Thursday, 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 08:05PMThursday, September 14, 2023
Susan and Bella, two students at UC Berkeley who are twin sisters, keep on getting pregnant – their pregnancy represented by red balloons — and they keep on popping “M&Ms” –…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50PMWednesday, September 13, 2023
The Perelman Performing Arts Center, or PAC NYC, held a ribbon connection (rather than ribbon cutting) ceremony today on a stage in the lobby that will offer free entertainment every day fro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:25PMTuesday, September 12, 2023
Shortly before I attended Annie Baker’s new play about a group of mostly older women spending their vacations at a pain clinic in Northern California, I saw a new musical about a group of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:23PMMonday, September 11, 2023
The new performing arts center at the World Trade Center smartly decided to hold its official opening day ceremony on Wednesday, not today. But if all goes well, the marble cube of the Pe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:23AMSunday, September 10, 2023
Each of the following movies slated for release in cinemas and/or streaming services before the end of the year may be of interest to legitimate theater fans because it directly adapts a sta…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:18AMSaturday, September 9, 2023
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to, of the ten that have an official opening on Broadway from September to December 2023. They are listed chronologically below by opening d…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:32AMFriday, September 8, 2023
Caitlin Cook has reportedly spent ten years researching graffiti in public bathrooms, and five years turning the graffiti into songs, which she now has put together for an hour-long show bil…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:33PMThursday, September 7, 2023
Charles Busch has always worshipped Leading Ladies, even before he became one. That happened almost four decades ago, thanks to the surprise success of his play “Vampire Lesbians of Sodom.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:13PMWednesday, September 6, 2023
Bryan is bulimic. Melinda is schizophrenic. Kendra has borderline personality disorder. Newcomer Adam is an addict. They are young patients in group therapy at a rehab ward, presided over…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:56PMTuesday, September 5, 2023
Summer officially ended with Lea Michele singing “My Man” at the curtain call for the final performance of “Funny Girl” (see video below), a song introduced by Fanny Brice in the Zie…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:57AMMonday, September 4, 2023
On a Labor Day when Hollywood writers and actors have been on strike for months now, there is a fitting if startling answer this year to the question I ask every Labor Day, which is a l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:54AMSunday, September 3, 2023
A new Sondheim musical, posthumously produced; a new Annie Baker play; the return to Broadway of Leslie Odom Jr. and Sarah Paulson. Below are ten shows opening in the Fall – three of which…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:55PMSaturday, September 2, 2023
For his ninetieth birthday, Sir Stanley Wells, considered one of the world’s greatest authorities on William Shakespeare, was asked to deliver four lectures to answer the following questio…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54PMFriday, September 1, 2023
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in New York in September: Leslie Odom Jr is returning to Broadway in a revival of a play by Ossie Davis, and rock star Melissa Etheridge is bringing …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:49AMThursday, August 31, 2023
The quiz below offers a theatergoer’s perspective on this crazy, busy, unnerving summer, Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:17PMWednesday, August 30, 2023
Renée Elise Goldsberry’s star turn as Prospero helps make this entertaining new musical adaptation of “The Tempest” thrilling in some of the same ways as the musical for which she won…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:47PMTuesday, August 29, 2023
“How To Steal An Election,” a 1968 musical that offers a cynical history lesson about American presidential politics, is getting a perky revival as part of York Theater Company’s M…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:54PMMonday, August 28, 2023
On 28 August, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the following speech at the March on Washington: I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demons…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PMThe end of August, traditionally the dog days of summer, this year brings news of a British movie theater chain allowing dogs to accompany humans at select showings. Would this work for le…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:26AMSunday, 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 11:11AM 
