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Monday, November 23, 2020

Hollywood News: Hollywood Producer and Screenwriter Robert Warner Garland Dies at Age 83 by David Roberts

Born on May 1, 1937 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Bennett and Esther Garland nee Tumin, Mr. Garland attended St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. Mr. Garland's first job in televis…

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Saturday, November 21, 2020

Musical Theatre Web Series Review: Rock-Themed Episode Three of London's "The Theatre Channel" To Be Released November 27, 2020 by David Roberts

Musical Theatre Web Series Review: Rock-Themed Episode Three of London's "The Theatre Channel" to Be Released November 27, 2020 Direction and Choreography by Bill Dreamer Reviewed by David R…

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Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Tickets Now Available to the Public for National Alliance for Musical Theatre "Festival of New Musicals" by David Roberts

The National Alliance for Musical Theatre (Betsy King Militello, Executive Director) is thrilled to announce that the public can attend NAMT's 32nd Annual FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS by making …

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Friday, September 25, 2020

Off-Broadway Review: "Belfast Blues" " Part of Irish Repertory Theatre's 2020 Digital Fall Series of "A Performance on Screen" by David Roberts

After years of touring and multiple performances in New York City, Geraldine Hughes's autobiographical "Belfast Blues" is currently playing at Irish Repertory Theatre " virtually " as the fi…

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Friday, September 11, 2020

Irish Repertory Theatre Announces Its Online 2020 Season by David Roberts

Irish Repertory Theatre (Charlotte Moore, Artistic Director and Ciarán O'Reilly, Producing Director) is proud to announce its Online 2020 Fall Season. This fall will feature five Performa…

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Thursday, June 18, 2020

Music News: Katie Pruitt Kicks off Pride Month "Out of the Closet" Cover Series with Tegan and Sara's "Walking With a Ghost" by David Roberts

June 18, 2020 " Nashville, TN " Today, singer, songwriter, and musician Katie Pruitt has released her cover of Tegan and Sara's "Walking With A Ghost," the first installment of her Pride Mon…

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Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Theatre News: New Theatre Journal "The Flashpaper: Theatre's Thoughts on Right Now" on Sale Now by David Roberts

Arts journalist and editor Mark Blankenship is pleased to announce the debut of The Flashpaper: Theatre's Thoughts on Right Now, a new journal dedicated to the urgent ideas of contemporary t…

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Monday, May 11, 2020

Theatre News: Outer Critics Circle Awards Announce Honors for the 2019-2020 Broadway & Off-Broadway Season by David Roberts

The Outer Critics Circle (OCC), the official organization of writers on New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers and national publications, present the recipients of this year's spe…

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Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Theatre Preview: The Homebound Project Features Collections of New Theatrical Work in Limited Release View-At-Home Recordings by David Roberts

Over 50 leading and emerging actors and playwrights have united for The Homebound Project, a new independent, online theater initiative created to help feed children affected by COVID-19. Fo…

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Thursday, April 30, 2020

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater Announces Line-Up for "New Songs Now in Your Living Room" by David Roberts

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, in partnership with Rosalind Productions, Inc., is proud to announce the line-up for New Songs Now in Your Living Room. This free unplugged concert series gi…

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Monday, March 23, 2020

Music Preview: Fantasy Non Fiction Releases Self-Titled Debut Digital Album on May 8, 2020 " Pre-Order Available Now by David Roberts

Fantasy Non Fiction is a fierce four-piece rock band featuring the original music of drummer/vocalist, Rose Cangelosi, a queer songwriter navigating the world through the catharsis of musica…

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Friday, March 20, 2020

Off-Broadway News: Rattlestick Playwrights Theater to Sell Tickets to View-at-Home Recordings of "The Siblings Play" by David Roberts

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and piece by piece productions, in association with Rising Phoenix Repertory, are proud to announce that a limited number of tickets to view-at-home recording…

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Monday, March 9, 2020

Off-Broadway Review: "Incantata" at Irish Repertory Theatre's Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage by David Roberts

Mr. Townsend, Mr. Yeats, and the creative team collaborate to transform Muldoon's elegy to his late partner Mary Farl Powers into one of the most powerful theatrical experiences of the curre…

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Thursday, February 27, 2020

Off-Broadway Review: "Anatomy of a Suicide" at Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater by David Roberts

"The Fact, the very Fact that it is biologically possible is Devastating. I need to know that I am where it ends." " Bonnie to Diane If a suicide could be dissected, what would be found that…

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Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Off-Broadway Review: Transport Group's "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" at Abrons Arts Center by David Roberts

It is such a treat to walk out of a theater feeling refreshed, happy, and relieved that you can still believe that there are good people in the world doing good things. Upon leaving the Abro…

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Off-Broadway Review: "Miss America's Ugly Daughter: Bess Myerson & Me" at The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater by David Roberts

The audience seemed to enjoy the production now playing at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater entitled "Miss America's Ugly Daughter" written and performed by Bess Myerson's daughter Barra…

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Friday, February 21, 2020

Broadway News: "The Inheritance" at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre Announces Final Weeks on Broadway by David Roberts

Brilliantly re-envisioning E.M. Forster's masterpiece Howards End to 21st-century New York, THE INHERITANCE asks how much we owe those who lived and loved before us, questions the role we mu…

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Monday, February 10, 2020

Broadway Review: "Grand Horizons" at Second Stage's Hayes Theater by David Roberts

Under Leigh Silverman's meticulous direction, the ensemble cast could not be better poised to ensure the success of "Grand Horizons." Bess Wohl develops her characters with precision which a…

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Friday, February 7, 2020

Off-Broadway Review: The New Group's "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" in The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at The Pershing Square Sign by David Roberts

The question that remains in my mind is why anyone would attempt to create a musical based on the dated 1969 motion picture "BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE?" Granted the meant to be c…

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Thursday, January 16, 2020

Off-Broadway Preview: "The Bedwetter" at Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater by David Roberts

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) is proud to announce casting for the world premiere production of "The Bedwetter," a new musical wi…

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Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Off-Broadway Review: "Greater Clements" at Lincoln Center Theater's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater by David Roberts

"Greater Clements" is a testament to what happens when societal structures and safeguards disintegrate, when mental illness challenges societal and familial norms, and what happens when the …

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Friday, December 27, 2019

Off-Broadway Review: "Pumpgirl" at Irish Repertory Theatre's W. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre by David Roberts

The strength of Abbie Spallen's "Pumpgirl," currently running at Irish Rep's W. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre, lies in the playwright's authentic characters and their believable conflicts tha…

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Sunday, December 22, 2019

Off-Broadway Review: WP Theater/Second Stage Theater's "Our Dear Dead Drug Lord" at the McGinn/Cazale Theater by David Roberts

"Our Dear Dead Drug Lord" is a stunning and unsettling piece of theatre that will stay with audience members long after the curtain call. The memory will either result in dramatic shifts in …

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Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Off-Broadway Review: "A Bright Room Called Day" at The Public's Anspacher Theater by David Roberts

Tony Kushner's dystopian vision has a firm grounding in the history of the rise of fascism in Germany in the early 1930s and in the methodical and somewhat meteoric rise of Adolf Hitler to C…

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Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Broadway Review: "Slava's Snowshow" at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre by David Roberts

There are plenty of holiday shows that enter the New York theatre scene to provide some special seasonal entertainment for tourists, locals and avid theater goers alike fulfilling a wide spe…

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Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Off-Broadway Review: The New Group's "one in two" in the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at the Pershing Square Signature Center by David Roberts

The title of Donja R. Love's play "one in two," currently running in The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center, is reflective of the alarming 2016 study rel…

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Monday, December 9, 2019

Off-Broadway Review: "One November Yankee" at 59E59 Theaters by David Roberts

Veteran actors of screen, stage, and television Harry Hamlin and Stefanie Powers do their best to bring Joshua Ravetch's "One November Yankee" to the stage at 59E59 Theaters on Manhattan's U…

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Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Off-Broadway Review: "Everything Is Super Great" at 59E59 Theaters by David Roberts

Loss looms large over four Texas residents in Stephen Brown's "Everything Is Super Great" currently running at 59E59 Theaters. Nineteen-year-old Tommy (a sullen and hapless Will Sarratt) has…

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Saturday, November 30, 2019

Off-Broadway Review: "Seared" in the Susan & Ronald Frankel Theater at the Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space by David Roberts

Successful entrepreneurs like Harry (an overzealous but hypersensitive Raúl Esparza) typically attempt to guard their "art" from "commerce" for as long as possible. They feel frightened b…

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Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Off-Broadway Review: "Bella Bella" at Manhattan Theatre Club's New York City Center Stage I by David Roberts

Harvey Feinstein wisely chooses to "be" Bella Abzug and not simply "portray" her. There are no gimmicks here, no backups, no filters, no frills " just Bella. Mr. Fierstein draws on his skill…

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Thursday, November 21, 2019

Off-Broadway Review: "The Underlying Chris" at Second Stage's Tony Kiser Theater by David Roberts

A three-month-old infant named Chris looks up from his stroller at his thirty-something mother (Hannah Cabell) as she makes an appointment with his pediatrician for the next day at 11:15. Ch…

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