Monday, November 26, 2018
Thanksgiving is technically over, but this one is going to last. There’s much about this past week in New York theater for which we’re grateful. Below watch the full number of &#…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:10PMCyber Monday deals in New York theater tickets and scripts: Ticket Liquidator Cyber Monday Today only on Ticket Liquidator: 10 percent off all orders, using the code: CYBRTL. (Once on…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:19AMSunday, November 25, 2018
The choices below are personal favorites; the ranking is somewhat arbitrary. In a political atmosphere that is at the very least fractured, and has often felt just a few steps away from some…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:35PMSaturday, November 24, 2018
They range in tone from the lyrical to the hysterical, their subjects from grim to fanciful – environmental disaster; an assisted suicide; a self-help spoof – but all four works-in-progr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:08PMFriday, November 23, 2018
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SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:36AMThursday, November 22, 2018
Two women kissed at the end of the performance of “The Prom” at the 92nd annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. It’s part of the show, but it’s sure to get some…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:03PMWednesday, November 21, 2018
My seventh annual Broadway gift guide below includes links and information on shopping for theater tickets, theater subscriptions, cast recordings, play scripts, librettos and new and cheri…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:40PMHow will you celebrate Thanksgiving? In “The Thanksgiving Play,” billed as a satire and running at Playwrights Horizons through December 2 (though not on Thanksgiving Day), playwright La…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:15AMTuesday, November 20, 2018
This week in New York theater, I seem to have zigged while others zagged, even when it comes to zazz. To explain: 1. I don’t completely understand the high level of snark about “King Kon…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:07AMMonday, November 19, 2018
“The Prom” is really two musicals in one. One is a funny, knowing backstage comedy, satirizing the self-regard of theater folk. The other is a loud, fast high school musical. What ties t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:03PMSunday, November 18, 2018
Both King Kong and Olaf, the goofy snow man from Frozen, will loom large on Thanksgiving Day — but not on Broadway; neither current musical is one of the four Broadway shows performing…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:16AMSaturday, November 17, 2018
We must be silent, here in this secret attic apartment where two Jewish families are hiding from the Nazis. And so, in “The Hidden Ones,” a spare and chilling immersive theater piece, th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:22PMFriday, November 16, 2018
Like a boxer faking out an opponent, Michael C. Hall as Thom Pain plays tricks on the audience: “Now I think would be a good time for the raffle,” he says at one point, then shortly afte…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:06PMLike a boxer faking out an opponent, Michael C. Hall as Thom Pain plays tricks on the audience in Will Eno’s one-character play….For Thom’s jousts and jabs to feel like somethi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:15PMThursday, November 15, 2018
King Kong is spectacular — those dreamy eyes, that expressive sniffing of his nose, the earthquake of a roar. He is such a singular creature that, like Ann Darrow, the damsel he picks …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:01AMWednesday, November 14, 2018
The heart of Hansol Jung’s play at the Public Theater is the relationship between two lonely, awkward people in South Korea who connect through an online dating site. But the play also fea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PMTuesday, November 13, 2018
In celebration of the Blue Wave – which has grown steadily in the week since Election Day — a silly observation: There have been 51 Broadway shows with “Blue” in the title. I’m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:31AMMonday, November 12, 2018
“The New One “isn’t literally new. Mike Birbiglia’s solo show debuted Off-Broadway three months ago – where it sold out quickly. It’s now on Broadway – same cast (i.e. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:47PMSunday, November 11, 2018
“The Female Role Model Project” is a pioneering work of theater by a new company called Transforma, in which artists and scientists collaborate to explore attitudes about women, and ques…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:44PMSaturday, November 10, 2018
Afong Moy was the first Chinese woman in the United States. Brought to New York in 1834, she was put on display in a museum. Out of this true story, playwright Lloyd Suh has fashioned “Th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:01PMFriday, November 9, 2018
My favorite character in Frozen on Broadway by far is Sven the reindeer. I’ve been a fan of Avenue Q before it opened Off-Broadway the first time. Does anybody doubt The Lion King o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:33PMThursday, November 8, 2018
While anxiously waiting in a Miami police station for word of what happened to her son Jamal, an educated African-American woman named Kendra (Kerry Washington) talks with her estranged whit…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:42PMWhile anxiously waiting in a Miami police station for word of what happened to her son Jamal, an educated African-American woman named Kendra (Kerry Washington) talks with her estranged whit…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:35PMTuesday, November 6, 2018
Today is Election Day! If you live in NYC, find your polling site here. If you live anywhere in America, you can go to Vote.org for some cool info — like, for example, what’s on …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:58AMMonday, November 5, 2018
When Torch Song opened Off-Broadway a year ago, I noted that the issues affecting gay people that it explored remained unfortunately relevant 35 years after the play had debuted on Broadway,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:06PMThe 1982 Broadway production of Torch Song Trilogy, starring Harvey Fierstein as Arnold Beckoff, a sometime drag queen and gay Jewish romantic searching for love and acceptance, could be cre…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:45PMSaturday, November 3, 2018
“It’s a terrible time to be alive. There’s just nothing left to discover,” says Jake (Noah Robbins) in the second half of Lewiston/Clarkston, two powerfully affecting plays by Samuel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:32PMFriday, November 2, 2018
Food for the Gods is about the killing of black men; Exodus addresses the current refugee crisis; Blind is a solo work about disability. These may not sound like typical subjects for puppet …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:49AMThursday, November 1, 2018
Six shows are opening on Broadway in November. And yes, one of them features a giant ape feeling unwelcome in New York City, and another marks the annual holiday stopover for a perennially…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:34AMWednesday, October 31, 2018
How well were you paying attention to the theater, and theater news, in October? Answer these 10 questions to find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:25AMMonday, October 29, 2018
This has been a wonderful week for theater – with openings for terrific Broadway shows The Ferryman, The Waverly Gallery, The Lifespan of a Fact. And not just on Broadway: The 21st New Yor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:40PM 
