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Thrilling: 40 buffaloes roaming in Brooklyn! A new theater and cultural center opening in Inwood! Chilling: The continuing war against culture in D.C. This all happened beyond Broadway. Broadway still matters: All but two of the 13 shows that will be produced the most throughout the U.S. this season either began or had
In an extraordinary display of quick-hit characterizations, Sarah Jones cycles through almost twenty Americans, each with distinctly different accents, from widely different ethnic backgrounds, some even from different centuries, but almost all of them seem to have two traits in common: They like to argue, and they liv
The artist Peter Max, who died on Monday at the age of 88, was best known for his psychedelic posters from the 1960s, but he apparently also designed for the theater. Twice. In 1967, he designed the poster for the Off-Broadway revival of “The Coach with the Six Insides,” at the East 74th Street Theater,...
In celebration of the tenth anniversary of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, which is one of the museums of the Smithsonian targeted for an unprecedented ideological assault by the current administration, here is a sample of the theater-related objects and images (among the more than 45,000 o
In one of the most exhilarating and purest works of theater in memory, the herd of forty buffaloes lumbered their way through the narrow streets of the city, snorting, twitching, swinging their massive heads, and patiently pausing at some of the most historically resonant sites in New York for a wide and arresting rang
“John Proctor Is The Villain,” playwright Kimberly Belflower’s response to “The Crucible,” will be the most-produced work of theater in the United States this season, followed by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ “Purpose,” according to American Theatre Magazine‘s annual calculation. The list is below, with links to my reviews,
Three new shows were added to the Broadway lineup this past week, for a total of 25 with nailed dates and venues in the Broadway 2026-2027 season — the first Broadway productions of “Downstate” and “Small Mouth Sounds” which were announced together in what I considered an unprecedented, too-clever promotional scheme th
How to describe “Beyond the Stardust”? It feels like buzzkill for me just to call it a loud disco with circus acts, given how the creative team bills it as an “Afro-disco-space-punk extravaganza,” and, near the start of the show, The Illustrious Blacks welcomed us to this “place for you on the night, a place where you.
Below are photographs from the original Broadway productions of shows that are being revived in the 2026-2027 Broadway season: Awake and Sing (1935) with Stella AdlerThe Sound of Music (1959) with Mary MartinEvita (1979) with Patti LuPone and Mandy PatinkinA Few Good Men (1989) with Tom Hulce, MichaelDolan and Victor-L
I resurrect my review of Sondheim’s Follies, which opened fifteen years ago today, September 12, 2011. When the sequined ghosts of showgirls past appear at the beginning of “Follies,” a revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical opening tonight whose delights edge out its disappointments, the performers are not so much ha
Lupita Nyong’o portrays a woman in the weeks and months and possibly years after she is hit by her boyfriend, in Marin Ireland’s play, reopening tonight at Greenwich House Theater after a short run two years ago Off-Off Broadway. In the aftermath of the violence, Nyong’o’s character (who is identified in the program on
“Downstate,” the highly controversial play by Bruce Norris about a group home for men formerly imprisoned for sex crimes against minors, was announced this morning as opening on Broadway in the Fall — at the same time that “Small Mouth Sounds,” the silent comedy by Beth Wohl, was announced to open on Broadway in the...
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