Sunday, May 16, 2021
Play-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 02:28PMFriday, May 14, 2021
This is the third time I’ve seen Nia Vardalos’ moving, funny stage adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s best-selling collection of “Dear Sugar” advice columns. If I can’t embrace all t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:21PMThursday, May 13, 2021
Below are photographs from the exhibition “A Dozen Dreams,“, at Brookfield Place’s Winter Garden through May 30. “I used to have vivid dreams,” the playwright Rehana Lew Mirza says…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:59PMWednesday, May 12, 2021
The Republicans in the House of Representatives by voice vote ousted Rep. Liz Cheney from her leadership position today because she insists on telling the truth about Donald Trump. “Today,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:35AMTuesday, May 11, 2021
Below is my annual preview guide of Broadway openings chronological by opening date — a list with a twist this year: It’s also Broadway reopenings…of shows that have been on the Great …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:42PMHamilton, The Lion King and Wicked have announced reopening dates of September 14, the earliest possible date, with Aladdin on September 28 and Tina the Musical on October 8. Tickets are ava…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00AMMonday, May 10, 2021
Broadway musicals are making the reopening feel real, with tickets back on sale and specific opening dates announced: Chicago, Sept 14. Six, Sept 17. Come From Away, Sept 21. Aint Too Prou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:52AMSunday, May 9, 2021
The latest free reading from Roundabout’s new Refocus Project, “I Gotta Home,” is a 1940 play about a financially challenged preacher, his large rambunctious family, and his long-lost …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:17PMSaturday, May 8, 2021
Below is a day-by-day selection of theater* that is opening between May 8 and May 14, 2021, including TWO tributes to Kander and Ebb (at the exact same time!), TWO new works about the effec…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:53PMIt must have seemed the exact right time to produce “Waiting for Godot,” the bleak, sardonic, enigmatic play about a pair of scruffy pals trying to stay connected and hopeful during a ti…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:28AMFriday, May 7, 2021
Near the end of “The Woman’s Party,” Clubbed Thumb’s clever, stylishly designed three-part dramatization of an odd, little-known moment in the history of the fight for women’s righ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:55AMThursday, May 6, 2021
It would be too glib to call Jeremy Jordan pop hot and Marilyn Maye jazz cool. Both these terrifically talented and engaging singers can either belt or croon at will. But there is an astonis…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:53PMStarting today, Broadway can start selling tickets for shows that can open or reopen at full capacity beginning September 14. That was what New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced yesterday…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:39AMWednesday, May 5, 2021
A young widow is framed for a murder she didn’t commit, and her ghost causes a three-year drought as revenge, forcing the community to acknowledge her innocence: That’s the story told in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:47PMTuesday, May 4, 2021
“Major Reopening” is what New York Governor Andrew Cuomo headlined the announcement from all three governors of the tri-state region that starting May 19th there will be “a significan…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:45AMMonday, May 3, 2021
Michael Gene Jacobs slept in the same bed as his mother throughout his childhood, but they never touched. Now, he tells us speaking as his mother, he realizes why: “’I can’t afford to …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:44PMIt’s challenging even just to describe “The Waves in Quarantine,” a digital “Theatrical Experiment in 6 Movements” starring six beloved Broadway veterans, which is available …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:05PMSaturday, May 1, 2021
Below is a day-by-day selection of theater* – both online and in person! — that is opening between May 1 and May 7: a starry Waiting for Godot, musical celebrations of the lives of actr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:29PMFriday, April 30, 2021
After the fascinating first episode last week of Clubbed Thumb’s “The Woman’s Party,” there was no way I was going to miss the second of this three-part play about the little-remembe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:02AMWatch the 40-minute play by Julia Izumi below Theater in Quarantine returns with another “Youtube theater thingy,” as Joshua William Gelb refers to this latest original, off kilter play …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:14AMThursday, April 29, 2021
Mayor Bill de Blasio said this morning that the city plans to “fully reopen New York City on July 1… We are ready for stores to open, for businesses to open, offices, theaters — full s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:31AMTuesday, April 27, 2021
Watch “A Mother’s Rite,” a 40-minute film of an original dance by Jeremy McQueen’s Black Iris Project starring Courtney Celeste Spears of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, which is…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:52AMMonday, April 26, 2021
Yes it’s true that Frances McDormand howled like a wolf during one of her acceptance speeches for “Nomadland,” which won Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress (her), and Glenn C…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:24AMSunday, April 25, 2021
Best Picture “Nomadland” Best Director Chloé Zhao, “Nomadland” Best Actress Frances McDormand, Nomadland Best Actor Anthony Hopkins, The Father Best Supporting Actor Daniel Kaluuya,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:26PMWatch 90 seconds from “West Side Story,” Steven Spielberg’s first movie musical, scheduled for released in movie theaters in December, starring g Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler as To…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:03PMThe 93rd annual Academy Awards take place tonight, so it seems a good time to test your knowledge of Broadway at the Oscars, both this year’s and throughout its history. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:39AMSaturday, April 24, 2021
I’ve viewed and recommend the following five plays and a musical that are still available, though two of them only through this weekend. (For theater that is opening this weekend, check o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:58AMFriday, April 23, 2021
Viewers may first be drawn to Clubbed Thumb’s “The Woman’s Party” because of the fascinating, little-known history it dramatizes, but another reason becomes immediately clear: It’s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:33PMThursday, April 22, 2021
Is this the right time for a work of theater that explores the aftereffect of gun violence and bigotry and a flawed criminal justice system? Sure. How about one that compares Jewish histo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:52PMLike many a performer, Jan Damm has been climbing the walls during the pandemic, but he did it literally. After live performances dried up, he started creating at-home skits for the Bindlest…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:14AM 
