Sunday, April 3, 2022
There are pleasures in “Paradise Square.” The terrific dancing tells its own story, a quintessential American (and Broadway) one: How African-American and Irish immigrant dancers lear…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:15PMThe Unofficial Bridgerton Musical has won the 2022 Grammy for the best musical theater album — which is unusual, since it has never been performed on a stage. The six nominees in the categ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:03PMFriday, April 1, 2022
Below is a day-by-day calendar of the FIFTEEN Broadway shows opening (and three reopening) in April, including fan anticipated favorites “Funny Girl” and “A Strange Loop,” plus a sel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:26AMThursday, March 31, 2022
Broadway at the Oscars! A March of Black Women! Neil Simon’s comeback? This has been a month full of theater news – at least enough to fill a quiz, like the one below. Find out your Thea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:31PMWednesday, March 30, 2022
“Oratorio for Living Things” is such a gorgeous, awe-inspiring concert of original music by Heather Christian that it feels like a religious experience. Indeed, the music — inflecte…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:45PMMonday, March 28, 2022
Why would long-married celebrity couple Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker choose “Plaza Suite” as the play to reunite them on stage for the first time since 1996? Neil Simon�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00PMThis is a week for Black women — Ariana DeBose’s Oscar win, and the opening of two plays Off-Broadway: “Confederates” by Dominique Morisseau and “Help” by Claudia Rankine, my rev…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:14AMSunday, March 27, 2022
In “Confederates,” playwright Dominique Morisseau presents in alternating scenes the stories of two Black women in eras 160 years apart — a 19th century slave who becomes a spy f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:45PMToday is World Theatre Day, created in 1961 as an annual celebration on March 27. This year I dedicate it to the theaters, performers, and theater lovers of Ukraine. To the more than 400 leg…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:10PMSaturday, March 26, 2022
Watch below as more than 60 performers are appearing in an 11-hour telethon (from noon to 10 p.m. today) to raise money and awareness for those affected by the ongoing war in Ukraine. Donat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:07PMThursday, March 24, 2022
“Help,” performed at The Shed by April Mathis and 11 white actors in business suits, is in effect an adaptation by the poet, playwright and Yale professor Claudia Rankine, a Black woman…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:43PMTuesday, March 22, 2022
Near the end of Charles J. Shields’ biography of Lorraine Hansberry, the third such book I’ve read in as many years, the author mentions the five-story townhouse near Washington Square P…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:48PMSunday, March 20, 2022
Cesar Chavez was a giant in the American labor and civil rights movements, but right now he’s eight inches tall. “I have to do something for mi gente,” the little cardboard Cesar says�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:11PMFriday, March 18, 2022
Eighteen women have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, from “Miss Lulu Bett,” which Zona Gale adapted from her own novel in 1921, to “The Hot Wing King” by Katori Hall in 2021 –a ce…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:02PMWednesday, March 16, 2022
“Sometimes, Sasha, war is necessary, it’s unavoidable,” the Russian soldier Victor is saying to the Ukrainian woman who has tied him up and is pointing a gun at him. “You can’t b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:52PMTuesday, March 15, 2022
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to, and the one you are least likely to attend. The list below is for shows that have opening dates on Broadway in March and (mostly) April …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:28AMMonday, March 14, 2022
Below are a list with links to the 16 shows opening on Broadway in March and April — starry casts, iconic musicals, theater classics and adventurous new works… the closest to a normal Sp…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:57PMThe Tony Awards’ new dates! Daniel Radcliffe in a Stephen Sondheim musical! Will Swenson in a new Neil Diamond musical! Pamela Anderson in her Broadway debut! The many exciting Broadway an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:47AMSunday, March 13, 2022
A protesting art student who is on a hunger strike faces a soldier who is pointing a gun at him. The student offers the soldier some food. They are in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:18PMFriday, March 11, 2022
Below are the winners of the American Connected Theater Awards* for theatrical storytelling created and presented online during the year between March 2021 and March 2022. Much has happened …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:29PMThursday, March 10, 2022
Like a classic folk ballad, full of understated outrage and exquisite down-home music, “Coal Country,” in an encore presentation at the Cherry Lane, tells the devastating true stor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:31PMWednesday, March 9, 2022
“I can’t watch MSNBC and do nothing anymore,” says Jamie in “This Space Between Us.” Many of us surely have been feeling that way lately, especially in the past two weeks. Ja…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:34PMTuesday, March 8, 2022
In “The Chinese Lady,” playwright Lloyd Suh has created a gently amusing, lyrical, yet sharply pointed play based on the true story of the first known Chinese woman in the United State…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:28PMMonday, March 7, 2022
Starting today, New York City Mayor Eric Adams will no longer require indoor venues, including “entertainment spaces” to check for proof of vaccination. But Broadway theaters will still …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:35AMFriday, March 4, 2022
Among his many other talents, Harvey Fierstein is an experienced talk show guest. In his entertaining memoir, “I Was Better Last Night” (Knopf, 400 pages), he devotes one of his 59 short…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:01PMWednesday, March 2, 2022
The 110-year-old Cort Theater on Broadway will be renamed after the 91-year-old actor James Earl Jones, the Shubert organization announced today.“That James deserves to have his name immor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:29PMBelow is a day-by-day selection of theater openings scheduled for March organized by opening date*, featuring a single Broadway show (“Plaza Suite”) at the end of the month – a spar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:43AMTuesday, March 1, 2022
In the first and best in this uneven evening of five long monologues, all of them written by Asian-American playwrights and all of them featuring characters who are over the age of 60, a wom…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:43PMMonday, February 28, 2022
Below are six books that shed light on the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a shocking event, which may seem inexplicable, but only to those of us who don’t know the context. The title…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:09PMMany are speaking out against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, an independent nation of 44 million people with its own language, history and culture, including more than 400 theaters. Over t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:42AMSunday, February 27, 2022
“Sandblasted” begins with a woman buried in the sand, and you immediately think: Beckett’s “Happy Days.” She doesn’t remain buried, though, and another woman pops up out of th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:35PM 
