Saturday, December 7, 2024
“The Books of Jacob” is a work of theater unlike any I’ve ever attended, a production more ambitious than any I can remember, one that is almost too complicated to explain. The perform…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:46PMFriday, December 6, 2024
“Sleep No More” is closing after almost 14 years, “Blue Man Group” after almost 34 years and more than 17,000 performances. The longevity of these shows strikes me as reason enough t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:31PMThursday, December 5, 2024
Choose your favorite Broadway cast recording of 2024* from among the 16 in the poll below, listed alphabetically. More on each album in links at bottom. Loading… *Two of the albums are not…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:03PMWednesday, December 4, 2024
Annie Baker is making her feature film debut as a writer and director some fifteen years after making her New York stage debut as a playwright, and I almost laughed at the déjà vu of it. �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:50PMTuesday, December 3, 2024
On this thirteenth annual #GivingTuesday (created in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y), consider donating to a theater company or theater organization in New York City. Below, a sample, listed a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:15AMMonday, December 2, 2024
“Wicked,” a mission for marketers, has become a darling of pundits as well. During the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC, after interviews with Cynthia Erivo (No, she doesn’t min…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:14PMSunday, December 1, 2024
Below is a selection of theater opening* in New York in December, including four shows on Broadway, one starring Audra McDonald (Gypsy), two more with love in the title (The Cult of Love; A…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:28PMSaturday, November 30, 2024
Holiday shows take center stage between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve each year. Some of the plays, ballets, operas, concerts, musicals, burlesques, and hybrid entertainments have reappe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:13PMTheater seems of little interest to the Times staff who put together the 100 Notable Books of 2024. Published plays are ignored (although books of poetry are included), and their annual lis…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:26AMFriday, November 29, 2024
How well were you paying attention to theater news, views and reviews in November, a month of Wicked and politics, and six Broadway openings? Take the quiz below and find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:17PMThursday, November 28, 2024
Below are videos from the Broadway casts who performed at the 2024 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade; Hell’s Kitchen, The Outsiders and Death Becomes Her, and a bonus: Billy Porter leads th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:06PMWednesday, November 27, 2024
The surreal and now shocking election year is arguably responsible for much of my favorite theater in 2024, for which I give thanks, as I’ve done every Thanksgiving for more than a decade.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:24PMTuesday, November 26, 2024
With “Wicked” and “Death Becomes Her” topping theatergoers’ attention in a busy and starry week, Paul Tazewell – the costume designer for both — is offering lessons in t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:20PMMonday, November 25, 2024
Wicked, which just had the biggest ever opening weekend for a movie adaptation of a Broadway musical ($160 million + globally), is faithful to the stage musical in several ways, and signific…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:47PMBelow is the Broadway schedule for Thanksgiving Week 2024, which differs from the usual week’s schedule: Only one show of the 38 currently playing has a performance on Thanksgiving Day, Th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:57AMSunday, November 24, 2024
“The Piano Lesson” has always been a family affair. The story it tells is of the legacy of pain and pride in generations of one Black family. But August Wilson’s 1990 Pulitzer Prize…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:48PMSaturday, November 23, 2024
They brought us down Alice’s rabbit hole in a former school building in Williamsburg meticulously made over to resemble a mental hospital in Then She Fell, took us to a tropical island res…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:53AMFriday, November 22, 2024
There will be “chaotic, seismic change happening in Washington” as a result of the 2024 Election, with uncertain impact on the arts on a national, state and local level. Arts advocates n…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:42AMThursday, November 21, 2024
“Death Becomes Her,” a stylishly macabre Broadway musical comedy about a love/hate triangle, has much the same plot, catty repartee, and even some of the same comically gruesome special …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:27PMWednesday, November 20, 2024
Marisa Tomei, who got her Oscar for portraying a super-competent woman who solves the case for her somewhat-clownish lawyer-boyfriend in “My Cousin Vinny,” has a new role Off-Broadway in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:51PMTuesday, November 19, 2024
In “Swept Away,” which is loosely inspired by the grim true story of a 19th century shipwreck, a quartet of magnetic performers work passionately to deliver the mellifluous folk-rock s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:56PMMonday, November 18, 2024
The quartet of Broadway openings this past week were split between a feel-good nostalgia for two real-life Americans, and a mostly feel-good look at the future – anything but what for many…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:06AMSunday, November 17, 2024
The last time “Elf: The Musical” was on Broadway, during the holiday season a dozen years ago, I saw an autism-friendly performance of it. This turned out to be a great way to view this …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:31PMSaturday, November 16, 2024
Allee Willis, a Tony-nominated songwriter for “The Color Purple,” had trouble getting the gig. “You’ve never written for the theater before, and you’re not Black,” Broadway…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:42AMFriday, November 15, 2024
A few years in the future, the debate will no longer be whether or not climate change is a “hoax,” as the president-elect in 2024 claims, but whether there is any possibility of survi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:41PMThursday, November 14, 2024
The Palace Theater, the venue for this disappointing British import about the rise and fall of American televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker, feels like a metaphor for the musical, but in reverse…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:53PMWednesday, November 13, 2024
In forty years, there will still be fireflies, and there will still be love. But fireflies will only still exist on Jeju Island near Seoul, Korea, and when Oliver and Claire (Darren Criss an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:55PMMonday, November 11, 2024
When he’s told that the State Department wants him to tour the world representing the United States of America, Louis Armstrong and his fourth wife Lucille both laugh in disbelief. “Loui…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:06PMThe news zipper at One Times Square proclaimed “Trump’s Win Brings New Era of Uncertainty,” and Saturday Night Live cast member Kate McKinnon solemnly performed the song “Halleluj…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:32AMSunday, November 10, 2024
Long before he became a Tony-winning playwright, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins enrolled at NYU in hopes of becoming a downtown performance artist, and took a course taught by Carmelita Tropicana, w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:47PMFriday, November 8, 2024
So much in “Ragtime” played out differently for me because I saw it a week into its twelve-day run at New York City Center — after, rather than before, the results of the 2024 Presiden…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:02PM 
