Thursday, August 10, 2023
On their last day of shooting “Jaws,” its three stars sit around the table of a cramped fishing boat, shooting the breeze, as they had done for most of the 95 minutes of “The Shark Is …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:52PMWednesday, August 9, 2023
The puppets at the third International Puppet Fringe Festival measure way smaller than your hand and way taller than Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; they reflect traditions thousands of years old, and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:15PMTuesday, August 8, 2023
“What does Barbie and Oppenheimer mean for Broadway?” Ken Davenport asks in his blog post, treating the two movie blockbusters as a singular phenomenon (hence the “does”) — yet fo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:58PMMonday, August 7, 2023
“Back to the Future” opening on Broadway last week seemed well-timed, since theatergoers seem to be time traveling: We’re looking ahead as the Broadway 2023-2024 season unfolds, and at…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:15AMSunday, August 6, 2023
“I can laugh at my own extinction,” says the dinosaur with the face of Theodora Skipitares, in the last and most ironic of the six eerie scenes in her show at La MaMa entitled “Views f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:45PMSaturday, August 5, 2023
When the Federal Theatre Project was shut down in 1939 after just four years, the government-funded program had presented an astonishing 830 theatrical productions on Broadway and in newly c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:41PMFriday, August 4, 2023
Hollywood may be on strike, but movies are ever-present on New York stages. True, it wasn’t until 1970 that a Broadway show based on a movie won the Tony for best musical — fittingly, th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:44PMThursday, August 3, 2023
“Back to the Future,” opening tonight on Broadway, is a nearly scene-by-scene re-creation of the 1985 movie on which it’s based. This is in some ways a lost opportunity to reimagine …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:58PMWednesday, August 2, 2023
Deaf Broadway, a theater company founded on Stephen Sondheim’s 90th birthday in 2020, tonight performed the musical “Company” at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park. How? They projected t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:49PMTuesday, August 1, 2023
Below is a selection of theater opening in New York in August, including three on Broadway: a big musical based on a blockbuster movie, a behind-the-scenes play about a blockbuster movie, t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:45PMMonday, July 31, 2023
“Let’s Call Her Patty” can most charitably be considered a character study, since there is little discernible plot, with the one tangible development occurring close to the end of the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:43PMA Crisis in America’s Theaters made the front page this week: “There is less theater in America these days. Fewer venues. Fewer productions. Fewer performances,” Michael Paulson wrote…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:39AMSunday, July 30, 2023
There is a lesson that seems aimed squarely at the Governor of Florida in this lively musical for young children, which features cheeky, wacky songs about spider-bitten butts, earth-destroyi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:02PMSaturday, July 29, 2023
I laughed at the very first of the many silly sight gags in “The Cottage,” as performed by the delightful Laura Bell Bundy, and was surprised and amused by the initial twist in this twis…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:16PMThursday, July 27, 2023
“Here Lies Love” can be viewed in distinctly different ways. That’s literally true – one can see the show while standing on the main floor in the midst of the action or seated …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:51PMWednesday, July 26, 2023
“Lightweight” is a sly and somewhat misleading title for Amie Enriquez’s solo show about her year-long stay at an addiction treatment center: Sly because the play is about her eating d…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:42PMMonday, July 24, 2023
First, the good news: The musical features music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim with a book by David Ives (whose best-known work of theater is probably the Tony-nominated play Venus in F…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:46AMSaturday, July 22, 2023
If the average theatergoer were asked about “deaf plays,” they might think of William Gibson’s “The Miracle Worker” or Mark Medoff’s “Children of a Lesser God,” both Tony-win…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:37PMThursday, July 20, 2023
They all look pregnant, their bellies as big as the basketball they’re dribbling and shooting at the beginning ofCandrice Jones’s play “Flex.” But four of these five high school …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:16PMTuesday, July 18, 2023
Lady Torrance and Valentine Xavier, two would-be innocents who feel corrupted and brutalized by circumstance, meet on his thirtieth birthday, after he’s spent his youth as a drifter and a …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:18PMMonday, July 17, 2023
SAG-AFTRA, the union representing more than 160,000 film and television actors, last Friday joined the picket lines with the 11,000 members of the Writers Guild, who have been on strike fo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:49AMSunday, July 16, 2023
In “Theater Camp,” Ben Platt and Mary Gordon as camp counselors Amos and Rebecca-Diane confront a 12-year-old camper who’s just delivered an intense emotional performance during a rehe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:05PMSaturday, July 1, 2023
Below is a selection of New York theater opening* in July, presented in a day-by-day calendar, including two Broadway shows, David Byrne and Fatboy Slim’s “Here Lies Love” arguably…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:58PMThursday, June 29, 2023
How well were you paying attention to theater news this past month? Answer these ten questions to find out. Plus: An impossibly challenging bonus question. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:39PMWednesday, June 28, 2023
It’s evident as soon as John Douglas Thompson opens his mouth as King Claudius that director Kenny Leon’s production of “Hamlet,” running for free at the Delacorte Theater in Centra…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:24PMGeorge Salazar, who sang the show-stopper “Michael in the Bathroom” in “Be More Chill” on Broadway, was one of more than two dozen performers to join the Tony-nominated composer of �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:20AMTuesday, June 27, 2023
Below is a manageable list of theater books — recently published or soon to be– that look to be good summer reads. These are mostly memoirs and biographies of fascinating playwrights and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30AMMonday, June 26, 2023
When I first saw Yeshiva-educated stand-up comic Alex Edelman’s solo show about his attendance at a meeting of white supremacist antisemites, it didn’t occur to me to compare him to Dani…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:12PMThree Broadway plays are closing next Sunday, July 2: Fat HamPrima FacieThe Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window – and four more Broadway shows are closing during the summer: Life of Pi an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:43AMSaturday, June 24, 2023
Below is an alphabetical listing of the 8 Broadway plays or musicals currently running (two of them only until next week!) that feature LGBTQ+ characters — some centrally, some peripherall…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:09AMFriday, June 23, 2023
Sheldon Harnick, who died this morning at the age of 99, was a lyricist best-known for “Fiddler on the Roof,” but it was just one of the musicals he wrote with Jerry Bock. In the first v…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:53PM 
