Sunday, August 27, 2023
To author Ethan Mordden, Edward Albee is the “Great American Gay Playwright” — emphasis on gay — even though few of his plays have any gay characters in them at all nor any obviou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:11AMWednesday, August 23, 2023
“Rock & Roll Man,” a musical at New World Stages about Alan Freed, a radio disc jockey and concert promoter who championed early rock and roll, had already announced a September 1st …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:29PMTuesday, August 22, 2023
What turned high school drop-out Frederick August Kittel Jr. into the revered and consequential playwright August Wilson? That’s the question at the heart of “August Wilson: A Life” (S…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:07PMMonday, August 21, 2023
Best to think of a Fall full of theater during these final summer days wracked by climate change disasters, indictments and dubious debates. It’s not too early to get two-for-one tickets t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:30AMSunday, August 20, 2023
This latest magic show to land fleetingly on Broadway stars Antonio Diaz, a boyishly charming 37-year-old Spaniard who we’re told was “born into a humble family in a small town on the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:52PMMonday, August 14, 2023
Patrick Page is hugging Eva Noblezada on the stage of “Hadestown.” There are two ways to look at this photograph, just as there are two ways to look at the news of the challenges facing …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:20PMSunday, August 13, 2023
The life of Julia Pastrana was short and ugly; her death long and grotesque. But there was also beauty in her true story, and it’s captured briefly but memorably by a remarkable performer …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:13PMSaturday, August 12, 2023
The creatures created by Ralph Lee (July 9, 1935 – May 12, 2023) come alive even when in an art exhibition rather than on stage, as evident in “Myths, Legends, & Spectacle: Masks and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:10PMFriday, August 11, 2023
The 76th Edinburgh Festival Fringe is underway, a month-long festival that this year is presenting more than 3,500 shows – which might be intimidating for those theatergoers who have …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:06AMThursday, 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 12:05PM 
