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After more than two decades playing worldwide and selling more than 15 million tickets in 23 countries, Notre Dame de Paris will make its long-awaited New York City debut this summer. The production, performed in French with English supertitles and featuring a...

Elevator Repair Service at NYU Skirball

Elevator Repair Service at NYU Skirball

NYU Skirball will present the world premiere of Seagull, directed by John Collins, from the award-winning theater company Elevator Repair Service, running July 12 – 31 at NYU Skirball. They triumphantly tackled Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway with their celebrated...

Nate Patten: No Holds Barred Broadway and Tony Roast

Nate Patten: No Holds Barred Broadway and Tony Roast

By Melissa Griegel . . . Nate Patten is a Broadway insider, and he has a lot to say about the industry. His biting and very honest commentary on the highs and lows of Broadway shows, stars, and Actors’ Equity causes him to be, in his words, “well-loved, but often...

The Orchard

The Orchard

By JK Clarke . . .  Let’s go back to the beginning and remind ourselves that Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard is fundamentally about social change. Almost cataclysmic social change in some ways—and unknowingly prescient, as it premiered (in 1904) just a year...

The Soap Myth with Bob Gunton,John Rubenstein

The Soap Myth with Bob Gunton,John Rubenstein

Bob Gunton, a two-time Tony nominee, Drama Desk and Obie winner (Sweeney Todd, Evita, How I Got That Story) returns to the New York area stage after a thirty-year hiatus to star in the acclaimed drama The Soap Myth by Drama Desk winner Jeff Cohen Aug 10-28...

Chains

Chains

By Samuel L. Leiter . . .  Since 1995, the mission of Off-Broadway’s Mint Theater has been to revive worthy but forgotten plays, mainly British and American. Some have proved gems, some interesting but flawed, and others perhaps best left forgotten. One of the...

Epiphany

Epiphany

By Brian Scott Lipton . . . Dinners and dinner parties, the automatic catalyst for awkward, revealing and often life-changing interactions, have fascinated such writers as Thornton Wilder, A.R. Gurney, and especially James Joyce. Now, we can add Brian Watkins to the...

Don’t Look Back

Don’t Look Back

By Carole Di Tosti . . .  Presented by the Voyage Theater Company in their World Premiere, Don’t Look Back, by Adam Kraar, highlights current issues and profound themes in his reimagining of the Biblical story of Lot and his family fleeing Sodom and Gomorrah. With a...

Corsicana

Corsicana

Extended thru July 17 . . . By Brian Scott Lipton . . .  “There’s a part of me that really wants this program note to say ‘Corsicana is a small city in Texas. This play is about four people who live there. Thanks for coming.’ The end.” So begins the lengthy,...

Company on Broadway Will Close July 31

Company on Broadway Will Close July 31

The revival of Stephen Sondheim’s and George Furth’s Company, which is the most honored musical of the Broadway season receiving every major award for Best Musical Revival including the 2022 Tony Award, will play its final performance at the Bernard B....

Chita Rivera Awards Outdoes Itself

Chita Rivera Awards Outdoes Itself

See Red Carpet Photos In Slider Below// By Sandi Durell . . . On June 20 at NYU Skirball Center, the 2022 Chita Rivera Awards were back with a vigor that can only be described as bold and dynamic after surviving two years of pandemic challenges. These awards are the...

Opening Night Photos Disney’s Winnie the Pooh

Opening Night Photos Disney’s Winnie the Pooh

DISNEY’S WINNIE THE POOH: THE NEW MUSICAL STAGE ADAPTATION opened its special summer engagement at the Hundred Acres Theatre on Theater Row last night with several Broadway friends, families and kids celebrating with Winnie and all his friends.  The evening’s audience...

American Ballet Theatre’s “Don Quixote” at the Met

American Ballet Theatre’s “Don Quixote” at the Met

By Ron Fassler . . .  The title of this review alone offers three reasons that should send anyone rushing to see dance of the highest order: 1) American Ballet Theatre (ABT) being one of the premier ballet companies in the world; 2) Don Quixote, composed by...

Circle Jerk Honors Pride

Circle Jerk Honors Pride

Circle Jerk, the critically acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize® Finalist piece has announced special guest hosts for its late-night performances in honor of Pride live at The Connelly Theater (220 E 4th Street) and live streamed online. Every performance of Circle Jerk is...

Drama Desk 66 Awards Presented at Sardi’s

Drama Desk 66 Awards Presented at Sardi’s

By Sandi Durell and Melissa Griegel . . . On June 14, the Drama Desk Awards were hosted by Renee Elise Goldsberry at Sardi’s and a who’s who of presenters (Charles Busch, Kerry Butler, Liz Callaway, Lileana Blain-Cruz, Max von Essen, Santino Fontana,Jessica Hecht,...

Snow in Midsummer 

Snow in Midsummer 

By Marilyn Lester . . . Sometime during the Yuan Dynasty, playwright Guan Hanqing (1241-1320) wrote Gan Tian Dong Di Dou E Yuan—translated as: The Injustice to Dou E that Touched Heaven and Earth. It was a heck of a drama—part ghost story and part morality tale about...

Eva Luna

Eva Luna

By Yani Perez . . .  Eva Luna, written by Caridad Svich with direction by Estefanía Fadul, is based on Isabel Allende's novel by the same title. This production, presented by Repertorio Español, warms the soul and enlivens the spirit.  Eva Luna tells...

Tony Nom Kara Young Plays Classical Theatre of Harlem

Tony Nom Kara Young Plays Classical Theatre of Harlem

Kara Young, a 2022 Tony nominee for her performance in Clyde's, will play Viola in the Classical Theatre of Harlem's free production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night July 5-29 at Marcus Garvey Park in East Harlem.  CTH Associate...

A Tonys to Stand Up and Cheer About. . .

A Tonys to Stand Up and Cheer About. . .

And Complete List of Tony Nominees and Winners - - - By Ron Fassler - our man at the Tonys . . . Simon Russell Beale - The Lehman Triology Last evening the 75th Annual Tony Awards were handed out at Radio City Music Hall, and it was my personal joy to be present for...

The Bedwetter

The Bedwetter

By Samuel L. Leiter . . .  Don’t get me wrong. I love Sarah Silverman, the comedian. She’s the very model of a modern Mrs. Maisel, using potty-mouthed wit to shoot darts at contemporary shibboleths, and she’s both a true blue Jew (as Rachel Brosnahan is not) and...

Jennifer Simard Joins Sardi’s Wall of Fame

Jennifer Simard Joins Sardi’s Wall of Fame

Tony Award Nominee Jennifer Simard, for her current role as Sarah in Broadway's revival of Company, is the latest actress to join the coveted Sardi's Wall of Fame. The unveiling of the caricature, by Sardi's Max Klimavicius, took place on Friday June 10th with friends...

Broadway & Radio City Music Hall’s Donald Pippin Dies

Broadway & Radio City Music Hall’s Donald Pippin Dies

Donald Pippin, a celebrated and prolific musical director for Broadway and New York’s Radio City Music Hall and the last living recipient of the long-discontinued Tony Award for Best Conductor and Musical Director — which he won for 1963’s Oliver! — died June 9 at the...

T.Oliver Reid will play Hermes in Hadestown

T.Oliver Reid will play Hermes in Hadestown

Hadestown producers Mara Isaacs, Dale Franzen, Hunter Arnold, and Tom Kirdahy announced today that original Broadway cast member and one of the show’s celebrated understudies T. Oliver Reid will assume the role of Hermes at the Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West...

Brooks Atkinson Theatre Renamed Lena Horne Theatre

Brooks Atkinson Theatre Renamed Lena Horne Theatre

In a historic first, the Nederlander Organization will rename one of its Broadway theaters to honor the great performer and civil rights activist Lena Horne, the company announced today. The venue, currently the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, will be the...

Sister Act

Sister Act

by Adam Cohen . . . Sister Act is musical theater comfort food. It makes no intellectual demands. The songs are eminently hummable. The performances are often perfection.  And the plot is markedly inane: When mobbed-up nightclub singer Deloris Van...

When Playwrights Kill a New Comedy

When Playwrights Kill a New Comedy

Joining Harriet Harris, André De Shields and Jeremy Jordan in Matthew Lombardo's new comedy are Arnie Burton, Nik Alexander, and Irene Sofia Lucio in the world premiere of When Playwrights Kill for its upcoming run at Bushnell's Belding Theatre in Hartford,...

El Otro Oz

El Otro Oz

TheaterWorksUSA is proud to bring Family Summer Theater back to New York audiences with the NYC premiere of El Otro Oz.  Join la fiesta and journey to El Otro Oz! Click your heels together tres veces and take a transformative journey with this salsa, merengue,...

Audrey the New Musical

Audrey the New Musical

Green Light Group Productions has announced the cast and creative team for the July 2022 Off-Broadway premiere of Audrey: The New Musical, by Danielle Moore, directed and choreographed by Kelli-Ann Paterwic.  Audrey will feature newcomer Marina Yiannouris (Milburn...

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