Thursday, June 10, 2021
Theater bloggers have “reasons to celebrate,” as Jan Simpson put it in her most recent post in Broadway & Me, which she wrote before the dozens of announcements over the past month s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:05AMWednesday, June 9, 2021
Watch the six minute video below of Lin-Manuel Miranda celebrating the return of Broadway in September, managing quick-hit homages to some dozen Broadway musicals, from “Six” to “Hamil…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:54AMTuesday, June 8, 2021
What I can say about “What If If Only?” In short: It’s a new play by Caryl Churchill, 82, who some consider the world’s greatest living playwright, and among the most elusive, whose …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:44PMMonday, June 7, 2021
The opening date of four new Broadway productions were announced this week, bringing the number to 32. See details in my Broadway 2021-2021 Season Preview Guide, organized chronologically by…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:26AMThe day before I was scheduled to view “chekhovOS” (OS as in operating system) — featuring a literally game cast including Mikhail Baryshnikov as Anton Chekhov, as well as his da…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:55AMSunday, June 6, 2021
Performers from India and Iran, Colombia and Cuba, Beirut and Johannesburg told tales, played music and danced on Saturday afternoon in Prospect Park, in a grassy sun-baked field called t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:48PMSaturday, June 5, 2021
Below are recently published theater books, or those scheduled to be published this summer, in four categories:Scripts and Play AnthologiesBiographies and MemoirsTheater History, Criticism a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:15AMFriday, June 4, 2021
I was grateful to be one of the 24 people inside the below-ground Axis Theater during the new play “Worlds Fair Inn.” There were 16 members of the audience (masked and socially distanced…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:00PMThursday, June 3, 2021
“Oslo” tells the extraordinary true story of the Norwegian couple who instigated and pushed along the secret negotiations that resulted in the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords between Israel and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:58PMWednesday, June 2, 2021
June IS busting out all over, but in new ways. For the finale of the 31st annual Broadway Bares, Broadway performers danced maskless atop the TKTS red steps in the theater district — which…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:24AMTuesday, June 1, 2021
Below is a selective list of theater that is opening in the month of June* — day-by-day for the first week then a glorious taste of what’s in store for the rest of the month…a schedul…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:08AMMonday, May 31, 2021
In “Smile: The Story of a Face” (Simon and Schuster, 256 pages), Sarah Ruhl recounts how, at the same time that her first play was about to open on Broadway, and she was about to give bi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:42AMMemorial Day, which became an official national holiday in 1971, was created to honor Americans who died in military service, some 1.1. million people since the nation’s founding. But it f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:17AMSunday, May 30, 2021
Lots of exciting news in May about reopening, but how well were you paying attention to the details? Test yourself by answering these 11 questions about the theater news, views and reviews o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:20AMSaturday, May 29, 2021
Thirteen years after Lin-Manuel Miranda’s first, breakthrough musical, “In The Heights,” opened on Broadway, a movie version is coming to theaters and HBO Max on Friday, June 11th. Bel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:42PMFriday, May 28, 2021
What do we now make of the incendiary confrontation between a liberal white middle-aged professor and her radical black student in Eleanor Burgess’s ironically titled “The Niceties,” n…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:23PMThursday, May 27, 2021
“I literally exploded,” Justine recounts to her roommate Michael, the first line in “Herding Cats.” And Lucinda Coxon’s play does wind up feeling like an explosion – surely meant…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:10PMWednesday, May 26, 2021
In “I Am The Bear,” Jerrell L. Henderson, wearing a t-shirt that says “I Am Black History,” tells the story of how he was walking to work when he was stopped by a police car because …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03PMTuesday, May 25, 2021
Memorial Day fell on on May 25 in 2020 and I posted: Memorial Day 2020: Remembering Those Who Died of COVID-19. But by the end of the day, a dog walker named Amy Cooper had called the police…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:28AMMonday, May 24, 2021
On Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday today, the producers of the Dylan musical “Girl From The North Country” announced its reopening on October 13, more than 19 months after it was the last Br…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:07AMSunday, May 23, 2021
Below is a day-by-day selection of theater* that is opening between May 23 and May 31, 2021 — from Broadway Barks to the National Memorial Concert, and much inbetween, such as Ben Platt a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:06PMFriday, May 21, 2021
Below are the five winners of the 87th annual Drama League Awards, the first (and so far only) major theater award to step up to the moment and honor the forms of theater that have flourishe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:39PMFor months I had watched the construction of this strange 2.4 acre public park placed atop new concrete piles like so many oversized golf pegs where the old rotting wood Pier 54 had been —…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:05AMThursday, May 20, 2021
Five years ago, when Florian Zeller’s “The Father” debuted on Broadway, Frank Langella portrayed the fifth character I’d seen that year on a New York stage who was struggling with de…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:37PMWednesday, May 19, 2021
The Drama Book Shop will reopen to the public on June 10, 2021 in its new location, under the proprietorship of Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda and director Thomas Kail. The century-o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:44AMTuesday, May 18, 2021
Ben Platt reprises his Tony-winning role as an anxious, isolated high school student in the film of the 2017 Tony winning best Broadway musical “Dear Evan Hansen,” scheduled for release …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:04PMThis half-hour piece, billed as “a video docudrama,” manages to work in several of the infamous apologies from the #MeToo era. “The Sprezzaturameron,” available for free on the Barys…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:05PMMonday, May 17, 2021
In a series of video interviews with the leading candidates for mayor of New York City, the New York Times asked each for their favorite Broadway show. (Shaun Donovan said that his high scho…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:10AMSunday, May 16, 2021
Watch the video of Miscast below, available through May 20th. For the 21st year in a row (and the second year on YouTube), MCC Theater’s fundraiser showcased Broadway stars performing song…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:13PMPlay-PerView has done a mitzvah for those of us who missed this savage comedy about bickering college-age cousins when it was first produced Off-Broadway; “Bad Jews” was the first New Yo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:34AMSaturday, May 15, 2021
Below is a day-by-day selection of theater* that is opening between May 15 and May 21, 2021, including three free (mostly outdoor) theater festivals, Miscast21, two virtual tours of Broadwa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:28PM 
