Saturday, April 27, 2024
How well were you paying attention to the fourteen Broadway plays and musicals that opened in April, the last month of the 2023-2024 Broadway season? Take the quiz and find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:30AMFriday, April 26, 2024
A musical about the Jazz Age with almost no jazz? A man of mystery who tells us everything in his first song? A critique of wealth in a show whose main pleasure is how expensive it looks? Th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:17PMThursday, April 25, 2024
Jessica Lange is unforgettable in Paula Vogel’s unforgiving portrait of the title character in “Mother Play,” her semiautobiographical new play opening tonight on Broadway — a role t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:20PMWednesday, April 24, 2024
As Vanya, Steve Carell, who’s been a low-level whiner for the first two Acts, suddenly gets so angry at his pompous-ass brother-in-law who’s been sponging off him for thirty years, that …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:50PM“Illinoise,” an exquisite stage interpretation of Sufjan Stevens’ acclaimed 2005 album “Illinois,” is opening on Broadway today just six weeks after it opened at the Park Avenue A…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:56PMTuesday, April 23, 2024
“Dead Outlaw” leads the nominations for the 73rd annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, announced this by Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez. (video below) The winners will…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:41PMMonday, April 22, 2024
“Very poppy,” a character says to Bobby (Corey Cott), the Leading Man, just after he’s performed “Do You Believe in Love,” one of more than two dozen songs from the 1980s band Huey…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:59PMVladimir Putin was working as a taxi driver when he visited one of the richest and most powerful men in Russia to ask for a favor. The previous month, Putin had lost his job as the deputy…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:30PMBelow are the nominations for the 90th annual Drama League Awards, announced this morning (video below) by Vanessa Williams and Bebe Neuwirth. The awards will be held at The Ziegfeld Ballro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:22AMFour musicals and a play that has a lot of original music in it, opened on Broadway this past week, and two plays opened Off Broadway. By the end of the day Thursday, which marks the officia…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:40AMSunday, April 21, 2024
Orlando (Taylor Mac) has already been living an unusual life as a nobleman in Queen Elizabeth’s court when he suddenly becomes a woman. “Let biologists and psychologists argue. It is eno…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:58PMIf so much of it weren’t so out of balance, this fourth Broadway revival of “Cabaret” would be impressive in its complete transformation of Kander and Ebb’s great musical – phys…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15PMSaturday, April 20, 2024
Alicia Keys’ lively, tuneful musical “Hell’s Kitchen” opens tonight at Broadway’s Shubert Theater, with the same principal cast and creative team as its brief sold-out run Off-Broa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:16PMFriday, April 19, 2024
“Stereophonic,” which opens at Broadway’s John Golden Theater tonight, chronicles a year of recording studio sessions by the members of a popular 1970s rock band (never named, fictio…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:36PMThursday, April 18, 2024
Inez Milholland, glamorous bohemian and radical lawyer, rode atop a white steed to lead the unprecedented 1913 March on Washington for women’s suffrage down Pennsylvania Avenue the day b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15PMWednesday, April 17, 2024
In “The Wiz,” the all-Black version of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” that debuted on Broadway in the 1970s, Dorothy never sang “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” nor wore ruby red s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:38PMTuesday, April 16, 2024
Thomas Jefferson was in his forties when he began having sex with one of his slaves, Sally Hemings, who was 14. Had they fallen in love? The question is absurd. But did they eventually fal…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:16PMMonday, April 15, 2024
With twelve shows opening on Broadway in the next ten days– and several Off Broadway – it’s a taxing time (yes, a pun) for theater award voters and critics, and a busy one for theater …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:48AMSunday, April 14, 2024
A woman is pictured as a machine several times in “Lempicka,” a musical about Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980), an artist whose heyday was in the 1930s, painting Art Deco-style portraits o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:39PMSaturday, April 13, 2024
With Tax Day approaching, here are seven times that characters have sung or talked about taxes in Broadway musicals, from “I’ll Put a Tax on That” in Casino Girl 1910 to “My Shot” …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:26PMFriday, April 12, 2024
In the middle of the busiest theater month in memory, the theater company Playco held a group nap today. It was the first of its slate of free events during its “Month of Rest” �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:00PMThursday, April 11, 2024
In “The Outsiders,” opening on Broadway tonight, an exciting cast of gifted young performers, a lovely if little-varied folk and country score, and some thrillingly muscular, almost cine…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:40PMWednesday, April 10, 2024
Since the publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel of the Jazz Age – on April 10, 1925, 99 years ago today — “The Great Gatsby” has been turned into an opera, a ballet, seve…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:29PMTuesday, April 9, 2024
By the end of “Oh, Mary!,” we have learned that First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln was a homicidally bitter alcoholic and frustrated cabaret singer married to a vicious closet homosexual whose…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:47PMMonday, April 8, 2024
Nature’s getting dramatic, taking center stage, with the earthquake last week and the eclipse today. (New York City is expected to see a partial solar eclipse, with the moon covering about…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:15AMSunday, April 7, 2024
Zombie fungi – the same parasites that wipe out civilization in the sci-fi thriller “The Last of Us” — are real; fruit flies grieve; a group of five towns in 17th century Italy f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:27PMSaturday, April 6, 2024
The Great American Eclipse of 2024 is happening in North America on Monday, with the moon completely blocking the light of the sun in cities from Mazatlan, Mexico to Montreal, Canada, inc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:01PMFriday, April 5, 2024
There is an arresting tidbit about Leonard Bernstein and “West Side Story” near the beginning of “Broadway Melody” (Benzinger and Frank, 492 pages), written by Jack Viertel, whose il…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:56PMThursday, April 4, 2024
“Wet Brain,” “Buena Vista Social Club” and “Stereophonic” received the most nominations for the 39th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:16PMWednesday, April 3, 2024
Below is a calendar of dates in 2024 when nominations and awards are announced, and ceremonies take place, for the major New York theater awards (and a few others), followed by an opinionate…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:47PMTuesday, April 2, 2024
Once again, the voices of the original Broadway cast of “Rent” rang out from a New York stage — this time at Lincoln Center. But as Idina Menzel sang “Over the Moon,” Sandra Mae Fr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:35PM 
