At the 75th annual Primetime Emmy Awards last night, Elton John became the nineteenth person to achieve an EGOT " winner of an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony " when he won for "Elto…
"My people were brought to America in chains. Your people were driven here to escape the chains fashioned for them in Europe," Martin Luther King Jr. said in his address to the American Jewi…
 "The Color Purple" and "Mean Girls," were both Hollywood movies adapted from books (Alice Walker's novel "The Color Purple" and Rosalind Wiseman's non-fiction  "Queen Bees an…
"Mean Girls" was Tina Fey's smart, funny 2004 movie that she turned with her husband into an overlong, ill-timed Broadway musical (as I wrote in my review) in 2018, which has now been adapte…
I saw three shows that featured clowns at PhysFestNYC, billed as the first-ever festival in New York City to showcase physical theater, which is wrapping up its ten-day run on Sunday.Å
In the two years since I first saw Joshua Harmon's ambitious, busy play about antisemitism, in which five generations of a single French family in two different eras fear for their safety, t…
Tickets are now on sale for Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for performances from January 16 through February 4, 2024 of 23 Broadway shows, from "& Juli…
"For the theatre community, it was a time of tumult, turnover, 'the field is in crisis' essays, show cancellations due to illness, and budgetary shortfalls." But also a response: "If our fie…
Hollywood and Broadway intertwined in complicated ways once again when Broadway veterans Paul Giamatti and Da'Vine Joy Randolph both won Golden Globe Awards last night for their roles in …
I saw these three hour-long shows from the 19th Under the Radar Festival one after the other on the same floor of the Rose building at Lincoln Center Queens of Sheba Muki Zubis stood on stag…
Created and performed by a trio who call themselves FlawBored and describe themselves as a "disability-led theater company" " two of the three are legally blind " this export from the Edinbu…
Billed as "an experimental theater piece about the end of an experimental theater," this opening night show in the 19th annual Under the Radar festival turned out to be, as the title promise…
Below is a calendar of selected theater opening* this month in New York, including two Broadway shows that are both transfers from Off-Broadway. The bulk of theatrical fare in January…
Below is a preview of the theater festivals in New York City this month, which are presenting more than eighty shows, many of them far from traditional theater " call them experimental, avan…
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to, among the 18 that (so far) have firm opening dates on Broadway between now and April 25, 2024, when the 2023-2024 season ends. They are …
How will the "crisis in theater" be addressed? That's the first of my 5 Major Questions for The Theater in 2024 and Beyond. I also Ring IN The Old in 2024: 16 Broadway veterans in their 90s.…
We can't see the future clearly, of theater or anything else, but we can look at the recent past and wonder how things will play out. My questions about theater in 2024 are prompted by the m…
Let us celebrate surviving to a new and hopefully better year, by honoring these sixteen Broadway veterans in their nineties " celebrated performers, playwrights, producers, directors, compo…
How much do you remember of this year in New York theater? Answer these 16 questions to find out. My most challenging quiz yet, about a most challenging year. Loading…
Below is a list of theater books to read in 2024, which I divide into three groups:  2. Four books (all but one published in 2023) that I've been meaning to read and might actually do …
An 89-year-old Broadway producer complaining about Broadway ticket prices was the most popular post yet again on my NewYorkTheater.me blog in 2023, although the post is from May, 2022. It ju…
Here are the ten biggest stories about New York theater in 2023, some of them major recurring issues, some of them events, most of them serious, one of them silly, some glimpsing the sublime…
My last-minute guide to New Year's Eve in New York City, when 2023 turns into 2024, features information on: Times Square.Dining OutTheater: Plays as parties, Broadway show schedule, family …
The last week of the year is, if not time of reckoning, at least summing up: Top 10 Lists of Top 10 NY Theater in 2023: Merrily, Sweeney, Purlie "Merrily We Roll Along" is the most acclaimed…
In this traditional day of moviegoing, here are ten new feature films, most of them only available in cinemas, ranked from those I most enjoyed to those I most regret seeing. American Fictio…