5,294 stories from New York Theater
In honor of Veterans Day, veterans and current active duty service members were given free tickets this week to attend a one-night-only reading just for them of James IJames' 2022 Pulitzer P…
"Kimberly Akimbo" arrives on Broadway with its terrific cast and quirkiness intact. What's best about this musical remains " above all,  the slowly unfolding oddball relationship betwe…
Madeline Sayet begins her enlightening solo show at the Public Theater with an acknowledgement of the original inhabitants of Manhattan,  the Lenape, which is as standard an opening me…
"This campaign has always been about fighting for anybody who's gotten knocked down that ever got back up," John Fetterman said in his victory speech early this morning after he was called t…
Today is Election Day! If you live in NYC, find your polling site here. If you live anywhere in America, you can go to Vote.org. Learn the location of your polling place and what's on you…
"If the British armed forces are not perhaps what they were on the world stage, they're certainly world beaters in ceremony and ritual and pomp. We're still good for theater." " Dominic West…
In her gorgeously written memoir, which was published last year with the same title as the play that is opening tonight at the Signature Theater, Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes wrote that it was…
Inventive stagecraft, watchable stars, a vague, artsy script: In his New York debut, playwright Noah Diaz arguably has a story he wants to tell about caregiving and the psychological effects…
The "world's greatest rock critic" offers some advice to William Miller, a friendless, precocious 15-year-old who has just lucked into an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to accompany …
A sign of the vitality of American theater in the 1960s is how many shows that Al Hirschfeld caricatured at the time are currently on New York stages in revivals: 1776, A Delicate Balance, F…
Below is a day-by-day calendar of theater opening* in November, a month that features six new Broadway shows, four of them musicals, as well as some exciting theater-adjacent events, such as…
Broadway 2023 is shaping up, even as Fall 2022 heats up, with eight Broadway shows having opened in October, six more scheduled to do so in November, and Off Broadway featuring new plays wit…
How well were you paying attention to New York theater in October " the shows (eight on Broadway alone!), the controversies (many)? Answer these ten questions to find out Loading…
"Hound Dog," a play with music, evokes Elvis, Joni Mitchell and "Ramy" the Hulu series about an Egyptian-American immigrant family in New Jersey (the last unintentionally) " which provide th…
In 2016, Stephen Sondheim, who was working on a new musical based on two movies by Luis Buñuel,  was listed on an internal memo at the New Yorker Magazine as a possible subject for …
Gabriel Byrne gives four different kinds of curtain calls in the middle of "Walking With Ghosts," his lovely solo show opening tonight at Broadway's Music Box Theater. These are hilarious im…
Ralph Fiennes nails Robert Moses " the gruff, no-nonsense New York voice, the pugnacious face, the planted stance ready for combat; pelvis thrust forward. Commanding, confident to the point …
Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Joe Morton and Sean Combs have all portrayed Walter Lee Younger on Broadway. Given how admired these performers are,  it may come as a shock that the…
Will a Caesars Palace casino be put above the Minskoff Theater,  home to "The Lion King"? Caesars and the landlord of 1515 Broadway, SL Green, have put in a bid with the New York St…
Theater heals in grim times, even in grim shows, according to several theater bloggers, who are sounding a surprising note of optimism in recent posts amid the current reports of tension bot…
"What Kind of Woman," playwright Abbe Tanenbaum tells us in a program note, was inspired by a cache of letters from women seeking abortion before Roe vs. Wade, which she discovered …
Broadway performers Idina Menzel, Gideon Glick, Andy Mientus, Nancy Olson, directors Jack O'Brien and Sheldon Epps are all new authors " of memoirs, novels, a cookbook, a children's book; no…
Is "Topdog/Underdog" as outdated as the three-card monte that the play revolves around? In Suzan-Lori Parks' twenty-year-old play, two brothers with the loaded names of Lincoln and Booth spe…
Emma Rice's jokey, sprawling musical adaptation of "Wuthering Heights" that opens tonight at St. Ann's Warehouse might befuddle anyone who associates the title with the 1939 movie. Laurence …
Two Broadway cast members provoked voluble reactions among theater lovers this past week,  both of which feel like case studies with surprisingly complex implications. Sara Porkalob, w…
