For the first time in a decade, a blizzard canceled all of Broadway. The Broadway League announced the cancelation of all performances Sunday evening “due to anticipated travel impacts from the impending blizzard and evening travel bans already announced for our surrounding areas.” This was in contrast to last month’s major snowstorm, when ten shows decided on their own to cancel but most remained open.
Operation Mincemeat canceled what was scheduled to be the final performance of its original Broadway cast, and instead live-streamed it on Instagram
What will happen Monday?
Update from the Broadway League: “Due to the continuing impacts from the blizzard and local travel restrictions still in place, Broadway theatre owners and producers have come to the consensus that performances tonight (Monday, February 23) will be canceled. For questions about exchange or refund policies, theatregoers should contact their point of purchase directly.”
.Only five Broadway shows were scheduled for evening performances today (Monday is normally the day off for the other shows) These were Chicago, The Great Gatsby, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and Six, as well as a show that has just begun performances but won’t open until March 12, Every Brilliant Thing with Daniel Radcliffe. If you have tickets, check with your point of purchase.
Meanwhile, the City of New York has closed all public schools, giving students a snow day (no remote learning) and instituted a ban on travel on city roads until today at noon, and, while the MTA plans to opera the city’s subways and buses, there are likely to be delays and other disruptions.
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The Week in Reviews
Mae is awkward and messy, and so is the play she is in, a revival that is the second theatrical production at the Cherry Lane Theater under its new owners, the A24 movie studio. Portrayed by “Arrested Development” alumna Alia Shawkat making her stage debut, Mae is back in her hometown living with her widowed father (Peter Friedman), who has cancer…When the play was first produced in 2014, Barron was heralded as a fresh new voice, and won an Obie. But in the years since “You Got Older,” Barron has gotten older, and better, and too many of the scenes of avoidance in this early play feel as aimless or out of sorts as the characters.
It’s easy to see how the dynamic physical performer Ethan Slater, Broadway’s SpongeBob and Hollywood’s Boq, would be drawn to the irresistible true story of the world’s most famous mime having been an active member in the French Resistance. Marcel Marceau smuggled dozens of Jewish children to safety in Switzerland, using his skills as an entertainer to keep them calm and quiet during the long train rides. In “Marcel on the Train” Slater portrays Marceau using some of the same skills Marceau perfected, even reproducing some of the mime’s most famous routines – Catching a Butterfly, Walking Against the Wind. But “Marcel on the Train,” which Slater co-wrote with its director Marshall Pailet, works better as a showcase than a drama.
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The Week in New York Theater News
After a run in London, Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell to star on Broadway as Benedick and Beatrice’in William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing for ten weeks this fall. “Theater, production dates, additional casting, and creative team will be announced shortly.”
Hell’s Kitchen closed on Broadway Sunday after 23 previews and 759 regular performances.
Matthew Morrison will star as Bobby Darin in Just In Time for three weeks beginning April 1.
An Ark, billed as the first mixed-reality play, extends to April 4.
Teatro Fest 2026 – in March and April
In Memoriam
Tom Noonan, 74, memorable screen villain, and a prolific downtown theater artist, beginning in 1978 by playing Tilden, a mute, childlike character in an Off Off Broadway production of Sam Shepard’s play “Buried Child,” a play that won the Pulitzer Prize the next year. “Mr. Noonan carved out a theatrical career as a stage actor, playwright and director, principally at the Paradise Factory theater, which he founded with his business partner, Jack Kruger, in an abandoned ice cream factory in the East Village. At the theater, Mr. Noonan wrote, starred in and directed “What Happened Was … ” (1992), about an awkward first date; “Wifey” (1994, a black comedy that earned a special Obie Award citation; “Wang Dang” (1998), about a has-been filmmaker; and “The Shape of Something Squashed” (2014), about a washed-up actor.
