This seems the right day to feature Ann Harada, in the original cast of Avenue Q, as a character named Christmas Eve.
Today, we look back at 2017, with the top New York theater stories of 2017, including details on 25 of the people the theater community lost this year.
We look ahead with the Broadway Spring 2018 Preview Guide: A Season of Strong Women
And we look at the present too — Christmas week Broadway schedule, including 11 Broadway shows with matinees on Christmas Eve.
Week in New York Theater Reviews
What the British critics thought of Hamilton – and specifically King George III
Favorite New York Stage Performers of 2017
Week In New York Theater News
Summer: The Donna Summer Musical — @DonnaSummerBway — will open at the Lunt Fontanne on April 23, 2018 – with the songs she made famous, such as “Hot Stuff,” and book by Colman Domingo, Robert Cary and Des McAnuff, who’s also directing (pic from La Jolla Playhouse production.)
The New Tax Law and The Theater
The new tax bill includes one provision that helps Broadway, and others that hurt
According to an analysis by @ActorsEquity last week, reported by @THR: some working actors would see their taxes almost quadruple as a result of new tax plan https://t.co/hrHiSNc27C
— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) December 20, 2017
How will the final tax plan (soon to be passed into law) affect the arts. @Americans4Arts weighs in: Charitable giving expected to take a hit.https://t.co/ZBn6Jpb9S7
— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) December 20, 2017
Marin Ireland, who’s been working for 3 years (way pre-Weinstein) to help the theater community respond effectively to sexual harassment, will launch in January the “Theatrical Community Sexual Harassment Education and Mediation Pilot Project”
We are thrilled to have @johnlegend join us as Jesus for @JCSTheMusical Live! this Easter #TeamALW https://t.co/dvTmlhgMCC
— Andrew Lloyd Webber (@OfficialALW) December 19, 2017
Joining the cast of @OnceIslandBway on January 8: @normlewis777 as Agwe & @tamyragray as Papa Ge, while 2
regular cast members on leave (@MerleDandridge to shoot TV series @GreenleafOWN)https://t.co/UQX5aI4XHy pic.twitter.com/bJ4jsOdJc6— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) December 19, 2017
Grateful & Excited to say the great Ms. Phylicia Rashad will be directing Our Lady of 121st in the Spring at The Signature Theater. #NYC #Theater pic.twitter.com/G2ujFY7rTc
— Stephen Adly Guirgis (@CookieRiverside) December 18, 2017
Abrons Arts Center, Spring 2018 season:
In Pollock, written by Fabrice Melquiot and directed by Paul Desveaux, the beautifully tragic relationship of infamous artists Jackson Pollock (Jim Fletcher) and Lee Krasner (Birgit Huppuch) is rendered on stage. (February 15–25)
Writer and actor Modesto Flako Jimenez conjures his beloved borough in ¡Oye! For My Dear Brooklyn, a bilingual elegy, told through poems, projections, and music. (March 15–31)
In The Wholehearted, from co-creators Deborah Stein and Suli Holum, spectators have a ringside seat for a blood pumping revenge tragedy and intimate tribute to lost love. (March 16-April 1)
In Aloha, Aloha or When I Was Queen, playwright and performer Eliza Bent uses the creation of a childhood home movie to lead audiences on a journey that grapples with personal history, legacy, and cultural appropriation. (April 4-21)
Written by Kate Scelsa for Elevator Repair Service and directed by John Collins, Everyone’s Fine with Virginia Woolf features veterans of the ensemble. In this parody of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, no one is left unscathed by Martha’s feminist ambitions. (June 1–24)
Just minutes from Downtown Manhattan, Awesome Grotto from the Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble endeavors to serve all New Yorkers as a site for reflection on the spiritual potential of digital connectivity. (June 7-30)
.@reneesmusings
sang inside an MRI machine at @NIH (here she is looking at her brain scan) to help scientists figure out how to use music not just to comfort the sick, but to heal them.https://t.co/golzb4sllo pic.twitter.com/6zjWqsXb2y— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) December 22, 2017
RIP 2017
