Bob Dylan hovers over this opera, which tells a story about early 1970s radicals who become fugitives for some three decades. The connection is deliberate if indirect, but Dylan also comes t…
"New York City is where you want to be in January," Pat Kaufman, commissioner of NYC Mayor's Office of Media & Entertainment, said on the opening night Friday of the Association of Perfo…
 Wakka Wakka is back with a new puppet musical, about the adventures of a boy and a dodo bird in the underworld. Compared to the 24-year-old company's past shows, what most stands out …
"KOAL"Â Â begins with the sound of a powerful wind and the crackle of an ominous fire. Inspired by the "Black Summer" wildfires in Australia in 2019, Jacinta Yelland's solo show this wee…
"Telekinetik" is about as unconventional an opera as opera can be, and therefore more or less typical of the Prototype festival, which launched its twelfth annual season Thursday with …
SpaceBridge is a show starring Russian refugee children living in New York City shelters after fleeing Russia because of their families' opposition to the invasion of Ukraine.  It is a…
"For years, I've learned that in reaction to all the hardships, I could do only one thing: run. Run instead of talk, run instead of cry, ru…
Joshua William Gelb, an award"winning pioneer in digital theater, has restaged his earliest Internet hit in what some might consider a logical next step " in person.  But if I fi…
Abigail's mother has just died, but she can't afford to pay for her funeral, so to raise the needed funds she decides to write a play about the death of her mother and the difficulty of affo…
2025 begins as the Year of Wicked. Although the movie won only "best cinematic and box office achievement" at the Golden Globes last night, both it and the stage musical broke box office rec…
"Techne," one of the shows that opened the 20th anniversary "Under the Radar" festival this weekend, reinforces its reputation for theater so experimental it makes you wonder what thea…
Below is a calendar of selected theater opening* this month in New York, including one Broadway show, Sanaz Toossi's Pulitzer Prize winning "English," which is transferring intact from an…
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to, among the 20 that (so far) have firm opening dates on Broadway between now and April 27, 2025, when the 2024-2025 season ends. They are …
There are almost 100 shows produced by the seven annual theater festivals listed below, all of whom begin in January. Largely experimental, avant-garde, mixed-genre, and at much lower ticket…
The year 2025 begins with some short-term questions about theater " the fate of "Warriors," the effect of "Wicked"?" and more long-term ones " what new leadership will mean to Off-Broadway? …
Let us celebrate the new year by honoring these twenty Broadway veterans " accomplished performers, playwrights, producers, directors, composers (at least one of them all those things tog…
How much do you remember of this year in New York theater? Answer these 10 questions to find out. Loading…
How DO you measure a year? Yes, in laughter and strife, and also in nightlife. (New Year's Eve in NYC Last Minute Guide to Greeting 2025) Theater lovers measure the year in shows, sure (see …
Below is a list of theater books that were published in 2024, most of which I read and enjoyed (with caveats), several I hope to get to in the new year. Beneath that is a list of 10 scripts …
When they hug in the rain in "The Notebook." When they fight in the rain in "The Outsiders." When the fourth sibling finally arrives in "The Hills of California." When the fourth sibling fin…
The year began with Elton John getting an EGOT and ended with his giving Broadway a flop. It was that kind of year, offering theatergoers reasons to cheer and to jeer.  Here are …
My last-minute guide to New Year's Eve in New York City, when 2024 turns into 2025, features information on: Times Square.Dining Out,Theater: Plays as parties, Broadway show schedule, family…
On this traditional day of moviegoing, here is my quick take on ten new feature films, most of them only available in cinemas, including "A Complete Unknown," "The Fire Inside" and "The Room…
Portia, Act 5, Scene 1Â of "The Merchant of Venice"Â
Below are some of the people from the theater community who died in 2024, listed alphabetically. Click on any photograph (and click the ⌽ button) to read the caption. (In a few of these…