5,295 stories from New York Theater
Below is a selective list of theater that is opening in August*, usually one of the relatively fallow months for theater, but now full of excitement…and anticipation. Although no shows are…
Humanitarians, honorees, money and masks made the theater news in July. How well were you paying attention? Take these 10 questions (plus a bonus question) to find out. Â Â Loading…
At a time when playwrights and actors are demanding to be treated as "arts workers" crucial to the economy, along comes this new book by Christin Essin, a former professional stagehand turne…
I did not react well to the news that the musical "Come from Away" would commemorate the 20th anniversary of 9/11 by giving a free concert of the musical at the Lincoln Memorial in Washin…
Last week, the Public Theater canceled three performances of its production of "Merry Wives" in Central Park after learning a production member had tested positive for the coronavirus. The p…
It's just 35 minutes long, and available only until Sunday, but the free online excerpt from Signature's forthcoming new production of "Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992" is startling, in several …
The following five works " three festivals, one play, and one virtual preview of a future in-person production " are all ending Sunday, July 25, 2021. Those I've seen and especially recommen…
Marylouise Burke is one of the secret weapons of this collection of five original short plays. The familiar 80-year-old character actress appears in four of them, albeit just a brief cameo i…
How can you go wrong with Jason Alexander as a sleazy lawyer, Patti LuPone  as an avenging angel, and Santino Fontana as a conscience-stricken priest? The stellar cast of "Judgment Day…
The art of theater poster design is inextricably linked to its commercial appeal:"I must distill a two-and-a-half hour stage production into an image that is memorable and eye-catching, but …
Off Broadway, like Broadway, is in transition. It's also returning with a flourish. It also (unlike Broadway) has already opened! The Lucille Lortel Foundation announced today it has purchas…
The photographs of Edwin Booth as Iago in "Othello" in 1871 and Meryl Streep with John Lithgow in "Secret Service" 105 years later are among some 30,000 photographs that chronicle some 5,000…
Each of these three plays from 59E59 Theater's "East to Edinburgh Goes Virtual 2021,"Â Â a festival running through July 25, takes its inspiration from a familiar source " "Testament" br…
Being stuck is not necessarily a bad thing inside the world of "Schmigadoon!", the star-studded musical series parodying Golden Age musicals, the first two episodes of which launched on Appl…
In "Endure," a performer named Casey Howes ran through Central Park for more than an hour while we small band of theatergoers listened over earphones to an audio recording of her inner thoug…
Priyanka Shetty, the writer and performer of this one-hour solo play about the 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017, tells us early on that she decided to intervie…
The seven new plays presented this year in Red Bull's annual festival are odd hybrids that mimic the past, reflect our strange present, and suggest the future, perhaps inadvertently posing t…
Heat waves? Downpours? This week demonstrated that New York theatergoers are as tenacious as postal couriers are supposed to be, stayed by neither rain nor heat nor gloom of night " not even…
The evil, power-hungry Richard appeared on stage for the first time just a few minutes into "Seize the King," which the Classical Theater of Harlem bills as playwright Will Power's modern re…
"Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created 'Sunday in the Park with George'" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 416 pages) is an eccentric, valuable and entertaining book, which autho…
"Lines in the Dust," which New Normal Rep is streaming online through August 8th, is Nikkole Salter's three-character play about a vexing side effect of modern-day segregation. It was origin…
"Fruma-Sarah (Waiting in the Wings)," at the Cell Theater through July 25, begins as an affectionate poke at theater folk, offering nearly everything theatergoers returning to live, in-perso…
Six years ago this month, theater etiquette made headlines. Patti LuPone confiscated a cell phone from an audience member who was texting during her performance of "Show for Days," then rant…
As theater stages begin to reopen, theater artists aren't through with theater screens " as some of the theater bloggers make clear. Terry Teachout discusses "hybrid theater" aka "webcast th…
Every work of theater I saw this past week was live and in person " which would have been an impossibility a year ago, and an insane thing to say two years ago…because what else was there …
