Thursday, September 2, 2021
“Hadestown” is back from the dead, reopening with most of its original principal Broadway cast intact*. “Has Hell ever sounded so thrilling,” I exclaimed in my review of the 2016 Off…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PM“Waitress,” a musical I savored when it opened in 2016, is back on Broadway. Its reopening tonight is unlike many of the other shows returning this season. Its run had ended in January 2…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:26PMWednesday, September 1, 2021
Below is a selection of the abundant New York theater openings in September, organized chronologically by opening date*, which for the first time in eighteen months includes a full schedule …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:19PMTuesday, August 31, 2021
How well were you paying attention to the theater news and reviews in August? Take this quiz to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:39PMMonday, August 30, 2021
Today, the Broadway League launches its “This is Broadway” campaign, featuring a new flashy website, a dazzling montage video narrated by Oprah Winfrey (see below), the lighting of the E…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:21AMSaturday, August 28, 2021
Bete comes off as such an outrageous Latina diva that she could be a drag queen’s campy creation, especially since she’s portrayed by a man, Arturo Luis Soria. She compares herself to Ma…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:58PMFriday, August 27, 2021
“Pass Over” is more than just a foul-mouthed, funny, beautifully acted and blisteringly pointed play about two Black men stuck on a street corner, menaced by white men. It arrives on Bro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:48PMTuesday, August 24, 2021
Lightning cut short the We Love NYC Homecoming concert in Central Park over the weekend, which one hopes is not a harbinger of the desperately anticipated Fall season. Some culture has al…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:26AMMonday, August 23, 2021
“The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano” revolves around a true incident that occurred around Christmas time 1969: The Young Lords, a group of young activist Puerto Ricans in New York, took…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:57PMBy Jonathan Mandell. Jonathan Mandell shares his experience at New York City’s first-ever official Puppet Week.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:59PMSaturday, August 21, 2021
“I’m so sick of playing the part of Elizabeth Taylor,” Kayla Boye says in “Call Me Elizabeth.” Of course, Elizabeth Taylor is supposed to be saying this, not Boye, who is portra…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:07PMFriday, August 20, 2021
“Actor. Humanitarian. Snack.” – Those are the first words we see on the screen, and they’re obviously meant to describe Jake Gyllenhaal. But filmmaker, writer and actress Melissa Cen…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:57PMThursday, August 19, 2021
What would be the most effective play about climate change? That’s the question that Australian playwright Melissa-Kelly Franklin seems to have asked herself while writing this short pl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54PMWednesday, August 18, 2021
Alma and Baya are living in the only home they’ve ever known, a two-person pod far from Earth, with malfunctioning machines and a dwindling food supply, when an unexpected stranger comes k…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:53PMTuesday, August 17, 2021
Amy Winehouse meets Karen Carpenter on a bench outside a cosmic nightclub, both reluctant to “face the music,” in “Close to Black,” the second play in “Triple Bypass,” whic…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:30PMMonday, August 16, 2021
During last week’s heat wave, theater continued to heat up, with the official opening night of Pass Over pushed up to this Sunday, August 22nd (which may confuse people who thought that t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:27AMSunday, August 15, 2021
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, which last year went entirely digital, is back in person in Scotland this year through August 30th, though smaller than usual — only about a thousand shows a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:56PMSaturday, August 14, 2021
“Here is Future” presents terrific actors in a half dozen thought-provoking new plays by acclaimed American playwrights, most of them women, all of them BIPOC.* There are also practic…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59PMFriday, August 13, 2021
Baba Israel asked us to light up an imaginary joint, before he and his band rapped about the history and heroes of marijuana. Ali Stroker marveled at how we were all creating community, b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:21PMThursday, August 12, 2021
New York City’s first-ever official Puppet Week features, besides a fringe festival, exhibitions both downtown and (way) uptown, honoring the art of celebrated theater artists who work wit…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:04PMWednesday, August 11, 2021
What’s an opening night without a red carpet? The second biannual International Puppet Fringe Festival of New York began with a parade of inanimate objects brought to life — a giant skel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:46PMTuesday, August 10, 2021
“Merry Wives,” Jocelyn Bioh’s adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s least performed comedies, which officially opened Monday night, is supposedly set among African immigrants during pre…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:23AMMonday, August 9, 2021
Live, in-person theater this summer in New York has been vigorous, innovative and outdoors, as I recount first-hand in an article for HowlRound. But theatergoers seem to be focusing their en…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:56PMSunday, August 8, 2021
While watching “Together Apart,” the latest online anthology about life during the pandemic, I wondered: Will COVID-19 inspire great theater? Has a pandemic ever done so? Yes, Shakespea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:39PMSaturday, August 7, 2021
Some of the legendary stories that make up Broadway lore are told by the theater stars who lived them in this PBS documentary that looks at Broadway from 1959 to the early 1980s, a sequel to…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:46PMFriday, August 6, 2021
The first thing anybody does in Dominique Morisseau’s drama “Detroit ’67,” which Signature Theatre of Arlington is streaming online on Marquee TV through September 16, is put the Tem…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:33PMThursday, August 5, 2021
“Marie Antoinette,” David Adjmi’s contemporary take on the “Let them eat cake” beheaded French queen, seems a baffling choice for the latest Zoom reading on Play-PerView. When M…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:35PMWednesday, August 4, 2021
The pandemic has given theater artists an opportunity to innovate like never before, their innovations (like digital theater) are here to stay — and these are good things, because the enti…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:22PMTuesday, August 3, 2021
In the middle of “Critical Care,” Theater for a New City’s original hour-long musical touring New York City streets and parks through September 12, a dancing chorus of nursing home …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:38PMMonday, August 2, 2021
August, usually a downtime in the theater, is this year a month of excitement, anticipation…and uncertainty. Excitement: August theater events include not just play openings Off-Broadway, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:35AMSunday, August 1, 2021
Below is a selective list of theater that is opening in August*, usually one of the relatively fallow months for theater, but now full of excitement…and anticipation. Although no shows are…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:08PM 
