Monday, January 7, 2019
New Saloon, an intellectually playful experimental theater company founded in 2012, returns to Under the Radar with an updated version of their Uncle Vanya adaptation, which they debuted at …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:19AMSunday, January 6, 2019
In between the exuberant dancing, lively singing and infectious African beat, the ten Nigerian actresses in “Hear Word: Naija Woman Talk True,” wearing the colorful clothing of their cou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:14PMAs it did last year at the Under Radar Festival, the Chicago-based theater company with the completely apt name of Manual Cinema is charming the audience at the Public Theater by presenting …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:25AMSaturday, January 5, 2019
“I am a man,” says a middle aged white woman, Dominique (Rebecca Gibel), at the beginning of “Real,” which you could call a ghost story. “I am a man because it’s how you see me…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:48PMFriday, January 4, 2019
Below is a selection from an Off-Broadway season full of starry faces like Daveed Diggs, Jake Gyllenhaal, Isabelle Huppert, Uzo Adubi et al, in plays by Lynn Nottage, Suzan-Lori Parks, Ma…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:27PMThursday, January 3, 2019
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to. In other words, if you have just one show you could see on Broadway all spring, which of these 15 would it be? The list below is for sho…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49AMWednesday, January 2, 2019
Just a couple of plays are opening on Broadway this month — “Choir Boy,” and “True West” — and a handful Off-Broadway, but January is one of the most robu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:48PMTuesday, January 1, 2019
When the ball dropped in Times Square, signaling the start of a new year, it took a while for the smoke and the confetti and the fireworks and the rain to clear before we could even make out…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:01PMMonday, December 31, 2018
Here again, we celebrate the new year by saluting a dozen Broadway veterans, aged 91 to 105. Click on any photograph to see it enlarged and read the caption. Why, you may ask, is Betty White…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:42AMSunday, December 30, 2018
Some of the most memorable moments on stage this year were not just unplanned — they were on unexpected stages. The student survivors of Marjory Stoneman Douglas H.S. gave a surprise p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:22PMThe 10 videos directly below were the most viewed of those I posted on my YouTube channel, New York Theater, in 2018, arranged in order of popularity. All three videos from “Be Be Mo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:23AMSaturday, December 29, 2018
Recall what happened in theater in 2018 — some of it just plain weird — by answering these 20 questions, many adapted from my monthly quizzes throughout the year.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:41PMBelow are the five best reads posted in 2018: an essay about actors’ bodies; a contemplation of what life would be like without theater; a profile of an engineer who fixes theater to m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:25AMFriday, December 28, 2018
Below is a list of theater books to read in 2019, most of which were published in 2018. Click on the titles to find more information and to purchase these books, grouped under four categor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:12PMYes, 2018 in theater was the Year of Leonard Bernstein (centennial celebrations and new movies underway) and of Andrew Lloyd Webber (who got his EGOT, published his memoir, Unmasked, and got…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:56PMThursday, December 27, 2018
Below are some of the people from the theater community who died in 2018.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:52AMWednesday, December 26, 2018
My annual New Year’s Eve last-minute guide to events that are still available to do on New Year’s Eve 2019 (when 2018 turns into 2019) in New York City New Year’s Eve in New Y…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:41PMMonday, December 24, 2018
This is the last Christmas Eve New Yorkers will be spending with Christmas Eve, the character originated by Ann Harada in Avenue Q, because, after 15 years, Avenue Q will close in April. All…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:39AMIt seems apt that the Up Close Festival at the New Ohio Theater is likely the last work of theater I will see in 2018, because it reminded me what there is to love about theater, and how I c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:50AMSaturday, December 22, 2018
My ten favorite individual human performances in New York stage shows that opened in 2018 are listed alphabetically, with explanations for my choices largely excerpted from my reviews, but l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:19PMFriday, December 21, 2018
Below is a guide for theatergoing during Christmas Week. Not every show worth seeing during the holidays is a “holiday show,” nor are they all “family friendly.” (See…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:27PMThursday, December 20, 2018
It’s a thrill that Annette Bening, Paul Dano, Adam Driver, Santino Fontana, Ethan Hawke, Glenda Jackson, John Lithgow, Laurie Metcalfe and Kelli O’Hara are among the celebrated p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:07PMWednesday, December 19, 2018
Lin-Manuel Miranda co-stars as Jack the Lamplighter in “Mary Poppins Returns,” which has opened in movie theaters nationwide today. This is Miranda’s first co-starring role in a ma…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:32PM“Fabulation, or The Re-education of Undine,” Lynn Nottage’s play about a fashionable public relations executive’s Job-like descent into poverty and ascent into moral clarity, is the …
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SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:19PMTuesday, December 18, 2018
Galt MacDermot, who died Monday a day before his 90th birthday, is best known as the composer of the musical Hair, which helped define a generation, and changed the sound of Broadway, where …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:03AMMonday, December 17, 2018
With two weeks left in 2018, it’s a time for assessments of the year in New York theater, for better and for worse. Top Ten Lists of Top 10 New York Theater 2018 “The Ferryman…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:09AMSunday, December 16, 2018
“Springsteen on Broadway” begins with The Boss explaining what it takes to play before “80,000 screaming rock n roll fans,” but the two-hour show is mostly a lesson in intimacy. This…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:32PM“The Ferryman” was the most popular play or musical among critics whose top 10 lists for 2018 are featured below, followed by “Angels in America” and “Harry Pot…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:17PMSaturday, December 15, 2018
Choose your favorite 2018 Broadway cast recording from among the 15 in the list, ordered alphabetically. Note: A couple of the albums won’t be officially released until January,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:09AMFriday, December 14, 2018
In Erin Mallon’s sweet, modest play, an unlikely rooftop friendship develops between a 75-year-old man and a nine-year-old girl. Richard Masur is terrific (as always) in portraying Bernard…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:05PM 
