5,294 stories from New York Theater
Below are the winners of the American Connected Theater Awards* for theatrical storytelling created and presented online during the year between March 2021 and March 2022. Much has happened …
Like a classic folk ballad, full of understated outrage and exquisite down-home music,  "Coal Country,"  in an encore presentation at the Cherry Lane, tells the devastating true …
"I can't watch MSNBC and do nothing anymore," says Jamie in  "This Space Between Us."  Many of us surely have been feeling that way lately, especially in the past two weeks. Jami…
In "The Chinese Lady," Â playwright Lloyd Suh has created a gently amusing, lyrical, yet sharply pointed play based on the true story of the first known Chinese woman in the United States,…
Starting today, New York City Mayor Eric Adams will no longer require indoor venues, including "entertainment spaces" to check for proof of vaccination. But Broadway theaters will still requ…
Among his many other talents, Harvey Fierstein is an experienced talk show guest. In his entertaining memoir, "I Was Better Last Night" (Knopf, 400 pages), he devotes one of his 59 short cha…
The 110-year-old Cort Theater on Broadway will be renamed after the 91-year-old actor James Earl Jones, the Shubert organization announced today."That James deserves to have his name immorta…
Below is a day-by-day selection of theater openings scheduled for March organized by opening date*, featuring a single Broadway show ("Plaza Suite") at the end of the month " a  sparse…
In the first and best in this uneven evening of five long monologues, all of them written by Asian-American playwrights and all of them featuring characters who are over the age of 60, a wom…
Below are six books that shed light on the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a shocking event, which may seem inexplicable, but only to those of us who don't know the context. The titles …
Many are speaking out against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, an independent nation of 44 million people with its own language, history and culture, including more than 400 theaters. Over t…
"Sandblasted" begins with a woman buried in the sand, and you immediately think: Beckett's "Happy Days." She doesn't remain buried, though,  and another woman pops up out of the sand n…
Answer the ten questions below to find out how well you paid attention to New York theater in the month of February. Â Â Loading…
Broadway figures in the fourth season of "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel," as it did in the third season in 2019, when I wrote about all the things that this TV series on Amazon Prime got wron…
There are more than 400 theaters in Ukraine, a nation of 44 million people with its own language, history and culture " which is currently under attack by the Russian military. The Odessa Na…
While D.H. Lawrence was working on "Sons and Lovers," his most popular novel, he wrote "The Daughter-in-Law," the first of his eight plays, which (unlike his novels) was neither published no…
"What is wrong with you?" a theatergoer commented on my review of The Music Man. The show, she said, "is just what the doctor ordered…Listen, we've been cooped up for close to two years…
How will Joe Biden be depicted on a Broadway stage? All we know is that it's likely to happen sooner or later. Nearly every past president has made it to Broadway over the last century, as t…
Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became a famous writer, orator and crusader, was reportedly the most photographed man in the 19th century.  So it probably shouldn't be sur…
It's no mystery why Meredith Willson's 1957 musical is so beloved: The songs are terrifically tuneful, the lyrics terribly clever.  But the story of a con artist who in 1912 seduces…
Bert Williams was, according to his friend W.C. Fields, "the funniest man I ever saw and the saddest man I ever knew." Williams was probably the most popular African-American entertainer at …
Everything about "Black No More" sounded promising " a new musical inspired by a 1931 satiric novel of the same name that imagines what America would be like if there were a machine th…
On Valentine's Day, when thoughts (at least) turn to kissing, it's a good time to note the return of the stage kiss. There may not be as much kissing at all in new in-person shows, and kisse…
"This place is fraught," Niegel Smith, the artistic director of The Flea, was saying at the beginning of "Arden," the first production by the Off-Off Broadway theater company after almost tw…
 James Tyrone (Bill Camp) is wearing a face mask and shorts, and bringing home Starbucks takeout, while Mary Tyrone (Elizabeth Marvel), in sweatpants, is doing yoga, near a pile of …
