“Dead Outlaw” leads the nominations for the 73rd annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, announced this by Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez. (video below) The winners will be a...
https://newyorktheater.me/2024/04/23/outer-critics-circle-award-2024-nominations/
Four musicals and a play that has a lot of original music in it, opened on Broadway this past week, and two plays opened Off Broadway. By the end of the day Thursday, which marks the official end...
In “The Wiz,” the all-Black version of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” that debuted on Broadway in the 1970s, Dorothy never sang “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” nor wore ruby red slippe...
https://newyorktheater.me/2024/04/17/the-wiz-broadway-review/
A woman is pictured as a machine several times in “Lempicka,” a musical about Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980), an artist whose heyday was in the 1930s, painting Art Deco-style portraits of ri...
https://newyorktheater.me/2024/04/14/lempicka-broadway-review/
With Tax Day approaching, here are seven times that characters have sung or talked about taxes in Broadway musicals, from “I’ll Put a Tax on That” in Casino Girl 1910 to “My Shot” and �...
https://newyorktheater.me/2024/04/13/taxes-in-broadway-musicals/
In the middle of the busiest theater month in memory, the theater company Playco held a group nap today. It was the first of its slate of free events during its “Month of Rest” – �...
https://newyorktheater.me/2024/04/12/playco-theaters-month-of-rest-in-april/
In “The Outsiders,” opening on Broadway tonight, an exciting cast of gifted young performers, a lovely if little-varied folk and country score, and some thrillingly muscular, almost cinematic...
https://newyorktheater.me/2024/04/11/the-outsiders-broadway-review/
Once again, the voices of the original Broadway cast of “Rent” rang out from a New York stage — this time at Lincoln Center. But as Idina Menzel sang “Over the Moon,” Sandra Mae Frank p...
Below is a selection of theater opening* in April. It’s an overwhelming number of shows — fourteen just on Broadway, twelve of them in the week leading up to the April 25th cut-off date for ...
https://newyorktheater.me/2024/03/31/april-2024-new-york-theater-openings/
Elmer J. McCurdy was killed in a shoot-out with sheriff’s deputies in Oklahoma in 1911, but took 66 years to be buried, his mummified remains having been exhibited all that time by a series of...