Tuesday, 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 08:35PMMonday, April 1, 2024
Ariana DeBose will once again be the face of Broadway, when she returns for the third time as host of the Tony Awards. The Oscar-winning actress of “West Side Story” and six-time Broadwa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:42AMSunday, March 31, 2024
Below is a selection of theater opening* in April. It’s an overwhelming number of shows — fourteen just on Broadway, twelve of them in the week leading up to the April 25th cut-off date…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:38AMSaturday, March 30, 2024
Elmer J. McCurdy was killed in a shoot-out with sheriff’s deputies in Oklahoma in 1911, but took 66 years to be buried, his mummified remains having been exhibited all that time by a seri…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:29PMFriday, March 29, 2024
How well were you paying attention to the theater news and reviews in March? Answer these ten questions — plus a bonus question — to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:01PMThursday, March 28, 2024
There is a core of irresistibly tuneful songs in “The Who’s Tommy” that have drawn in fans for more than half a century, first with the rock band’s pioneering 1969 double album, th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:45PMWednesday, March 27, 2024
In honor of World Theater Day, celebrated internationally every March 27th since 1962, here are 10 beautiful theaters from around the world, and 10 great books about New York theater. But …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:39AMTuesday, March 26, 2024
John Patrick Shanley’s latest play begins with a tentative connection between two lonely middle-aged people, Fran (Cecily Strong), who brings her latest bag of dirty laundry to the neighbo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:28PMMonday, 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, wi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:07AMSunday, 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 Acto…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:03PMSaturday, 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 Se…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:10PMFriday, 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 06:53AMThursday, 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 Ca…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:47PMWednesday, 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 lit…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:00PMTuesday, 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 Gir…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:36PMMonday, 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 09:49PMThe 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:03PMNew 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:49AMSunday, 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 01:41PMSaturday, 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 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:37AMFriday, 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 07:04AMThursday, 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 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:33PMWednesday, 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:50PMTuesday, 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 05:31PMMonday, 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 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12PMBroadway 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 Musical…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:26AMSunday, 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“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 kitche…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:13AMSaturday, 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 grote…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:36PMFriday, 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 pl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:26PMThursday, 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 
