Saturday, June 15, 2019
Linda Gross Theater at the Atlantic Theater Company, New York
The latest from Spring Awakening's Duncan Sheik is a lush and emotionally impactful production with a smart book from Pulitzer p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 11, 2019
The upfront standup took down Trump with a blistering routine at the White House correspondents' dinner. But she won't joke about him again
Here are some things the comedian Michelle Wolf wo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AM[SHARE]Monday, June 10, 2019
With most of the awards landing in predictable hands and a host who failed to add the requisite pizzazz, the annual Broadway love-in felt rather flat
The 2019 Tony awards began with James Co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03PM[SHARE]Monday, June 3, 2019
Thursday, May 30, 2019
The Broadway powerhouse talks about trusting Sondheim, hearing others sing her songs and waiting to be taken seriously
Cafe Luxembourg, the closet-sized New York bistro Bernadette Peters cho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AM[SHARE]Monday, May 27, 2019
Assaulting the audience with its 'twerking gone wrong', Okwui Okpokwasili's dance-theatre hybrid draws on difficult memories of her childhood
Okwui Okpokwasili wants to shake you. Up and dow…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 22, 2019
The intrepid young actors from Shakespeare & Company perform on a four month tour, not unlike the traveling players from Elizabethan times.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:32PM[SHARE]Friday, May 17, 2019
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The Winter Garden, New York
A stage transfer for the spirited 80s comedy struggles to produce any memorable songs but provides an enjoyably silly night out nonetheless
A specter is haunting …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 23, 2019
The Marquis Theatre, New York
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend star Santino Fontana gives a charming performance as a man dressing up as a woman to get ahead
What if all that stood between you and succes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:30PM[SHARE]Monday, April 22, 2019
The American Airlines Theatre, New York
Thrilling, note perfect performances elevate yet another staging of Arthur Miller's transgressive tragedy
A play about the rancid heart of the America…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:30PM[SHARE]The Booth Theatre, New York
An inspired idea, a comedic follow-up to Shakespeare's brutal tragedy, is sadly not enough to sustain a disappointingly thin show
Nine onstage deaths, three sever…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:47AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 21, 2019
He played 'anxious weirdo nerds' in Pitch Perfect and Dear Evan Hansen, but on his soul-baring new album Ben Platt has a new role ... himself
'I really like playing people who aren't easily …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 19, 2019
The Golden Theatre, New York
The Tony award winner dominates as the politician in a 2008-set work of speculative stage drama with John Lithgow as her supportive husband
Remember when Hillar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 18, 2019
"Anthem: Homunculus" is a six-hour, 10-episode epic about a man and his teratoma. The tumor sings. As do Glenn Close, Patti LuPone and Cynthia Erivo.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Hudson Theatre, New York
A standout performance from the brooding actor is the main selling point of an 80s-set comedy drama that fails to match him
A small play about big words " sex, death…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 11, 2019
Sunday, April 7, 2019
This series, which debuts Tuesday on FX, includes many midcentury Broadway and film personalities and their works. Here's a cheat sheet.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 4, 2019
Sunday, March 31, 2019
Hayes Theater, New York
Heidi Schreck's funny, impactful and breathlessly exciting ode to the constitution is one of the year's best shows
Shattering, galvanizing and very funny, Heidi Schre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00PM[SHARE]Friday, March 29, 2019
A limited FX series revives two Broadway legends, Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon. Will the show razzle dazzle us? Or will it find a new way to tell the story of artists who behave badly?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 28, 2019
Shana Cooper's revival at Theater for a New Audience is so deep in conversation with itself and its dance battles that it nearly forgets to speak to us today.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 24, 2019
The final show at Jack's current location is weird and difficult to parse. But it's nice to know there's a place for theater like this in New York.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 21, 2019
Imperial Theatre, New York
Broadway's latest jukebox music is electrified by fantastic singing and dancing but let down by some inert storytelling
There's a chilly irony at the shrink-wrappe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 20, 2019
The Public Theater, New York
The Pulitzer prize-winning playwright has created an absurdist, challenging drama about the fallout from a racially motivated attack by police
Slavery ended in 1…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00PM[SHARE]Santino Fontana's turn as a man in a wig comes at a time when Broadway has been reckoning with the idea that musical comedies need to offer fully realized female characters.
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