New York Times Theatre News

Theater Review | 'Drug Buddy': Acting So Cool as the Script Changes Gears

Tue, 2006-10-03 01:11
Dry-eyed if not quite clear-eyed, David Folwell’s new play leaves barely a bruise, let alone a buzz, in its wake.

Off Broadway’s Frontier Outpost Runs on Dreams

Sun, 2006-10-01 23:48
Located on a stretch where parking lots are the only businesses open after dark, 37 Arts has an address that one producer joked was "just east of dire."

Theater Review | 'Fools and Lovers': Speak Low if You Speak Love? Nah, Sing Out Loud

Sun, 2006-10-01 23:43
Weddings are touching and funny. They’re also clichéd, slightly tacky and embarrassing. This musical aims at the former qualities and partakes of all of the latter.

‘Chorus Line’ Returns, as Do Regrets Over Life Stories Signed Away

Sun, 2006-10-01 01:32
The musical is based on the stories of dancers who question whether they have been fairly compensated.

‘Chorus Line’ Returns, as Do Regrets

Sat, 2006-09-30 21:44
The musical is based on the stories of dancers who question whether they have been fairly compensated.

Theater Review: At a Party With a Dark Side, Menace and Peril Pay a Visit

Sat, 2006-09-30 04:47
Don’t expect balloons, a chorus of singers or an ice cream cake in “The Birthday Party.”

From Onstage to Offstage

Sat, 2006-09-30 04:43
An actress-director turned playwright uses the 1960’s as inspiration in "Second Line."

Theater Review | 'subUrbia': Bogosian’s Youthful Rage and Alienation, Retrofitted for BlackBerries

Fri, 2006-09-29 21:59
If you feel that to be young, restless and on a dark road to nowhere is no laughing matter, you can always visit the dead-end kids in this black-hole revival.

Whatever Happened to the Overture?

Fri, 2006-09-29 17:31
Traditional Broadway overtures — several minutes long, made up of melodies heard later in the show and played by an orchestra before the curtain goes up — are disappearing.

Theater Listings

Thu, 2006-09-28 22:50
Selective listings from theater critics of The New York Times.

Theater Review | 'Jay Johnson: The Two and Only': Except for One Guy, the Cast Is Kind of Wooden

Thu, 2006-09-28 21:29
Jay Johnson's genial if flimsy tale of a starry-eyed kid making it as a ventriloquist feels oddly generic.

The Reluctant Star: Tony Kushner in America, and in Action

Wed, 2006-09-27 23:31
Why, exactly, would Tony Kushner, who is often described as shy, and whose work often entails sitting alone in a room, agree to be the central figure in a documentary?

Theater Review | 'Off Stage: The West Village Fragments': A Walking History of the Downtown Stage

Wed, 2006-09-27 19:13
The streets of the West Village provide a lovely background for this warmhearted and well-researched tribute to the birth of Off Off Broadway.

A One-Man Rhyming History Slam

Wed, 2006-09-27 18:44
It's probably safe to say that few slam poetry champions have both an honors degree from Yale and an opera scholarship on their résumés. But Daniel Beaty has a gift for defying convention.

He’s Got the Salad Covered. Can He Serve You Dinner?

Wed, 2006-09-27 16:38
Paul Newman hopes that his new restaurant will do for the Westport Country Playhouse what all that salsa and salad dressing did for his charities.

Builder Agrees on Space for Theaters in Tower

Wed, 2006-09-27 16:37
The developer of a proposed 42-story condominium tower in the theater district has agreed to set aside part of one floor as office space for nonprofit theater companies to comply with an eight-year-old zoning rule.

Theater Review | 'Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven': Laugh Now. You May Not When These Women Rule the World.

Tue, 2006-09-26 22:45
Young Jean Lee's play about minority rage and a secret Korean plot to rule the world is brilliantly directed and hysterically funny.

Theater Review | 'John Ferguson': The Mortgage Has Come Due, and a Family Has Only Faith

Tue, 2006-09-26 22:44
This is a thoroughly engrossing, fully realized drama brought to life by an ensemble of actors who never miss a beat.

Dueling Magicians: Whose Trick Is It Anyway?

Tue, 2006-09-26 21:51
A feat of mental agility involving a chess board isn’t the only overlap between two major magic shows.

Theater Review | 'Allende: The Death of a President': A Chilean Leader’s Last Musings, With a Coup in the Wings

Tue, 2006-09-26 21:41
This stiffly written monologue about the final hours of Salvador Allende doesn't humanize its subject any more than a documentary from the History Channel would.