5,294 stories from New York Theater
Shows currently on Broadway are full of romantic or at least sexy moments, as these scenes and shots from a dozen of them attest: click on any photograph to read the caption. From Funny Girl…
"Americans are tired of being played for suckers," President Joe Biden said at the State of the Union Address last week, asking Congress to "pass the Junk Fee Prevention Act so companies sto…
From the moment Mary hires Ashling to be the nanny for her children, "things start to feel just a little….off," according to the promotion for "Lucy." But for the entire two hours (without…
It was the sort of remark that might have shocked people at any other ribbon-cutting ceremony, but this was the reopening yesterday of La MaMa Experimental Theater Club's first home, a four-…
In 1992, photographer Larry Sultan published an unusual book about his parents Irv and Jean entitled "Pictures From Home," a combination of staged photographs of them, stills from the family…
The parents of police victim Tyre Nichols, the ambassador from Ukraine, a man who disarmed a killer, the father of a young woman who died from an overdose " these are among the nine individu…
It was as if John Guare had come to his own memorial service, he joked at the end of last night's two-hour celebration of his work at the 92nd Street Y. "But I'm so happy to be alive." On…
"In the Woods" won the Grammy for best musical theater album, producer Sean Patrick Flahaven accepting the award as a tribute to the memory of Stephen Sondheim (who during his lifetime…
Into The Woods is the winner of the Grammy for Musical Theater Album. "This album is a tribute to Stephen Sondheim. We lost him a little more than a year ago." The six nominees in the catego…
Theater created by Black New Yorkers goes back two centuries, as chronicled in the collections of the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress, some items from which are posted be…
Each of the following ten recording artists has been nominated for Album of the Year, the most coveted of the 91 categories in the 65th annual Grammy Awards, which will be held this Sunday. …
When I saw "Between Riverside and Crazy" on stage at Broadway's Hayes Theater in December, I called it a "must-see" production of Stephen Adly Guirgis's 2015 Pulitzer Prize winning pla…
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in February 2023 in New York, Â including one play on Broadway, starring Nathan Lane, Danny Burstein and Zoe Wanamaker, and much exciting Off-Broadw…
Tickets are now on sale for Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for performances from February 13 through March 5 to 23 Off-Broadway shows, including such fan f…
How well were you paying attention to New York theater in January? Answer these ten questions to find out. Loading…
A year after Eric Adams delivered  his first official speech as mayor in Manhattan's theater district urging New Yorkers to "enjoy a Broadway show," he made his second State o…
A Ukrainian play at an Irish theater festival? It was one of the two plays I attended in the final weekend of the annual 1st Irish Festival, which on the surface seemed as opposite as …
Vivien Leigh said it tipped her over into madness. It left Ann-Margret "twisted and shaking, confused, agitated, and staring ahead in a daze." For Jessica Lange, "I don't think there is a…
On this International Holocaust Remembrance Day " designated by the United Nations every January 27th, because that was the date in 1945 when Soviet soldiers liberated the 6,000 remain…
Ever since newly-elected New York Congressman George Santos was revealed as a liar, and worse, not a day has gone by without something new. It's embarrassing, of course; much of it is infuri…
"525,600 minutes 525,000 moments so dear 525,600 minutesHow do you measure… half a lifetime?  That's how long it's been" This is how Anthony Rapp begins  "Without You," h…
Nine of the 20 Oscar nominees for performance announced this morning are veterans of Broadway. (Full list of nominations) They are: Actor in a Leading RoleAustin Butler (Elvis) made his Broa…
The full list of nominations for the 95th annual Academy Awards, which will be held on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and will be televised live on ABC…
"Throughout history weather was the only important subject; everything else was small talk," Colin Quinn explains; now weather's the go-to subject for small talk, except for members of polit…
Maya Lin was still a college student when her design was selected out of more than 1,400 entries for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C., which resulted in criticism, conflict, …
