5,294 stories from New York Theater
My annual New Year's Eve last-minute guide to events that are still available to do on New Year's Eve 2023 (when 2022 turns into 2023) in New York City: Times Square.Broadway show schedul…
"on hiatus"→closed. (e.g.) mask mandatory→mask optional. Brooks Atkinson→Lena Horne; Cort→James Earl Jones. Beanie→Julie→Lea. Sara Porkalob vs. 1776…
Below are some of the people from the theater community who died in 2022, listed alphabetically. Click on any photograph (and click the ⌽ button) to read the caption, most of which link…
It was the kind of year when the audience gave a standing ovation for a regular line in the script of a play one particular night, because of a Supreme Court decision announced during that d…
"A Strange Loop,' is the most acclaimed show among theater critics whose lists of top 10 New York theater for 2022 are featured below. Following close behind is "Oratorio for Living Thing…
"We're very different," Andy Warhol (Paul Bettany) says to Jean-Michel Basquiat (Jeremy Pope) when they first meet to collaborate on making a painting. "You're all spontaneous and wild, and …
It's hard not to fall instantly in love with Pops at the beginning of this must-see Broadway production of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize winning play by Stephen Adly Guirgis, the playwright laurea…
A first for the Tony Awards: United Palace, a grand old theater in Washington Heights, will be the site of the 76th annual awards ceremony, which is now scheduled to take place on June 11…
Below is the Broadway schedule for the last two weeks of 2022 " Monday, Dec. 19 up to New Year's Day 2023 " with links to my reviews of the shows (which contain links to their websites to ge…
Nathan Lane, Jessica Chastain, Josh Groban, Laura Linney and Phillipa Soo are all returning to Broadway in what promises to be the first normal Spring season in four years (or at least we're…
"Ain't No' Mo" playwright Jordan E. Cooper announced on stage last night that thanks to his campaign his play is not closing this Sunday as had been announced; it's been extended to next Fri…
'MJ' musical numbers from opening night, Neil Diamond himself singing opening night at "A Beautiful Noise," two different numbers from "Funny Girl," the debate over Jewish assimilation in "L…
Victoria Clark gave one of my favorite performances last year, for "Kimberly Akimbo" Off-Broadway, and she appears again in this latest of my annual lists of favorite theatrical performan…
Cara De Silva, journalist, author, scholar, lecturer and friend, died last week " which I just found out on Facebook. This is probably fitting, since she was an avid conversationalist on tha…
The holiday theater season hit some snags this week, with two Broadway shows set to close just weeks after opening, Stomp, an Off-Broadway staple closing after twenty-nine years, and comedy …
"Some Like It Hot" is glitzy, excessive, frenetic and funny,  with hyperactive choreography, a game, talented cast, and a jazzy score with multiple 11 o'clock numbers. Much of th…
Two recently opened Broadway shows abruptly announced their closing this week. Producers of "KPOP" announced on Tuesday that the musical composed by Helen Park would close this Sunday Decemb…
At the curtain call, Audra McDonald and the rest of the cast pointed to a huge photograph on stage of Adrienne Kennedy, the playwright of "Ohio State Murders," who is making her Broadway deb…
I am Georgia. I am an example and an iteration of its history. Of its pain, and its promise, and the brutality and the possibility. But because this is America, because we always have a path…
After 29 years and 11,472 Performances, "Stomp" will play its final performance on January 8, 2023. The show, ensconced at the Orpheum Theater in the East Village since Feb. 27, 1994, create…
This holiday season in New York means more than a dozen Nutcracker Suites, at least a half A Christmas Carols, including one on Broadway, and other annual traditions in the city that range f…
Happy days are not quite here again, but news this week softened some recent blows: "The Phantom of the Opera" is still closing, but recent weeks have been the highest-grossing in the show's…
"A Beautiful Noise" is certainly an efficient delivery system for twenty-nine of Neil Diamond's most popular songs " some of them just snippets in medleys, but "Sweet Caroline" twice "…
"Ain't No Mo'," an over-the-top satire that aims to tickle, shock and draw blood, imagines an America in which all Black people are being flown to Africa. But it's not a direct flight. There…
