Sunday, October 22, 2023
“O, isn’t this wonderful?!” Marianne Brink (Rachel Bay Jones) exclaims upon seeing her old friends at her door. It is the first line in Stephen Sondheim’s first new musical in two de…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:32PMSaturday, October 21, 2023
Laurie Anderson launched the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s fortieth annual Next Wave Festival Tuesday night with “Let X = X,” an unconventional concert that featured, yes, songs from t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:41AMThursday, October 19, 2023
There’s a photograph of 23-year-old Stephen Sondheim with Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre and Gina Lollabrigida on the set of director John Huston’s movie “Beat the Devil,” where Son…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:46AMWednesday, October 18, 2023
Heidi Schreck’s “What The Constitution Means To Me” is the most produced play in America this season, according to American Theatre Magazine’s latest survey, and Lynn Nottage is the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:49PMMonday, October 16, 2023
Helen of Troy, the beauty whose face launched a thousand ships, the woman whose exploits inspired poets and playwrights from Homer to Euripides to Virgil to Shakespeare and his contemporary …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:59PMIt’s easier to feel that theater is bouncing back during such a busy week on Broadway and beyond (especially for critics trying to catch up on shows that opened earlier whose runs have …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:33AMSunday, October 15, 2023
“Job” begins with a woman in her twenties pointing a gun at a male therapist in his sixties. Why? That’s not fully revealed until the end of the therapy session, a climax that’s so o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:25PMSaturday, October 14, 2023
Books about the Method school of acting and about theater’s long history of “racial impersonation” have been named the best theater books of the year by The Theatre Library Associatio…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:58AMFriday, October 13, 2023
Peg is unhappy, not just because her husband died a year ago, but also because it’s been ages since she’s seen a bat on the prairie that surrounds her house in rural Wisconsin.“You wa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:59PMThursday, October 12, 2023
“Gutenberg! The Musical!” is deliberately bad – that’s the central joke of it – but much of what’s bad about it isn’t deliberate. The score is largely unmemorable. The premise …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:57PMWednesday, October 11, 2023
People will be watching “Merrily We Roll Along” in 2040, if all goes as planned. That’s the year that director Richard Linklater plans to release a movie adaptation of the Stephen Sond…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:46PMMonday, October 9, 2023
“(pray)” might feel at first like a theatrically heightened version of a traditional gospel church service, with church ladies in their Sunday finest preaching and praying, clapping and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:29PMToday is Indigenous People’s Day, which since 2021 has been officially recognized as a national holiday — not coincidentally on the same day (the second Monday in October) as Columbus …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:02PMSunday, October 8, 2023
“We’re here to celebrate the body – squirts, blasts, noises and inappropriate acts,” proclaimed our host, the performer known as Fantasy Grandma, introducing “Exposure,” a gro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:35PMFriday, October 6, 2023
Many long-time leaders of New York theaters have been retiring or dying, as Jan Simpson catalogues in a post in her blog Broadway and Me. The questions she ponders: Who will replace them and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:45AMThursday, October 5, 2023
Jocelyn Bioh’s inviting workplace comedy, presenting a day in the life of a hair braiding salon in Harlem, would be a shoo-in for two separate Tony Awards, if either existed – one for ha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:05PMWednesday, October 4, 2023
To get the full flavor of what the great exiled Russian director Dmitry Krymov does with (to?) Ernest Hemingway’s two short stories, which are hard to see as love stories at all, and to Eu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:56PMMonday, October 2, 2023
Almost two years after Stephen Sondheim death at the age of 91, October will see the opening at The Shed of what’s billed as the composer’s “final musical” – “Here We Are” – …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:52AMSunday, October 1, 2023
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in New York in October, with two greatly-anticipated musicals by Stephen Sondheim, one never produced before. The other, “Merrily We Roll Along,” …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:08PMSaturday, September 30, 2023
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SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:22PMThursday, September 28, 2023
Melissa Etheridge was so young when she started playing the guitar that her fingers bled, but she kept at it, which seems a fitting start for her rocky road to rock star. On her 17th birthda…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:01PMWednesday, September 27, 2023
It’s hard to picture a better cast for this first Broadway revival of Ossie Davis’s 1961 broad, biting comedy about racism in the Old South. As the title character, Leslie Odom Jr., assu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00PMTuesday, September 26, 2023
“The Wiz” announced its opening date in April, starring Nichelle Lewis as Dorothy, Deborah Cox as Glinda and Melody A. Betts (featured in this first photograph above) as Aunt Em an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:27PMSunday, September 24, 2023
The photographs below offer a small sample of the many Jewish characters that have been portrayed in plays and musicals on Broadway, focusing on the most familiar and the most recent. The …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:27AMSaturday, September 23, 2023
In celebration of the International Day of Sign Languages, proclaimed every September 23 by the United Nations since 2018, below is the schedule of ASL-interpreted performances on Broadwa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50AMFriday, September 22, 2023
The story told in Emma Horwitz’s “Mary Gets Hers,” about an orphan girl who falls into prostitution, and then is rescued from it, follows nearly scene by scene a tenth century play …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:25PMThursday, September 21, 2023
During the second of the five concerts that are launching the new performing arts center at the World Trade Center, the violinist Trina Basu went up to the microphone after her set and said …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:49PMWednesday, September 20, 2023
The soldier is silent. This frustrates the woman who is not exactly his captor but not his keeper either; she works for the motherland, which disapproves of his silence. If he doesn’t b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:13PMTuesday, September 19, 2023
Half of what happens in “Prometheus Firebringer” is extraordinary, unprecedented. But you wouldn’t know that just by watching what’s on stage, which is mostly a series of monologues …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:57PMMonday, September 18, 2023
Broadway favorites Kelli O’Hara, Brian d’Arcy James, and Heidi Schreck are returning, and Rachel McAdams making her Broadway debut, in two plays and two musicals that were newly ann…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:03AMFriday, September 15, 2023
“Psychic Self Defense” – gorgeous, impish and enveloping — had long ended before I understood the title, although the show itself remained ineffable. To be clear, I never doubted it …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:05PM 
