryant Pa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:48AMThursday, July 25, 2024
Watch the video of the two songs that cast members from “Suffs” sang at the Broadway in Bryant Park noontime concert. Both of which are inspired by some fascinating real-life history in …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:22PMWednesday, July 24, 2024
It was “Macbeth” that drew Judi Dench to the theater, after she overheard her older brother in a school production recite the line from the play: “What bloody man is that?” and s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54PMTuesday, July 23, 2024
Choose the five Broadway shows that you are most looking forward to, among the 15 that are opening on Broadway in September, October, November and December 2024. The shows are listed belo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:14PMMonday, July 22, 2024
The startling political developments of late are being viewed through a theatrical lens, repeatedly. A surprising number of professional commentators have invoked Shakespeare, sometimes …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:35PMThere is a moment in Ryan Spahn’s backstage play that leaves the characters screaming and the audience gasping, but also laughing at how shocking it is, fulfilling anybody’s expectations…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:53PMSunday, July 21, 2024
Joseph Biden Jr. announced on social media that he is withdrawing from the race for the Presidency. “It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President. And while it has …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:33PMSaturday, July 20, 2024
In the summer of 1932, some 17,000 veterans and their families descended on Washington D.C. to demand the pay that Congress had promised them years earlier as a bonus for their service durin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:56PMFriday, July 19, 2024
María Irene Fornés was a thirty-year-old aspiring New York painter visiting relatives in her native Cuba with her then-lover Susan Sontag, when she stumbled upon a cache of old letters. Th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PMThursday, July 18, 2024
The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, as compiled by the New York Times, includes no plays, nor any non-fiction books about the theater. I might have featured at least two of the dozen gre…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:26PMWednesday, July 17, 2024
Broadway shows have lower attendance than they did before the pandemic, and make less money, but “we are no longer in recovery,” Broadway producer Ken Davenport says. “This is the new …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:55PMTuesday, July 16, 2024
Summer for theater folk is usually a time to savor the past season, as illustrator Ray Kampf did in his clever rendition of “Stereophonic” as an Archie comic book. (The play didn’t wi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:29PMMonday, July 15, 2024
“Oh, Mary,” which opened on Broadway this past week, is meant to be funny and deliberately tasteless; one scene in it, reimagining the first American presidential assassination, turns ou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:14AMSunday, July 14, 2024
In “Ain’t Done Bad,” a gay boy who feels like a misfit in his hometown leaves to find love in the big city. Although there are 17 songs over the ninety minutes of the show, it could n…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:09PMSaturday, July 13, 2024
Below are video snippets of the performances by the casts of five Broadway shows — The Who’s Tommy, Water for Elephants, The Wiz, Back to the Future, and Hell’s Kitchen — in the firs…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:33PMFriday, July 12, 2024
There was a thrilling dance number in last year’s Kander, Ebb and Miranda musical “New York, New York,” in which iron workers dance in mid-air on a beam of a skyscraper under constr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:47AMThursday, July 11, 2024
The opening of “Oh, Mary!” tonight at the Lyceum marks the Broadway debut of Cole Escola as both playwright and performer, but the Off-Broadway run earlier this year of this campy comedy…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:27PMWednesday, July 10, 2024
The League of Independent Theater has announced the half dozen recipients of the 2024 New York independent Theater Awards, honoring “outstanding leadership, service, artistry and commitmen…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:05PM 
