Monday, October 28, 2019
Refugees are in the news these days, and their stories have suddenly come to New York stages. “I think it is important to ask an audience to recognize lives that we have literally fenced o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:40AMSunday, October 27, 2019
Three years after he spoofed “Hamilton” in “Spamilton” (with “I am not throwing away my shot” becoming “I am not gonna let Broadway rot,”) Gerard Alessandrini paints Lin-Manu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:36PMSaturday, October 26, 2019
I think if I were eight years old I might have loved “The Lightning Thief” on Broadway, but that’s mostly because I would then have been too young to have seen it at the Lucille Lortel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:05PMWednesday, October 23, 2019
There is one spectacularly funny moment in this musical comedy version of “Macbeth,” which is based on Billy Morrissette’s 2001 movie, and is set in a fast-food restaurant in the “po…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:47PMTuesday, October 22, 2019
Forty-one years after Broadway said goodbye after 742 thrilling performances to its first (and last) choreopoem, and a year after its author and original performer died at the age of 70, sev…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PMMonday, October 21, 2019
“Is This A Room” stages the verbatim transcript of the FBI interrogation of a 25-year-old former Air Force linguist with the improbable name of Reality Winner, who was eventually sente…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:53PMDavid Henry Hwang was attacked by an unknown assailant with a knife and nearly died. That experience, along with the playwright’s shock at the results of the 2016 Presidential election and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:01PMSaturday, October 19, 2019
There are many cues to what’s wrong with this overly broad third Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ dated play, starring Marisa Tomei as Serafina Delle Rose, a Sicilian immigrant se…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:54PMThere are many cues to what’s wrong with this overly broad third Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ dated play, starring Marisa Tomei as Serafina Delle Rose, a Sicilian immigrant se…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:08PMFriday, October 18, 2019
Books about Bob Fosse and Yiddish theater have been named the best theater books of the year by The Theatre Library Association, which is presenting its TLA Book Awards tonight at the New…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:53PMWednesday, October 16, 2019
Oscar, a fat freshman in thick bifocals meeting his college roommate for the first time, greets him with what sounds like an insult: “Hail, dog of God!” His new roommate, the street-smar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:07PMTuesday, October 15, 2019
The announcement of the latest very unscientific results from the nightly poll conducted in the lobby of Lincoln Center, is a marketing gimmick for “The Great Society” that strikes me as…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:41PMMonday, October 14, 2019
In “The Thanksgiving Play,” a satire by Larissa FastHorse that debuted at Playwrights Horizons last year and has become one of the most produced plays throughout the country, Jaxton, the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:31AMSunday, October 13, 2019
On Thursday night, CNN held an “LGBTQ Town Hall” in which nine of the Democratic candidates for President separately answered questions on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and qu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:33PMFriday, October 11, 2019
I first saw Slave Play Off-Broadway, long before Rihanna made headlines for texting during the show (playwright Jeremy O. Harris publicly defended her; he was the one she was texting); and s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:06PMWhen I saw “Slave Play” Off-Broadway last December, it felt like the work of a novice playwright – promising, provocative, and well produced, but too derivative, too long, too full of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:30PMThursday, October 10, 2019
Can an underemployed middle-aged jerk be a babe magnet? That’s a question theatergoers are likely to ask about Wheeler, the central character in Linda Vista, Tracy Letts’ latest play…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:48PMCan an underemployed middle-aged jerk be a babe magnet? That’s a question theatergoers are likely to ask about Wheeler, the central character in Linda Vista, Tracy Letts’ latest play…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PMWednesday, October 9, 2019
“The Wrong Man,” a sung-through musical starring the spectacular Joshua Henry, may remind people of “Hamilton” in its catchy rap-inflected eclectic score and jerky hip hop chore…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:20PMTuesday, October 8, 2019
Diahann Carroll, who died Friday at the age of 84, is best known as the first black woman to star on a TV series, “Julia” in 1968, but she was a barrier breaker on Broadway too. Born in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:55PMMonday, October 7, 2019
Conservatives don’t all think alike; some of them hate Trump; some don’t see Liberals as evil (some do.) Some are deeply weird. It is a sure sign of the political divisiveness in America…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:33PMSunday, October 6, 2019
“Chalk,” a 40-minute comedy in which silent comic Alex Curtis creates an entire world for the audience using little more than a piece of chalk, is exactly the sort of show I always hope …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:20PMSaturday, October 5, 2019
At the 22nd annual New York International Fringe Festival, which is running through the end of October, there are 40 shows in six venues – plus more than 25 shows at The Nuyorican Poe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:14PMFriday, October 4, 2019
“Immersive theater” has come to mean something separate from the dictionary definition of the word “immersive” – in much the same way that phrases Absurdist Theater and Abstract Ex…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:56PMThursday, October 3, 2019
“Moulin Rouge” on Broadway has several things in common with Bated Breath Theater Company’s low-budget show about the same people, place and period, especially in my reaction to them b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:58PMWednesday, October 2, 2019
I was struck in seeing “The Great Society,” which depicts President Lyndon Johnson’s turbulent full term in office, how Robert Shenkkan’s play represents political theater in more…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:07PM“I feel strongly that I should not permit the Presidency to become involved in the partisan divisions that are developing in this political year. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:54AMTuesday, October 1, 2019
The Great Society, a play by Robert Schenkkan that offers a largely sympathetic portrait of the 36th president of the United States as it chronicles the final four years of Lyndon Johnson�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:36PMOctober is always a busy month for theater in New York, but it’s gone up a notch this time. Below is a selection, organized chronologically by opening date. On Broadway alone, eight shows …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:00PMMonday, September 30, 2019
How well were you paying attention to New York theater news, views and reviews in September? Answer these ten questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:38PMSunday, September 29, 2019
Three generations of black, queer theater artists – actor André De Shields, 73; playwright Kevin R. Free, who is 50; and director Zhailon Levingston, 25 — are collaborating on a pla…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:28AM 
