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“I will do my best to serve ALL citizens of Oz,” His Majesty the Scarecrow tells his subjects, having been appointed by the Wizard of Oz and Glinda the Good Witch to rule over Emerald City, w...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/11/07/la-mama-puppet-festival-the-scarecrow-kindred-widows-secrets-history-remembers/

Today is Election Day. You can vote until 9 pm.  (Find Your Pollsite and View Your Sample Ballot) And until 6 p.m. you can watch Lin-Manuel Miranda, Martin Short, Judy Kuhn, Rosie Perez and many...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/11/05/election-day-watch-stars-at-the-polls-vote-a-thon/

George and Ira Gershwin wrote the songs for a trio of political satires in the 1930s,  the last of which, “Let ‘Em Eat Cake,” was about a president who loses his bid for re-election and, ...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/11/04/strike-up-the-band-the-gershwins-on-tariffs-and-cheesy-politicians/

See the Broadway performance schedule for the week of November 4 below. All but a half dozen Broadway shows are canceling their performances on Tuesday, November 5 — Election Day — which sh...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/11/02/election-week-broadway-schedule/

Below is a selection of theater opening* in New York in November, including six shows on Broadway, all of them musicals — two of them about the well-known real-life Americans Tammy Faye Bakker...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/11/01/november-2024-new-york-theater-openings/

How well were you paying attention to the theater news and reviews during last full month before Election 2024? Answer these ten quiz questions and find out. Loading…

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/10/31/theater-quiz-for-october-2024/

In the swirl of the new theater season, with three shows opening on Broadway last week and another this week, and daily announcements of the season ahead (of Broadway debuts, for example, for Suc...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/10/07/stageworthy-news-of-the-week-37/

Just about a month before the election, one can hardly expect every theater blogger — or podcaster or substacker – to ignore politics: So this roundup begins with three examples, then goes in...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/10/04/theater-blog-roundup/

A look back at Black vaudeville, an anthology of dramatic criticism by women writers, and the 600-year history of Latinx performing arts in America have been named the best theater books of the y...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/10/03/tla-theater-book-award-winners-2024/

David Henry Hwang wrote “Yellow Face” almost two decades ago, comically rendering three deflating or enraging real-life events in which he was involved up to three decades ago. And yet as I w...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/10/01/yellow-face-broadway-review/