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'Tis the season to see theatre! If you're planning to celebrate the holidays in New York, there are plenty of Broadway shows waiting for you when you get here. Many shows add extra performances in the weeks leading up to Christmas and New Year's, and plenty even have performances right on the holidays. Catch a Christmas Eve matinee before heading to family dinner, go to an evening performance on Christmas Day after you've unwrapped all your gifts, or spend the very first day ...

Why shop when you can see a show?

What better excuse to take a trip (to the theatre, that is)? The new musical Flying Over Sunset will offer a digital lottery for $40 tickets and a student rush program for $32 tickets, beginning with the show's first performance on November 11. Flying Over Sunset, presented by Lincoln Center Theater, opens December 13 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.

While Broadway theatres may be gearing up for reopening shows at full capacity in the coming weeks, going to the theatre won’t be back to normal just yet. In order for the safety of all parties in the theatre, protocols have been put in place to hopefully slow the spread of Covid-19 on Broadway and across New York.

Broadway is reopening with a full roster of musicals and plays coming to NYC this fall. Heres what shows are on Broadway in 2021.

Flying Over Sunset, running at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, has a score by Tom Kitt and Michael Korie, book and direction by James Lapine, and choreography by Michelle Dorrance. Originally scheduled to start performances the night theaters shut down in March 2020, previews will now begin on November 4, 2021, with opening night set for December 6, 2021. Harry Hadden-Paton, Carmen Cusack, and Tony Yazbeck will star as Aldous Huxley, Clare Booth Luce, and Cary Grant, three characters who come toge...

Theater to Stream: Stars Gather for ‘Miscast’ and More Other highlights include a new show by Kristina Wong, Joshua Harmon’s “Bad Jews” and “Broadway by the Year.” Gavin Creel, left, and Aaron Tveit singing “Take Me or Leave Me,” from “Rent,” during the 2016 “Miscast” gala. Credit...Jenny Anderson May 12, 2021, 10:00 a.m. ET “It is about access.” That, put plainly, is the main reason the Young Vic in London will conti...

>> Michael Paulson, The New York Times Published: 06 May 2021 12:53 PM BdST Updated: 06 May 2021 12:53 PM BdST A chandelier is moved over the audience during the musical "The Phantom of the Opera" at the Majestic Theatre in New York, Feb 7, 2012. The New York Times Gov Andrew Cuomo says that most pandemic capacity restrictions will ease in two weeks. Mayor Bill de Blasio says he wants the city to fully reopen on July 1. But Broadway, a beacon for tourists and an engine for the economy, is not...

Broadway Is Reopening. But Not Until September. Even as New York City begins to reopen this summer, Broadway will not resume performances until Sept. 14. Here’s why. Broadway, a powerful economic driver of New York City, will begin to reopen Sept. 14 with full-capacity shows.  Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times May 5, 2021 Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo says that most pandemic capacity restrictions will ease in two weeks. Mayor Bill de Blasio says he wants the city to fully reopen on July 1. B...

Interview Midnight Sisters debut LP, 2017s Saturn Over Sunset, felt like some lost classic from the moment it came out. Matching the adrogynous vocals of Juliana Giraffe to the giddy, woody orchestrations of Ari Balouzian, the Los Angeles duo created a stirring sound that felt out-of-time, and out-of-place, in the digital era. It was a debut that was at once experimental and pop, slyly funny whilst heartbreakingly beautiful. The album was, lyrically, full of colourful characters and fictional ...