Thursday, September 12, 2024
“The Roommate” is like a female “The Odd Couple” that’s more odd and less funny, and worth a Broadway production for two reasons: Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone. The show tacitly ackn…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:11PMWednesday, September 11, 2024
The opening of the new performing arts center at the World Trade Center site a year ago has done what the rebuilders had hoped it would, at least for me. On the twenty-third anniversary of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:13AMTuesday, September 10, 2024
A dozen cartoonists offer their take on the Presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, which is happening tonight for 90 minutes starting at …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:59AMMonday, September 9, 2024
James Earl Jones, the shy kid from Arkabutla, Mississippi who grew up to be an commanding actor of the stage and screen for some seven decades — so admired as a stage actor that he had a B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:56PMEverything these days is debatable. Politics of course: Tuesday night the Presidential candidates are debating. But theater too. The Broadway Fall season begins two days after the debate, wi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:05PMSunday, September 8, 2024
About halfway through “Life and Trust,” a mammoth site-specific show that is set spectacularly in the heart of the Financial District, I was rewarded with the immersive theatergoe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:27AMFriday, September 6, 2024
As the Fall season begins, pick your top three choices out of the 16 shows that are currently scheduled to open on Broadway in September, October, November and December 2024. The shows ar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:53PMThursday, September 5, 2024
There was a time when Billy Rose — Broadway producer, impresario, lyricist, columnist, and all-around theatrical showman — was a leading figure on Broadway. Born 125 years ago on Septemb…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:31PMWednesday, September 4, 2024
Audra McDonald as Madame Rose; Robert Downey Jr’s Broadway debut; Elton John’s first new Broadway musical in a dozen years. It’s hard to resist the lure of the big musicals and starry …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:45PMTuesday, September 3, 2024
Broadway Week, a two-for-one ticket discount to current Broadway shows, begins today, the start of a busy month and a starry season. In September alone, three Broadway shows are opening,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:18AMMonday, September 2, 2024
Labor Day means something different to Colm Summers, the new artistic director of Working Theater, a New York company about to launch its fortieth season as (in the words of their mission…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:46PMSunday, September 1, 2024
Below is a selection of theater opening* in New York in September, Including three new plays on Broadway — featuring the Broadway debut of Robert Downey Jr., and the return of Patti LuPon…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:49PMSaturday, August 31, 2024
How well were you following the theater in August? By theater this month, that includes political theater, as well as the past and future on stage, not just the present. Answer the quiz belo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:50PMFriday, August 30, 2024
Following up on the recent Broadway revival of his Tony and Pulitzer-winning play “Doubt” and his new Off-Broadway hit “Brooklyn Laundry,” John Patrick Shanley has written another…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:50AMWednesday, August 28, 2024
It would be silly to dismiss “Hurricane Season” just because the production has no curtain call, and the cast is made to work during the entire intermission, performing a kind of robotic…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:44PMTuesday, August 27, 2024
“It used to be a time when the movement was spearheaded by young people….putting their lives on the line. Now, they just put their lives online.” It’s a line in “Good Trouble” by…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:09AMMonday, August 26, 2024
“Humanity is on the ballot, y’all. Please don’t be complacent, because otherwise we’re cooked,” Billy Porter said to an estimated 3,000 people who attended an hour-long Zoom call o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PMThe most stageworthy news of the past week, let’s face it, were the speeches at the Democratic National Convention. “…the miracles of democracy and community”: AOC at the DNC, vide…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:12AMThursday, August 22, 2024
“ i am calling on all you independents and all you undecideds. ¥ou know this is true. You know I am telling you the truth. That values and character matter most of all. In leadership and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:03AMWednesday, August 21, 2024
Before Doug Emhoff explained the embarrassing moment that led to his first date with Kamala Harris, he began his speech at the 2024 Democratic National Convention by introducing his “big…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:16PM“For years, Donald Trump did everything in his power to try to make people fear us,” Michelle Obama said at Day 2 of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, talking about herself and he…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:47AMTuesday, August 20, 2024
“Six years ago, I was taking omelette orders as a waitress in New York City. I didn’t have health insurance. My family was fighting off foreclosure and we were struggling with bills afte…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:11AMMonday, August 19, 2024
How close has legitimate theater come to capturing the political theater of Presidential campaigns and party conventions, especially the real-life implausible whiplash political dramas of th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:54PMSaturday, August 17, 2024
What we know about Lot’s wife from the Bible is that she looked back at the city of Sodom, although forbidden to do so, and became a pillar of salt. Lots more happens in Genesis 19 – a m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:41PMThursday, August 15, 2024
More than 7,000 languages currently exist in the world, of which an astonishing 700 are spoken in New York City — more than anyplace else on earth. “Language and music are portable homel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:57PMTuesday, August 13, 2024
Here are some of the stars scheduled to appear on a New York stage in the 2024-2025 season, several for the first time in many years, or ever: Christian Borle, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Burr, M…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:31AMMonday, August 12, 2024
“Once Upon A Mattress” opened tonight for its third turn on Broadway, with Sutton Foster’s performance as Princess Winnifred the Woebegone the same goofy and intense workout that prove…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49PMSaturday, August 10, 2024
“Mike was going on again about the perfidious people who keep theatrical diaries,” Eric Idle writes about Mike Nichols in his own theatrical diary, meticulously dated October 20, 2004 at…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:17PMWednesday, August 7, 2024
Seven shows currently on Broadway were preceded by a movie with the same name: They are either direct adaptation of the movies (Aladdin, Back to the Future), or inspired by them (Harry Potte…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:18PMTuesday, August 6, 2024
“Some of us are old enough to remember when it was Republicans who were talking about freedom. It turns out now, what they meant is the government should be free to invade your doctor’s …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:25PMMonday, August 5, 2024
What happened to the dog days of summer? Sure this weekend saw the 26th annual Broadway Barks starry pet adoption event with hosts Bernadette Peters and Sutton Foster. But that’s just one…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:50AM 
