In honor of World Theater Day, celebrated internationally every March 27th since 1962, here are 10 beautiful theaters from around the world, and 10 great books about New York theater. But …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:39AMJohn Patrick Shanley’s latest play begins with a tentative connection between two lonely middle-aged people, Fran (Cecily Strong), who brings her latest bag of dirty laundry to the neighbo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:28PMI reviewed seven shows this past week – two on Broadway, two Off-Broadway, two Off-Off Broadway, and one in Kentucky. A mad busy theatergoing week, prelude to an even more insane month, wi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:07AMWe’re in the parking lot of the New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church on a hot Good Friday afternoon in Dallas, Texas. We’re also on stage in the Pamela Brown Auditorium of the Acto…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:03PMBathhouse.pptx, “a mess” of a play about gay bathhouses that is “a symptom of loneliness and longing” (in the words of its playwright Jesús I. Valles), won the 2023 Yale Drama Se…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:10PMLaurence Fishburne is an award-winning actor who’s been in the business for more than half a century, debuting on TV at age 10, in the movies at age 12, and in a major motion picture, �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:53AMWhen at the start of “Water for Elephants,” Jacob jumps a train during the Depression, he lucks out – and so do we.“You didn’t jump just any old train, son,” a character named Ca…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:47PMDescribed below are forty-seven shows opening over nineteen days in April. That beats even the Broadway schedule for the month. And tickets are a lot cheaper — no more than $35, and as lit…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:00PMThere are elements of a smart and campy popular entertainment, comparable to “Little Shop of Horrors,” in this latest musical from Michael R. Jackson ( “A Strange Loop,” “White Gir…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:36PMJeremy Strong as a righteous scientist? Michael Imperioli as his pompous, persnickety brother? One might initially question this casting. Strong is best known for his recent role as Kendall …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49PMThe Dred Scott decision, widely considered the worst ruling in the history of the United States Supreme Court, inspired “American Rot,” which should have been a better play. It certainly…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:03PMNew York theater revs up for its final stretch, with 16 of the 38 shows of the Broadway 2023-2024 season opening up over the next six weeks. I’m not even halfway through the 10 “can’t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:49AMA look at the final stretch of the Broadway 2023-2024 season:: The sixteen Broadway shows opening over the next six weeks, starting tomorrow and ending April 25th, the cut-off date for Tony …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:41PMMarlon Brando singing “Luck Be A Lady” in rehearsal with “Guys and Dolls” composer Frank Loesser. Fifteen pairs of Liza Minnelli’s false eyelashes. A first edition of “West Side …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:37AMFour years ago today – the ides of March, 2020 – the COVID-19 pandemic forced the then-mayor of New York City to shut down the smaller In-person theaters that had remained open after t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:04AMThey’re selling a little box of tissues branded with the logo of “The Notebook: The Musical” at Broadway’sGerald Schoenfeld Theater, where it’s opening tonight – perhaps the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:33PMIn “The Effect,” two researchers are conducting clinical trials of a new antidepressant, but their experiment stumbles and crashes after two volunteers undergoing the drug tests fall for…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:50PMDuring the Golden Age of Broadway, theater photographer Leo Friedman used his specialized still camera to capture image after image of show after show. The action on stage was rarely still, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:31PMAs he did more successfully with “Oslo” and “Blood and Gifts,” playwright J. T. Rogers dramatizes a complicated moment in history with sophistication, humor, some clarity, even some …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12PMBroadway at the Oscars 2024, clockwise from top left: New Academy Award winners and Broadway veterans Da’Vine Joy Randolph (who was nominated for a Tony in 2012 for Ghost the Musical…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:26AMBest Picture Oppenheimer Best Director Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer Best Actor Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer Best Actress Emma Stone, Poor Things Best Supporting Actor Robert Downey Jr., Opp…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:21PM“I”m worried about the future of our children, and this is why I invite you into this strange, empty kitchen, because Republicans want me to appeal to women voters. And women love kitche…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:13AM“No carnival without cruelty,” a man dressed much like the horror movie character Freddy Krueger screams desperately in Spanish, trapped in a glass cube crowded with others who are grote…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:36PMIn honor of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, here are the women playwrights who have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an annual award given for “a distinguished pl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:26PMThe nun is certain, or says she is, that the priest is molesting one of the students in her school, but we never are so sure, thanks to John Patrick Shanley’s exquisitely well-crafted pla…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:54PMFor all the high-powered theatrical talent involved, this stage interpretation of Sufjan Stevens’ acclaimed 2005 album “Illinois” could probably use a warning label. It’s extraordina…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:11PMChoose the shows that you are most looking forward to, in the four categories into which I’ve divided the 18 play and musicals that are opening on Broadway in March and April, 2024. These …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59AMWhether offering a Spring Review, or praising a Broadway run, or welcoming the news that the Washington Post will indeed be hiring a new theater critic after all, the theater bloggers below …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:12PM“With all the activity on Broadway, there will be plenty of good targets,” says Gerard Alessandrini, the wit behind the satirical revue “Forbidden Broadway,” which after more than …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:59AMEighteen shows are opening in the final eight weeks of the 2023-2024 Broadway season, each of which offers discounts of one kind or another — rush, lottery, digital rush, digital lottery. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:23AMHow well were you paying attention to New York theater in the month of February? Answer these ten questions to find out, plus an extra question to match the extra day because it’s a Leap Y…
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