Restaurant Row, abnormally quiet, on a matinee day. Photo: Leida Snow Joe Allen Gone, Joe Allen’s Closed It was never about the menu. The highest praise restaurant critic Mimi Sheraton could muster was that “the food wasn’t too... Voices 12 Feb 2021 | 12:22
The much anticipated revival of “The Music Man,” with Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, has pushed its original 2020 opening to February 2022. Photo: Leida Snow Broadway’s Rocky Road to Recovery Did you catch the references to “Hamilton” in Amanda Gorman’s remarkable poem at the Biden Inauguration? Her words about... City Arts 09 Feb 2021 | 12:47
Photo via Amazon.com A Month of Theatrical Memories If you are interested in how directors, actors, and writers work their magic on stage, this is your lucky month. A quartet... News 09 Feb 2021 | 12:08
Peter Levin (with Susan Strasberg) in “The Diary of Anne Frank.” Photo courtesy of Peter Levin When Arnold Met Peter ... They sat, masked, on a bench, six feet apart, in the Katharine Hepburn Garden in Turtle Bay. An appropriate spot for these... News 21 Dec 2020 | 01:08
Ruben Santiago-Hudson adapted August Wilson’s play for the screen. Photo: Hollis Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s Moment It may seem an odd time to say someone is having a moment. But I’ll say it anyway. Ruben Santiago-Hudson is having a moment.... News 09 Dec 2020 | 12:08
Dakin Matthews. Photo: Theatre for a New Audience, on Twitter Sheltering with Shakespeare “Dakin’s ‘Sheltering With Shakespeare’ is Bard balm for the soul.” Those are the appreciative words of Tricia Mancuso Parks,... Voices 28 Oct 2020 | 01:14
Daphne Rubin-Vega. Photo courtesy of “Live at the Lortel.” A Season of Love for the Arts Although the return of theater can seem beyond reach, there are artists who are reminding us that nothing can stop stories... News 18 Oct 2020 | 05:49
Theater of War for Frontline Medical Providers, Lincoln Medical Center production of “Philoctetes,” 8/19/20, with (clockwise from top left) Jesse Eisenberg, David Zayas and Frances McDormand. Screenshot courtesy of Theater of War Productions Theater of War I have reported on the stage scene for several years, but I confess I had never heard of Theater of War. But since all the... News 01 Sep 2020 | 03:37
Alfre Woodard as a former kindergarten teacher in Will Eno’s “A Room of Nobody Else’s” at the Weston Playhouse. Photo: Alfre Woodard via Screen Capture The Rooms Where Things Happen “Artistry is also a spirit, a secret room in the soul. The room becomes an anywhere, a forest, an ocean, a prison cell, a... News 12 Aug 2020 | 10:45
Tony nominee Chad Kimball. ( Photo: Matt Simpkins / Matt Simpkins Photography © 2019 www.mattsimpkinsphotography.com) A Broadway Star Shines Through it All “Come from Away” was set to celebrate its third anniversary on Broadway on March 12. That same day, Governor Cuomo ordered... News 29 Apr 2020 | 09:55
Will Arbery (right), at the first rehearsal of his play "Heroes of the Fourth Turning." ( Photo: Playwrights Horizons) 'Theater Will Come Back' In the New York theater world, Republicans are rarely seen onstage. Broadway and off-Broadway is often the domain of liberal... News 08 Apr 2020 | 12:53
Times Square area on March 25. ( Photo: NYPD Times Square via flickr) Theater Folk Can't Work from Home COVID-19 is educating us about more than a pandemic. The Broadway brand is not a monolith. Theater workers were independent... News 26 Mar 2020 | 11:48
The "Making Gay History: Before Stonewall" cast with Eric Marcus (back row, third from left) and Joe Salvatore (back row, fourth from left) during rehearsal. ( Photo: NYU Steinhardt) 'Making Gay History' Onstage Joe Salvatore is no Broadway baby. As a writer, director, and professor of educational theater at NYU Steinhardt, Salvatore... Home 24 Feb 2020 | 10:25
Ice Theater of New York performs "Molecular" at the Chelsea Piers rink on the Hudson River. The nonprofit, alleging it was looted of $10,000 in a fraudulent "Ponzi-like scheme," is suing NYCharities.org in state Supreme Court in Manhattan for "ripping off" the contributions of its donors. ( Photo: Darial Sneed / Ice Theater of New York) Dance of Deception The executive director of Dance/NYC frames the issue bluntly: A loss of $5,000 to $10,000 in donor revenue can take a small... Home 03 Sep 2019 | 10:25
Broadway director Harold Prince receives the Golden Plate award from Nobel laureate Toni Morrison at the American Academy of Achievement’s 46th annual International Achievement Summit in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, June 23, 2007. Photo: Academy of Achievement, via Wikimedia Commons ( Photo: Academy of Achievement, via Wikimedia Commons) The Astonishing Hal Prince When I learned that Harold (Hal) Prince had died, I felt as though all of Broadway must have stopped breathing, at least... City Arts 02 Aug 2019 | 11:36
