All around me people are laughing uproariously, slapping their knees, bursting into applause mid song and here I sit in the middle of it all utterly baffled. Forbidden Broadway: Merrily We S…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:44AMAlright, I’ll level with you. Maligned as it is (and oh is it ever) Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1982 musical Cats is what first made me fall in love with theater. When I was five, I went to a …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:41AMLast year I went to the dentist for a toothache and was told that somehow, to my extreme disbelief, my tooth had grown another tooth in it. Well, my dens in dente is nothing compared to Dawn…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:17AMOn Monday How to Dance in Ohio, one of the most hyped shows of the 2023 Broadway fall season, announced it would close on February 11th, just one show short of 100 performances. Based on Ale…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:02AMOn January 13th, hundreds of artists and cultural workers marched through New York City’s theater district in solidarity with The Freedom Theatre of Jenin, Palestine which was raided one m…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:29AM“We’re not here to make fairytales, we’re here to follow them,” quips the narrator (Adam Godley) early on in Once Upon a One More Time, the Britney Spears jukebox musical playing at …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:08AMThe first notes of Simon McBurney’s production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) which opened on May 19th at The Metropolitan Opera begin before the house lights have gone d…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:09AMThe work of Thalia Ranjbar may be challenging– pushing beyond norms and expectations, but at its core it is kind. Her gentle, but relentless commitment to community can be felt both in the…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:14PMThe Unbelieving is documentary theater (all the lines are taken from real interviews), but this contemplative piece about clergy members who have stopped believing in God moves less like a s…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:17PMF*ck7thGrade is messy, it’s awkward, it’s unrelentingly earnest, and it’s utterly delightful. Singer-songwriter Jill Sobule’s queer coming-of-age concert musical didn’t win me over…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:16PMI was struggling to find my seat at New World Stages when two people a bit older than me wearing signed, Melissa Etheridge t-shirts, called me over to their row and asked if I needed help. T…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:59AMBy Morgan Skolnik. Morgan Skolnik argues for theatre that goes beyond physical accessibility and disability representation to actively center disabled artists and the creative potential the …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:57PMWhy is this boy-kills-girl play different from all other boy-kills-girl plays? For starters, it might not be, but for me, Marie It’s Time, Julia Jarcho’s delightfully perverse riff on th…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:45PMThis review contains spoilers. TW: suicide, homicide, mental illness The Butcher Boy, which opened last week at the Irish Repertory Theater is deeply upsetting, but less so due to the gore i…
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